The Kent State University Press imprint: 560 books
The Best School
West Point, 1833-1866
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
"Professor Morrison, a former army officer and member of the faculty at West Point, began this study…with the goal to describe and evaluate not only the curriculum and administration but also the social, military and bureaucratic aspects of the school. With impeccable research and a graceful...
Narrating the News
New Journalism and Literary Genre in Late Nineteenth-Century American Newspapers and Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2001
A scholarly examination of “new journalism”
Due to a burgeoning print marketplace during the late nineteenth century, urban newspapers felt pressure to create entertaining prose that appealed to readers, drawing on popular literary genres such as travel adventures, detective tales, and...
Sympathy, Madness, and Crime
How Four Nineteenth-Century Journalists Made the Newspaper Women's Business
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
In one of her escapades as a reporter for Joseph Pulitzer's New York World, the renowned Nellie Bly feigned insanity in 1889 and slipped, undercover, behind the grim walls of Blackwell's Island mental asylum. She emerged ten days later with a vivid tale about life in a madhouse. Her asylum articles...
by John Hayward
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Barrett Beer here presents the first scholarly edition of Sir John Hayward’s Life and Raigne of King Edward VI, the earliest biography of the last Tudor king. Originally published in 1630 and again in 1636, Hayward’s account was reprinted in White Kennett’s Complete History of England in 1706....
The Weaver-God, He Weaves
Melville and the Poetics of the Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Melville has long been regarded as an author of raw genius who knew, or cared, little about the art of the novel, and even harbored hostility toward its conventions. In The Weaver-God, He Weaves, Christopher Sten sets out to correct this widespread view, showing not only what Melville knew about the...
Lincoln's Generals' Wives
Four Women Who Influenced the Civil War--for Better and for Worse
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
The story of the American Civil War is not complete without examining the extraordinary and influential lives of Jessie Frémont, Nelly McClellan, Ellen Sherman, and Julia Grant, the wives of Abraham Lincoln’s top generals. They were their husbands’ closest confidantes and had a profound impact...
The Cleveland Grays
An Urban Military Company, 1837-1919
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2013
Vourlojianis examines the history of the Grays from its founding in 1837, through military service in three wars, to its modern incarnation as a social and philanthropic group.
While the nature of the organization has changed, the Grays still maintain a proud tradition of service to their city....
by Julius A. Amin
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
The Peace Corps was established in 1961 during the Kennedy administration, symbolizing a new direction in foreign policy-making for the United States. Founded on large aid programs staffed by volunteers, the agency’s primary goal was to help modernize Third World countries while guarding against...
Ironclad Captain
Seth Ledyard Phelps and the U.S. Navy, 1841-1864
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Seth Ledyard Phelps was of the Old Navy and the New. As a midshipman and junior officer he served under sail off West Africa, in the War with Mexico, and in the Mediterranean and Caribbean. As a senior office in the river squadrons of the Civil War he saw combat at its closest.
Phelps,...
This Infernal War
The Civil War Letters of William and Jane Standard
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
Among collections of letters written between American soldiers and their spouses, the Civil War correspondence of William and Jane Standard stands out for conveying the complexity of the motives and experiences of Union soldiers and their families. The Standards of Lewiston in Fulton County, Illinois,...
Reconstructing Russia
The Political Economy of American Assistance to Revolutionary Russia, 1917-1923
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 1995
Reconstructing Russia focuses on the Wilson administration’s efforts to find some way to provide economic support to Russian Siberia as a counterpoint to German economic influence. The connection between the Wilson administration’s efforts to provide economic assistance in Siberia and the Marshall...
NATO before the Korean War
April 1949 - June 1950
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
A reexamination of the formative years of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Conventional wisdom has the Korean War putting the “O” in NATO. Prior to that time, from the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty on April 4, 1949, to the North Korean invasion of South Korea on June 25, 1950,...
Myopic Grandeur
The Ambivalence of French Foreign Policy Toward the Far East, 1919-1945
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2012
General Charles de Gaulle once said, “France cannot be France without greatness.”
France’s effort to maintain its presence as a great world power is the subject of Myopic Grandeur, the first major study of French foreign policy initiatives in the Far East from World War I until the conclusion...
The Miracle of Richfield
The Story of the 1975–76 Cleveland Cavaliers
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
Three years before Brian Sipe began his magic with the Cleveland Browns, Bill Fitch and his band of Cavaliers brought a buzz to Northeast Ohio basketball that fans had never seen before. Despite a rough start to their 1975–76 season, the Cavaliers rode the shoulders of Akron native Nate Thurmond...