Yankees blog Start Spreading the News brings us an excerpt from our new book Baseball Goes West by Lincoln A. Mitchell
“The Giants always had to share their northern Manhattan fan base with another team. The Yankees made their first home in Hilltop Park located in Northern Manhattan around 165th and Broadway, before sharing the Polo […]
John G. Selby is interviewed by Civil War Books and Authors on his upcoming book Meade: The Price of Command 1863–1865. He discusses the book and the controversial legacy of General George G. Meade, Civil War commander of the Army of the Potomac.
“It actually began with me questioning the central premise of most of the […]
Lincoln A. Mitchell, author of the upcoming KSU Press title Baseball Goes West: The Dodgers, the Giants, and the Shaping of the Major Leagues, gives insight into the labor practices of Major League Baseball in this informative Salon article.
“In addition to being great pitchers and part of the celebrity scene in Southern California in the […]
The Akron Beacon Journal explores “Murderous Topics” including the case of Mariann Colby from our book The Insanity Defense and the Mad Murderous of Shaker Heights by William L. Tabac.
Another excellent review by the website Civil War Books and Authors sums up Georgiann Baldino’s book A Family and Nation under Fire: The Civil War Letters and Journals of William and Joseph Medill like this:
“The volume’s collection of Medill family letters and dairies, in conjunction with Georgiann Baldino’s expansive editing, represents a significant contribution to […]
“Startling” and “profound” are two ways to describe Wick Poetry Winner Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach’s writing for Poets Reading the News. In a series of articles on parenting in an age of mass gun violence she lends her distinct voice during troubling times. There’s more than one way to “report” the news.
http://www.poetsreadingthenews.com/author/dasbach/
KSU Press author Kirk Curnutt speaks with PBS Newshour host Jeffrey Brown regarding the long lost Hemingway story, “A Room on the Garden Side”.
Catch the video here.
Anna Gibson Holloway, author of “Our Little Monitor”: The Greatest Invention of the Civil War, is the subject of this informative interview by NCPH (National Council on Public History).
“My experience with The Mariners’ Museum then opened up a new opportunity for me. When the NPS revived its Maritime Heritage Program in 2014, I knew I wanted […]
Kent State University Press author Bradley Keefer gets the last word in this New York Times article regarding the uncertain future of Civil War Re-enactors.
Adam H. Domby has won the John T. Hubbell Prize for the best article published in Civil War History during 2017. His study, “Captives of Memory: Contested Legacy of Race at Andersonville National Historic Site,” Civil War History (September 2017), was selected by the journal’s editorial advisory board. The prize earns the recipient a $1,000 award from The Kent State University Press.
