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.
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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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An informative interview with Brian Craig Miller, editor of A Punishment on the Nation: An Iowa Soldier Endures the Civil War and book review editor of our journal, Civil War History. Congratulations, Brian!

The complete run of Civil War History, starting with Volume 1, Number 1 (March 1955) is now available online through Project MUSE.

Here’s a link to a Channel 19 (Cleveland) news story about our forthcoming book on the Anthony Sowell murders, “House of Horrors” by Robert Sberna. The book is available for sale October 29, and can be preordered via our website:

19 Action News|Cleveland, OH|Breaking News, Weather, Exclusives

For more than 100 years, the accepted toll from the American Civil War has been 620,000 deaths. Now, research published by the journal Civil War History says that figure was far lower than the reality. WKSU’s M.L. Schultze spoke with the editor of the journal, University of Akron history professor Lesley Gordon, about the new […]

2012 Hubbell Prize Awarded
J. David Hacker has won the John T. Hubbell Prize for the best article published in Civil War History during 2011. His study, “A Census Based Count of the Civil War Dead,” Civil War History (December 2011), was selected by the journal’s editorial advisory board. The prize earns the recipient a $1,000 […]

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