Carl Anthony, author of Ida McKinley, is interviewed in this segment of C-Span’s “First Ladies” program.

Rust Belt Resistance, In the Kitchen with Cleveland’s Favorite Chefs, Guilty by Popular Demand, House of Horrors, and Wet are all finalists in Foreword Magazine’s Book of the Year Awards.

Four books published by The Kent State University have been awarded silver medals in the 2013 Independent Publisher Book Awards competition.
Silver medal in True Crime (tie): Guilty by Popular Demand: A True Story of Small-Town Injustice, by Bill Osinski (The Kent State University Press) tied with Scapegoat: The Chino Hills Murders and the Framing of Kevin Cooper, […]

This broadcast production of May 4th Voices presents David Hassler’s verbatim theater play with an all-Kent State University student cast directed by Katherine Burke. The play is composed of first-person narratives about the May 4, 1970, tragedy, taken from the Kent State Shootings Oral History Project. Narrator Maj Ragain’s prose poem, “May 4, 1970 / […]

Read Andrew Burstein’s review in The Advocate of A Self-Evident Lie: Southern Slavery and the Threat to American Freedom by Jeremy Tewell.
Barbara Gannon also reviewed the book for The Civil War Monitor.

For Jews who survived the Holocaust, returning to their cities and villages years later was often a painful experience, the memories flowing of what used to be and of all those who were killed. Still, there are the old buildings and signs, the street corners, the roads leading to past lives.
Except in Trochenbrod.
Read the whole […]

KSUP’s Black Squirrel Books imprint recently published the second volume of The Complete Funky Winkerbean.
Read a newsy interview with author Tom Batiuk that discusses the origins and history of the strip.

Carol Sheriff has won the John T. Hubbell Prize for the best article published in Civil War History during 2012. Her study, “Virginia’s Embattled Textbooks: Lessons (Learned and Not) from the Centennial Era,” Civil War History (March 2012), was selected by the journal’s editorial advisory board. The prize earns the recipient a $1,000 award.
In […]

On February 17, 2013, the Plain Dealer issued its list of Cleveland’s top 100 arts and entertainment celebrities. Kent State University Press author Tom Batiuk is number 64 on the list. Click here to read more.

We’re excited to announce that Mark Cirino and Mark P. Ott, KSU Press authors and the editors of the “Reading Hemingway” and “Teaching Hemingway” series, respectively, are co-directing the Ernest Hemingway Society’s 16th biennial international conference next year in Venice, Italy! Click the link before for more info.
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