Kent Press imprint: 601 books
Call Me Mike
A Political Biography of Michael V. DiSalle
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1998
Michael V. DiSalle was elected to his first and only term as governor in one of Ohio’s most contentious elections, which featured a ferocious battle over the so-called “Right-to-Work” issue, a union-busting constitutional amendment placed on the ballot over the objections of Republican party...
The Ohio Canals
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
From Cleveland to Portsmouth and Toledo to Cincinnati, two great canals and numerous connections and feeders laced Ohio with a thousand miles of waterways in the years before the Civil War. They were a major force in transforming Ohio from a frontier society to a leading agricultural and commercial...
Pure Heart
The Faith of a Father and Son in the War for a More Perfect Union
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2016
In the summer of 1862, as Union morale ebbed low with home front division over war costs, coming emancipation, and demoralizing battlefield losses, 24-year-old William White Dorr enlisted as a lieu- tenant in the 121st Pennsylvania Volunteers, a new Union regiment organizing in Philadelphia. His father,...
The Way of the Pipa
Structure and Imagery in Chinese Lute Music
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 1992
“Over the centuries a repertoire of solo pipa pieces has developed and this study focuses on those found in the Hua collection, which encompasses the pieces in the repertoire of the Hua family, and was printed, using the wooden block technique, in 1819. Among the works are many ancient melodies...
A Community of Inquiry
Conversations Between Classical American Philosophy and American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
Explores the ways literature and philosophy enrich each other’s inquiry into the human condition
“I applaud the novel ways in which Dooley brings to life the interchanges between philosophy and literature in America during this period. Although numerous literary scholars have published...
Rosie the Rubber Worker
Women Workers in Akron's Rubber Factories during World War II
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2000
In this richly illustrated book Kathleen L. Endres examines the lives of women working in the rubber industry in World War II.Endres points out that women were not new to the factories of Akron. Years before the war, many women had been balancing their home lives with working in these factories. And...
The Romance of History
Essays in Honor of Lawrence S. Kaplan
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
The Romance of History is a collection of articles and essays which reflects the varied professional interests of eminent diplomatic historian Lawrence S. Kaplan. The collection is drawn largely from Kaplan’s former students—accomplished scholars in their own right—but also features senior colleagues.
Throughout...
Buckeye Presidents
Ohioans in the White House
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 1999
An examination of the important role of Ohio in U.S. presidential history
Only two states can claim the title “the Mother of U.S. Presidents”—Ohio and Virginia. Fifteen presidents have hailed from either Ohio or Virginia, though one of those men, William Henry Harrison, is attributed...
Fernando Wood
A Political Biography
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
Fernando Wood was one of the most controversial figures of nineteenth-century America. His fellow New Yorkers either respected or despised him, depending whether they considered his policies beneficial or harmful to their interests. The character revealed herein possessed some admirable qualities;...
by George Condon
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
A narrative history of Cleveland’s West Side
“In the beginning, two settlements straddled the Cuyahoga River at its northernmost reach, where it twists its way into Lake Erie. The older and larger of the two, Cleveland, was on the east bank. The younger community on the west bank was called...
Hauptmanns Ladder
A Step-by-Step Analysis of the Lindbergh Kidnapping
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2014
In 1936, Bruno Richard Hauptmann was executed for the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh Jr. Almost all of America believed Hauptmann guilty; only a few magazines and tabloids published articles questioning his conviction. In the ensuing decades, many books about the Lindbergh case have been...
Citizens and Communities
Civil War History Readers, Volume 4
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2015
Trailblazing essays on the home front 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. Civil War History Readers reintroduce the most influential articles published in the...
Gentleman George Hunt Pendleton
Party Politics and Ideological Identity in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
The first modern biography of this notable politician
“Mach’s detailed and thoughtful examination of Ohio lawyer-politician-diplomat George Hunt Pendleton is an impressive piece of scholarship and will surely be the standard for decades to come.”
—H. Roger Grant, Department of History,...
My Father Spoke Finglish at Work
Finnish Americans in Northeastern Ohio
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
A regional view of Finnish immigration
In 1874 the first Finnish immigrants came to Northeast Ohio’s Lake Erie port towns to work on the docks loading coal or unloading iron ore from ships sailing the Great Lakes or to work on the railroads. As with most immigrant groups, the Finns clustered...