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On May 4, 1970, National Guardsmen occupying the Kent State University campus fired 67 shots in 13 seconds, leaving four students dead. May 4th Voices was originally written and performed as part of a community arts project for the 40th commemoration of the events of May 4th. The text of David Hassler's play is based on the Kent State Shootings Oral History Project.

Based on the award-winning exhibition of the same name, Cleveland Goes Modern examines modern movement houses in greater Cleveland within the context of American Modernism as a whole. The authors demonstrate that understanding and contextualizing this regional domestic architecture makes a valuable contribution to the larger study of architecture and the Modern period.

Upon discovering that her great-great aunt was the victim and central figure in one of Illinois's most notorious crimes, author Susan Elmore set out to learn more. She uncovered a perplexing case that resulted in multiple suspects, a lynch mob, charges of perjury and bribery, a failed kidnapping attempt, broken family loyalties, lies, cover-ups, financial devastation, and at least two suicides.

From 1934 to 1938, Cleveland, Ohio, was racked by a classic battle between good and evil. On one side was the city's safety director, Eliot Ness. On the other was a nameless phantom dubbed the ""Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run"" who littered the inner city with the remains of decapitated and dismembered corpses. This book concludes James Jessen Badal examination the of the ""Mad Butcher".

In 1938 the United States was embroiled in a vicious debate between supporters of the two sides of the Spanish Civil War, who sought either to lift or to retain the US arms embargo on Spain. In Arguing Americanism, author Michael E. Chapman examines the long-overlooked pro-Nationalist argument.

The arrival of the Shakers in Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana in the decades after 1805 saw a substantial escalation in the movement. In Richard McNemar, Music, and the Western Shaker Communities, Carol Medlicott and Christian Goodwillie reconstruct a vast repository of early Shaker hymns, using them to uncover the dramatic history of Shakerism's bold expansion to the frontier.

This first full-length biography of John Joyce Gilligan argues that Ohio's sixty-second governor was the most significant Democrat in the state's postwar years. But it is more than the story of a governor. Through painstaking research and dozens of interviews, author Mark Bernstein paints a vivid picture of Ohio's past and its prospects for the future.

The poems in this stark collection feel as if they have arrived just after casting off emotional ballast. A burden has been carried from the familiar world, and over time and distance, that load has been dispersed. And now the poet returns, halfway between grief and transcendence, but in that dark return lies hope."" - Maurice Manning

Besides the risks of death or wounding in combat, the average Civil War soldier faced the constant threat of being captured by the enemy. It is estimated that one out of every seven soldiers was taken captive and held in prison camps infamous for breeding disease and death. This is the chronicle of one Union soldier's seven months in captivity.

Akron-based architect William P. Ginther (1858-1933) designed sixty-three Roman Catholic churches, primarily in Ohio and Pennsylvania. This is the first book to document his architectural designs. By combining historical images with twenty-first-century photographs, author Anthony J. Valleriano presents the most comprehensive overview of Ginther's architectural career available today.

This coming-of-age story sings the undersong of an older generation's hard-won success. Like all black Clevelanders, Phillip M. Richards was forced to struggle for his understanding of the city's - and his own - endless racial confusion in the midst of frightening historical change. It is this reality that recurs throughout Richards's memoir.

Before FM radio and the commanding album rock stations of the 1970s, there was WIXY 1260, a tiny Northeast Ohio AM radio station that became an entertainment powerhouse. This is the story of one of Cleveland's most popular and influential radio stations - a station that would become synonymous with 1960s pop culture.

Presents a revealing glimpse of social and literary life in New York and Paris during the 1920s. Using a recently released collection of letters from the Benet Collection at Yale University, author Evelyn Helmick Hively extracts captivating anecdotes and impressions about a talented group of writers and impressive feminist figures.

The Buckeye State's many ponds and vernal pools are populated by a dizzying variety of wildlife. Animals of Ohio's Ponds and Vernal Pools takes a close-up look at unique wetlands - from fascinating fish and amphibians to intriguing insects and birds - besides examining pond and vernal pool ecology, Ohio's geologic history influencing wetland formation, and hydrology and energy cycles.

