A series of vignettes describing Amish people and customsPauline Stevick has visited more than 50 Amish homes in numerous Amish settlements across the country. She has attended weddings, viewings, sch
An examination of the medical experiences of African AmericansDuring the days of slavery in America, racism and often-faulty medical theories contributed to an atmosphere in which African Americans we
A facsimile edition of Melville’s rare volume including the author’s proofreading correctionsLate in his life, Herman Melville published a volume of poetry called John Marr and Other Sailors. He produ
“There is no work that competes with this… . Every chapter is fresh—and always interesting. The Bones of the Others is a strikingly contemporary way to approach this never-dated modernist. Justice sho
A compelling tale of multiple murders, deceit, and greed examines the life and crimes of Anna Marie Hahn, nicknamed "the Blonde Borgia," who preyed on elderly victims in Cincinnati and who became the
Winner of the 2005 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize“The image evoked by Intaglio, this first collection by Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis, rests on a paradox, one perhaps central to the poetic impulse itself:
The author travels around Ohio in an attempt to uncover missing pieces of the past where rural America converges with small cities, fading history, and disappearing culture, in an offbeat journey arou
A memoir brimming with local flavor and political intriguePrior to World War II, women were a rarity in the newsrooms of daily papers throughout the country. The assignments given to those few who gra
A collection of the last forty years of research on Ohio’s caves and rocksheltersCaves and Culture seeks to address a number of important problems, specifically the use of rockshelters by humans throu
A look at the last championship seasons of the BrownsBefore Art Modell moved the team to Baltimore, and before the frustrating expansion years and countless front office mistakes of the twenty-first c
“Geoffrey Blodgett was a much-loved professor and a distinguished scholar of American history who dedicated his entire academic career to Oberlin College and its students. This anthology … of subtle
A comprehensive examination of the significance of women in Melville’s life and workThe twelve new essays in this collection extend the interest in Melville and women evident in recent scholarship, bi
Reflections on the cultural and biomedical understandings of the human heart“Humans from ancient times have interpreted the heart in many ways: as the home of the soul, the seat of love, the place of
Using key canonical science fiction narratives, Mesmerists, Monsters, and Machines examines the intersection of the literary and scientific cultures of the nineteenth century. In this original and ref
A comprehensive examination of economic globalizationFocused on the creation and evolution of post-1945 internationalist ideology, The Birth of Development highlights efforts to diffuse the destructiv
Robin Odell's Ripperology is the first study to present a sequential history of literary investigations of Jack the Ripper's crimes and to address the seven principal phases of Ripper speculations: t
During the nineteenth century—a time of great technical and cultural change—fashion was a cultivating force in the development of American society, influenced by one’s social status, geographic locati
Son of an Ohio Supreme Court Justice and longtime political reporter, Rick Zimmerman presents Ohio politics from the inside. He began learning about Ohio politics and politicians as a young boy, sitti
Most regimental histories focus narrowly on military affairs and the battlefield exploits to the exclusion of the broader social and political context, while community studies examine civilian life di
So much written about literature and medicine has been from the perspective of physicians. But in the last few years nurses have found their voices and are making important contributions to the field
Because of their similar linguistic, religious, and cultural backgrounds, English, Scottish, and Welsh immigrants are often regarded as the “invisible immigrants,” assimilating into early American soc
One of the most colorful, controversial, and misunderstood public figures of the 19th century“The most hated man in New England,”as critics dubbed him on the eve of the Civil War, Caleb Cushing, brash
Under Kilimanjaro is that last of Hemingway's manuscripts to be published in its entirety. Editors Robert W. Lewis and Robert E. Fleming believe that "this book deserves as complete and faithful a pu
Winner of the 2004 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize“The voice [in Anele Rubin’s poems] is so new, and yet the movement is so artful, subtle, and modest—there are never any theatrics in these poems. They
This collection contains 113 of the 161 poems Wylie chose for the volumes published in her lifetime and 100 more that appeared in Collected Poems and in Last Poems. In addition, editor Hively chose sh
One of the nation’s first highly publicized missing child casesTen-year-old Beverly Potts was last seen at 9:00 p.m. the evening of August 24, 1951, at Halloran Park on Cleveland’s West Side. She and
A facsimile reproduction of the original 1900 editionEducator, author, and naturalist Harriet L. Keeler (1844–1921) was a prominent figure in her time. With this facsimile reprint of her first book wr
Tolkien expert Flieger (English, U. of Maryland, College Park) examines Silmarillion, the mythology system he created to support his trilogy and The Hobbit. While others have focused on its content, s
This book is a collection of gentle, often humorous stories about the art, science, and tradition of farming as well as a probing analysis of the Amish farm business. James includes helpful, empirica
This is a personal recollection of the author's youth spent in a highly restrictive and confined religious community. Her story is a search for identity, a longing for a mother's love, and a tale abou
War, armed conflict in general, and military service have likely inspired more textual testimonies than any other human event. Wars shatter every boundary imaginable—from national boundaries to bodily
The term "brainwashing," coined during the Korean War, was popularized by a CIA operative who was a tireless campaigner against communism. It took hold quickly and became a means to articulate fears o
Relihan (English, Auburn U.) begins by examining similarities between cultural and geographical discourse in prose that does not claim to be fiction and in fiction that does not claim to be factual. T
Compiled from papers delivered at the third annual Kent State University Symposium on Democracy held in spring 2002, Democracy and Religion explores the interrelations of politics and religion. Discus
John Henry Otto was born September 12, 1822, in Westphalia, Germany, and enlisted in the Prussian army sometime around 1845. According to his own account, he served in the war between Prussia and Denm
A Singing Ambivalence is a comprehensive examination of the ways in which nine immigrant groups—Irish, Germans, Scandinavians, Eastern European Jews, Italians, Poles, Hungarians, Chinese, and Mexicans
This revised and updated pictorial review of the nearly two-century history of the Jewish community tells the story of Jewish settlement and achievement in Northeast Ohio and continues in the spirit o
Ray Bradbury: The Life of Fiction is the first comprehensive textual, bibliographical, and cultural study of sixty years of Bradbury's fiction. Drawing on correspondence with his publishers, agents, a
The photographs of Frank Kessler, a GI in the Army's Signal Corps during World War II, make ordinary images of war significant, capturing the up-close wreckage and misery of what the men in rifle comp
Although he was a successful businessman in Newark, Ohio, prior to the Civil War, Charles Dana Miller understood the necessity of leaving his business and his home to take part in one of the nation's
