In succinct, readable prose complemented by stunning historic and contemporary photographs, this updated edition provides a brief but comprehensive history of Cuyahoga Valley National Park—the people,
Chronicles the fifty greatest games in the history of the Pittsburgh baseball team from 1900 to the present, providing box scores and analyses for each featured matchup.
Winner of the Council for Wisconsin Writers Leslie Cross Book-Length Nonfiction Award and the Wisconsin Library Association’s Outstanding Achievement Recognition“This remarkable book blends the experi
An impassioned call for recognizing and preserving the ecological wonders of the Allegheny Plateau Yosemite National Park, Louisianas bayou, the rocky coasts of New England, the desert SouthwestAmeric
Thinking of Ernest Hemingway often brings to mind his travels around the world, documenting war and engaging in thrilling ad- ventures. However, fully understanding this outsized international author
Short stories about the complex maze of health care Conventional medical narratives often fail to capture the incoherent, surreal, and logic-twisting reality of the contemporary healthcare experience,
The struggle to define U.S. national identity through a political conflict in Spain“An unusually original book that challenges established assumptions and reveals the complexity of American reactions
The autobiography of a legendary Ohio politician and legislator“The politics that Vern describes—when candidates depended on shaking hands, speaking at every conceivable dinner, passing out literature
The martial enthusiasm that engulfed the North when the American Civil War commenced in April 1861 vanished by the following summer. Repeated military defeats, economic worries, and staggering casualt
Discusses the assassination of Abraham Lincoln with commentary on the plot to kill the president, John Wilkes Booth's relationship with the Confederate government, and whether modern medicine could ha
The author's tour of the best moments in the Pittsburgh Penguins' long history will evoke special memories from longtime fans and delight those who currently follow the team. Original.
An illustrated compendium of a prolific designer of Ohio churches Akron-based architect William P. Ginther (1858–1933) designed sixty-three Roman Catholic churches, primarily in Ohio and Pennsylvania.
A literary collection that gives voice to a significant Northeast Ohio immigrant community Since the early nineteenth century, Cleveland and the surrounding region have benefited from the emigration 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 Lincoln images, originally appearing in such publications as Budget of Fun, Comic Monthly, New York Illustrated News, Phunny Phellow, Southern Punch, and Yankee Notions, significantly expand our u
“Alison Stine’s best poems here are confessional and meditative sequences, but are shadowed by the tradition of dramatic narrative; they propose types of redemptive performance….Their white spaces are
From official records, personal letters, and postwar memoirs, Jack D. Welsh, M.D., has compiled the medical histories of 425 Confederate generals. The generals’ early military experience, at West Poi
William A. Tidwell establishes the existence of a Confederate Secret Service and clarifies the Confederate decision-making process to show the role played by Jefferson Davis in clandestine operations.
Ray Bradbury recognized as a master of horror fiction Bradbury, though a celebrated author, is often shortchanged. He is valorized within one genre (science fiction) and marginalized in others (detect
A countdown of the Cleveland Cavaliers’ greatest games -- It’s far too easy to allow the national media and disparaging fans to undermine Clevelanders’ views of their professional sports teams. While
Presents a play based on the Kent State Shootings Oral History Project, which includes more than 110 interviews, with first-person narratives and personal reactions to the 1970 tragedy. Original.
Revised to stimulate and engage an undergraduate student audience, Feinberg's updated account of Anuta opens with a chapter on his varied experiences when he initially undertood fieldwork in this tiny
Fifteen groundbreaking essays from Albert Castel, Gary Gallagher, Mark Neely, Richard M. McMurry, and othersFor more than sixty years the journal Civil War History has presented the best original scho
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
“Groundbreaking work in Anderson scholarship in particular and, on the wider scene, in American literary studies.” —Robert Dunne, author of A New Book of the Grotesques: Contemporary Approaches to She
A broad-based approach to preservationAfter completing an extensive survey of preservation programs throughout the United States, authors Virginia O. Benson and Richard Klein saw the need for this com
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
Patients and physicians are adrift in this era of rapidly changing medical paradigms. Perhaps it has always been so, though it seems that lately the dissatisfaction on both sides has intensified.Docto
"Who was Lew Wallace's true foe--the Confederacy, General Halleck, General Grant, or himself? Lew Wallace of Indiana was a self-taught extraordinary military talent. With boldness and celerity, he adv
Winner of the 2014 Cleveland Arts Prize, Richard Myers has been producing experimental and documentary films for over 40 years. The Films of Richard Myers chronicles his work, along with descriptions
Forty Champions of the Tribe Native Clevelander Russ Schneider has reveled in the successes and lamented the failures of the Cleveland Indians from his earliest childhood. After graduating from high s
A fascinating survey of the geologic, environmental, and human history of southeastern OhioThe southeastern third of Ohio is quite different from the flat or gently rolling portions of the state, diff
Since the 1970s, urban communities across the country have had to face the wrenching process of economic restructuring. As the media announce the latest plant closings and politicians slam each other
“Heather Lanier’s The Story You Tell Yourself may be a first book, but Lanier’s firm intelligence and lyrical artistry make poems that are clearly the confident work of an extraordinarily accomplished
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
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
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
Civil War diplomacy and espionageIn the summer of 1861, President Abraham Lincoln appointed Charles Maxwell Allen U.S. consul to Bermuda. During the Civil War, Allen’s post became one of vital importa
This first volume in the new Teaching Hemingway Series is a collection of richly nuanced, insightful, and innovative essays on teaching A Farewell to Arms from authors with varied backgrounds, includi
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
