Kent Press imprint: 601 books
For Their Own Cause
The 27th United States Colored Troops
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
The 27th United States Colored Troops (USCT), composed largely of free black Ohio men, served in the Union army from April 1864 to September 1865 in Virginia and North Carolina. It was the first time most members of the unit had traveled so far from home. The men faced daily battles against racism...
Fallen Leaves
The Civil War Letters of Major Henry Livermore Abbott
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Major Henry Livermore Abbott of the 20th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry was the most widely known and highly respected officer of his rank to serve in the Army of the Potomac. He distinguished himself in every battle in which he participated, from Ball’s Bluff until the Battle of the Wilderness,...
The Historicism of Charles Brockden Brown
Radical History and the Early Republic
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2011
A new perspective on the cultural politics of Charles Brockden Brown
The novels of Charles Brockden Brown, the most accomplished literary figure in early America, redefined the gothic genre and helped shape some of America’s greatest writers, including Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe, and...
Rooms and Fields
Dramatic Monologues from the War in Bosnia
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2012
Winner of the 2003 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize
“These poems are full of surprises: the gods talk; ancient authors talk; the dictionary talks; very memorably, the bridge over the Drina River, roughly between Bosnia and Serbia, speaks two haunting poems. The dead talk, wolves talk, a teacher...
And the Wind Blew Cold
The Story of an American POW in North Korea
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2012
A first-person account of the day-to-day struggles of an American held captive in North Korea.
October 6, 1951. Richard Bassett remembers the day vividly. That was the day his platoon ran into an ambush near Kumwha. During the firefight many were wounded, four were killed, and Bassett, along...
The Imperfect Revolution
Anthony Burns and the Landscape of Race in Antebellum America
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
Gripping re-examination of the rendition of Anthony Burns
On June 2, 1854, crowds lined the streets of Boston, hissing and shouting at federal authorities as they escorted the fugitive slave Anthony Burns to the ship that would return him to his slaveholders in Virginia. Days earlier, handbills...
Red River Campaign
Politics and Cotton in the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 1999
First published in 1958, Red River Campaign examines how partisan politics, economic needs, and personal profit determined military policy and operations in Louisiana and Arkansas during the spring of 1864.
In response to the demands of Free-Soil interests in Texas and the New England textiles...
You Can't Be Mexican
You Talk Just Like Me
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
A firsthand account of the immigrant experience in America
Frank Mendez, a child of Mexican immigrants begins his memoir with the story of his father’s harrowing migration from Mexico to Texas in 1920 as he escaped from Zapata’s guerrrillos and continues with his story of growing up in...
A Light and Uncertain Hold
A History of the Sixty-Sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
Curiosity piqued by two poems written by his great-great-grandmother initiated David Thackery’s scholarly exploration into the history of the Sixty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry and the wartime history of Champaign County, Ohio, from which it was recruited.
Not only a military history, A...
by Larry Gara, Lenna Mae Gara
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2013
Little is known about those who openly refused to enter military service in World War II because of their convictions against killing. While many of those men accepted alternative civilian service, more than 6,000 were incarcerated with sentences ranging from a few months to five years. Some were...
A Colony Sprung from Hell
Pittsburgh and the Struggle for Authority on the Western Pennsylvania Frontier, 1744-1794
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
The early settlement of the region around Pittsburgh was characterized by a messy collision of personal, provincial, national, and imperial interests. Driven by the efforts of Europeans, Pennsylvanians, Virginians, and Indians, almost everyone attempted to manipulate the clouded political jurisdiction...
by Jonathan Goodman
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2001
A witty and informative look at classic American murder cases
On a 6,000-mile train trip across the North American continent from New York City to the West Coast, then back to New York over a southern route, prizewinning English crime historian Jonathan Goodman visited a number of sites where...
Lost Ohio
More Travels into the Haunted Landscapes, Ghost Towns, and Forgotten Lives
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
A fascinating look at Ohio’s forgotten history
Take a leisurely tour across the Buckeye State with author Randy McNutt to a massive swamp that swallowed pioneers’ wagons, a haunted prison, a faded German utopia, a town where they still chase horse thieves, a marriage mecca, a village where...
by Lisa Coffman
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
“Lisa Coffman is a major poet in the making. Imagine a voice that combines hear-of-American brooding like James Wright’s with a shaded elegance like Elizabeth Bishop’s. Imagine Whitman’s spirit somewhere in the vicinity. Imagine a love of small towns ringed by mountains, a shrewd ear for lonely...