Kent State University Press: 593 books
by William Osborne
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
Music in Ohio offers a comprehensive and ambitious look at music as it has been practiced throughout the state during the last two centuries—from folk to jazz to rock to polka. Author William N. Osborne also examines the music of the Moravians, Mormons, and Welsh, as well as other religious music...
Revelations
Photographs of Cleveland's African American Churches
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
A rich collection of images celebrating African American faith communities
“Cleveland’s African American houses of worship exemplify the best of American civic vision: building community together for the common good. . . . African American ministers have struggled to define the best way...
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...
Ohio Hill Country
A Rewoven Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
The southeastern third of Ohio is quite different from the flat or gently rolling portions of the state, differing in landscape, geologic history, ecology, and human history. It is the deeply dissected hill country that was formed over many millions of years by sediments eroded from four ancient mountain...
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,...
Ohio's Craft Beers
Discovering the Variety, Enjoying the Quality, Relishing the Experience
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Ohio's Craft Beers celebrates the variety of craft brewing in Ohio, offers appreciations of its quality, and reports on the renaissance of the brewer's art throughout the Buckeye State. Beautifully illustrated with color photographs, the book takes readers on a tour of more than 40 of Ohio's larger...
Fort Laurens, 1778-1779
The Revolutionary War in Ohio
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 1976
While the main action of the Revolution swirled along the Atlantic seaboard. Ohio was a no man’s land between the Colonists’ Fort Pitt and the British Fort Detroit. A campaign to neutralize Detroit and win the allegiance of the Indians in Ohio was instigated by General Washington in 1778,...
Helping Others Helping Ourselves
Power, Giving, and Community Identity in Cleveland, Ohio, 1880-1930
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 1997
“This study dramatically opens the door to view philanthropy in terms of who gives, the nature of those gifts, and the motivation of the givers. It becomes clear that no group could claim a monopoly on giving and that the poor, working class and middle classes had their own agendas for giving that...
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.
Labor Market Politics and the Great War
The Department of Labor, the States, and the First U.S. Employment Service
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2011
The Department of Labor seized the opportunity provided by the chaotic labor market conditions during World War I to expand the US Employment Service (USES) and to establish control of the national labor market. That attempt provoked a reaction on the part of states that had created their own employment...
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 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...