Great news! Kent State University Press books have won two 2020 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY).
Congratulations to George R. Dekle Sr. for winning the Silver Award for Six Capsules: The Gilded Age Murder of Helen Potts in the US Northeast Best Regional Non-Fiction category and Jason Prufer who won the Gold Award for Small Town, Big Music: The Outsized […]
In a field of writers eloquent about the pathologies of selfhood and modern life, Deborah Fleming’s Resurrection of the Wild stood apart.
The award show is tonight but this book’s a winner no matter what the outcome.
The Millions interviews Resurrection of the Wild: Meditations on Ohio’s Natural Landscape author and PEN award finalist Deborah Fleming.
“I feel that, more than ever, we need to do what we can to preserve wildlife, from insects to megafauna. Each one has its place […]
EXCITING NEWS!
Deborah Fleming’s stellar book of essays, Resurrection of the Wild: Meditations on Ohio’s Natural Landscape, has been selected as a finalist for the 2020 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay! This year’s judges—Jelani Cobb, Daniel Menaker, and Judith Thurman!
Congratulations to Deborah and all the honorees!!
PRESS RELEASE
FROM: Gettysburg Civil War Roundtable
RE: Annual Distinguished Book Award
The Gettysburg Civil War Roundtable is pleased to announce that its annual award for the best book published on the Gettysburg Campaign in 2018 goes to Robert J. Wynstra for his work At the Forefront of Lee’s Invasion: Retribution, Plunder, and Clashing Cultures on Richard S. […]
Kathleen M. Fernandez, former director of the North Canton Heritage Society, has won the Outstanding Publication Book Award from the Communal Studies Association for Zoar: The Story of an Intentional Community.
Zoar, published by the Kent State University Press, is an informative historical analysis of a group of German religious dissenters who immigrated to Ohio in […]
Congratulations to Georgiann Baldino. Her book A Family and Nation under Fire: The Civil War Letters and Journals of William and Joseph Medill is a 2018 Foreword INDIES finalist in the History (adult non-fiction) category.
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Congratulations to KSU Press author Angela M. Zombek for receiving Honorable Mention in the Civil War Monitor‘s “Best Civil War Books of 2018.”
Honorable Mention: Prisons remain an understudied topic in Civil War studies. In Penitentiaries, Punishments, and Military Prisons: Familiar Responses to an Extraordinary Crisis During the American Civil War (Kent State University Press), Angela M. Zombek compares […]
