In this fresh examination of seventeenth-, eighteenth-, and nineteenth-century American captivity...

Honoring and embodying the cultural heritages of a region through the beauty of shared outdoor sp...

'The Deep Blue of Neptune is a striking, meditative collection of poems by Terry Belew, which rem...

How USAID's work in Kenya can inform broader foreign policy

Tom Batiuk showcases his roots as the Funkyverse expands

One couple's bold vision for American fashion

Learning from one Rust Belt city's postindustrial transition

A study of Grant's and Lee's battles in the weeks before the 1864 election

Devoted to Tolkien, the teller of tales and cocreator of the myths they brush against, these essa...

Beautifully illustrated with dozens of original full-colour and black-and-white drawings, The Pla...

Examines the ways in which J.R.R Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings makes visible the connections be...

In 1936, Bruno Hauptmann was executed for the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh Jr. In t...

Since 1968, liberalism as a viable political ideology has been under attack, with the most aggres...

This latest collection of personal and autobiographical poems by Helga Sandburg includes new work...

Winner of the 2001 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize, Back Through Interruption is a moving and thou...

Captain Simon Perkins Jr. and his fellow quartermasters helped make the Union's victory possible ...

The Bright Streets of Surfside chronicles 10 years in the life of Isaac Bashevis Singer, as witne...

In Beyond the Velvet Curtain, Karen Kovacik illustrates Czeslaw Milosz's dictum that 'the purpose...

Charles Arthur Floyd, aka Pretty Boy Floyd (1904-1934) was one of the last of the so-called Robin...

Genora Johnson Dollinger helped create the Women's Emergency Brigade and became one of the strike...

'Paul Zimmer, long one of America's finest poets, turns out to be a comparable master of prose. I...

William W. Durbin, businessman, political activist, and professional magician, was a major figure...

Carol Donley and Martin Kohn believe that 'physicians stand at a unique vantage point as observer...

A pictorial view of the Separatist community of Zoar The community of Zoar has been a tourist att...

This collection represents an engagement with American history, technology, and cultures. Murphy'...

Agriculture continues to be the largest industry in the US with over 2.2 million farms. Amazingly...

Affluenza leading to bad behavior among the youth of an earlier century--ultimately ending in murder

Conventional medical narratives often fail to capture the incoherent, surreal, and logic-twisting...

The fascinating history of Zoar, from the German Separatists who settled there to the present-day...

Presents a study of the May 4, 1970, shootings at Kent State University and their aftermath. This...

The Toledo Mud Hens - a farm team for the Detroit Tigers - once had a budding pitcher named Ed Cr...

A deadly confrontation at Kent State University between Vietnam War protesters and members of the...

A Guide to Greater Cleveland's Sacred Landmarks

What are we to do with anger? What are we to do with love? What are we to do with one another, gi...

The Kent State University Press is excited to reissue these classic true crime detective stories ...

'How did Southern Catholics, under international religious authority and grounding unlike Souther...

Botanical Essays from Kent: Some Botanical Features of a University Town in Ohio

The memoir of a bookish black youth in mid-twentieth century Cleveland

In this seventh volume, we see the changes in tone that now characterize Funky Winkerbean. Funky ...

Through colorful, personal vignettes, landscape designer Valerie Strong presents and solves speci...

This 15th-century French poem in a lavishly illuminated late medieval manuscript is the only Danc...

In this, his third collection of stories, Lester Goran moves us again through the times and place...

Articulating the search for a cohesive American identity, Matthew Cooperman's poetry attends to t...

Includes essays ranging from Xenophon's memoir of his two-year march with the mercenaries of the ...

This book is a profusely illustrated interpretation of life along Ohio's 19th-century canal syste...

Examines the intersection of journalism, business, and politics This book is the product of the f...

Presents the collected poems of Gene Stratton-Porter, an Indiana writer and naturalist who is bes...

Fifteen groundbreaking essays from Albert Castel, Gary Gallagher, Mark Neely, Richard M. McMurry,...