SHAKER HEIGHTS, Ohio – 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 […]
Beginning in 2016, Ohio History will be available twice a year, in spring and fall. Articles will be published in half the time, and the journal’s rich offerings will be served up in a double portion.
For more than 100 years Ohio History, a peer-reviewed journal, has published scholarly essays, research notes, edited primary documents, and […]
2014 Independent Publisher Book Awards Results
Recognizing Excellence in Independent Publishing – 18th Annual
Two Kent State University Press books have won 2014 Independent Publisher Book Awards:
Bronze medal in True Crime: Nameless Indignities: Unraveling the Mystery of One of Illinois’s Most Infamous Crimes, by Susan Elmore
Broze medal in Biography: Ida McKinley: The Turn-of-the-Century First Lady through War, Assassination, and […]
John E. Dolibois, author of Pattern of Circles, former U.S. ambassador to Luxembourg, and last American survivor of a team that interrogated top-ranking Nazis for the Nuremberg Trials, died Friday, May 2, at his home in Cincinnati. He was 95.
Click here to read his obituary in The Washington Post.
The April 15, 2014, issue of Library Journal reviewed 22 recent books on World War I. Two Kent State University Press titles received praise: Steven Florczyk’s Hemingway, the Red Cross, and the Great War and War + Ink: New Perspectives on Ernest Hemingway’s Early Life and Writings edited by Steven Paul, Gail Sinclair and Steven Trout.
Richmond Must Fall: The Richmond-Petersburg Campaign, October 1864 by Hampton Newsome was one of three finalists for the 2014 Richard Harwell Book Award.
A special exhibition at the Concord Museum
Concord, Massachusetts
April 18 through September 21, 2014
Based on the eponymous Maureen Taylor books, The Last Muster: Images of the Revolutionary War Generation, brings together 30 photographic portraits of people who lived through the Revolution and survived into the age of photography. Gathered by one of the nation’s foremost historical photo detectives, Maureen Taylor, […]
Kate Northrop Wins the $25,000 Jeannette Haien Ballard Writer’s Prize
Kate Northrop, associate professor of English at the University of Wyoming, won the Jeannette Haien Ballard Writer’s Prize, an annual award given to a young writer of poetry or prose. The award comes with a $25,000 cash prize.
Northrop has been on the faculty at the University […]
News from the Library of Congress
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March 4, 2014
Poet Laureate Selects 2014 Witter Bynner Fellows, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers and Jake Adam York
The 19th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry at the Library of Congress, Natasha Trethewey, has selected […]
Robert Fitzgerald Prosody Award
Kent State University Press author Brennan O’Donnell, a scholar of nineteenth-century British literature and President of Manhattan College, has been named the 2014 recipient of the Robert Fitzgerald Prosody Award.
The award is unique among literary and academic prizes in recognizing scholars who have made a […]
