The Kent State University Press: 559 books

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by Karen Kovacik
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011

“Karen Kovacik's poems are strong, distinctive and thoroughly wonderful works. Her personal poems such as ‘Watching My Father Pray’ make use of autobiographical detail in a way that is never insular or hermetic. And her Richard Nixon persona poems are stunning, brave, and original. American...
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by Kat Snider Blackbird
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1994

“Kat Snider Blackbird gives us all these in her intense and passionate poems.  She is a woman—and Woman—in love, in lust, and deeply in life.  In her work, women will see themselves on all levels of being and men will at last be allowed to penetrate the mysteries of the women they love.”—Grace Butcher
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Snow Hill

In the Shadows of the Ephrata Cloister

by Denise Seachrist
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014

A fascinating exploration of a now-lost communal society During the first half of the eighteenth century, Pennsylvania became home to a variety of German-speaking sectarians who rebelled against the oppression of European state-church establishments and migrated to the United States to form...
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by Thomas R. Flagel
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019

Union and Confederate veterans meet at Gettysburg on the 50th anniversary of the battle This June 29–July 4 reunion drew over 55,000 official attendees plus thousands more who descended upon a town of 4,000 during the scorching summer of 1913, with the promise of little more than a cot and...
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Bushwhackers

Guerrilla Warfare, Manhood, and the Household in Civil War Missouri

by Joseph M. Beilein Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2016

Bushwhackers adds to the growing body of literature that examines the various irregular conflicts that took place during the American Civil War. Author Joseph M. Beilein Jr. looks at the ways in which several different bands of guerrillas across Missouri conducted their war in concert with their house-...
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Classic Steelers

The 50 Greatest Games in Pittsburgh Steelers History

by David Finoli
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014

When it came to football in the 1930s, the college sport was king. But in 1933, former boxer and minor league baseball player Art Rooney, who had quarterbacked the squad at Duquesne University, purchased a team for Pittsburgh for $2,500. Thus began the legacy we know as “Steeler Nation.” At...
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Dispatches From Bermuda

The Civil War Letters of Charles Maxwell Allen, United States Consul at Bermuda, 1861-1868

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Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013

Civil War diplomacy and espionageIn the summer of 1861, President Abraham Lincoln appointed Charles Maxwell Allen U.S. consul to Bermuda. During the Civil War, Allen's post became one of vital importance to the United States as this British colony became a center for Confederate blockade-running activities....
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by Michael J. McManus
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011

Michael J. McManus’s study of political abolitionism in Wisconsin demonstrates the overriding importance of slavery-related issues in bringing on the political crisis of the 1850s and the American Civil War. In the years prior to the war, the political struggle to free enslaved blacks and block...
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Cold War Casualty

The Court-Martial of Major General Robert W. Grow

by George F. Hofmann
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011

New research data gathered through the Freedom of Information Act and the first use of the Grow files provide the framework for this absorbing account of the general court-martial of one of General George S. Patton’s famous armored division commanders of World War II. The 1952 court-martial...
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A Punishment on the Nation

An Iowa Soldier Endures the Civil War

by Brian Craig Miller
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2011

The preoccupations and sentiments of a common soldier caught in the most traumatic conflict in American history Private Silas W. Haven, a native New Englander transplanted to Iowa, enlisted in 1862 to fight in a war that he believed was God’s punishment for the sin of slavery. Only through...
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Conspicuous Gallantry

The Civil War and Reconstruction Letters of James W. King, 11th Michigan Volunteer Infantry

by Eric Faust
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015

A unique and fascinating collection of letters from a soldier, planter, and journalist The Union states of what is now the Midwest have received far less attention from historians than those of the East, and much of Michigan’s Civil War story remains untold. The eloquent letters of James...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016

Ernest Hemingway’s place in American letters seems guaranteed: a winner of Nobel and Pulitzer prizes, Hemingway has long been a fixture in high school and college curricula. Just as influential as his famed economy of style and unflappable heroes, however, is his public persona. Heming- way helped...
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Ida McKinley

The Turn-of-the-Century First Lady Through War, Assassination, and Secret Disability

by Carl Sferrazza Anthony
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013

Published in cooperation with The National First Ladies Library This is the first full-length biography of Ida Saxton McKinley (1847– 1907), the wife of William McKinley, president of the United States from 1897 to his assassination in 1901. Long demeaned by history because she suffered from...
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Above and Beyond

Tim Mack, the Pole Vault, and the Quest for Olympic Gold

by Bill Livingston
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2008

“Above and Beyond is a treat. Livingston’s knowledge and love of the sport shines through.”—David Maraniss, author of Rome 1960: The Olympics That Changed the World Two Olympic medalists were recognized at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, days before Christmas 2004. One was the...
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