Hidden Hemingway author Rob Elder is interviewed on WTTW’s “Chicago Tonight”
Watch the interview here.

Roses in December by Tom Batiuk and Chuck Ayers (Kent State University Press, 2015) is a finalist for the 2016 Ohioana Awards in the Fiction category.
The Ohioana Library has announced the 30 finalists for the 2016 Ohioana Book Awards.
The awards, established in 1942, honor Ohio authors in Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Juvenile Literature, and Middle Grade/Young Adult Literature. […]

Vivian Goodman interviews author Paul Gaston about his new book, Ohio’s Craft Beers, and Ohio’s craft beer boom on WKSU’s Quick Bites.

On May 4, 2016, the Kent State University Bookstore hosted a book signing with authors Greg Wilson (left) and Craig Simpson for their new book Above the Shots: An Oral History of the Kent State Shootings. Simpson and Wilson joined several authors of other May 4th–themed books for a well attended event with brisk sales.

Cortney Davis’s memoir of illness and healing, When the Nurse Becomes a Patient, has won the 2016 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards Gold Medal in the Body, Mind & Spirit category.
The IBPA Awards recognize excellence in book editorial and design and are regarded as one of the highest national honors for independent publishers. 
For more information and a […]

Noted historian John David Smith awarded First Citizens Bank Scholars Medal
John David Smith, the Charles H. Stone Distinguished Professor of American History at UNC Charlotte, is the 2016 recipient of the First Citizens Bank Scholars Medal, UNC Charlotte’s most prestigious faculty award in recognition of excellence in research.
A ceremony was held Tuesday, April 12, 2016, […]

By Larry Gierer
The naval officer writes about his first time in battle, about how it was not what he had imagined from pictures, and how men did not behave in ways he thought they would.
He recalls expecting great excitement but not seeing any. The men around him seem to be laboring under an intense strain. […]

A. James Fuller, professor of history at the University of Indianapolis and editor of The Election of 1860 Reconsidered (Kent State University Press, 2012), is consulted for a March 8, 2016, story in The Washington Post.

The Emporia Gazette reports that an Emporia State University class about Civil War history will be aired on C-SPAN. “Civil War Veterans” will air at 7 p.m. Saturday March 5, 2016, on C-SPAN 3 with an encore airing at 11 p.m. the same night.
The class taught by Dr. Brian Craig Miller, associate professor of history, […]

Douglas R. Egerton has won the John T. Hubbell Prize for the best article published in Civil War History during 2015. His study, “The Slaves’ Election: Frémont, Freedom, and the Slave Conspiracies of 1856,” Civil War History (March 2015), was selected by the journal’s editorial advisory board. The prize earns the recipient a $1,000 award […]