Kent State University Press: 593 books
Pattern of Circles
An Ambassador's Story
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 1996
Pattern of Circles is a success story, for its author and his country. John E. Dolibois was born December 4, 1918, in Luxembourg. His mother died weeks later, and he was raised by an older sister until she left for Akron, Ohio, with her American husband. In 1931 John came to Akron with his father...
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...
The Good-Bye Door
The Incredible True Story of America's First Female Serial Killer to Die in the Chair
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
The true story of the first female serial killer to die in the electric chair
Nicknamed “the Blonde Borgia,” Anna Marie Hahn was a cold-blooded serial killer who preyed on the elderly in Cincinnati’s Over-the-Rhine district in the 1930s. When the State of Ohio strapped its first woman...
America's Football Factory
Western Pennsylvania's Cradle of Quarterbacks from Johnny Unitas to Joe Montana
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2018
A small area of western Pennsylvania around Pittsburgh has produced almost 25 percent of the modern era quarter- backs enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. That percentage is wildly disproportionate to the number of superstar quarterbacks any one state might claim, let alone a mere sliver of...
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...
As Ohio Goes
Life in the Post-Recession Nation
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
For some, the Great Recession that began in 2007 was a traumatic setback; for others, it was just another dip in a long descent from comfort and security. America is changing in profound ways, but we rarely hear the voices of regular people living the transformation.
As Ohio Goes is a journey...
by Daniel L. Rice, Gary Meszaros
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
Ohio’s original heavily forested landscape included glacial lakes, large rivers, and streams that teemed with an abundant variety of fish, most of which remain resident today. Native Fishes of Ohio documents the more than 130 species originally found in the state and describes how their aquatic...
Dr. Sam Sheppard on Trial
The Prosecutors and the Marilyn Sheppard Murder
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
Marilyn Sheppard, four months pregnant and mother of a toddler son, was bludgeoned to death in her Bay Village, Ohio, home in the early morning of July 4, 1954. The cause of death was twenty-seven blows to the head with a heavy instrument. Who took her life so brutally has been the subject of much...
by A. James Fuller
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Remembered as the "Great War Governor" who led the state of Indiana during the Civil War, Oliver P. Morton has always been a controversial figure. His supporters praised him as a statesman who helped Abraham Lincoln save the Union, while his critics blasted him as a ruthless tyrant who abused...
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...
A Hero to His Fighting Men
Nelson A. Miles, 1839-1925
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Nelson A. Miles began his military service as a volunteer officer in the Civil War. He later earned the appellation “the idol of the Indian fighters” and capped his controversial career by serving as Commanding General of the Army from 1895 to 1903.
Without the benefit of a college education,...
by Frederick S. Calhoun
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
“Frederick S. Calhoun’s new book makes a timely and important contribution to examining one of the most serious questions confronting the nation’s foreign relations: When and how to use military force. By citing numerous examples from the past, Calhoun is able to show that there is an infinite...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
The New Ray Bradbury Review is designed principally to study the impact of Bradbury’s writings on American culture and is the chief publication of The Center for Ray Bradbury Studies—the archive of Bradbury’s writings located at Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis. Like its pioneering...