Lisa’s Legacy Trilogy and The Ohio are featured in this year’s Akron.com 25 reasons to cozy up with a book list. Find out more at “25 reasons to cozy up with a book”
Tom Batiuk speaks about the Lisa’s Legacy Trilogy on Cleveland.com
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Tom Batiuk speaks on the Lisa’s Legacy Trilogy and more in this extensive interview from the Seattle PI.
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Noted composer, performer, ethnomusicologist, and Kent State University Professor Halim El-Dabh died at his home on Saturday, September 2. A native of Cairo, Egypt, El-Dabh taught at Kent State University from 1969 to 1991, and then part time until 2012. He was a recipient of two Fulbright awards, two Guggenheim Fellowships, and two honorary doctorates. El-Dabh was the subject of the 2003 biography by Denise Seachrist, The Musical World of Halim El-Dabh, published by Kent State University Press.
Kent State University is pleased to announce the appointment of Susan Wadsworth-Booth as the director of the Kent State University Press.
Wadsworth-Booth, formerly the director of the Duquesne University Press in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, will begin her duties on September 11.
Wadsworth-Booth joins Kent State with more than 25 years of experience in scholarly publishing. She began her […]
2017 IPPYs (Independent Publisher Book Awards)
As Ohio Goes, Rana Khoury
Bronze: Current Events (Political/Economic/Foreign Affairs)
Lincoln’s Generals’ Wives, Candy Hooper
Bronze: U.S. History
Hidden Hemingway, Robert K. Elder, Aaron Vetch & Mark Cirino
Gold: Reference
2017 IBPA (Independent Book Publishers Association) Ben Franklin Award
Lincoln’s Generals’ Wives, Candy Hooper
Silver: History
2017 Eric Hoffer Award
Hidden Hemingway, Elder,Vetch & Cirino
Winner: Reference
Foreword Reviews’ 2016 Indies 2016 Book Award
Hidden Hemingway, Robert K. Elder, Aaron Vetch […]
William G. Thomas III, Kaci Nash, and Robert Shepard have won the John T. Hubbell Prize for the best article published in Civil War History during 2016. Their study, “Places of Exchange: An Analysis of Human and Materiél Flows in Civil War Alexandria, Virginia,” Civil War History (December 2016), was selected by the journal’s editorial advisory board. The prize earns the recipient a $1,000 award from The Kent State University Press.
Hidden Hemingway author Robert K. Elder explores the issue at the Huffington Post
Ernest Hemingway and Virginia Pfeiffer at Schruns, Austria, winter 1925.
Congratulations to Roger Pickenpaugh for winning the 2016 Independent Scholar Award for the Center for Archival Collections’ Local History Publication Award for “Johnson’s Island: A Prison for Confederate Officers”
