Kent Press imprint: 601 books
Border Wars
The Civil War in Tennessee and Kentucky
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
North and South fight for control of a vital region
Kentucky and Tennessee share a unique and similar history, having joined the Union as the fifteenth and sixteenth states in 1792 and 1796, respectively. During the antebellum period, Kentuckians and Tennesseans enjoyed a common culture, pursued...
War by Revolution
Germany and Great Britain in the Middle East in the Era of World War I
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
“Professor McKale’s book is a careful and comprehensive study based on a wide range of primary and secondary sources, some of which have only recently been declassified. The author describes in some detail how British and German policies in the Middle East involved the native tribes in the First...
by Jim Tully, Mark Dawidziak
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2014
“Shanty Irish is a window, cracked and soiled, into a time and a place and a people before the moving pictures became an American obsession, people who had to create their own dreams, invent their own stories, and find escape from hopeless lives in hard liquor or the cold comfort of a promised Hereafter.”—from...
by Jim Tully
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2014
A facsimile reprint of this classic tale of the seamier side of circus life
“Jim Tully was one of the fine American novelists to emerge in the 1920s and ’30s. He gained this position with intelligence, sensitivity, and hard work. . . . No matter how crazily violent or fantastic his stories...
Inscribing My Name
Selected Poems: New, Used, and Repossessed
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
Selected poems from a respected African American poet
Visit our Events page for details about the Kent screening of the new film Jump Back, Honey: The Poetry and Performance of Herbert Woodward Martin.
Herbert Woodward Martin’s body of poetry from the past five decades is, in many...
The Music Went 'Round and Around
The Story of Musicarnival
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2004
Spotting a trend in the early 1950s of staging summer theater in the round under tents, Clevelander John L. Price Jr. decided to give it a try. Consulting a local statistician to determine the geographical center of the culturally inclined population, the bull’s-eye fell in Warrensville Heights,...
Sounding the Shallows
A Confederate Compendium for the Maryland Campaign of 1862
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
A companion volume to Taken at the Flood, this book identifies areas of research and in-depth source materials for studies of the Maryland campaign.
Politician Extraordinaire
The Tempestuous Life and Times of Martin L. Davey
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
The biography of a colorful and controversial 20th-century politician
This carefully researched and engagingly written political biography marks the first full treatment of Ohio native and politician Martin L. Davey. An important figure on the local, state, and national political scene in the...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
How the Civilian Conservation Corps transformed our understanding of nature
In the spring of 1933, the United States was in the midst of the worst economic calamity it had ever experienced. Newly inaugurated president Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Congress to approve funding allowing legions...
by Ellis Yochelson
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Charles Doolittle Walcott (1850-1927) is a highly respected figure in the history of geology and paleontology. Perhaps his most notable contribution to his field was his discovery of the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale, one of the most important fossil discoveries ever made. In addition to his distinguished...
The Websters
Letters of an American Army Family in Peace and War, 1836–1853
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2014
When Lucien Webster, West Point graduate and artilleryman, met Frances Smith, granddaughter of a Connecticut Revolutionary War hero, in Florida, neither could anticipate how exciting and stressful their lives would be over the next 17 years. Thrown together in St. Augustine in 1836 during the Second...
by Richard Peterson
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
A post–World War II memoir of a childhood in working-class Pittsburgh
“Alongside August Wilson and John Edgar Wideman, Richard Peterson is among the most evocative chroniclers of Pittsburgh, their colorful hometown. I loved Growing Up With Clemente for both its unnostalgic lyricism and...
Recording the Classics
Maestros, Music, and Technology
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
“There is no doubt that this book will appeal to specialists, including conductors, recording enthusiasts, musicologists, and performers. It provides unique information about conductors’ views regarding the artistic, procedural and commercial aspects of recording. Of greatest importance is the...
by Denise Seachrist
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
Biography of an important figure in 20th-century musical history
Egyptian-born composer Halim El-Dabh has studied with the giants of 20th-centruy musical composition and conducting. Although The Musical World of Halim El-Dabh focuses on his career from his arrival in the U.S. in 1950 to his...