The Kent State University Press: 559 books

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This We Know

A Chronology of the Shootings at Kent State, May 1970

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Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012

The events that led up to and include the shootings of May 4, 1970 are part of a story that continues to be written. This We Know succinctly documents the facts that fill out the chronology of events of the four fateful days that ended with members of the Ohio National Guard wounding nine Kent State...
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Hell's Wasteland

The Pennsylvania Torso Murders

by James Jessen Badal
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013

Did the Mad Butcher of Cleveland also strike in Pennsylvania? From 1934 to 1938, Cleveland, Ohio, was racked by a classic battle between good and evil. On one side was the city’s safety director, Eliot Ness. On the other was a nameless phantom dubbed the “Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run,”...
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by Jeanne Bryner
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 1996

Jeanne Bryner is a registered nurse. Her poems and stories have appeared in several magazines and journals, including Annals of Internal Medicine, American Journal of Nursing, International Journal of Arts Medicine, The Sun, and in the anthology Intensive Care. She is the author of the Wick Poetry Chapbook Breathless (The Kent State University Press, 1995).
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Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013

An annual dedicated to the life and writings of one of America’s most prolific and popular authors Like its pioneering predecessor, the one-volume review published in 1952 by William F. Nolan, The New Ray Bradbury Review contains articles and reviews about Bradbury but has a much broader...
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Fourteen Stories

Doctors, Patients, and Other Strangers

by Jay Baruch
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014

“Plunging into one of Jay Baruch’s stories is like finding yourself in a busy Emergency Room at two in the morning—here you will meet characters whose lives are urgent and not always what they seem on the surface. Like his characters, Baruch’s writing is vibrant and intense, and his vision...
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Denmark Vesey's Revolt

The Slave Plot that Lit a Fuse to Fort Sumter

by John Lofton
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013

In 1822, Denmark Vesey was found guilty of plotting an insurrection—what would have been the biggest slave uprising in U.S. history. A free man of color, he was hanged along with 34 other African Americans in Charleston, South Carolina, in what historians agree was probably the largest civil execution...
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Major McKinley

William Mckinley & The Civil War

by William H. Armstrong
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2013

“A finely written and deeply researched book. It adds a major dimension to McKinley’s life and times and will interest all students of the Civil War as well.” —H. Wayne Morgan, author of William McKinley and His America (Kent State University Press, 2003) “The Civil War was a crucial...
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Race and Recruitment

Civil War History Readers, Vol. 2

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Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013

The second volume of the best from Civil War History For more than sixty years the journal Civil War History has presented the best original scholarship in the study of America’s greatest struggle. The Kent State University Press is pleased to present this second volume in its multivolume...
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Conflict and Command

Civil War History Readers, Volume 1

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Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011

Fifteen groundbreaking essays from Albert Castel, Gary Gallagher, Mark Neely, Richard M. McMurry, and others For more than sixty years the journal Civil War History has presented the best original scholarship in the study of America’s greatest struggle. The Kent State University Press is...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011

The inaugural volume in a new historiography series Historians possess the power to shape the view of history for those who come after them. Their efforts to illuminate significant events of the past often result in new interpretations, which frequently conflict with ideas proposed by earlier...
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Ohio States

A Twentieth-Century Midwestern

by Jeffrey Hammond
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 1998

With gentle humor, Hammond presents readers with the charms, aggravations, quirks, and disappointments of small-town life and frustrates any expectation that the past's deepest lessons are simple. In Ohio States: A Twentieth-Century Midwestern, Jeffrey Hammond asserts the quiet mysteries of an ordinary...
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Sounding the Whale

Moby-Dick as Epic Novel

by Christopher Sten
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2011

Sounding the Whale is Christopher Sten’s comprehensive account of his own close encounter with Moby-Dick. Originally a long, self-contained chapter in The Weaver-God, He Weaves: Melville and the Poetics of the Novel, just published by Kent State University Press, this chapter-by-chapter study of...
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On Lincoln

Civil War History Readers, Volume 3

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Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014

For sixty years the journal Civil War History has presented the best original scholarship in the study of America’s greatest struggle. The Kent State University Press is pleased to present this third volume in its multivolume series, reintroducing the most influential of more than 500 articles published...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015

A collection of scholarly essays on democratic peace theory Historical patterns suggest that democratic governments, which often fight wars against authoritarian regimes, maintain peaceful relationships with other governments that uphold political freedoms and empower their civil societies—a...
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