Kent Press imprint: 601 books
Wild Ohio
The Best of Our Natural Heritage
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
A photographic documentation of the most outstanding natural habitats in Ohio
“We hope this book never becomes an epitaph for what once was. Ohio is incredibly rich in biodiversity, possibly more so than any other midwestern state. . . . We encourage you to visit these places and view the...
We Fight for Peace
Twenty-Three American Soldiers, Prisoners of War, and Turncoats in the Korean War
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
At midnight on January 24, 1954, the last step was taken in the armistice to end the war in Korea. That night, the neutral Indian guards who had overseen the prisoner of war repatriation process abandoned their posts, leaving their charges to make their own decisions. The vast majority of men allowed...
A Politician Turned General
The Civil War Career of Stephen Augustus Hurlbut
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
A new case study of one of Lincoln’s political generals in the Civil War
A Politician Turned General offers a critical examination of the turbulent early political career and the controversial military service of Stephen Augustus Hurlbut, an Illinois Whig, Republican politician, and Northern...
Spare Not the Brave
The Special Activities Group in Korea
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
The Special Activities Group (SAG) and its subordinate companies have received little attention from historians, despite being an elite combat unit and participating in highly classified and dangerous missions in Korea. Rarely receiving more attention than a footnote, their story usually begins and...
Fire Within
A Civil War Narrative from Wisconsin
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Winner of the Council for Wisconsin Writers Leslie Cross Book-Length Nonfiction Award and the Wisconsin Library Association's Outstanding Achievement Recognition
“This remarkable book blends the experiences of several young Wisconsin men who fought in the Civil War with the course of events...
by Jack D. Welsh
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2013
During the Civil War, the majority of the 583 Union generals studied here were afflicted by disease, injured by accidents, or suffered wounds. Following the war, they often suffered lingering diseases and the effects of unhealed wounds. Medical Histories of Union Generals includes a glossary of medical...
by Henry O. Harden, Scott Cameron
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2014
The story of an Ohio regiment in the Civil WarOriginally published in 1902 by Henry O. Hardens newspaper publishing company, History of the 90th Ohio Volunteer Infantry tells its story through the soldiers personal letters, diary entries, and memoirs. Formed in response to Confederate maneuvers in Kentucky...
The Best School
West Point, 1833-1866
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
"Professor Morrison, a former army officer and member of the faculty at West Point, began this study…with the goal to describe and evaluate not only the curriculum and administration but also the social, military and bureaucratic aspects of the school. With impeccable research and a graceful...
by Mark Kwasny
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2014
"This solid, workmanlike monograph, based on impressive research and laced with first rate maps… gives the reader a greater appreciation of the performance of the states and their leaders in the northern theater of the war. And it shows that Washington was flexible in his use of the militia,...
Narrating the News
New Journalism and Literary Genre in Late Nineteenth-Century American Newspapers and Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2001
A scholarly examination of “new journalism”
Due to a burgeoning print marketplace during the late nineteenth century, urban newspapers felt pressure to create entertaining prose that appealed to readers, drawing on popular literary genres such as travel adventures, detective tales, and...
Sympathy, Madness, and Crime
How Four Nineteenth-Century Journalists Made the Newspaper Women's Business
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
In one of her escapades as a reporter for Joseph Pulitzer's New York World, the renowned Nellie Bly feigned insanity in 1889 and slipped, undercover, behind the grim walls of Blackwell's Island mental asylum. She emerged ten days later with a vivid tale about life in a madhouse. Her asylum articles...
Being Present
Growing Up in Hitlers Germany
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 1993
“Professor Schumann, of Smith College, was six years old when Hitler came to power in Germany. He grew up in a smallish, very ship-minded town on the approach to the Kiel Canal. The place was far from the centers of power and corruption, and devoid of concentration camps. Young Willy became a devoted...
by John Hayward
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Barrett Beer here presents the first scholarly edition of Sir John Hayward’s Life and Raigne of King Edward VI, the earliest biography of the last Tudor king. Originally published in 1630 and again in 1636, Hayward’s account was reprinted in White Kennett’s Complete History of England in 1706....
by George Puttenham
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 1971
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 1971
Published in 1589, The Arte of English Poesie can be considered the first full-scale work of poetic criticism in England—“a noble monument,” in Professor Hathaways words, “astraddle the rude beginnings of the speculative aspects of English literary culture.” Its three main parts are a treatise...