Kent State University Press

The definitive account of audacious con woman Cassie Chadwick, the Carnegie Imposter Queen of the Con tells the true story of Cassie Chadwick, a su...

Reducere. How Malabar Farm pioneered soil conservation and grew the sustainable agriculture movement Established in 1939 by Pulitzer Prize-winning author and...

In this challenge to traditional historiography, the author argues that geopolitical ideas were most dynamic and significant in Germany during the ...

Thomas Riha vanished on March 15, 1969, sparking a mystery that lives on 50 years later. A native of Prague, Czechoslovakia, Riha was a popular tea...

Reducere. How did Southern Catholics, under international religious authority and grounding unlike Southern Protestants, act with regard to political commitm...

President Nixon's announcement on April 30, 1970, that US troops were invading neutral Cambodia as part of the ongoing Vietnam War campaign sparked...

A multi-genre collection describing the May 4, 1970, shootings at Kent State University, the aftermath, and the impact on wider calls for peace and...

Compiling the stories of noncombat veterans, Rona Simmons follows them as they report for service, complete their training, and ship out to station...

This work charts the life of 19th-century journalist, diplomat, adventurer, and enthusiast John Louis O'Sullivan. It presents an in-depth examinati...

Reducere. The Cleveland Jewish Orphan Asylum was for fifty years (1868-1918) the home for some 3, 500 boys and girls, most of them immigrants from Eastern Eu...

Reducere. Winner, 2020 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay An impassioned call for recognizing and preserving the ecological wonders of...

Ernest Hemingway casts a long shadow in literature--reaching beyond his status as a giant of 20th-century fiction and a Nobel Prize winner--extendi...

Reducere. Balancing humor with sensitivity to tell stories we need to hear Funky Winkerbean, a newspaper staple since 1972, is one of the few comic strips th...

Focuses on works that expand the parameters of US foreign relations. This work also focuses on such areas as identity formation and projection, bor...

While the depth of Americans' historiographical engagement with slavery is not surprising, the range and sheer volume of writing on the subject can...

Reducere. Seven decades of the intense Steelers-Browns rivalry Football historians regard the games between the Cleveland Browns and the Pittsburgh Steelers ...

DescriptionThe fascinating history of Zoar, from the German Separatists who settled there to the present-day historical village In 1817, a group of...

Reducere. A facsimile edition of the 1953 history of the Philadelphia Phillies Fred Lieb and Stan Baumgartner's history of the Philadelphia Phillies was orig...

Presents a collection of nuanced and insightful essays on teaching from authors with varied backgrounds, including all levels of secondary and high...

DescriptionWinner of the 2018 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize Ellen Bass, Judge "A compelling book about origins--of ancestry, memory, and language"...

Reducere. DescriptionGreat players, great coaches, great fans, and a great stadium--the 1965-69 Cleveland Browns Two very exciting games in Cleveland Browns ...

When school children from Kent, Ohio and Florence, Italy, were invited to express their thoughts about "Where I'm From" in poetry, the connections ...

Reveals how A Farewell to Arms represents a complex alchemy of Hemingway's personal experience as a Red Cross ambulance driver in 1918, his extensi...

DescriptionA US Naval Aviator's odyssey through pivotal moments in 20th-century history The rise of Adolf Hitler, America's Great Depression in the...

Reducere. A heart-pounding journey through the most exciting season in Cleveland Browns' history Every longtime Cleveland sports fan knows about "Red Right 8...

Reducere. DescriptionA sensational murder, trial, and a young woman's execution in Depression-era New York At first glance, the 1932 Easter morning murder of...

Reducere. DescriptionA student journalist's photographic memoir of events surrounding the 1970 Kent State shootings Working as a photographer for the Kent St...

Reducere. DescriptionThe 50 most historically significant games of baseball's first all-professional team Choosing the 50 greatest games is hard to do; ranki...

Reducere. In 2001 The Kent State University Press published James Jessen Badal's In the Wake of the Butcher: Cleveland's Torso Murders--the first book to exa...

Reducere. An American literary treasure "The sun was not up but that was because of the flank of the mountain it had to rise over and the light was gray but ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Dinah HazellBeautifully illustrated with dozens of original full-color and black-and-white drawings, The Plants of Middle-e...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Oliver BendorfWinner of the 2013 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize Mark Doty, Judge "It's a joy. . .to come nearer to a realm ...

Reducere. A facsimile edition of Wilcox's classic 1933 pictorial survey of the Indian trails of Ohio Shawnee, Miami, Delaware, Wyandot, Ottawa, Iroquois, and...

Reducere. A photographic documentation of the most outstanding natural habitats in Ohio "We hope this book never becomes an epitaph for what once was. Ohio i...

Reducere. A rare behind-the-scenes look at how Cleveland's top toques entertain at home Have you ever wondered what your favorite local chefs cook at home? W...

Reducere. A fascinating look at Ohio's forgotten history Take a leisurely tour across the Buckeye State with author Randy McNutt to a massive swamp that swal...

Reducere. Devoted to Tolkien, the teller of tales and co-creator of the myths they brush against, these essays focus on his lifelong interest in and engageme...

Reducere. The perverse world of a sexual sadist who terrorized women on Cleveland's East Side To his neighbors on Imperial Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio, Anthony...

Reducere. A devastating loss of life and a community's response March 4, 1908, was an ordinary morning in Collinwood, Ohio, a village about ten miles outside...