Daniel Beaver, author of Modernizing the American War Department, 1885–1920 (The Kent State University Press 2006) passed away on July 19, 2013. He was 84.
Click here to read his Cincinnati Enquirer obituary.
The new Jim Tully documentary, “From Road Kid to Writer,” will premiere in Tully’s hometown of St. Marys, Ohio, on Monday, July 22, 2013.
Watch a clip by clicking here.
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Born to Lose was featured in the Business section of the New York Times on July 5, 2013.
Born to Lose was also featured in a Times article about the influence of Amazon.com in the book industry.
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.
