This comprehensive new three-volume guide to the early art and artists of Ohio is a compendium of hard-to-find information. The result of more than twelve years of research in community archives, news
Comrades-In-Arms is a powerful and passionate account by a French cavalry officer of daily life on the Western Front from January 1915 to August 1916. Lécluse commanded an elite cavalry unit during ca
As editor and executive editor of the Ravenna-Kent (Ohio) Record-Courier, Loris C. Troyer has been a pivotal figure in Portage County, Ohio for over sixty years. Since retiring, he has written a weekl
Writing in 1935 in his brilliant and brooding Black Reconstruction, W. E. B. Du Bois lamented America’s post–Civil War era as a missed opportunity to reconstruct the war-torn nation in deed as well as
For some, the Great Recession that began in 2007 was a traumatic setback; for others, it was just another dip in a long descent from comfort and security. America is changing in profound ways, but we
No major league team has been blessed with more great, Hall of Fame–worthy players than the New York–San Francisco Giants, nor does any other team enjoy the support of more loyal and knowledgeable fan
In 1861, Lt. Col. William Hoffman was appointed to the post of commissary general of prisoners and urged to find a suitable site for the construction of what was expected to be the Union’s sole milita
A best-selling baseball author brings to bear his expertise on the Cincinnati Reds in selecting and profiling the 40 Reds who best fit the definition of "legend"—athletes who by thei
“Local Fauna opens with a meta-poem about Jack Spicer, and I couldn’t help but think of his ‘dictated’ poetry, poetry as vessel, poetry getting down what needs to be said. Brian Brodeur’s poems have t
It was the best of times, it was the OK of times In this fourth volume, award-winning cartoonist Tom Batiuk continues to chronicle the lives of the students and teachers at the fictitious Westview Hig
The essential guide to every game in Browns history Every Sunday in autumn, a new chapter is written in the long and storied history of the Cleveland Browns. Win or lose, with each contest, the mythos
"There are poems which carry us clean away, transporting us into worlds as specific as the pink purse the author of Visible Heavens helps a little boy buy for his teacher, Miss Stone. Melancholy and l
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
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,
Winner of the 2007 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize“How honored I am—how lucky—to have been able to choose this superb first book by Djelloul Marbrook that honors a lifetime of hidden achievement. . . .
A first-person account of the last campaigns of the Civil War“Lt. Col. Theodore Lyman is already well-known to students and scholars of the Civil War for his extensive letters first published in 1922.
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
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
Ohio was once covered by a thick forest and populated by a great variety of animals, but the first blows of settlers’ axes heralded cataclysmic changes. By 1900 only about 15 percent of the state rema
Short stories about life in a working-class Irish American neighborhood in Pittsburgh between World War II and the Vietnam War, some told from the point of view of a Jewish resident, focus on the men
The third volume of The Salmon P. Chase Papers documents Chase’s career from early 1868—the beginning of his second terms as the governor of Ohio—through the pivotal election of 1860 and the first two
The basic tenet here is that we do not translate words, but texts, and that these competing models can be integrated into a more global theory of translation by viewing the translation process as a pr
Gettysburg is known as the second bloodiest battle of the 19th century and as the site of Abraham Lincoln’s 1863 speech that gave new meaning to America’s Civil War. By the turn of the next century, t
On March 9, 1862, the USS Monitor and CSS Virginia met in the Battle of Hampton Roads—the first time ironclad vessels would engage each other in combat. For four hours the two ships pummeled one anoth
From his start as a West Point graduate - Class of 1848 - to his retirement as a brigadier general more than forty years later, John C. Tidball saw much that shaped the United States and its army. Hav
Major McKinley is the first complete account of the Civil War service of President William McKinley, the last of the Civil War veterans to reach the White House and the only one who served in the rank
Winner of the 2013 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize Mark Doty, Judge“It’s a joy. . .to come nearer to a realm of experience little explored in American poetry, the lives of those who are engaged in the
The events that led up to and include the shootings of May 4, 1970 are part of a story that continues to be written. This We Know succinctly documents the facts that fill out the chronology of events
How a team of vagabonds made a charge at football history The year 1963 percolated with dreams—big dreams. Martin Luther King Jr. had one, and he articulated it to an audience of a quarter of a millio
A richly illustrated study of the work of a beloved Ohio artistClyde Singer was born in the small town of Malvern in 1908 and grew up in the rural hills of Ohio. Educated in the local public schools,
Stone for an Eye is a collection of poetry based on daily meditations on a river stone. Craigo moves past the need for a clever idea and enters into more honest terrain. The resulting poems use the st
Marilyn Sheppard, four months' pregnant and mother of a 7-year-old son, was bludgeoned to death in her Bay Village, Ohio, home in the early morning of July 4, 1954. The cause of death was twenty-seven
“In Punctum:, Lesley Jenike’s new collection, she writes, ‘It’s our language: what can we call a thing that is and is not.’ These poems are haunted by a ‘non-child,’ a child who was not to be born, an
Samuel Shem's new novel, The Spirit of the Place, tells the story of an expatriate doctor called home to Columbia, New York, in the early 1980s to face his own history and that of the place. It is a
Winner of the 1997 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize“The Apprentice of Fever is a brilliantly corporeal first book…rooted in the day-to-day life of a man implicated in the AIDS epidemic, living on the ed
“When the wire man in love with the boiled wool woman imagines himself making love with her under the emerald tree and then making her a mouth, is he desiring to make for her a mouth, or to make of he
Daniel Carter s Here Both Sweeter is a book in which you have a seedling in each pocket, a body bodies, and words are something you carve out so as to make a home. The poems are stories, are seeds, ar
Kiraly examines state-of-the-art translator training programs in Germany and Europe, noting problem areas and possible solutions. He then proposes a program which is based on a sociocognitive model a
Union and Confederate veterans meet at Gettysburg on the 50th anniversary of the battle This June 29July 4 reunion drew over 55,000 official attendees plus thousands more who descended upon a town of
In this collection of interviews with major orchestra conductors, James Badal explores the impact of recording technology on contemporary musical culture. Spanning more than a decade with masters suc
