The Kent State University Press imprint: 560 books

Literature in Translation

Teaching Issues and Reading Practices

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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

by Mary K. Bercaw Edwards
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

by Mark A. Snell
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

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

by Jerrold K. Footlick
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

by Terry K. Woods
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

by Frank Wilcox
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

by William F. Quigley
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

by Patrick Dooley
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

by Anthony J. Valleriano
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

by Phillip M. Richards
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

by Donald Allendorf
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

by Michael E. Chapman
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

by Jack Gieck
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...
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