Books by The Kent State University Press

In this reassessment of the career of Nelson A. Miles - which he began as a volunteer officer in the Civil War - the author suggests that comments made by his enemies influenced the way Miles's career has been viewed by historians and tries to readdress this.

This work charts the life of 19th-century journalist, diplomat, adventurer, and enthusiast John Louis O'Sullivan. It presents an in-depth examination of O'Sullivan's ideas as they were expressed in the ""Democratic Review"" and other newspapers and literary magazines that he edited.