Author Larry Wood goes into detail on this riveting episode of Most Notorious.
“Emma Barrett Molloy was a well-known Evangelical Christian, temperance and women’s rights activist in the 1870s and 1880s. But in 1885 she found herself embroiled in a lurid scandal involving a con-artist named George Graham. Graham married Emma’s foster daughter, Cora Lee, but without […]
Kathleen M. Fernandez, former director of the North Canton Heritage Society, has won the Outstanding Publication Book Award from the Communal Studies Association for Zoar: The Story of an Intentional Community.
Zoar, published by the Kent State University Press, is an informative historical analysis of a group of German religious dissenters who immigrated to Ohio in […]
Bigamy & Bloodshed is one of 7 true-crime books newly recommended by NYT critic Marilyn Stasio for your “escapist” reading enjoyment!
“What’s worse, murder or immorality? To American sensibilities in the 1880s, immorality was apparently the greater evil. Or so it seems from Larry E. Wood’s entertaining Bigamy & Bloodshed: The Scandal of Emma Molloy and the […]
Be sure to catch this video of Moments of Truth author Howard Ruffner on C-Span’s American History TV speaking about Kent State and Vietnam war protesting.
“Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach’s prize-winning poetry collection, The Many Names for Mother (Kent State University Press), begins and ends in the clouds but lives very much in this world.”
So says The Adroit Journal in this insightful online review.
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Bigamy and Bloodshed author Larry E. Wood on the murder of Sarah Graham—and the intricate and sensational court case that shocked Missouri in 1885. Read all about it at Crimereads.com.
“The case had a cast of characters ready made for a real-life drama. A smooth-talking man with a troubled past who had been twice married to […]
Check out this informative interview regarding one of our latest books, A Century of Flight at Paton Field: The Story of Kent State University’s Airport and Flight Education by William D. Schloman and Barbara F. Schloman, with a foreword by William Andrew Paton.
“‘It’s easy to dismiss something when you don’t know what it is. So much happened here and it isn’t […]
Don’t miss this eye-opening presentation from Moments of Truth author Howard Ruffner, an eye witness to the tragic events of May 4, 1970, at Kent State University. His new book compiles his photos from that day, many of them published for the first time.
Find out more about Moments of Truth: A Photographer’s Experience of Kent State 1970.
Don’t miss this informative television interview of Howard Ruffner speaking about his new book Moments of Truth: A Photographer’s Experience of Kent State 1970. The interview aired September 18 on WKYC-TV3’s Live on Lakeside.
Find out more about Moments of Truth.
Since becoming a mother, I think I’ve become a keener observer of the world around me, learning from the way my son takes it in. Everything he sees is new and marvelous. Everything is a kind of epiphany. Everything I thought I knew all too well is transformed to a revelation. And this is what […]
