Kent Press imprint: 601 books
Lincoln's Lover
Mary Lincoln in Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
In his Poetics, Aristotle said a historian and a poet do not differ from each other-one simply writes in verse and the other in prose. In fact, history and poetry have a long connection; much of what we know about ancient history throughout the world came to us through the centuries and millennia...
Kilroy Was There
A GI's War in Photographs
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2000
When I saw Frank Kessler’s collection of photographs I was struck by how different they were from the movie-camera views I see on television. No public relations pictures here, intended to glorify battle and rally support. These were up-close snapshots of the dirty, damp, and disheveled men in the...
The Eyes of Orion
Five Tank Lieutenants in the Persian Gulf War
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 1997
Winner of the Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Book Award, The Eyes of Orion is a highly personal account of the day-to-day experiences of five platoon leaders who served in the same tank battalion in the 24th Infantry Division during Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm.
While...
To Plead Our Own Cause
African Americans in Massachusetts and the Making of the Antislavery Movement
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
The antislavery movement entered an important new phase when William Lloyd Garrison began publishing the Liberator in 1831—a phase marked by massive petition campaigns, the extraordinary mobilization of female activists, and the creation of organizations such as the American Anti-Slavery Society....
by Allan Peskin
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
The definitive biography of America's 20th president, James A. Garfield. Exhaustively researched and skillfully written.
Winner of the Ohio Academy of History Award, the Ohioana Book Award in History, and a Choice Outstanding Academic Book of the Year.
“Garfield’s military career, the congressional...
Pacific Time on Target
Memoirs of a Marine Artillery Officer, 1943-1945
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
The gritty combat memoir of a Marine Corps artilleryman and forward observer
As a married man and Stanford graduate student nearing thirty, Christopher Donner would likely have qualified for an exemption from the draft. Like most of his generation, however, he responded promptly to the call...
Taken at the Flood
Robert E. Lee and Confederate Strategy in the Maryland Campaign of 1862
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 1996
Complementing Confederate Tide Rising, which covers the origins of the Maryland campaign, Taken at the Flood is a detailed account of the military campaign itself. It focuses on military policy and strategy and the context necessary to understand that strategy. A fair appraisal of the campaign requires...
Confederate Tide Rising
Robert E. Lee and the Making of Southern Strategy, 1861-1862
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
“Confederate Tide Rising is one of the most significant evaluations of Civil War strategy to be published in the past fifty years. It contributes critically to our understanding of the war, and it will influence the course of Civil War scholarship for decades to comes. I cannot overemphasize the...
The First Day at Gettysburg
Essays on Confederate and Union Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
The Battle of Gettysburg exerts a unique hold on the national imagination. Many writers have argued that it represented the turning point of the Civil War, after which Confederate fortunes moved inexorably toward defeat. Successive generations of historians have not exhausted the topic of leadership...
by Charles P. Hamblen
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Charles P. Hamblen’s posthumous text provides the first account in more than 25 years of soldiers from the Nutmeg State and their role during the Battle of Gettysburg.Dramatic narrative is interwoven with excerpts from the letters and diaries of Connecticut’s fighting ranks to produce an extended...
Major General John Alexander McClernand
Politician in Uniform
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
John A. McClernand was a leading Democratic congressman from Illinois who in 1861 became a brigadier general in the Union army. Although a "political general," he proved himself on the battlefield until he ran afoul of Ulysses S. Grant and was relieved of his command of the Thirteenth Corps...
Richmond Must Fall
The Richmond-Petersburg Campaign, October 1864
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
A study of Grant’s and Lee’s battles in the weeks before the 1864 election
In the fall of 1864, the Civil War’s outcome rested largely on Abraham Lincoln’s success in the upcoming presidential election. As the contest approached, cautious optimism buoyed the President’s supporters...
by Jeffery S King
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Charles Arthur Floyd, better known as Pretty Boy Floyd (1904-1934), was one of the last of the so-called Robin Hood outlaws in the tradition of Jesse James, Billy the Kid, and John Dillinger. He engaged in numerous bank-robbing exploits across the Midwest until federal agents and local police shot...
A Surgeon's Civil War
The Letters and Diary of Daniel M. Holt, M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2011
Daniel M. Holt, a successful country doctor in the upstate village of Newport, New York, accepted the position of assistant surgeon in the 121st New York Volunteer Army in August 1862. At age 42 when he was commissioned, he was the oldest member of the staff. But his experience served him well, as...