The Kent State University Press imprint: 560 books
Johnson's Island
A Prison for Confederate Officers
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
In 1861, Lt. Col. William Hoffman was appointed to the post of commissary general of prisoners and urged to find a suitable site for the construction of what was expected to be the Union’s sole military prison. After inspecting four islands in Lake Erie, Hoffman came upon one in Sandusky Bay known...
The Gentle Warrior
General Oliver Prince Smith, USMC
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
In November 1950, United Nations forces in Korea were stopped in their advance toward the Yalu River by Chinese Communist forces and were in danger of being overrun. Vastly outnumbered by enemy forces, the First Marine Division was cut off from its base at Wonson.
General Oliver Prince Smith,...
Pantaloons and Power
A Nineteenth-Century Dress Reform in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
By the early nineteenth century clear definitions had developed regarding how American women and men were supposed to appear in public and how they were meant to lead their lives. As men’s style of dress moved from the ornate to the moderate, women’s fashions continued to be decorative and physically...
April '65
Confederate Covert Action in the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2011
William A. Tidwell establishes the existence of a Confederate Secret Service and clarifies the Confederate decision making process to show the role played by Jefferson Davis in clandestine operations. While the book focuses on the Confederate Secret Service's involvement with the Lincoln assassination,...
Phantoms of the South Fork
Captain McNeill and His Rangers
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
At 3 a.m. on February 21, 1865, a band of 65 Confederate horsemen slowly made its way down Greene Street in Cumberland, Maryland. Thinking the riders were disguised Union scouts, the few Union soldiers out that bitterly cold morning paid little attention to them. In the meantime, over 3,500 Yankee...
Struggle for the Shenandoah
Essays on the 1864 Valley Campaign
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Few geographical regions played a more critical role in the American Civil War than the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. At no time did the Valley loom larger on the military landscape than in the late summer and fall of 1864, when the armies of Jubal A. Early and Philip H. Sheridan waged their bitter...
Banners South
A Northern Community at War
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2002
The personal story of the men and women of Cortland, New York and their efforts to support the war effort
Most regimental histories focus narrowly on military affairs and the battlefield exploits to the exclusion of the broader social and political context, while community studies examine civilian...
The Pattern in the Web
The Mythical Poetry of Charles Williams
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 1990
Charles Williams has achieved considerable reputation for his novels. He has been recognized as a brilliant theologian and a sensitive literary critic. But Williams himself wished most to be remembered as a poet, and trusted his future literary reputation to the two-volume series of poems on the...
My Greatest Quarrel with Fortune
Major General Lew Wallace in the West, 1861-1862
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2015
Who was Lew Wallace's true foe - the Confederacy, General Halleck, General Grant, or himself?
Lew Wallace of Indiana was a self-taught extraordinary military talent. With boldness and celerity, he advanced in less than a year from the rank of colonel of the 11th Indiana to that of major general...
by Guy L. Denny, Gary Meszaros
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
The prairie grassland biome covers the heartland of North America with an eastward extension called the Prairie Peninsula. Primarily composed of tallgrass prairie, this biome lies between the shortgrass prairies of the west and the eastern deciduous forest region and includes the states of Illinois,...
We Fight for Peace
Twenty-Three American Soldiers, Prisoners of War, and Turncoats in the Korean War
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
At midnight on January 24, 1954, the last step was taken in the armistice to end the war in Korea. That night, the neutral Indian guards who had overseen the prisoner of war repatriation process abandoned their posts, leaving their charges to make their own decisions. The vast majority of men allowed...
A Politician Turned General
The Civil War Career of Stephen Augustus Hurlbut
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
A new case study of one of Lincoln’s political generals in the Civil War
A Politician Turned General offers a critical examination of the turbulent early political career and the controversial military service of Stephen Augustus Hurlbut, an Illinois Whig, Republican politician, and Northern...
Spare Not the Brave
The Special Activities Group in Korea
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
The Special Activities Group (SAG) and its subordinate companies have received little attention from historians, despite being an elite combat unit and participating in highly classified and dangerous missions in Korea. Rarely receiving more attention than a footnote, their story usually begins and...
Fire Within
A Civil War Narrative from Wisconsin
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Winner of the Council for Wisconsin Writers Leslie Cross Book-Length Nonfiction Award and the Wisconsin Library Association's Outstanding Achievement Recognition
“This remarkable book blends the experiences of several young Wisconsin men who fought in the Civil War with the course of events...