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

Tom Batiuk showcases his roots as the Funkyverse expands

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 ...

After enjoying exceptional growth at the turn of the last century, Cleveland's fortunes, like tha...

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'...

Traces the 19th century murder of Helen Potts by Carlyle Harris and Harris's subsequent trial, hi...

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 ...

The profound impact of Cuba on Ernest Hemingway's life and work

The next Funky generation hits their stride

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...

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...

On Monday, May 4, 1970, members of the Ohio National Guard, called onto the Kent State University...

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

For more than fifty years the journal Civil War History has presented the best original scholarsh...

What is it like to be a student nurse? What are the joys, the stresses, the transcendent moments,...

'Surprising and moving, Gosnay's work shows us what the 'clean blue sleeve' of language can do, a...