The Kent State University Press imprint: 560 books
Literature in Translation
Teaching Issues and Reading Practices
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
New pedagogy for studying literature in translation
In the last several decades, literary works from around the world have made their way onto the reading lists of American university and college courses in an increasingly wide variety of disciplines. This is a cause for rejoicing. Through...
Cannibal Old Me
Spoken Sources in Melville's Early Works
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2011
An examination of Melville’s “borrowing”
“Mary Bercaw Edwards has researched the sources very thoroughly, going well beyond the previously published source studies. The result is a sound historical account of the ‘talk’ Melville encountered in the 1840s, and in emphasizing the oral...
My Gettysburg
Meditations on History and Place
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
The Gettysburg Campaign and its culminating battle have generated more than their share of analysis and published works. In My Gettysburg, Civil War scholar and twenty-six-year Gettysburg resident Mark Snell goes beyond the campaign itself to explore the “culture” of the battlefield. In this fascinating...
by Frederic C. Howe
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 1988
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 1988
Frederic C. Howe lived in interesting times. By education (at Johns Hopkins in the early 1890s) and instinct he was a progressive, in the best sense of that term. From the Cleveland of Tom Johnson to the Washington of FDR he “unlearned” his early predjudices and given values, yet “under the...
An Adventure in Education
The College of Wooster from Howard Lowry to the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2015
Wooster: From the Middle West to the world
The College of Wooster was a proud but modest college for much of its life, exemplified by the titles of the first two volumes of its history, Wooster of the Middle West. In 1944, a Wooster alumnus named Howard Lowry became president and created the...
Ohio's Grand Canal
A Brief History of the Ohio & Erie Canal
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2008
A one-volume history of the Ohio & Erie Canal
“There have been a number of books written about Ohio’s nineteenth-century canal system, especially about the Ohio & Erie Canal, but Ohio’s Grand Canal is by far the most meticulously researched account I have ever read.”—Jack...
The Ohio Canals
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
From Cleveland to Portsmouth and Toledo to Cincinnati, two great canals and numerous connections and feeders laced Ohio with a thousand miles of waterways in the years before the Civil War. They were a major force in transforming Ohio from a frontier society to a leading agricultural and commercial...
Pure Heart
The Faith of a Father and Son in the War for a More Perfect Union
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2016
In the summer of 1862, as Union morale ebbed low with home front division over war costs, coming emancipation, and demoralizing battlefield losses, 24-year-old William White Dorr enlisted as a lieu- tenant in the 121st Pennsylvania Volunteers, a new Union regiment organizing in Philadelphia. His father,...
A Community of Inquiry
Conversations Between Classical American Philosophy and American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
Explores the ways literature and philosophy enrich each other’s inquiry into the human condition
“I applaud the novel ways in which Dooley brings to life the interchanges between philosophy and literature in America during this period. Although numerous literary scholars have published...
Dedication
The Work of William P. Ginther Ecclesiastical Architect
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
An illustrated compendium of a prolific designer of Ohio churches Akron-based architect William P. Ginther (1858-1933) designed sexty-hree Roman Catholic churches, primarily in Ohio and Pennsylvania. Dedication is the first book to document his architectural designs. By combining historical images...
An Integrated Boyhood
Coming of Age in White Cleveland
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
The memoir of a bookish black youth in mid-twentieth century Cleveland
When Phillip M. Richards graduated from Yale in 1972, he had fulfilled his parents’ dreams. Like many other black Clevelanders of their generation, they had come up from the South in the late forties and moved from neighborhood...
Long Road to Liberty
The Odyssey of a German Regiment in the Yankee Army the 15th Missouri Volunteer Infantry
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 1994
One of the “Fightingest Three Hundred” regiments of the Civil War
Missouri, torn by divided loyalties between supporting the North or the South, had 39 infantry regiments serving in the Union army. Of these, the 15th Missouri, comprised primarily of German immigrants, served the longest...
Arguing Americanism
Franco Lobbyists, Roosevelt's Foreign Policy, and the Spanish Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
The struggle to define U.S. national identity through a political conflict in Spain
“An unusually original book that challenges established assumptions and reveals the complexity of American reactions to the Spanish Civil War.”—Stanley G. Payne, University of Wisconsin-Madison
In...
Early Akron's Industrial Valley
A History of the Cascade Locks
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
A pictorial history of a piece of Ohio's canal heritage
In this study of Akron's Cascade Locks, canal historian Jack Gieck examines the story of this remarkable lock system, including a look at early-nineteenth-century entrepreneurs who exploited the precipitous terrain to found one of the...