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Daniel M. Holt, a successful country doctor in the upstate village of Newport, New York, accepted the position of assistant surgeon in the 121st New York Volunteer Army in August 1862. In A Surgeon's Civil War, the educated and articulate Holt describes camp life, army politics, and the medical difficulties that he and his colleagues experienced.

In this, his third collection of stories, Lester Goran moves us again through the times and places indelibly stamped with his wit and insight about people and events lost to history. Outlaws of the Purple Cow centres around the domains of Irish-American men and women in Pittsburgh.

A study of French foreign policy initiatives in the Far East from 1919 to 1945, arguing that France was not as pro-appeasement toward the Japanese as conventionally thought and that French policy-makers had clearer insight into the dangers and opportunities in the region than other Western powers.

More than 300 poets from around the nation gathered at Kent State University in May 1990 to remember the four students slain and nine others wounded by the Ohio National Guard on May 4, 1970, and the two students shot 10 days later at Jackson State College in Mississippi. A Gathering of Poets presents 147 of their poems.

Examines the ways in which J.R.R Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings makes visible the connections between medieval and modern conceptions of dying and analyzes how contemporary readers use The Lord of the Rings as a tool for dealing with death.

Following the 1957 season, two of baseball's most famous teams, the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Giants, left the city they had called home since the 19th century and headed west. Lincoln A. Mitchell argues that the moves to California, second only to Jackie Robinson's debut in 1947, forged Major League Baseball as we know it today.

What is it like to be a student nurse? What are the joys, the stresses, the transcendent moments, the fall-off-your-bed laughing moments, and the terrors that have to be faced and stared down? In brave, revealing, and often humorous poetry and prose, Learning to Heal explores these questions with contributions by nurses from a variety of social, ethnic, and geographical backgrounds.

The book states plainly that both its speaker and the speaker's mother have suffered near deadly head injuries. However, rather than let a taxonomy like ""family curse"" sit unquestioned, Green writes toward the fugues (the condition of having one's identity questioned) by making a kind of fugue (interweaving song).

After clearing Virginia's Shenandoah Valley of Federal troops, Gen. Robert E. Lee's bold invasion into the North reached lower Pennsylvania in June 1863. The move to the North lasted for nearly a month. As Robert Wynstra explains, confederate commanders constantly struggled to control the desire among the troops to seek retribution for what they perceived as Federal outrages in the South.

A small area of western Pennsylvania around Pittsburgh has produced almost 25 percent of the modern era quarterbacks enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Their stories, feats, and statistics are brought to life in America's Football Factory through riveting anecdotes, extensive research, and exclusive interviews with their coaches, friends, family, and peers.

While visiting with Mr. Tumnus in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Lucy Pevensie notices a bookshelf filled with such titles as Nymphs and Their Ways and Is Man a Myth? Beginning with these imaginary texts, Charlie W. Starr offers a comprehensive study of C. S. Lewis's theory of myth.

George Gordon Meade has not been treated kindly by history. Victorious at Gettysburg, Meade was the longest-serving commander of the Army of the Potomac. Serving alongside his new superior, Ulysses S. Grant, his role has been overshadowed by the popular Grant. This study of Meade's two-year tenure as commander of the Army of the Potomac brings him out of Grant's shadow.

Huffman Prairie was one of many large grasslands in the valley of the Mad River of southwestern Ohio when the area was settled in the 1790s. This book tells the region's story from before the time when great continental glaciers covered much of what is now Ohio to the present. Along the way it covers the natural and human history of the site.

The ""deadlines"" were boundaries prisoners had to stay within or risk being shot. Just as a prisoner would take the daring challenge in ""crossing the deadline"" to attempt escape, Crossing the Deadlines crosses those boundaries of old scholarship by taking on bold initiatives with new methodologies, filling a void in the current scholarship of Civil War prison historiography.

The Cleveland Browns set the standard by which all professional football teams were measured in the 1940s and'50s, but when they won the National Football League championship in 1964 it came as a surprise. Redemption in'64 entertains readers with the growing excitement of the Browns' turnaround.

Explores the personal dynamic between C. S. Lewis, Dorothy L. Sayers, and T. S. Eliot and their misgivings about taking on the role of Christian apologist during the height of the London blitz. Brown goes on to examine the congruency in their depictions of the nature of Christ, of conversion, and of angelic beings, and highlights the similarity in their views of war and suffering.

