Carl Anthony, author of Ida McKinley, is interviewed in this segment of C-Span’s “First Ladies” program.

Rust Belt Resistance, In the Kitchen with Cleveland’s Favorite Chefs, Guilty by Popular Demand, House of Horrors, and Wet are all finalists in Foreword Magazine’s Book of the Year Awards.

Four books published by The Kent State University have been awarded silver medals in the 2013 Independent Publisher Book Awards competition.
Silver medal in True Crime (tie): Guilty by Popular Demand: A True Story of Small-Town Injustice, by Bill Osinski (The Kent State University Press) tied with Scapegoat:…

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This broadcast production of May 4th Voices presents David Hassler’s verbatim theater play with an all-Kent State University student cast directed by Katherine Burke. The play is composed of first-person narratives about the May 4, 1970, tragedy, taken from the Kent State Shootings Oral History…

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Read Andrew Burstein’s review in The Advocate of A Self-Evident Lie: Southern Slavery and the Threat to American Freedom by Jeremy Tewell.
Barbara Gannon also reviewed the book for The Civil War Monitor.

For Jews who survived the Holocaust, returning to their cities and villages years later was often a painful experience, the memories flowing of what used to be and of all those who were killed. Still, there are the old buildings and signs, the street corners,…

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Maureen Taylor and Verissima Productions Launch Fundraising Campaign for Historical Documentary Featuring Historic Photos of the Revolutionary War Generation
A Kickstarter campaign, running from Feb. 27 to April 10, will raise monies for production of a ground-breaking historical documentary that will bring the Revolutionary War…

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