The Siege of Petersburg Online takes a deep dive into Through Blood and Fire: The Civil War Letters of Major Charles J. Mills, 1862-1865 edited by J. Gregory Acken.
“Taken as a whole, Through Blood and Fire is a worthy successor to Greg Coco’s rare original and should be on the shelves of anyone interested in […]
The Akron Beacon Journal calls Fifth Star: Ohio’s Fight for Women’s Right to Vote a “stirring and necessary book.”
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KSUP Author Mike Pride discussed Harriet Dame, a matron who served as a nurse at the front of the Union Army for the duration of the Civil War. Hosted by the New Hampshire Historical Society on C-Span.
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Great news! Four recent KSUP titles have been announced as 2022 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year finalists.
Mike Pride, No Place for a Woman: Harriet Dame’s Civil War – Biography Category
Farnaz Fatemi, Sister Tongue زبان خواهر – Poetry Category
John Grabowski & Lauren Pacini, Cleveland’s Cultural Gardens: A Landscape of Diversity – Regional […]
“The Lion’s Country: C. S. Lewis’s Theory of the Real by Charlie W. Starr is reviewed by Christianity Today.
“In his fiction, Starr argues, ‘Lewis imagines the possibility of vertical, horizontal, and even interior realities, a multiverse of being that is even more than merely hierarchical. Like a cube, it may have vertical realities, horizontal realities, and […]
KentWired interviews author/editor Tameka Ellington about her upcoming book, Black Hair in a White World, and the challenges of black hair.
“You get a negative message about our natural texture and the fact that it needs to be straightened,” said Taura Taylor, an assistant professor at Morehouse [and contributor to the book]. “But once it’s straightened, […]
Strand Magazine reviews four of our most recent true crime titles.
“Kent State University Press has been publishing some of the most interesting historical true-crime stories in recent years. Some of these cases dominated the headlines nationwide; others were simply nine-day wonders in small towns and rapidly faded into obscurity. The publisher’s True Crime History series […]
Elizabeth De Wolf, author of The Murder of Mary Bean and Other Stories, speaks to Bangor Daily News about this 19th-century tale of abortion and murder.
“’This is a story about women in the workforce, and the price of progress and who should even be in the workforce,’ said University of New England professor Elizabeth De Wolfe, […]
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine reviews Queen of the Con: From a Spiritualist to the Carnegie Imposter by Thomas Crowl.
“Crowl offers an eye-opening and often amusing romp through a more innocent time, when trust was easily earned and just as easily abused. Chadwick’s real name was Elizabeth Bigley and she began stealing and defrauding as a […]
Don’t miss Poachers Were My Prey author Chip Gross. He speaks to Bear Grease podcast about undercover wildlife agent RT Stewart of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources who was a lead agent on the largest turkey poaching sting in US history. Pt. 1 of 3.
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