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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The Kent State University Press is pleased to announce the appointment of Mark Cirino as the General Editor for its Reading Hemingway series. This prestigious series provides annotations and commentaries on Ernest Hemingway’s major works, including contextual information and interpretive guidance for a wide variety of readers. Two volumes have already been published in the […]

A delightful interview with KSUP author Dan Weimer about his new book.
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Sliding into the lucky thirteenth installment of the Points Interview is Dan Weimer, author of Seeing Drugs: Modernization, Counterinsurgency, and U.S. Narcotics Control in the Third World, 1969–1976 (Kent State University Press, 2011).  Dan is on the faculty of Wheeling Jesuit University–you […]

KSU Press author James G. Hollock talks with Bill O’Driscoll of the Pittsburgh City Paper about his new book, “Born to Lose: Stanley B. Hoss and the Crime Spree That Gripped a Nation.”
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Mark Dawidziak, coauthor of “Jim Tully: American Writer, Irish Rover, Hollywood Brawler” talks with Doug Dangler at the Ohioana Book Festival.

A German Hurrah!: Civil War Letters of Friedrich Bertsch and Wilhelm Stängel, 9th Ohio Infantry, edited and translated by Joseph R. Reinhart was named as runner-up for the Founders Award in the 41st Annual Book Awards presented by the Museum of the Confederacy. The book award competition, honors scholarship on the origins, life, and legacy […]