KSU Press author Jay Knarr is featured in two recent stories on NPR and in The Christian Science Monitor.
As Uruguay’s President Jose Mujica likes to say, his personal story seems like the stuff of fiction. He was a leftist guerrilla who was imprisoned for more than a decade. He’s known for driving a 1987 Volkswagen Beetle, […]
Author Dr. Virginia O. Benson was honored March 13, 2015, with the prestigious Robert C. Gaede Lifetime Achievement Award in Historic Preservation.
Read the rest of the story here.
MADISON-Joan L. Severa, age 89, passed away on March 5, 2015, at Oakwood West in Madison, Wisconsin, with family and friends by her side.
She was born on August 7, 1925, in Spring Green, to Gertrude and Johnny Baker. Joan was a master gardener and after retirement she authored How to Create a Perennial Garden. She volunteered […]
Edward J. Blum has won the John T. Hubbell Prize for the best article published in Civil War History during 2014. His study, “‘The First Secessionist Was Satan’: Secession and the Religious Politics of Evil in Civil War America,” Civil War History (September 2014), was selected by the journal’s editorial advisory board. The prize earns […]
Susan Greene’s masterful study of fabric history, Wearable Prints, 1760–1860: History, Materials, and Mechanics, has won a 2015 PROSE Award for a single volume in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Congratulations to the author and to Kent State University Press!
Click here to read a Vindicator article about a new literary group founded by Wick poet Karen Schubert to serve Mahoning Valley residents.
Click here to read Chris Schillig’s Alliance, Ohio, Review column praising Tom Batiuk’s graphic novel, Lisa’s Story: The Other Shoe and its selection for the One Book, One Community program in Alliance.
Click here to read Jack Lessenberry’s review in The Blade of James A. Rhodes: Ohio Colossus.
African Canadians in Union Blue: Volunteering for the Cause in the Civil War by Richard M. Reid
Slavery was already illegal in Canada during our Civil War, but thousands of black Canadians joined the Union Army, even though it was illegal under British law to enlist in a foreign army at war. Historian Reid’s new book asks […]
Dana Cooper, author of the new KSU Press book Informal Ambassadors, has been interviewed by a Scottish production company for a documentary titled Million Dollar American Princesses that will air on the Smithsonian channel in January (3-part series, airs January 4, 11, and 18).
Here’s a link to the Smithsonian website and their page on the […]
