The Kent State University Press imprint: 560 books
Burning the Flag
The Great 1989 - 1990 American Flag Desecration Controversy
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 1996
“In 1989, the Supreme Court ruled that dissidents had a constitutional right under the First Amendment to burn the flag. During the Bush Administration, Congress passed the Flag Protection Act (FPA), and so doing reflected the broad spectrum of opinion that saw the flag as a sacred symbol of American...
Cautious Visionary
Cordell Hull and Trade Reform, 1933-1937
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Cordell Hull's persistence and legislative experience were determining factors at every stage in the development of the Trade Agreements Act of 1934. Rarely has such important legislation owed itself to a single man.
The Trade Agreements Act resolved the long-running debate between high and...
The Lion in the Waste Land
Fearsome Redemption in the Work of C. S. Lewis, Dorothy L. Sayers, and T. S. Eliot
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
As bombs fell on London almost nightly from the autumn of 1940 through the summer of 1941, the lives of ordinary people were altered beyond recognition. A reclusive Oxford lecturer found himself speaking, not about Renaissance literature to a roomful of students but about Christian doctrine into a...
Forgotten under a Tropical Sun
War Stories by American Veterans in the Philippines, 1898-1913
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Memory has not been kind to the Philippine-American War and the even lesser-known Moro rebellion. Today, few Americans know the details of these conflicts.
There are almost no memorials, and the wars remain poorly understood and nearly forgotten.
Forgotten under a Tropical Sun is the...
Dissolving Tensions
Rapprochement and Resolution in British-American-Canadian Relations in the Treatyof Washington Era, 1865-1914
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2015
**How the period from 1865 to 1914 defined Anglo-American relations **
Dissolving Tensions dismisses the long-held argument that a British-American rapprochement did not occur until the mid-1890s. Instead, author Phillip E. Myers shows that the rapprochement was distinct prior to the Civil...
Six Capsules
The Gilded Age Murder of Helen Potts
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
The permanent solution to a wife’s chronic headache
As Ted Bundy was to the 20th century, so Carlyle Harris was to the 19th. Harris was a charismatic, handsome young medical student with an insatiable appetite for sex. His trail of debauched women ended with Helen Potts, a beautiful young...
Meade
The Price of Command, 1863-1865
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
George Gordon Meade has not been treated kindly by history. Victorious at Gettysburg, the biggest battle of the American Civil War, Meade was the longest-serving commander of the Army of the Potomac, leading his army through the brutal Overland Campaign and on to the surrender of Robert E. Lee and...
The Weary Boys
Colonel J. Warren Keifer and the 110th Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
“Milroy's Weary Boys” was the derisive nickname Maj. Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock gave to the survivors of the 110th Ohio Volunteer Infantry after the Second Battle of Winchester. Major General Robert Milroy's division was consolidated and assigned to the Army of the Potomac, and members of the...
by Louis P. Cassimatis
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2011
The diplomatic relations between Greece and the United States in the interwar period have received scant attention from historians, primarily because of the non-political and non-military role of the United States in that part of the world prior to the Second World War. The American presence in Greece...
Penitentiaries, Punishment, and Military Prisons
Familiar Responses to an Extraordinary Crisis during the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Penitentiaries, Punishment, and Military Prisons confronts the enduring claim that Civil War military prisons represented an apocalyptic and a historical rupture in America's otherwise linear and progressive carceral history. Instead, it places the war years in the broader context of imprisonment...
by Jay Baruch
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Short stories about the complex maze of health care
Conventional medical narratives often fail to capture the incoherent, surreal, and logic-twisting reality of the contemporary healthcare experience, where mystery, absurdity, and even cruelty are disguised as logic, reason, and compassion....
A Lost King
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Raymond DeCapite’s second published novel, A Lost King, has been described by Kirkus Reviews as a “small masterpiece, so unique in spirit and style.” If the mood of The Coming of Fabrizze is joyous, that of A Lost King is somber. Each of DeCapite’s novels is original in its own way, perhaps...
Arda Inhabited
Environmental Relationships in the Lord of the Rings
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
With the box office successes of movies based on The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, familiarity with J. R. R. Tolkien’s Middle-Earth is growing. Unfortunately, scholarship dealing with Middle-Earth itself is comparatively rare in Tolkien studies, and students and scholars seeking greater insight...
The Coming of Fabrizze
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
First published in 1960, The Coming of Fabrizze has been called by the New York Herald Tribune a “comic folklore festival about an Italian American colony in Cleveland, Ohio, back in the 1920s when all the land was a little slaphappy—and no one more so than these transplanted countrymen of the...