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The story of the American Civil War is not complete without examining the extraordinary and influential lives of the wives of Abraham Lincoln's top generals. Candice Shy Hooper's lively account covers the early lives of her subjects, as well as their families, their education, their political attitudes, and their personal beliefs.

Relationships move to the front of the stage in this eleventh volume of The Complete Funky Winkerbean as the lighthearted dalliances of the past segue to the more mature partnerships of the adult world.

Peatlands have come to be regarded as complex and fascinating wetland ecosystems. Peatlands of Ohio and the Southern Great Lakes Region focuses on the sphagnum peat bogs and rich fens of the lower Great Lakes states of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, southern Michigan, and the glaciated northern corners of Pennsylvania.

Focusing on the themes of enchantment and loss in the fiction of J.R.R. Tolkien, this unique study incorporates elements of developmental psychology to explore both Tolkien's life and art, deepening our understanding of the interrelationship between his biography and writing.

The Kent State University Press is excited to reissue these classic true crime detective stories by Allan Pinkerton, the Scottish American detective and spy who founded the Pinkerton National Detective Agency in 1850.

The crime described in A Double Life and the Detectives is less of a whodunit and more of a whydunit. As Pinkerton learns, societal pressure to keep up appearances and provide for family can have disastrous consequences, driving otherwise respectable people to commit brazen crimes.

Established in 1939 by Pulitzer Prize-winning author and farmer Louis Bromfield, Malabar Farm was once considered ""the most famous farm in the world"". This book explores how Malabar Farm pioneered soil conservation and grew the sustainable agriculture movement.

Tells the true story of Cassie Chadwick, a successful swindler and 'one of the top 10 imposters of all time', according to Time magazine. This meticulously researched book is the first full-length account of the notorious career of this fascinating woman, the forerunner to more recent female scammers.

A collection of poems that considers the way memory, identity, and our very blood take shape in the places we inhabit: rooms, cities, landscapes, and the spaces within the body. Moore examines the idea of bloodlines - literal familial ties and the traumas, secrets, and complex relationships passed from one generation to the next.

Issues of false convictions, fake news, illegal immigration, police corruption, and racial prejudice are common tropes in today's news cycles. The East River Ripper demonstrates that these are not simply matters of recent vintage and seeks to answer such questions in trying to determine whether and in what way justice miscarried.

A line-by-line examination of a neglected collection of Hemingway short stories.

Largely forgotten by historians, Billy Wilson (1822-1874) was a giant in his time, a man well known throughout New York City, a man shaped by the city's immigrant culture, its harsh voting practices, and its efforts to participate in the War for the Union. This is the definitive biography of a Civil War scoundrel and streetwise politico.

Thomas Riha vanished on March 15, 1969, sparking a mystery that lives on 50 years later. Presenting a compelling cast of characters in an era of intrigue and with astounding attention to detail, Eileen Welsome demonstrates why the mystery continues to fascinate.

C.S. Lewis and Austin Farrer were friends and fellow academics for more than 20 years, sharing both their Anglican faith and similar concerns about their modern world. This volume explores a number of areas that demonstrate the ways in which Lewis and Farrer both intersected and influenced each other's thought.

Tells the story of a San Francisco Giants franchise that had no recognizable stars, was last in the league in attendance, and had more than one foot out the door on the way to Toronto when a local businessman and a brand new mayor found a way to keep the team in San Francisco.

Funky Winkerbean, a newspaper staple since 1972, is one of the few comic strips that allows its characters to grow and age. This tenth volume, spanning from 1999 to 2001, embraces the strip's past while casting an eye to a bright future.

While the depth of Americans' historiographical engagement with slavery is not surprising, the range and sheer volume of writing on the subject can be overwhelming. Editors Aaron Astor and Thomas Buchanan, together with a team of expert contributors, highlight here the key debates and conceptual shifts that have defined the field.

Over the years, many top historians have cited Major General Robert E. Rodes as the best division commander in Robert E. Lee's vaunted army. Despite those accolades, Rodes faltered badly at Gettysburg, which stands as the only major blemish on his sterling record. This volume offers a scrupulous analysis of Rodes's conduct during the battle.

Offers an extraordinary look at race and policing in late nineteenth-century Baltimore. What makes this work so powerful is that many of the issues that the antipolice brutality movement faces today were the very issues faced by black people in nineteenth-century Baltimore.

Beautifully illustrated with dozens of original full-colour and black-and-white drawings, The Plants of Middle-earth connects readers visually to the world of Middle-earth, its cultures and characters and the scenes of their adventures. This botanical tour through Middle-earth increases appreciation of Tolkien's contribution as preserver and transmitter of English cultural expression.

"In Leah Osowski's exquisite debut, hover over her, the poet immerses us in geographies of unrealized adolescence, where young women are singular amidst their cacophonous backdrops, whether beside a lake, inside a Dali painting, or stretched out in a flower garden." - Adrian Matejka, author of The Big Smoke

Offers a one-volume collection of C.S. Lewis's poetry, including many poems that have never appeared in print. With the poems arranged in chronological order, this volume allows readers the opportunity to compare the poetry Lewis was writing while he was also writing his fiction and nonfiction prose.

A classic true crime detective story by Allan Pinkerton, the Scottish American detective and spy who founded the Pinkerton National Detective Agency in 1850. In The Murderer and the Fortune Teller, Captain J. N. Sumner from Springfield, Massachusetts, hires Pinkerton to help solve a crime involving his sisters and the deed to a family farm.

A classic true crime detective story by Allan Pinkerton, the Scottish American detective and spy who founded the Pinkerton National Detective Agency in 1850. In The Somnambulist and the Detective, Allan Pinkerton travels to Atkinson, Mississippi, to investigate the murder of bank teller George Gordon and the theft of more than $130,000.

A classic true crime detective story by Allan Pinkerton, the Scottish American detective and spy who founded the Pinkerton National Detective Agency in 1850. In Bank Robbers and the Detectives, Pinkerton receives a telegram that reads, ""First National Bank robbed, please come, or send at once"".

Football historians regard the games between the Cleveland Browns and the Pittsburgh Steelers as the basis for one of the greatest rivalries in NFL history. Richard Peterson and Stephen Peterson, in telling the story of the teams, explore the reasons behind this intense rivalry and the details of its ups and downs for each team and its fans.

Brings together essays on the relation between temporality and translation, engaging in both theoretical reflection and consideration of concrete case studies. The essays facilitate a discussion about the ways in which the theoretical and practical consideration of temporality provide new insights and research directions for translation studies.

Examines how a forgotten case of murder while sleepwalking changed history. After creeping out of bed on a frigid January night in 1832, teenage farmhand Abraham Prescott took up an ax and thrashed his sleeping employers to the brink of death. He later explained that he'd attacked Sally and Chauncey Cochran in his sleep.