The Kent State University Press: 559 books
Edgar Huntly
Or Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2011
Often described as a "gothic novel," this is a classic American tale of mystery and murder with exciting and dramatic plot twists. Charles Brockden Brown is the most frequently studied and republished practitioner of the "early American novel," or the US novel between 1789 and...
Mysterious Medicine
The Doctor-Scientist Tales of Hawthorne and Poe
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe were masters of mystery and fantasy, but they also engaged real controversies surrounding individual health, health care practice, and biomedical research in nineteenth-century America. During this volatile era, when mesmerists, phrenologists, and other pseudoscientists...
Yankee Dutchmen under Fire
Civil War Letters from the 82nd Illinois Infantry
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Life and death, pride and prejudice, and combat in an ethnic Civil War regiment
Thousands of volumes of Civil War letters are available, but little more than a dozen contain collections written by native Germans fighting in this great American conflict. Yankee Dutchmen under Fire presents a...
Gettysburg's Other Battle
The Ordeal of an American Shrine during the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Gettysburg is known as the second bloodiest battle of the 19th century and as the site of Abraham Lincoln's 1863 speech that gave new meaning to America's Civil War. By the turn of the next century, the battlefield was enshrined as a national park under the jurisdiction of the War Department. In 1913,...
Letters from the Spanish Civil War
A U.S. Volunteer Writes Home
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2013
A candid description of warfare at one of the first battlefields of World War II
Letters from the Spanish Civil War provides a unique perspective into the motivations that led a young man from the American heartland to defy U.S. neutrality and travel to Spain to fight in defense of democracy...
by Warren Brown
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2007
A facsimile reproduction of the 1952 history of the White Sox
Warren Brown’s team history of the Chicago White Sox originally appeared in 1952 as part of the celebrated series of major league team histories published by G. P. Putnam. With their colorful prose and delightful narratives, the...
Confronting the Horror
The Novels of Nelson Algren
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2011
Because naturalism seems antithetical to modernism and literary existentialism, slight attention has been given to the existence of a contemporary, or post-World War II, naturalism. Indeed, the very term serves as a synonym for “old fashioned.” While understandable, this view has contributed to...
by Edward Micus
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Winner of the 2008 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize
“[Edward Micus’s The Infirmary is] a rarity: a mature debut, a first book of poems with time-tested virtues. . . . Unlike many of the Vietnam poems written at the time of the war or shortly thereafter—poems of anger or protest—Edward...
by Angelo Repousis
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
The pre–Cold War motives of American intervention in Greece
Most studies of U.S. relations with Greece focus on the Cold War period, beginning with the enunciation of the Truman Doctrine in 1947. There is little substance in the extant literature about American policy toward or interaction...
Bodies and Barriers
Dramas of Dis-Ease
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
Dramatic pieces that raise issues of humanity in medicine
Bodies and Barriers offers a collection of dramatic pieces of our time that provide an aesthetic perspective from which we view today’s vital health issues. With each play exploring a different medical crisis, the collection covers...
NATO after Sixty Years
A Stable Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2011
Experts analyze NATO’s successes
NATO after Sixty Yearsaddresses the challenges of adaptation confronting the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in the early twenty-first century. Comprised of essays from a range of experts, each chapter examines an aspect of NATO’s difficult adjustment...
Forging the "Bee Line" Railroad, 1848-1889
The Rise and Fall of the Hoosier Partisans and Cleveland Clique
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
In the 1830s, as the Trans Appalachian economy began to stir and Europe's Industrial Revolution reached its peak, concerned Midwesterners saw opportunities and risks. Success of the Erie Canal as a link to East Coast economic markets whetted the appetites of visionaries and entrepreneurs, who saw...
Caution and Cooperation
The American Civil War in British-American Relations
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
A provocative reinterpretation of Civil War–era diplomacy
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“Phillip E. Myers’s Caution and Cooperation places Anglo-American relations during the Civil War within the broader context of the whole nineteenth century, arguing convincingly...
Framing Elizabethan Fictions
Contemporary Approaches to Early Modern Narrative Prose
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
Literary historians have been giving increased attention to texts that have hitherto been largely ignored. The works of women, the disenfranchised, and “commoners” have all benefited from such critical analysis. Similarly, letters, memoirs, popular poetry, and serialized fiction have become the...