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Presents the centennial history of one of Ohio's premier public universities. This work takes readers through Kent State University's ten decades: from its beginning under its visionary founder John Edward McGilvrey to the hardships of the Great Depression.

The Ninth Ohio - composed of Ohio Germans mostly from Cincinnati - saw action at Rich Mountain and Carnifex Ferry in West Virginia, Shiloh, Corinth, Perryville, Hoover's Gap, Nashville, Chattanooga, and Chickamauga. The Ninth began the War amid misgivings and ended its active service among the honored units.

Crime has formed the basis of countless plots in music theater and opera. Several famous composers were murder victims or believed to be murdered, and one of the greatest Renaissance composers slaughtered his wife and her lover. This book focuses on the long and complex history of music and crime.

The First Amendment of the United States Constitution mandates that government and religious institutions remain separate and independent of each other. This book looks at how Presbyterian Covenant Theology affected US president Woodrow Wilson's foreign policy during the Mexican Revolution.

This is a major work, at once synthetic and analytical. The author has drawn on previous studies of Irish music and general melodic theory to describe the inner workings of a rich melodic tradition. Irish folk music, resting upon monophonic melodies which are varied and ornamented, and thus viewed from several perspectives--ethnographic and musical, "insider" and theoretical--to weave an integrated image of a still thriving genre. The concepts of "tune family" and "melody type" are starting points for the qualitative study of melodic change and tune relationships without recourse to simplified tune skeletons or statistics. The concept of "implicit" folk theory leads both to rigorous theoretical analysis and to an examination of the musicians' own words, thus creating a working model in which a particular performance is understood in a larger context. The historic and ethnographic passages convey the setting of the music and suggest the ways in which Irish musicians reflect patterns in culture and patterns in sound.

Explores the complex interrelationships that exist between translation, gender, and race by focusing on antislavery writing by or about French women in the French revolutionary period. The two volumes explore the theoretical, linguistic, and literary comp

Counts down some of the greatest Cleveland Indians games, from wild ninth-inning comebacks to dazzling pitching performances to spellbinding playoff encounters. This book features the history of Cleveland's endearing baseball franchise, from weekday matinees at cozy League Park at the dawn of the twentieth century to autumn nights at Jacobs Field.

Examines the interaction between fictional representations of the Civil War and the memoirs and autobiographies of Civil War soldiers. This book argues that veterans' accounts taught later generations to represent the conflict in terms of individual experiences, revealing how national identity developed according to written records of the past.

Contains original essays on the Ohio and Erie Canal. This title showcases the research and writing of the best and knowledgeable canal historians, archaeologists, and enthusiasts. It takes a broad approach to the canal and what it has meant to Ohio from its original function in the state's growth its function in revitalizing our region.

Presents the history of the Phillies. This book chronicles the Phillies franchise's turbulent past - from its frustrating early decades, through its heartbreaking loss to the Boston Red Sox in the 1915 World Series, to its exciting 'Whiz Kids' pennant of 1950.

Features a collection of poetry and short prose about Alzheimer's disease written by 100 contemporary writers - doctors, nurses, social workers, hospice workers, daughters, sons, wives, and husbands - whose lives have been touched by the disease.

Presents an analysis of African American entrepreneurship in Cleveland, Ohio, from the early 1800s onwards. This book documents life histories of business owners, compares African American male and female business owners, and offers insights into why some businesses succeed and others fail.

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 book features the investigation into the Mellett murder by a private detective who was hired by the Stark County prosecutor.

Jim Tully left his hometown of St. Marys, Ohio, in 1901, spending most of his teenage years in the company of hoboes. Drifting across the country, he spent those years scrambling into boxcars, avoiding railroad cops, and begging meals from back doors. Tully crafted these memories into an astonishing chronicle of the American underclass, especially in Beggars of Life.

Born in Bavaria in 1906, Anna Marie brought shame to her pious family when, as a teenager, she gave birth to an illegitimate son. Nicknamed ""the Blonde Borgia,"" she was a cold-blooded serial killer who preyed on the elderly in Cincinnati's Over-the-Rhine district in the 1930s. This work offers Anna Marie's story.

A journal that studies the impact of Ray Bradbury's writings on American culture.

Asserts that only by understanding how very different were the context and nature of the Civil War facing McClellan, as opposed to Grant and Sherman, can one discard the traditional 'good general - bad general' approach to command performance and view McClellan's career with a clearer perspective.

Contains letters from politician Salmon P Chase to his daughters, from his daughters to him and to each other - that span from when Kate, his older daughter, was a young child and Nettie not yet born to their father's death in 1873. This title provides insights into the personal lives and private thoughts of a prominent political family.

Djelloul Marbrook started writing poems in Manhattan when he was fourteen. In his thirties he abandoned poetry after publishing a few poems in small journals, but he never stopped reading and studying poetry. Then at age sixty-seven, appalled by the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the poet within awakened. Stuffing sky-blue notebooks in his pockets, Marbrook began walking around Manhattan determined to affirm his beloved home in the wake of the nihilistic attacks. Far from Algiers emerged from hundreds of poems he has composed in the years since. Marbrook's voice speaks to anyone who has ever had doubts about belonging. Born in Algiers to an American artist and a Bedouin father and arriving in America as a gravely ill infant, Marbrook has contemplated this issue throughout his life. Far from Algiers explores "belonging" in a society that is in denial about its own nativist sentiments. It speaks of the struggle to belong in a culture that pays lip service to assimilation but does not fully accept anyone perceived as "foreign." Marbrook examines this issue with unflinching honesty. Anyone rejected by a family member or neighbor or coworker will relate to these well-crafted and moving poems.

Offers a photographic documentation of outstanding natural habitats in Ohio. This book features approximately forty sites, encompassing nearly various types of habitats found in the state and representing different regions of Ohio. It is suitable for those with an interest in Ohio's natural history and landscape.

Samuel Shem's ""The House of God"" is widely regarded as one of the most influential novels about medical education in the twentieth century. This book explores the novel's impact on medical education, residency training, and the field of literature and medicine.

A personal history of the hardscrabble life of Pittsburgh's South Side during the city's post - World War II renaissance. It is also the story of an American boy who played baseball on the city's dilapidated playgrounds and rooted for his beloved sports teams while growing up and struggling in Pittsburgh's blue-collar neighborhoods.

A study of Sherwood Anderson's work, ""Winesburg, Ohio"", that treats it as a thoroughly modernist novel examining the aesthetic nature of romantic identity. It argues that Anderson's famous theory of the Grotesque is a theory of American identity.

A compendium of the typical objects found within medieval church treasuries and includes a discussion of their form and function and their significance in the medieval religious service. It is suitable for art historians, those interested in the history of religion and liturgical practices, and nonspecialists who appreciate medieval art.

A memoir that recalls flying multiple patrols over enemy-held territory in his light unarmored plane, calling and coordinating artillery strikes. It is suitable for military historians as well as general readers.

High or low in the standings, the Detroit Tigers have always been a fighting baseball club. This book contains anecdotes and intimate glimpses of the players, managers, and owners who throughout the years have made the Tigers one of the most competitive and colorful teams in baseball.

Presents the account of how the author came to be Ernest Hemingway's majordomo, confidant, and friend - his Cuban son. This memoir offers stories of escapades and adventures with Hemingway as well as insightful comments on the writer's work habits, moods, passions, and friendships. It also describes Cuba before and after the revolution.

Emily Dickinson is known as a poet who presses at the limits of perception and expresses in memorable language extremes of both anguish and ecstasy. This work offers revealing perspectives on how the exquisite language in the poems and letters of Emily Dickinson helps readers cope with suffering.