The Funnies Page’s Unlikeliest Savior: ‘Funky Winkerbean’

James Scott, author of The War Below: The Story of Three Submarines that Battled Japan, and Jack McCall, editor of Pacific Time on Target: Memoirs of a Marine Artillery Officer, 1943-1945, talked about the Pacific Theater in World War II.
“The Pacific Theater on Land and Sea: Submarines and Soldier’s Remembrances” was a panel in Room 16 of […]

René Villarreal, who spent his youth in Cuba as Ernest Hemingway’s majordomo, passed away on Sunday, October 5, 2014. He was 85. With his son Raul, René Villarreal was the author of Hemingway’s Cuban Son, the account of his time with Hemingway.

Author and noted independent filmmaker Richard Myers is featured in the latest issue of Cleveland Magazine. 
Read the article here.

Ernest Hemingway scholar and Kent State University Press author Bickford Sylvestor died on July 24, 2014, age 89.
Read his obituary here.

Reviewed by Kevin M. Levin
In recognition of Civil War History‘s 60th anniversary, the editors at Kent State University Press are releasing a series of books that feature some of the journal’s most important publications. The essays in the present volume, edited by John David Smith, cover a broad swath of the recent historiography of slavery, abolitionism, […]

First Annual Immigrants’ Civil War Award Goes to Joseph Reinhart

Author and Holocaust survivor BETTY GOLD (nee Potash), age 83, passed away peacefully on July 23, 2014.  Mother of the late Michael (Barbara) Gold and the late Allan (Karen) Gold, she is survived by her son Sheldon Gold, grandchildren Benjamin (Christina) Gold of Columbus, David, Evan, and Nikoli of Atlanta, six nieces and nephews, 19 great nieces […]

For much of their respective careers, James and Nina Freedlander Gibans have recognized the need to document and preserve Cleveland’s underappreciated yet rich architectural heritage. Recently, that passion, after detailed, painstaking work, has reached fruition in two distinct media.
This year, Kent State University Press has published their Cleveland Goes Modern: Design for the Home, 1930–1970. The publication won […]

H. WAYNE MORGAN 1934-2014
H. Wayne Morgan, noted historian, author and longtime University of Oklahoma educator and administrator, died Wednesday, January 29, 2014, at his home in Norman following an extended illness. He was 79. The late Professor Morgan is the author of William McKinley and His America (Kent State University Press, 2003) Kenyon Cox, 1856-1919 (Kent […]