Kent Press imprint: 601 books
General Grant
by Matthew Arnold with a Rejoinder by Mark Twain
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2011
“The editor has placed the dispute between Arnold and Twain in its historical perspective. The volume is especially significant because it adds a new dimension to Grant; it places him in relation to the literary men of that era.”—Robert A. Waller, Civil War History
General Grant by Matthew...
Cleveland
A Metropolitan Reader
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
After enjoying exceptional growth at the turn of the last century, Cleveland's fortunes, like that of many metropolitan centers, have sharply declined. How much of this change is due to characteristics of growth and development, the outmigration of population and investment' technological advances,...
Confronting the Odds
African American Entrepreneurship in Cleveland, Ohio
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2009
The history of African American entrepreneurship has produced a number of studies of economic development on the national level, but very few have examined this growth at the local level. Confronting the Odds was written to bridge that gap, and Bessie House-Soremekun provides this historical analysis...
by Marcus Gleisser
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2001
Cyrus S. Eaton was born on December 27, 1883, in the quiet Nova Scotian village of Pugwash. He often visited Cleveland, Ohio, spending summer vacations from college with his uncle and was employed in 1905 by his first teacher, John D. Rockefeller Sr., as a clerk and troubleshooter for the East Ohio...
Guilty by Popular Demand
A True Story of Small-Town Injustice
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2013
Murder and miscarriage of justice in a rural communityThe townsfolk of Logan, Ohio, a mined-out area of the Appalachian foothills, cheered as an innocent man was convicted and sent to death row. The occasion was the conviction of Dale N. Johnston. His trial ended nothing; the tragedies had just begun....
Canal Fever
The Ohio & Erie Canal, from Waterway to Canalway
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
Original essays on the past, present, and future of the Ohio & Erie Canal
Combining original essays based on the past, present, and future of the Ohio & Erie Canal, Canal Fever showcases the research and writing of the best and most knowledgeable canal historians, archaeologists, and...
by Todd Savitt
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
An examination of the medical experiences of African Americans
During the days of slavery in America, racism and often-faulty medical theories contributed to an atmosphere in which African Americans were seen as chattel: some white physicians claimed that African Americans had physiological...
A Profile in Alternative Medicine
The Eclectic Medical College of Cincinnati, 1835-1942
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
The Eclectic Medical Institute was an American institution in origin, concept, and practice. For nearly a century, EMI was known as the “mecca of eclectic thinking” and the “Mother Institute” of reformed medicine. A Profile of Alternative Medicine recounts the history of eclectic medicine...
Kindly Medicine
Physio-Medicalism in America, 1836-1911
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Between 1836 and 1911, thirteen physio-medical colleges opened, and then closed, their doors. These authentic American schools, founded on a philosophy of so-called Physio-Medicalism, substituted botanical medicines for allopathy’s mineral drugs and promoted the belief that the human body has...
Radio Daze
Stories from the Front in Cleveland's FM Air Wars
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 1999
Cleveland has long enjoyed its reputation as one of the hottest music centers in the country and as the Rock 'n' Roll Capital of the World. Trends started or gained major recognition in Cleveland and were fueled by local radio stations and their disc jockeys, who connected with their audience and...
Corpsmen
Letters From Korea
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
In Corpsmen: Letters from Korea, the Chappell twins gathered together their letters to chronicle their experiences as medical corpsmen in the First Marine Division during the Korean War. From boot camp to Bethesda Naval Hospital and on the Fleet Marine Force training and eventually the front line,...
William McKinley and His America
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
When George W. Bush won the White House, he was the first incumbent Republican governor elected president since William McKinley in 1896.
William McKinley was the last of the Civil War veterans to reach the White House. Known widely as the Major, in honor of his military rank, he rose through...
Keepers of Culture
The Art-Thought of Kenyon Cox, Royal Cortissoz, and Frank Jewett Mather, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
The conflict between modern and traditional art is one of the best known episodes in American cultural history. The modernists on the war in the sense that their styles and attitudes of mind dominated the discussion and production of new art. But the traditionalists remained strong in the arenas of...
by Anele Rubin
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Winner of the 2004 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize
“The voice [in Anele Rubin’s poems] is so new, and yet the movement is so artful, subtle, and modest—there are never any theatrics in these poems. They never yowl, Pay attention to me! . . . Rubin is on the same wave-length with Tomas...