Kent Press imprint: 601 books
The Adventuress
Murder, Blackmail, and Confidence Games in the Gilded Age
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2010
The engaging tale of a nineteenth-century black widow
Intrigue, deception, bribery, poison, murder—all play a central role in the story of Minnie Walkup, a young woman from New Orleans who began her life of crime when she was only sixteen years old.
Born in 1869 to Elizabeth and James...
An Adventure in Education
The College of Wooster from Howard Lowry to the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2015
Wooster: From the Middle West to the world
The College of Wooster was a proud but modest college for much of its life, exemplified by the titles of the first two volumes of its history, Wooster of the Middle West. In 1944, a Wooster alumnus named Howard Lowry became president and created the...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
Writing in 1935 in his brilliant and brooding Black Reconstruction, W. E. B. Du Bois lamented America’s post–Civil War era as a missed opportunity to reconstruct the war-torn nation in deed as well as in word. “If the Reconstruction of the Southern states, from slavery to free labor, and from...
Ohio and Its People
Bicentennial Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2003
The Bicentennial Edition of Ohio and Its People is a revised and updated volume of this bestselling work and includes a new final chapter examining Ohio through the end of the twentieth century. Author George W. Knepper presents contemporary information on the national and state political arenas,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Teaching Hemingway in his time
Teaching Hemingway and Modernism presents concrete, intertextual models for using Hemingway’s work effectively in various classroom settings, so students can understand the pertinent works, definitions, and types of avant-gardism that inflected his art. The...
Ohio's Grand Canal
A Brief History of the Ohio & Erie Canal
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2008
A one-volume history of the Ohio & Erie Canal
“There have been a number of books written about Ohio’s nineteenth-century canal system, especially about the Ohio & Erie Canal, but Ohio’s Grand Canal is by far the most meticulously researched account I have ever read.”—Jack...
Donn Piatt
Gadfly of the Gilded Age
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2011
A celebrated diplomat and editor whose outspoken opinions shaped views on the national agenda
Born in 1819 in Cincinnati, Donn Piatt died in 1891 at the Piatt Castles that still stand in western Ohio. He was a diplomat, historian, journalist, judge, lawyer, legislator, lobbyist, novelist, playwright,...
Cleveland's Harbor
The Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 1996
On July 22, 1796, General Moses Cleaveland established the mouth of the Cuyahoga River as the port of entry for the Ohio frontier. He could not have foretold the developments that would turn this hostile marsh into Thriving economic and community center. With its 200th anniversary, the port, now...
Small Comforts
Essays at Middle Age
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2008
A reflection on the amusements and anxieties of growing older
“With its brutal honesty, self-deprecating humor, and hard-earned insights, Jeffrey Hammond’s Small Comforts is a stunning personal journey that begins with childhood dreams and adolescent fantasies and culminates in career anxieties...
James Monroe
Oberlin's Christian Statesman and Reformer, 1821-1898
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 1998
Guided to Oberlin College by Charles G. Finney, the most prominent evangelical reformer in the nation, James Monroe attended the college when Oberlin served as the center of abolition and reform in the West. In Oberlin's Christian Statesman and Reformer, Catherine M. Rokicky explores this abolitionist...
My Story
Tom L. Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 1993
In cooperation with The Western Reserve Historical SocietyProduced shortly before his death in 1911 and long since out of print, provides a rare personal insight into the career and philosophy of one of the most prominent figures of the American progressive Era. Influenced by the single tax proposals...
One of Custer's Wolverines
The Civil War Letters of Brevet Brigadier General James H. Kidd, 6th Michigan Cavalry
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
Primarily known for his postwar exploits, most famously his 1876 defeat at Little Big Horn, George Armstrong Custer is receiving renewed interest for his successful Civil War generalship. He led the Michigan Cavalry Brigade in more than sixty battles and skirmishes. Forming perhaps the finest single...
A Hero to His Fighting Men
Nelson A. Miles, 1839-1925
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Nelson A. Miles began his military service as a volunteer officer in the Civil War. He later earned the appellation “the idol of the Indian fighters” and capped his controversial career by serving as Commanding General of the Army from 1895 to 1903.
Without the benefit of a college education,...
Rockne and Jones
Notre Dame, USC, and the Greatest Rivalry of the Roaring Twenties
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Notre Dame’s rallying cry was once “Win one for the Gipper.” The football series with Army that spawned that memorable slogan has long since faded into history, but every year the Irish continue to face another storied rival to test their mettle. The annual tradition of Notre Dame versus USC...