Since the early nineteenth century, Cleveland and the surrounding region have benefited from the emigration of European Jewry. A unique anthology of essays, short stories, and poems, Remembering: Cleveland's Jewish Voices gathers for the first time rare and previously inaccessible writings about the Jewish experience in Northeast Ohio.

As with Dickinson and Stevens, to understand an Elizabeth Breese poem is beside the point; one apprehends it, the way one does a scent or strain of music. Roving, impure, funny, brainy, and passionate, hers is work I want to keep beside me for the good company and generous pleasures it offers line by gorgeous line."" - Kathy Fagan

"Melancholy and loss, the missing of a gone mother, passion and solitude - stirringly well mixed in one potent brew of a book. Readers will feel at home here, but they'll also feel ignited with new presences, keenly visible and invisible perceptions."" - Naomi Shihab Nye, judge

Winsor French was a journalist with a singular voice. A self-described ""effeminate young man"", French occupied desks in city rooms drenched with masculinity, and risking the loss of his job by defending unconventional behaviour. Out and About with Winsor French documents the powerful role played by about-town columnists during a raucous episode in the history of American newspapers.

Under the command of Admiral Raymond Spruance, the US Fifth Fleet was given orders to invade Tarawa in the Gilbert Islands in November 1943. This offensive, along with naval battles in the Philippine Sea, the Leyte Gulf, and the invasion of Iwo Jima in February 1945, is chronicled from the perspective of a young deck officer in this memoir.

Tells the story of the construction of The Park Synagogue in Cleveland Heights, and examines how Eric Mendelsohn consciously sought to express the ideals and traditions of the congregation and Judaism in its architectural forms. In telling this story, Walter Leedy brings unique insight into the development of the American Jewish community during the post-World War II

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 complex project of transforming their own gender... Oliver Bendorf writes from a paradoxical, new-world position: the adult voice of a man who has just appeared in the world. A man emergent, a man in love, alive in the fluid instability of any category." --Mark Doty, from the Foreword "Bendorf's collection indeed opens the door to a spectral wilderness, an otherworldly pastoral, a queer ecology endlessly transformed by possibility, grief, and the unruly wanting of our names and bodies. Stunningly lyrical and beautifully theoretical, The Spectral Wilderness is an invitation one cannot turn down; the book calls us to travel with Bendorf, to study the topography of becoming because "what we used to be matters" in the way that language matters--however fleeting, however mistaken, however contradictory it might be." --Stacey Waite, author of Butch Geography "What gorgeous and ravenous rackets Oliver Bendorf's poems are made of; what a yearning and beautiful heart. 'Lift a geode from the ground and crack me open, ' he writes, which is more or less what these poems do for me: break me open to what might sparkle and blaze, what might glisten and burn inside. The Spectral Wilderness is a wonderful book." --Ross Gay, author of Against Which and Bringing the Shovel Down

Presents the first comprehensive history of the 27th United States Colored Troops (USCT). By including rich details culled from private letters and pension files, Mezurek provides more than a typical regimental study; she demonstrates that the lives of the men of the 27th USCT help to explain why blacks in the US continued to offer their martial support in the front lines and the back.

Introduces both students and scholars to Ernest Hemingway's surprisingly multivalent treatment of gender and sexuality. Individual essays deal with Hemingway's short stories and novels, but the ideas are widely applicable in discussions of modernism, authorship, the literary market place, popular culture, gender theory, queer theory, and men's studies.

Fishes below the surface of The Old Man and the Sea to determine what is contained in Hemingway's allusions. The authors trace the development of symbols, amplify literary echoes, and contextualize the work's mythological, religious, and philosophical references. They examine the hybridity of genre in The Old Man and the Sea and engage multiple literary and critical methodologies.

After fourteen months of field research in 1972-73 and an additional four months of field work with the Anutans in the Solomon Islands capital of Honiara in 1983, Richard Feinberg here provides a thorough study of Anutan seafaring and navigation. In doing so he gives rare insights into the larger picture of how Polynesians have adapted to the sea.

The first half of the 20th century was a period of great change along the historic Ohio River corridor. It was then that the Ohio became the most heavily engineered river in the world. Employing a unique collection of historic postcards as both artifacts and images, authors John Jakle and Dannel McCollum effectively illustrate the importance of the Ohio River in American history.