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

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

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

A new path for exploring the culture and values of Tolkien’s Middle-earth.“Rather than inventing ...

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

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

Originally published: New York: D. McKay Co., 1961.

The Battle of Antietam, fought in Sharpsburg, Maryland, on September 17, 1862, was the bloodiest ...

Originally published: New York: D. McKay Co., 1960.

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, better known as Pretty Boy Floyd (1904–1934), was one of the last of the so...

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 observe...

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'...

A scrupulous analysis of Rodes's conduct during the Battle of Gettysburg

Since the 1970s, urban communities across the country have had to face the wrenching process of e...

Thomas Riha vanished on March 15, 1969, sparking a mystery that lives on 50 years later.

Agriculture continues to be the largest industry in the United States with over 2.2 million farms...

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

2015 INDIEFAB Book of the Year Bronze Award for Short Fiction

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...

An informative guide to the Cleveland area’s houses of worship

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 ...

Lord Peter Wimsey-amateur detective, man of fashion, talented musician, and wealthy intellectual-...

When the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) between the Soviet Union and United States falter...

An extraordinary look at race and policing in late nineteenth-century Baltimore

Finalist for the 2022 and 2023 Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies

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

The Danse Macabre of Women is a 15th-century French poem found in a lavishly illuminated late med...

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...