The Kent State University Press imprint: 560 books
Neptune's Militia
The Frigate South Carolina During the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
The virtues of the citizen-soldier are prominent in the history of the American Revolution, but less attention has been given to the citizen-sailor. However, there were state navies during the war, the seaward equivalent of the state militias, and the state of South Carolina put to sea the most important...
Jim Tully
American Writer, Irish Rover, Hollywood Brawler
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
The first biography of the vagabond, hard-boiled writer who rocked Hollywood during the Roaring Twenties
The son of an Irish ditch-digger, Jim Tully (1886–1947) left his hometown of St. Marys, Ohio, in 1901, spending most of his teenage years in the company of hoboes. Drifting across the...
Kenyon Cox, 1856-1919
A Life in American Art
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Kenyon Cox was among the best-know cultural figures in the United States during the first two decades of this century, thanks to his reputation as a mural painter and especially as a critic. In this first biography, H. Wayne Morgan focuses on Cox’s development and personality, treating his art as...
V. L. Parrington
Through the Avenue of Art
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
“Consciously I was neither radical nor conservative, and yet my reading was drawing me inevitably out of the narrower field of polite literature into the new world of social thought that was rising about me. Carlyle, Ruskin, Morris became increasingly my teachers-above all others Morris. I have...
Lost Ohio
More Travels into the Haunted Landscapes, Ghost Towns, and Forgotten Lives
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
A fascinating look at Ohio’s forgotten history
Take a leisurely tour across the Buckeye State with author Randy McNutt to a massive swamp that swallowed pioneers’ wagons, a haunted prison, a faded German utopia, a town where they still chase horse thieves, a marriage mecca, a village where...
by William Osborne
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
Music in Ohio offers a comprehensive and ambitious look at music as it has been practiced throughout the state during the last two centuries—from folk to jazz to rock to polka. Author William N. Osborne also examines the music of the Moravians, Mormons, and Welsh, as well as other religious music...
Revelations
Photographs of Cleveland's African American Churches
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
A rich collection of images celebrating African American faith communities
“Cleveland’s African American houses of worship exemplify the best of American civic vision: building community together for the common good. . . . African American ministers have struggled to define the best way...
by Jim Tully
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2014
A facsimile reprint of this classic tale of the seamier side of circus life
“Jim Tully was one of the fine American novelists to emerge in the 1920s and ’30s. He gained this position with intelligence, sensitivity, and hard work. . . . No matter how crazily violent or fantastic his stories...
Inscribing My Name
Selected Poems: New, Used, and Repossessed
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
Selected poems from a respected African American poet
Visit our Events page for details about the Kent screening of the new film Jump Back, Honey: The Poetry and Performance of Herbert Woodward Martin.
Herbert Woodward Martin’s body of poetry from the past five decades is, in many...
The Music Went 'Round and Around
The Story of Musicarnival
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2004
Spotting a trend in the early 1950s of staging summer theater in the round under tents, Clevelander John L. Price Jr. decided to give it a try. Consulting a local statistician to determine the geographical center of the culturally inclined population, the bull’s-eye fell in Warrensville Heights,...
Helping Others Helping Ourselves
Power, Giving, and Community Identity in Cleveland, Ohio, 1880-1930
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 1997
“This study dramatically opens the door to view philanthropy in terms of who gives, the nature of those gifts, and the motivation of the givers. It becomes clear that no group could claim a monopoly on giving and that the poor, working class and middle classes had their own agendas for giving that...
Call Me Mike
A Political Biography of Michael V. DiSalle
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1998
Michael V. DiSalle was elected to his first and only term as governor in one of Ohio’s most contentious elections, which featured a ferocious battle over the so-called “Right-to-Work” issue, a union-busting constitutional amendment placed on the ballot over the objections of Republican party...
Plain Dealing
Ohio Politics and Journalism Viewed from the Press Gallery
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2006
A collection of political remembrances from a longtime Statehouse and Washington bureau reporter
Son of an Ohio Supreme Court Justice and longtime political reporter, Rick Zimmerman presents Ohio politics from the inside. He began learning about Ohio politics and politicians as a young boy,...
by Ellis Yochelson
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Charles Doolittle Walcott (1850-1927) is a highly respected figure in the history of geology and paleontology. Perhaps his most notable contribution to his field was his discovery of the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale, one of the most important fossil discoveries ever made. In addition to his distinguished...