The Kent State University Press: 559 books
Radio Daze
Stories from the Front in Cleveland's FM Air Wars
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 1999
Cleveland has long enjoyed its reputation as one of the hottest music centers in the country and as the Rock 'n' Roll Capital of the World. Trends started or gained major recognition in Cleveland and were fueled by local radio stations and their disc jockeys, who connected with their audience and...
Corpsmen
Letters From Korea
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
In Corpsmen: Letters from Korea, the Chappell twins gathered together their letters to chronicle their experiences as medical corpsmen in the First Marine Division during the Korean War. From boot camp to Bethesda Naval Hospital and on the Fleet Marine Force training and eventually the front line,...
William McKinley and His America
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
When George W. Bush won the White House, he was the first incumbent Republican governor elected president since William McKinley in 1896.
William McKinley was the last of the Civil War veterans to reach the White House. Known widely as the Major, in honor of his military rank, he rose through...
Keepers of Culture
The Art-Thought of Kenyon Cox, Royal Cortissoz, and Frank Jewett Mather, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
The conflict between modern and traditional art is one of the best known episodes in American cultural history. The modernists on the war in the sense that their styles and attitudes of mind dominated the discussion and production of new art. But the traditionalists remained strong in the arenas of...
Conrad Wise Chapman
Artist and Solider of the Confederacy
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Conrad Wise Chapman (1842-1910) is unique among Civil War artists: he painted and sketched while on duty as a Confederate soldier who served in three theaters of the war. Chapman’s first-hand knowledge is evident in his work. Ben Bassham has written both a critical study of Chapman’s art and a...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016
Translators Writing, Writing Translators is a collection of essays by some of the leading scholar-practitioners working in the field of translation studies. Inspired by the work of distinguished translator and theorist Carol Maier, the contributors reflect, in a variety of forms—from biographical...
by Jonathan Goodman, Albert Borowitz
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2014
A seasonal gift for connoisseurs of true crime
Here are ten murder cases of “the old-fashioned sort”—evoking a nostalgia more obviously associated with fiction—that all took place during the festive period from mid-December to Twelfth Night between 1811 and 1933. The settings of these...
by Robert Miltner
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2011
“What continues to affect me in Robert Miltner’s Against the Simple is the silence that haunts the edges of experience and meaning. Like the lonely streetscapes of Giorgia De Chirico, Miltner’s poems, often cast in brief sentences surrounded by an eerie quiet, haunt us with the unseen and the...
Unknown Soldiers
The American Expeditionary Forces in Memory and Remembrance
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2008
The Great War remembered
“This book is not a history of World War I, nor is it a history of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) on the Western Front. Rather, it is a collection of essays that examines how the wartime generation and those that followed have remembered or commemorated individuals,...
by Kate Northrop
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2013
Kate Northrop’s Back Through Interruption is a deeply moving and thought-provoking collection of poetry. It takes the reader through a world that is at once beautiful and tragic, sacrosanct and profane.
“Kate Northrop’s elegant, intelligent, wonderfully plotted first book, Back Through...
by John M. Schechter
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
A musical instrument that has played a vital role in Latin American music cultures—the harp—is the subject of this new work, the first study of its kind to be published in English. John Schechter presents a history of the harp in Spain, traces its introduction into colonial Latin America, and...
Bandersnatch
C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and the Creative Collaboration of the Inklings
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
An inside look at the Inklings and their creative process
C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and the other Inklings met each week to read and discuss each other’s works-in-progress, offering both encouragement and blistering critique. How did these conversations shape the books they were writing?...
by Robert Boenig
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2012
Medieval literature and the imagination of C. S. Lewis
2015 winner of the Mythopoeic Society’s Award for Inkling Studies
In C. S. Lewis and the Middle Ages, medievalist Robert Boenig explores Lewis’s personal and professional engagement with medieval literature and culture and argues...
by Jonathan Goodman
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
A new look at some gruesome and riveting murdersIn this grisly and gripping collection of essays-some revised and updated, some never before published, but all new to American audiences-prize-winning English crime historian Jonathan Goodman turns his attention to a variety of British and American...