Kent Press imprint: 601 books
Building the St. Helena II
Rebirth of a Nineteenth-Century Canal Boat
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Building the St. Helena II tells the story of the 1970 reconstruction of an authentic, operational 1825 canal boat. The narrative unfolds in the small village of Canal Fulton, Ohio, along the surviving one- mile section of the 333-mile Ohio & Erie Canal, which in the 1820s connected the new nation’s...
by Morri Creech
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
Displaying a range of voices and subjects—from dramatic monologues in the voices of Judas Iscariot and John the Baptist to harrowing personal lyrics of family, time, memory, and loss—Creech’s poems examine the difficulties of belief and the transcendent possibilities of common experience, pushing...
Dialogue on the Frontier
Catholic and Protestant Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
A discussion of the expansion of Catholicism in the West
Dialogue on the Frontier is a remarkable departure from previous scholarship, which emphasized the negative aspects of the relationship between Protestants and Catholics in the early American republic. Author Margaret C. DePalma argues...
Beyond the Plain and Simple
A Patchwork of Amish Lives
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
A series of vignettes describing Amish people and customs
Pauline Stevick has visited more than 50 Amish homes in numerous Amish settlements across the country. She has attended weddings, viewings, school sessions and programs, family gatherings, and more than a dozen church services. She has...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
The concept of the "New South" has elicited fierce debate among historians since the mid-twentieth century. At the heart of the argument is the question of whether the post-Civil War South transformed itself into something genuinely new or simply held firm to patterns of life established...
Trolling Big-Water Walleyes
Secrets of the Great Lakes
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
Experts reveal surefire methods for walleye trolling, equipment techniques, tactics, and more
On big, open water like the Great Lakes, sprawling Western reservoirs, and large North American rivers, trolling puts more walleyes in the boat—hour for hour—than any other fishing method. Why?...
Classic Cavs
The 50 Greatest Games in Cleveland Cavaliers History, Second Edition, Revised and Updated
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
This brand-new edition of Classic Cavs counts down the fifty greatest Cleveland Cavaliers games, from their 67-loss inaugural NBA season in 1970–71 through the franchise’s renaissance following the triumphant return of LeBron James. The rich, colorful history of the Cavs is woven into tales that...
Ohio Hill Country
A Rewoven Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
The southeastern third of Ohio is quite different from the flat or gently rolling portions of the state, differing in landscape, geologic history, ecology, and human history. It is the deeply dissected hill country that was formed over many millions of years by sediments eroded from four ancient mountain...
Edward Taylor's Gods Determinations and Preparatory Meditations
A Critical Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 1999
The new standard edition of Edward Taylor's major works of poetry
Daniel Patterson's Edward Taylor's Gods Determinations and Preparatory Meditations: A Critical Edition reconsiders the texts of Taylor's two major works for the first time since Donald Stanford's 1960 edition. This volume also...
by Kate Hancock
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2011
“Kate Hancock’s poems combine intellectual rigor with emotional recklessness like oil and water under special dispensation. This rare ability is a tell-tale sign of a true poet, and the reader who lets these poems have their sure way with him or her will not forget them.”—William Matthews
by Will Toedtman
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 1999
“Will Toedtman approaches all his subjects—from street football to Orpheus—with nothing less than full attention. His voice is distinctive, and it clearly has something to say. A steady gaze, subtle pacing, and an ear for the rhythms of both speech and tradition shape these thoughtful poems....
Behind Bayonets
The Civil War in Northern Ohio
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2013
A valuable addition to the literature on Ohio and the Civil War
Eminent Cleveland historian David Van Tassel had undertaken the challenge of writing an illustrated history of the Cleveland homefront during the Civil War. Unfortunately, he died in 2000 before completing his manuscript. Historian...
Scars to Prove It
The Civil War Soldier and American Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
“When the first cannon sounded over Charleston Harbor in 1861, it announced the beginning of an American literary phenomenon. Readers North and South hungered for imaginative writing about the escalating war, and canny publishers were swift to deliver. . . . Today even the most conservative estimate...
Ohio's Craft Beers
Discovering the Variety, Enjoying the Quality, Relishing the Experience
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Ohio's Craft Beers celebrates the variety of craft brewing in Ohio, offers appreciations of its quality, and reports on the renaissance of the brewer's art throughout the Buckeye State. Beautifully illustrated with color photographs, the book takes readers on a tour of more than 40 of Ohio's larger...