Kent Press imprint: 601 books
Long Road to Liberty
The Odyssey of a German Regiment in the Yankee Army the 15th Missouri Volunteer Infantry
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 1994
One of the “Fightingest Three Hundred” regiments of the Civil War
Missouri, torn by divided loyalties between supporting the North or the South, had 39 infantry regiments serving in the Union army. Of these, the 15th Missouri, comprised primarily of German immigrants, served the longest...
Arguing Americanism
Franco Lobbyists, Roosevelt's Foreign Policy, and the Spanish Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
The struggle to define U.S. national identity through a political conflict in Spain
“An unusually original book that challenges established assumptions and reveals the complexity of American reactions to the Spanish Civil War.”—Stanley G. Payne, University of Wisconsin-Madison
In...
Gettysburg's Other Battle
The Ordeal of an American Shrine during the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Gettysburg is known as the second bloodiest battle of the 19th century and as the site of Abraham Lincoln's 1863 speech that gave new meaning to America's Civil War. By the turn of the next century, the battlefield was enshrined as a national park under the jurisdiction of the War Department. In 1913,...
Letters from the Spanish Civil War
A U.S. Volunteer Writes Home
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2013
A candid description of warfare at one of the first battlefields of World War II
Letters from the Spanish Civil War provides a unique perspective into the motivations that led a young man from the American heartland to defy U.S. neutrality and travel to Spain to fight in defense of democracy...
by Warren Brown
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2007
A facsimile reproduction of the 1952 history of the White Sox
Warren Brown’s team history of the Chicago White Sox originally appeared in 1952 as part of the celebrated series of major league team histories published by G. P. Putnam. With their colorful prose and delightful narratives, the...
Early Akron's Industrial Valley
A History of the Cascade Locks
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
A pictorial history of a piece of Ohio's canal heritage
In this study of Akron's Cascade Locks, canal historian Jack Gieck examines the story of this remarkable lock system, including a look at early-nineteenth-century entrepreneurs who exploited the precipitous terrain to found one of the...
by Robert D. Sampson
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 1999
Brings to life one of the most enigmatic, romantic, and ultimately tragic characters in American history
The life of nineteenth-century journalist, diplomat, adventurer, and enthusiast for lost causes John Louis O'Sullivan is usually glimpsed only in brief episodes, perhaps because the components...
Confronting the Horror
The Novels of Nelson Algren
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2011
Because naturalism seems antithetical to modernism and literary existentialism, slight attention has been given to the existence of a contemporary, or post-World War II, naturalism. Indeed, the very term serves as a synonym for “old fashioned.” While understandable, this view has contributed to...
by Edward Micus
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Winner of the 2008 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize
“[Edward Micus’s The Infirmary is] a rarity: a mature debut, a first book of poems with time-tested virtues. . . . Unlike many of the Vietnam poems written at the time of the war or shortly thereafter—poems of anger or protest—Edward...
by Benjamin Grossberg
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
“Reading The Auctioneer Bangs His Gavel, I had the sense of finding a poet I’d been looking for unawares: one who intertwines a survey of human sexuality (and gay sexuality at that) with theological questions; one who tackles ambitious poetic projects without sounding pretentious; one who writes...
British Buckeyes
The English, Scots, and Welsh in Ohio, 1700-1900
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
How early British immigrants shaped Ohio
Because of their similar linguistic, religious, and cultural backgrounds, English, Scottish, and Welsh immigrants are often regarded as the “invisible immigrants,” assimilating into early American society easily and quickly and often losing their...
by Karen Kovacik
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
“Karen Kovacik's poems are strong, distinctive and thoroughly wonderful works. Her personal poems such as ‘Watching My Father Pray’ make use of autobiographical detail in a way that is never insular or hermetic. And her Richard Nixon persona poems are stunning, brave, and original. American...
by Angelo Repousis
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
The pre–Cold War motives of American intervention in Greece
Most studies of U.S. relations with Greece focus on the Cold War period, beginning with the enunciation of the Truman Doctrine in 1947. There is little substance in the extant literature about American policy toward or interaction...
Bodies and Barriers
Dramas of Dis-Ease
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
Dramatic pieces that raise issues of humanity in medicine
Bodies and Barriers offers a collection of dramatic pieces of our time that provide an aesthetic perspective from which we view today’s vital health issues. With each play exploring a different medical crisis, the collection covers...