Kent Press imprint: 601 books
Above the Shots
An Oral History of the Kent State Shootings
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
A deadly confrontation at Kent State University between Vietnam War protesters and members of the Ohio National Guard occurred in the afternoon on May 4, 1970. What remained, along with the tragic injuries and lives lost, was a remarkable array of conflicting interpretations and theories about what...
by Tim Spofford
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2011
Only ten days after four white students had been gunned down by National Guardsmen at Kent State University in 1970, law enforcement officials fired upon and killed two young blacks and wounded twelve others in front of a women's dormitory at Jackson State College in Mississippi. The first incident...
by
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2011
Social justice and the shaping of public memory
The essays in this volume explore the complex relationships among events, memory, and portrayal of those events and the deepest questions of human experience, all viewed through a range of disciplinary lenses but grouped into three sections, each...
by Loris C Troyer
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
As editor and executive editor of the Ravenna-Kent Record-Courier, Loris C. Troyer has been a pivotal figure in Portage County, Ohio, for over sixty years. Since retiring, he has written a weekly historical column entitled “Portage Pathways” on topics ranging from historical landmarks and events...
This We Know
A Chronology of the Shootings at Kent State, May 1970
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
The events that led up to and include the shootings of May 4, 1970 are part of a story that continues to be written. This We Know succinctly documents the facts that fill out the chronology of events of the four fateful days that ended with members of the Ohio National Guard wounding nine Kent State...
by Kent Maynard
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
Drawing upon his experiences and knowledge as a professional anthropologist, Kent Maynard takes readers on a sensory journey through the cultures and landscapes of a fascinating and foreign world.
Her Voice Will Be on the Side of Right
Gender and Power in Women's Antebellum Antislavery Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Decades before the Civil War, the free American public was gripped by increasingly acrimonious debates about the nation's "peculiar institution" of slavery. Ministers considered the morality of slavery from their pulpits, legislators debated it in the halls of government, professors discussed...
Democracy and Religion
Free Exercise and Diverse Visions
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
Compiled from papers delivered at the third annual Kent State University Symposium on Democracy held in spring 2002, Democracy and Religion: Free Exercise and Diverse Visions explores the interrelations of politics and religion. The work is divided into four main sections: the constitutional debate...
Compromise Formations
Current Directions in Psychoanalytic Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2011
These essays are collected from the Fourth International Conference on Literature and Psychology held at Kent State University, 7-9 August 1987. In selecting the essays for this first collection to emerge from the varied conferences now being sponsored by the Kent State University Center for Literature...
An Artist of the American Renaissance
The Letters of Kenyon Cox, 1883-1919
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 1995
Kenyon Cox was born in Warren, Ohio, in 1856 to a nationally prominent family. He studied as an adolescent at the McMicken Art School in Cincinnati and later at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. From 1877 to 1882, he was enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, and then...
by
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 1998
Like its pioneering predecessor, the one-volume review published in 1952 by William F. Nolan, The New Ray Bradbury Review contains articles and reviews about Bradbury but has a much broader scope, including a thematic focus for each issue. Since Nolan composed his slim volume at the beginning of Bradbury’s...
Denmark Vesey's Revolt
The Slave Plot that Lit a Fuse to Fort Sumter
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
In 1822, Denmark Vesey was found guilty of plotting an insurrection—what would have been the biggest slave uprising in U.S. history. A free man of color, he was hanged along with 34 other African Americans in Charleston, South Carolina, in what historians agree was probably the largest civil execution...
Major McKinley
William Mckinley & The Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2013
“A finely written and deeply researched book. It adds a major dimension to McKinley’s life and times and will interest all students of the Civil War as well.” —H. Wayne Morgan, author of William McKinley and His America (Kent State University Press, 2003)
“The Civil War was a crucial...
Race and Recruitment
Civil War History Readers, Vol. 2
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
The second volume of the best from Civil War History
For more than sixty years the journal Civil War History has presented the best original scholarship in the study of America’s greatest struggle. The Kent State University Press is pleased to present this second volume in its multivolume...