A fitting tribute to Mike Pride, his book No Place for a Woman: Harriet Dame’s Civil War, is the recipient of the first NHPBS Literary Excellence Award!
“As he always does, Mike Pride gives us a living, breathing history. This is our Civil War from the inside out, carefully and artfully moving between the particular story of a heroic nurse […]
Don’t miss this excellent review of Inkling, Historian, Soldier, and Brother: A Life of Warren Hamilton Lewis by Don W. King from Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature.
“Here is a valuable book on an unexpectedly neglected figure in C.S. Lewis and Inklings studies”—Mythlore, Vol. 42, No. 1
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Don’t miss this excellent review of The Lion’s Country: C.S. Lewis’s Theory of the Real by Charlie W. Starr Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature.
“Starr’s C.S. Lewis’s Theory of the Real opens the door for new and exciting avenues for Lewis studies, such as inquiry into Lewis’s influences […]
Emerging Civil War reviews No Place for a Woman: Harriet Dame’s Civil War by Mike Pride.
“No Place for a Woman: Harriet Dame’s Civil War is a welcome addition to the body of scholarship on Civil War-era women. It… tells a fascinating and important story about a truly heroic woman…”—Emerging Civil War
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The Civil War Monitor brings us this informative review of Through Blood and Fire: The Civil War Letters of Major Charles J. Mills, 1862-1865 edited by J. Gregory Acken.
“Students of the Civil War can indeed be glad that Major Mills was able to do his duty and record his experiences and opinions. Through Blood and Fire is […]
Thomas P. Hillman joins The Prancing Pony Podcast to speak on his upcoming book Pity, Power, and Tolkien’s Ring: To Rule the Fate of Many.
“Some of Aragorn’s followers are told how they might “keep what honor you may”; The Nerd of the Rings returns to the Common Room to keep what honor HE may. Join […]
Congratulations to “Sister Tongue زبان خواهر” author Farnaz Fatemi. She has been named a 2023 Poet Laureate Fellow by the Academy of American Poets.
The Academy of American Poets announced today that it is awarding $50,000 each to its 2023 Poet Laureate Fellows for a combined total of $1.1 million. These twenty-three individuals serve as poets laureate of […]
Don’t miss this in-depth review of Letters to Lizzie: The Story of Sixteen Men in the Civil War and the One Woman Who Connected Them All by James M. Scythes.
“The impressive editorial work by Professor Scythes not only makes Letters to Lizzie well worth reading and adding to any Civil War enthusiast’s library, this book […]
Four KSUP authors have been recognized for 2022 Foreword INDIES Awards.
Bronze winners: Peatlands of Ohio by Guy Denny & Gary Meszaros, (Nature category) and No Place for a Woman by Mike Pride, (Biography category).
Honorable Mentions: Sister Tongue by Farnaz Fatemi, (Poetry category) and Cleveland’s Cultural Gardens by John Grabowski & Lauren Pacini, (Regional […]
WSYR-TV’s Bridge Street interviews Sarah Tracy Burrows, author of Yours Affectionately, Osgood: Colonel Osgood Vose Tracy’s Letters Home from the Civil War, 1862–1865.
