Translating Slavery explores the complex interrelationships that exist between translation, gender, and rade by foucusing on antislavery writing by or about Frnch women in the Frnach women in the Fre
An annual dedicated to the life and writings of one of America’s most prolific and popular authorsLike its pioneering predecessor, the one-volume review published in 1952 by William F. Nolan, The New
Gripping re-examination of the rendition of Anthony Burns On June 2, 1854, crowds lined the streets of Boston, hissing and shouting at federal authorities as they escorted the fugitive slave Anthony B
In the summers of 1936 and 1937 the Great Lakes Exposition was presented in Cleveland, Ohio, along the Lake Erie shore just north of the downtown business area. The Exposition was scheduled to commemo
An amazing photographic addition to the history of the early Republic “I wondered if it was possible to use photographic and documentary evidence to re-create the first generation of Americans—those m
A picture of life in the boxing ring “Few novelists captured the contradictions of his country so simply or so honestly in the metaphor of the pure, fatalistic, and merciless community of bruising.”—f
"Joseph Reinhart has offered us yet another welcome opportunity to become acquainted with the German American soldier of the Civil War. The letters of Lieutenant Friedrich Bertsch and Chaplain Wilhelm
"Woodrow Wilson continues to fascinate, yet he remains an enigma. Through clear writing and meticulous research, Leading Them to the Promised Land sheds new light on important subjects, including Wils
"A sacred journey requires a guide, and Douglas Hoffman demonstrates the wisdom, experience, and heart of a trusted architectural leader. Focusing on four contemporary American religious buildings, Ho
Essays on the Northern home front by a preeminent Civil War historian “The essays in this collection are snapshots about particular questions, bodies of evidence, and theoretical issues. Taken togethe
A sociological study of the May 4, 1970, shootings at Kent State University and their aftermath “On May 4, 1970, members of the Ohio National Guard fired into a crowd of protestors at Kent State Unive
Son of famous sociologists Helen and Robert Lynd, Staughton Lynd was one of the most visible figures of the New Left, a social movement during the 1960s that emphasized participatory democracy. His ti
"The venerable Bob Dolgan has put a century of Cleveland sports---and Cleveland itself, for that matter---in a time capsule for readers to cherish forever. This compelling collection of his `greatest
Raymond DeCapite’s second published novel, A Lost King, has been described by Kirkus Reviews as a “small masterpiece, so unique in spirit and style.” If the mood of The Coming of Fabrizze is joyous, t
A new, revised, and expanded edition of a translation studies classicTranslating Slavery explores the complex interrelationships that exist between translation, gender, and race by focusing on antisla
Private detectives, crooked cops, gangsters, and bootleggers -- The July 1926 murder of the editor of the Canton, Ohio, Daily News, Don R. Mellett, was one of the most publicized crimes in the 1920s.
This title offers an engrossing look at the interplay between crime and music. Crime has formed the basis of countless plots in music theater and opera. Several famous composers were murder victims or
A new perspective on the cultural politics of Charles Brockden Brown The novels of Charles Brockden Brown, the most accomplished literary figure in early America, redefined the gothic genre and helped
An updated and revised edition of the award-winning study -- The history of African American entrepreneurship has produced a number of studies of economic development on the national level, but very f
Hemingway as viewed through the lens of men’s pulp magazinesDuring the 1950s, Hemingway was in two plane crashes, won a Nobel Prize, published a best-selling novel, and had five movies released based
A collection of essays tracing seven decades of literary interaction between Hemingway and notable French authorsIn a 1946 Atlantic Monthly essay, Jean-Paul Sartre writes: “The greatest literary devel
The first biography of Sherman’s chief engineer and the man whose post–Civil War engineering work changed Great Lakes navigation forever Orlando M. Poe chronicles the life of one of the most influenti
A volume of correspondence between a prominent father and his accomplished daughters Married three times, Salmon P. Chase lost four children in infancy. Two daughters survived to adulthood and were th
We Were The Ninth is a translation, carefully edited and thoroughly annotated, of an important Civil War regiment. The Ninth Ohio—composed of Ohio Germans mostly from Cincinnati—saw action at Rich Mou
Winner of the 2008 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize“[Edward Micus’s The Infirmary is] a rarity: a mature debut, a first book of poems with time-tested virtues. . . . Unlike many of the Vietnam poems wri
The first and only biography of one of America’s greatest conservationists -- Akron native and former U.S. Representative John F. Seiberling (1918–2008) grew up on his family’s estate overlooking Ohio
The centennial history of one of Ohio’s premier public universities“This book tells the story of Kent State University’s first hundred years. Itis a story replete with hairbreadth escapes and pratfall
Combining original essays based on the past, present, and future of the Ohio & Erie Canal, Canal Fever showcases the research and writing of the best and most knowledgeable canal historians, archaeol
History as fiction’s muse -- “When the first cannon sounded over Charleston Harbor in 1861, it announced the beginning of an American literary phenomenon. Readers North and South hungered for imaginat
The return of popular nineteenth-century short stories of the early American frontier“James Hall was part of a literary scene in Cincinnati and in Illinois at the same time as Hawthorne and Irving wer
Cultural politics and American bohemians in pre–Civil War New York Amid the social and political tensions plaguing the United States in the years leading up to the Civil War, the North experienced a b
A facsimile reprint of this classic tale of the seamier side of circus life“Jim Tully was one of the fine American novelists to emerge in the 1920s and ’30s. He gained this position with intelligence,
Memories of an Irish-American growing up log-shack poor in small-town Ohio“Shanty Irish is a window, cracked and soiled, into a time and a place and a people before the moving pictures became an Ameri
A literary collection that illumines the darkness of Alzheimer’s disease Alzheimer’s disease is now estimated to affect one in two persons over the age of eighty and is being diagnosed in people as yo
Highlighted by more than 150 full-color illustrations, a photographic study singles out the best of Ohio's natural lands and documents their importance in words and photographs in a survey that featur
A countdown of the Cleveland Indians’ greatest gamesIt’s far too easy to allow the national media and disparaging fans to undermine Clevelanders’ views of their professional sports teams. While the Br
“The books in the Wick Poetry Series present exciting writing by new and emerging poets. Diverse, surprising, and politically and emotionally charged, this series has published some of the best new po
In 1996 Rene Villarreal returned to Cuba to retrieve his memoir of his life with Ernest Hemingway at the Finca Vigia. Sadly, he learned that the manuscript and photographs had been lost. Determined t
A facsimile edition of the 1953 history of the Philadelphia PhilliesFred Lieb and Stan Baumgartner’s history of the Philadelphia Phillies was originally published in 1953 as part of the celebrated ser
A fresh analysis of Woodrow Wilson’s national security strategy during World War I“By addressing all sides of the American debate on national security questions, and by showing both the complexity and
