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 […]
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, […]
