Kent Press imprint: 601 books
Politicians, the Press, and Propaganda
Lord Northcliffe and the Great War, 1914-1919
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
Politicians, the Press, and Propaganda represents the most recent and most extensive research on Alfred Harmsworth (Lord Northcliffe), one of the “press lords” who influenced British politics and policy during the First World War. Thompson’s is the only study to deal with Northcliffe and the...
Sherman's Other War
The General and the Civil War Press, Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Marszalek traces the roots of Sherman’s hostility toward the press and details his attempts to muzzle reporters during the Civil War, culminating in Sherman’s exclusion of all reporters from his famous March to the Sea.
Despite the passage of over a century, the question of press rights...
Ripperology
A Study of the World's First Serial Killer and a Literary Phenomenon
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2002
Ripperology, the sometimes obsessive interest in studying the crimes of Jack the Ripper, is a subject of timeless interest that has suffered from confusion, exaggeration, and hyperbole for over a century. Jack the Ripper was probably the first serial killer to appear in a large metropolis at a time...
Plain Dealing
Ohio Politics and Journalism Viewed from the Press Gallery
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2006
A collection of political remembrances from a longtime Statehouse and Washington bureau reporter
Son of an Ohio Supreme Court Justice and longtime political reporter, Rick Zimmerman presents Ohio politics from the inside. He began learning about Ohio politics and politicians as a young boy,...
by Mark A. Lause
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2010
Cultural politics and American bohemians in pre–Civil War New York
Amid the social and political tensions plaguing the United States in the years leading up to the Civil War, the North experienced a boom of cultural activity. Young transient writers, artists, and musicians settled in northern...
Antietam
Essays on the 1863 Maryland Campaign
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
The relative importance of Civil War campaigns is a matter for debate among historians and buffs alike. Gettysburg, Vicksburg, and Atlanta have their advocates. Gettysburg certainly maintains its hold on the popular imagination. More recently has come the suggestion that no single campaign or battle...
Murder of a Journalist
The True Story of the Death of Donald Ring Mellett
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2009
Private detectives, crooked cops, gangsters, and bootleggers
The July 1926 murder of the editor of the Canton, Ohio, Daily News, Don R. Mellett, was one of the most publicized crimes in the 1920s. For less than a year, Mellett was the editor of the Daily News, owned by former Ohio governor...
by James M. Wood
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
How a gay newspaper columnist dominated a city’s nightlife from the 1930s to the 1960s
Winsor French was a journalist with a singular voice. A self-described “effeminate young man,” French occupied desks in city rooms drenched with masculinity, enduring his colleagues’ homophobia and...
Nameless Indignities
Unraveling the Mystery of One of Illinois's Most Infamous Crimes
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
New evidence discovered in a 130-year-old mystery
Upon discovering that her great-great aunt was the victim and central figure in one of Illinois’s most notorious crimes, author Susan Elmore set out to learn more. She uncovered a perplexing case that resulted in multiple suspects, a lynch...
by Thomas R. Flagel
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
Union and Confederate veterans meet at Gettysburg on the 50th anniversary of the battle
This June 29–July 4 reunion drew over 55,000 official attendees plus thousands more who descended upon a town of 4,000 during the scorching summer of 1913, with the promise of little more than a cot and...
Richard McNemar, Music, and the Western Shaker Communities
Branches of One Living Tree
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
A pioneering study of the Shaker west’s opening generation and an analytical reconstruction of the first Ohio Shaker hymnal
The arrival of the Shakers in Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana in the decades after 1805 saw a substantial escalation in the movement. In Richard McNemar, Music, and the...
The Printer's Kiss
The Life and Letters of a Civil War Newspaperman and His Family
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
In language that resonates with power and beauty, this compilation of personal letters written from 1844 to 1864 tells the compelling story of controversial newspaper editor Will Tomlinson, his opinionated wife (Eliza Wylie Tomlinson), and their two children (Byers and Belle) in the treacherous borderlands...
Our Little Monitor
The Greatest Invention of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
On March 9, 1862, the USS Monitor and CSS Virginia met in the Battle of Hampton Roads-the first time ironclad vessels would engage each other in combat. For four hours the two ships pummeled one another as thousands of Union and Confederate soldiers and civilians watched from the shorelines. Although...
Though Murder Has No Tongue
The Lost Victim of Cleveland's Mad Butcher
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
The unfortunate victim of a frightened city desperately in need of a scapegoat.
Though Murder Has No Tongue tells the story of Frank Dolezal, the only man actually arrested and charged with the infamous “Torso Murders” in Cleveland, Ohio, during the late 1930s. Dolezal, a fifty-two-year-old...