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, the battlefield was enshrined as a national park under the jurisdiction of the War Department. In 1913, graying veterans commemorated the fiftieth anniversary of the momentous battle, dubbed the "Peace Jubilee," a unity celebration largely administered by the U.S. Army. Four years later, the Army returned to establish a Regular Army infantry-training cantonment on the battlefield. The Tank Corps took over in 1918, and the area was dubbed "Camp Colt."Gettysburg's Other Battle is the account of Gettysburg's citizens and its tens of thousands of temporary guests during the Great War, a drama that took place on the most significant stage in American historical memory. It goes beyond the story of the training camps by using the Great War as a window-in-time to examine a unique community, one in the throes of modernization while at the same time trying to capitalize on, yet preserve a part of, the nation's past.Gettysburg's residents, like all Americans during World War I, experienced measures such as conscription, food conservation, and censorship. As the nation applied Progressive reforms to the war effort, Gettysburg followed suit. Unlike other American towns and cities that hosted mobilization camps, Gettysburg was hallowed ground, and an earlier generation already had felt the ravages of war like few other American communities. Gettysburg was desecrated both unwittingly and intentionally--it took years for the national park to recover from this environmental catastrophe. Today, the only reminders of Gettysburg's Great War heritage are a tiny marker, memorial tree, and wayside exhibit to commemorate Camp Colt, along with a small exhibit in the museum. Had Ike Eisenhower not commanded that camp in 1918, it doubtless would not be remembered at all.

Renowned fantasy illustrator James A. Owen presents fifteen intricate and imaginative line drawings inspired by the works of Oxford's Inklings. Printed on heavy stock on one side only, each drawing is suitable for markers, fine-tipped pens, and colored pencils. This is the perfect-bound edition

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. Anna Gibson Holloway and Jonathan W. White bring ""Our Little Monitor"" to life once more in this beautifully illustrated volume, telling her story from conception in 1861 to sinking in 1862.

Lord Peter Wimsey-amateur detective, man of fashion, talented musician, and wealthy intellectual-is known to legions of readers. His enduring presence and popularity is a tribute to his creator, Dorothy L. Sayers, who brought Lord Peter to life during "the long week-end" between the First and Second World Wars, as British aristocracy began to change, making way for a modern world.In Conundrums for the Long Week-End, Robert McGregor and Ethan Lewis explore how Sayers used her fictional hero to comment on, and come to terms with, the social upheaval of the time: world wars, the crumbling of the privileged aristocracy, the rise of democracy, and the expanding struggle of women for equality.

Celebrates the variety of craft brewing in Ohio, offers appreciations of its quality, and reports on the renaissance of the brewer's art throughout the Buckeye State. Beautifully illustrated with colour photographs, the book takes readers on a tour of more than 40 of Ohio's larger and more influential breweries and provides detailed descriptions of most of the others.

Explores and underscores the fear and complex meaning of ""slavery"" to northerners before the Civil War. In trenchant and graceful prose, Jeremy Tewell argues that some Republicans, most notably Abraham Lincoln, held that the only effective safeguard of individual liberty was universal liberty, as expressed in the Declaration of Independence.

To his neighbours on Imperial Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio, Anthony Sowell was a quiet and helpful former Marine. But there was a dark side to Sowell-and a horrific secret inside his house. Cleveland journalist Robert Sberna brings readers into the mind of a killer through interviews with Sowell's surviving victims and exclusive death row interviews with Sowell himself.

Native Clevelander Russ Schneider has revelled in the successes and lamented the failures of the Cleveland Indians from his earliest childhood. He covered the Indians daily from 1964 to 1977 and became nationally known as the chronicler of the Indians' fortunes and history. This beautiful coffee-table book features forty twentieth-century Indians legends.

Celebrates more than seventy-five successful years (and counting) of Ray's Place, a restaurant and bar located near the Kent State University campus in Kent, Ohio. Once referred to as the place ""where the hustlers meet to hustle the hustlers"", Ray's Place has survived decades of trends, changes, and events.

The essential guide to every game in Cleveland Browns history. The team has played nearly one thousand games over the past eight decades, and The Browns Bible tells the tale of each one. Through individual game stories and box scores, it encapsulates every victory, every defeat, every touchdown from 1946 to the present.