Paschen, Stephen H.

Stephen H. Paschen received a Masters in Library and Information Science from Kent State University, a Master of Arts in History from The University of Akron, and a Bachelor of Science in Landscape Architecture from Iowa State University. He is presently University Archivist and assistant professor in Libraries & Media Services, Special Collections and Archives at Kent State University. Mr. Paschen was previously senior archives associate for nine years at The University of Akron, and was curator and executive director of the Summit County Historical Society for eleven years. He has published several books -- including local, corporate, and institutional histories – as well as developing numerous educational programs and exhibits. His teaching career has included courses in Ohio History, Museums and Archives, and Historical Methods.

Arizona Historical Dictionary. A Reference Compendium
2012 0-7734-2929-8
Schlup and Paschen have compiled the most thorough reference guide on Arizona’s local history. Marking the centennial anniversary of the state’s entrance into the union, this book provides more than a century worth of information for researchers seeking knowledge about its rich history. The book traces the history of Arizona from the Wild West until the present day.

This book is a one-volume reference work timed to coincide with the centennial observation of Arizona’s statehood in 2012. Besides the introduction, photographs, and index, the book consists of five parts: biographies, a chronology/timeline from 1846 to 2011, tables and charts, and primary documents.

They also provide recommended readings. This compilation is useful for a wide variety of groups from researchers, to government workers, students, historians, chambers of commerce, librarians, and even reporters. It will be informative for anyone interested in learning about Arizona.

Price: $399.95


DOCUMENTS DEPICTING THE 1950s: A Decade of Conformity and Dissent
2008 0-7734-5065-3
One of the most significant decades in United States history, the 1950s represented a time of continuity and dissent. How Americans reacted to these growing pains presents historians with a wealth of information with which to dissect the times and better understand the momentous events that occurred between 1950 and 1959. This book is an edited compilation of first-person accounts consisting of valuable primary source material. The work analyzes important roles played by various individuals, especially political and social leaders.

Price: $359.95


Presidential Campaign Letters and Speeches of James A. Garfield (1880), Benjamin Harrison (1892), William Mckinley (1896), and William Howard Taft (1908)
2010 0-7734-1445-2
An edited selection of presidential campaign letters and speeches of four native Ohio presidents. The primary source documents shed new light on campaign strategies during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. They are chronologically arranged with a descriptive paragraph preceding each entry. The book contains an introduction, brief biographical sketches of each president, a list of recommended readings for further research, photographs, and an index. There is no other single book containing all this information on the four elections, showing striking differences and similarities among these four Republican leaders.

Price: $259.95


The 1890s in America: Documenting the Maturation of a Nation
2006 0-7734-5982-0
One of the most significant decades in United States history, the 1890s represented a transitional time of political, economic, social, diplomatic, and cultural change. It was both the conclusion of the Gilded Age as well as the beginning of modern America and progressive reform. The twin forces of change and continuity came into play. An agricultural, rural, largely homogeneous society was shifting into a more industrial, urban, and heterogeneous republic marked by increasing presidential prerogative in domestic affairs and international relations. How Americans reacted to these growing pains presents historians with a wealth of information with which to dissect the times and better understand the momentous events that occurred between 1890 and 1899.

This book is an edited compilation of first-person accounts consisting of over four hundred pages of valuable primary source material. Each entry is accompanied by an introduction. Easier to use in one format than having tediously to track down forty-nine separate entities, the book analyzes important roles played that decade by social reformers, economic theorists, religious leaders, political figures, literary achievers, educational innovators, medical doctors, protesting labor strikers, judicial decisions, dedicated conservationists, avowed agitators, diplomatic initiators, philosophers, prohibitionists, sectionalists, librarians, and agriculturists who discussed a number of issues, such as civil rights, crime, anti-imperialism, and the growth of monopolies.

Price: $259.95


United States in the 1920s as Observed in Contemporary Cocuments
2007 0-7734-5449-7
This book offers primary sources needed to examine one of the most significant decades in American history, the 1920s represented a transitional time of social, economic, and cultural change. Wedged between World War I and the Great Depression this crucial decade encompassed postwar disillusionment, religious fundamentalism, the Red Scare, normalcy, the worst presidential scandals prior to Watergate, coal and railroad strikes, the Charleston dance, radios, automobiles, airplanes, stock market frenzies, booming prosperity, heroes and gangsters, the Scopes Trial, disarmament conferences, the Fordney-McCumber Tariff, Republican ascendancy, Prohibition, bootlegging, speakeasies, the flawed Kellogg-Briand Pact, Ku Klux Klan terror, Governor Alfred A. Smith, popular songs, flappers, a new morality, a lost generation, outstanding novelists and playwrights, changes in fashion clothing, Sacco and Vanzetti, McNary-Haugen, Hays Office, Silent Cal, Billy Mitchell, Teapot Dome, Senator Thomas J. Walsh, the Progressive party, Al Capone, sports figures, and “The Jazz Singer,” among others. Here is a wide range of divergent, often controversial, view points. It is reflective of American society in the 1920s and the diversity which shaped the United States.

Price: $279.95