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This volume captures the radio scene during the 1970s and 1980s, chronicling how a small FM rock station, WMMS, became the top-rated station in Northeast Ohio and made Cleveland one of the most important radio markets in the world. It includes interviews with radio legends.

Marilyn Sheppard was bludgeoned to death in her Bay Village, Ohio, home in July, 1954. Who took her life so brutally has been the subject of much controversy and debate for nearly half a century. This volume presents a comprehensive analysis of this case from the perspective of the prosecutors.

This is Anton F. Bilek's story of his survival as a Japanese prisoner of war. He recounts the ""Death March"" that he and other Fil-American prisoners of war endured in Bataan after surrender, his imprisonment in the Philippines and Japan and his subsequent servitude in the Japanese coal mines.

When George W. Bush won the White House, he was the first encumbent Republican governor elected president since William McKinley in 1896. This work shows that William McKinley was the last of the Civil War veterans to reach the White House, and it covers his career history.

Because of its history of westward expansion and its diverse population, Ohio is home to many independent institutions of higher education. This text comprises essays which relate the circumstances of the foundation of 40 such institutions and the history of each since its inception.

This volume documents Robert A. Taft's experiences through World War II and his early postwar years. After winning a tough reelection battle as Senator from Ohio in 1944, Taft moved steadily upward in the leadership ranks of his conservative party.

A political biography of Michael V. DiSalle, who was elected to his first and only term as governor in one of Ohio's most contentious elections, which resulted in the Democrats winning most statewide offices and gaining control of the Ohio General Assembly.

Although this biography of Egyptian-born composer Halim El-Dabh focuses on his career from his arrival in the US in 1950 to his retirement from the faculty of Kent State University in 1991, his life in Egypt, its influence on him musically, and his creative life after retirement are also covered.

Edward Taylor was considered as one of British North America's most accomplished poets. This work reconsiders the texts of Taylor's two major works. It offers the complete text of all the Meditations that Taylor transcribed into his ""Poetical Works"" manuscript.

Reverdy Cassius Ransom spent his life as a pastor, editor, politician, writer, civil rights leader, and bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. This work offers Ransom as a symbol of an era and a larger movement and recalls him to be a man of deep faith and conviction.

This work is a portrayal of life among the rural poor of the early 20th century showing the struggle of a tough-minded woman who fought her entire life to overcome the obstacles that confronted women and the working poor.

This collection of poetry takes the reader through a world that is at once beautiful and tragic, sacrosanct and profane. The poems are drawn ineluctably to the place where passion and intelligence collide - and often end with passion having fled and intelligence standing alone.

In this text Angel details the party fight within Allen County Democratic Party in the 1980s and 90s that led to his ascent to the chairmanship, and describes the period of turmoil, counterplotting and dissension that followed. He offers insights into the people who made up the party at the time.

Displaying a range of voices and subjects, from dramatic monologues in the voices of Judas Iscariot to personal lyrics of family, time and loss, the poems in this collection examine the difficulties of belief and the transcendent possibilities of common experience.

Individuals and communities have historically reinforced values and shaped society in ways that best fit their own objectives. This study re-evaluates the interaction between religious, ethnic-, racial-, gender-, and class-based values and ideals and giving, based on Ohio between 1990 and 1930.

One of the many controversial issues to emerge from the Civil War was the treatment of prisoners of war. At two stockades, the Confederate prison at Anderson, and the Union prison at Elmira, suffering was accute and mortality was high. This work explores the economic and social impact of Elmira.

This text is the autobiography of John E. Doilbois, US Ambassador to Luxembourg from 1981. Doilbois was born in Luxembourg in 1918 and moved to the USA in 1931. Having graduated from Miami University, he served in American Military Intelligence where he interrogated Nazi war criminals.

Cartoon images of Abraham Lincoln fom the 19th century can increase our understanding of opinion towards Lincoln, the dynamics of Civil War, popular art and culture, the media, political caricature, and presidential politics. This text is a history of the development of Lincoln's public profile.

This collection of articles from the International Conference held in Volos, Greece, offers an overview of approaches to Herman Melville and detailed thematic examinations of his specific works and themes.

This guide to ""fact-based crime literature"" focuses on two principal groups of works: non-fictional accounts of crimes and trials, including essays, monographs, journalism, editions of court transcripts, prison histories, and criminal and police biographies; and works of imaginative literature.

On Monday, May 4th, 1970, members of the Ohio National Guard fired 61 rounds of bullets into the Kent State University students protesting about the invasion of Cambodia. This work develops the ideas of the first symposium on American democracy established to commemorate the tragedy.

This photographic collection explores Lake Erie and its effects on the birds that make this region their home. It observes a year of weather changes and avian migrations - from the wintertime convergence of ducks and othe waterbirds to the raptors and shorebird migrations in the fall.

In October 1892, a young law graduate, John Heisman, assumed the unpaid position as coach of Oberlin College's football squad. This ""bespectacled, stoop-shouldered"" young man led the team to an undefeated first season. This book recounts the story of the Oberlin fans, players, heroes, and rivals.

What would the world be like is history had taken a different course? Science fiction literature has long contemplated this question, and this text analyzes alternate history science fiction through a variety of historical models. It raises questions of narrative, writers, temporality and time.

This volume continues the story Ellis Yochelson began in ""Charles Doolittle Walcott, Paleontologist"". Using Walcott's letters, journals and the recollections of friends and colleagues, Yochelson discusses Walcott's life and career as secretary of the Smithsonian Institute.

A career soldier, Richard E. Mack served in the US Army until 1976, when he retired as a colonel. In this volume he recalls his service in front-line combat units in Korea and Vietnam, commenting on the tasks, challenges, problems and concerns of all soldiers during these conflicts.

The title poem of this collection tells of the creation of barbecue, how slaves cooked their masters' scraps into a survival food that became a cuisine. Powerful and moving, these poems teach how the ""nasty leftovers"" in life can be transformed into music, scripture, celebration.

A study of the political reaction against the 18th Amendment, a response that led to its reversal 14 years later by the 21st Amendment. This work uses archival evidence to examine the liquor ban and to draw attention to the bi-partisan movement led by the Association Against Prohibition Amendment.

This volume twins together the letters of Gerald and Richard Chappell to chronicle their experiences as medical corpsmen in the First Marine Division during the Korean War. The book captures the concerns, laughter, homesickness and fears of corpsmen serving in wartime.