Kent State University Press
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October news and reviews
Deadbeats, Dead Balls, and the 1914 Boston Braves gets a positive mention in the New York Post, where it’s called “assiduously researched and smartly written.” It also earns a rav…
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From the New York Post to the Journal of Southern History, KSUP titles continue to help shape conversations around the region and the world. Congrats to all the authors whose books are featured in this month’s stack. Read more at the new roundup of news and reviews.
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Here's the link to the recording of our Q&A on France 24 about President Trump's increasing insults and threats against reporters and the news media: f24.my/BZfj
Scoop - ‘Quiet, piggy!’: Why press-idential decorum matters
A day after referring to a Bloomberg reporter as "piggy", US President Donald Trump unleashed a new round of insults at another female reporter, this time ABC's White House correspondent Mary Bruce.…
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November 21, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Here's the link to the recording of our Q&A on France 24 about President Trump's increasing insults and threats against reporters and the news media: f24.my/BZfj
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Congrats, Danielle! "The Art of Pity" asks us to consider, in a most fundamental sense, why literature matters--something as relevant today as it ever has been (cc @ksupress.bsky.social)
I was honored to be invited to give the annual Dotterer Lecture Series in Literature talk at Salisbury University yesterday. It was great meeting new people and catching up with old friends!
November 21, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Congrats, Danielle! "The Art of Pity" asks us to consider, in a most fundamental sense, why literature matters--something as relevant today as it ever has been (cc @ksupress.bsky.social)
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Ok, this is neat. You can reserve a loan now from the Carnegie Library.
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Beyond Steel — Allegheny County Libraries
Beyond Steel — Briem, Christopher P., — <p> Learning from one Rust Belt city's postindustrial transition </p> <p>While Pittsburgh is sometimes held up as a successful example of urban reinvention ...
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November 16, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Ok, this is neat. You can reserve a loan now from the Carnegie Library.
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Now through 12/31/25, Kent State University Press is having a 60th anniversary sale.
Enter the code KSUP60 at checkout and receive 40% off plus free shipping. They have books on Tolkien, C.S Lewis, and the Inklings. Obviously, my book is there, but there's also FIVE by Verlyn Flieger. #tolkien
Enter the code KSUP60 at checkout and receive 40% off plus free shipping. They have books on Tolkien, C.S Lewis, and the Inklings. Obviously, my book is there, but there's also FIVE by Verlyn Flieger. #tolkien
November 15, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Now through 12/31/25, Kent State University Press is having a 60th anniversary sale.
Enter the code KSUP60 at checkout and receive 40% off plus free shipping. They have books on Tolkien, C.S Lewis, and the Inklings. Obviously, my book is there, but there's also FIVE by Verlyn Flieger. #tolkien
Enter the code KSUP60 at checkout and receive 40% off plus free shipping. They have books on Tolkien, C.S Lewis, and the Inklings. Obviously, my book is there, but there's also FIVE by Verlyn Flieger. #tolkien
We’re wrapping up #UPWeek with the announcement of our big sale—$5 books at our in-person event, and 40% off (plus free shipping) with code KSUP60 on our site. Hope to see you November 19 and 20:
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November 14, 2025 at 12:59 PM
We’re wrapping up #UPWeek with the announcement of our big sale—$5 books at our in-person event, and 40% off (plus free shipping) with code KSUP60 on our site. Hope to see you November 19 and 20:
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University Press Week Starts Today!
Some events and coverage below. @aupresses.bsky.social
Some events and coverage below. @aupresses.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 6:44 PM
University Press Week Starts Today!
Some events and coverage below. @aupresses.bsky.social
Some events and coverage below. @aupresses.bsky.social
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Happy University Press Week! Join us in celebrating how authors, university press publishing professionals & so many others #TeamUP to advance knowledge. Explore this @bookshop.org collection of university press books to find your next thought-provoking read: https://bit.ly/4nhTQcc. #ReadUP
November 10, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Happy University Press Week! Join us in celebrating how authors, university press publishing professionals & so many others #TeamUP to advance knowledge. Explore this @bookshop.org collection of university press books to find your next thought-provoking read: https://bit.ly/4nhTQcc. #ReadUP
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“I want a compass. / I need deliverance. Good god, take me”
— Oliver Baez Bendorf (@oliverbaezbendorf.bsky.social)
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This poem appeared in The Spectral Wilderness by Oliver Baez Bendorf, published by Kent State University Press (@ksupress.bsky.social), 2015. Shared here with deep gratitude.
— Oliver Baez Bendorf (@oliverbaezbendorf.bsky.social)
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This poem appeared in The Spectral Wilderness by Oliver Baez Bendorf, published by Kent State University Press (@ksupress.bsky.social), 2015. Shared here with deep gratitude.
November 10, 2025 at 2:01 PM
“I want a compass. / I need deliverance. Good god, take me”
— Oliver Baez Bendorf (@oliverbaezbendorf.bsky.social)
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This poem appeared in The Spectral Wilderness by Oliver Baez Bendorf, published by Kent State University Press (@ksupress.bsky.social), 2015. Shared here with deep gratitude.
— Oliver Baez Bendorf (@oliverbaezbendorf.bsky.social)
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This poem appeared in The Spectral Wilderness by Oliver Baez Bendorf, published by Kent State University Press (@ksupress.bsky.social), 2015. Shared here with deep gratitude.
Great seeing KSUP author @terryallenbelew.bsky.social (pictured here with @tottencs.bsky.social, David Hassler, and Alison Hawthorne Deming) at last night’s Wick Poetry Center event in Kent! Belew’s book “The Deep Blue of Neptune”—winner of the Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize—is available now.
November 6, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Great seeing KSUP author @terryallenbelew.bsky.social (pictured here with @tottencs.bsky.social, David Hassler, and Alison Hawthorne Deming) at last night’s Wick Poetry Center event in Kent! Belew’s book “The Deep Blue of Neptune”—winner of the Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize—is available now.
Happy pub day to Rebecca Jumper Matheson! Her book “Artisans and Designers: American Fashion Through Elizabeth and William Phelps” is new in our series with the Costume Society of America:
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November 4, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Happy pub day to Rebecca Jumper Matheson! Her book “Artisans and Designers: American Fashion Through Elizabeth and William Phelps” is new in our series with the Costume Society of America:
www.kentstateuniversitypress.com/2025/artisan...
www.kentstateuniversitypress.com/2025/artisan...
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The PDCA First Monday Forum looks at the struggle to save America's voices to the world via USAGM broadcasting (including the Voice of America, RFE/RL and Radio Free Asia). The main speakers are two ex VOA White House bureau chiefs: me & Patsy Widakuswara. publicdiplomacy.org/news_mana... #SaveVOA
November 2, 2025 at 4:31 PM
The PDCA First Monday Forum looks at the struggle to save America's voices to the world via USAGM broadcasting (including the Voice of America, RFE/RL and Radio Free Asia). The main speakers are two ex VOA White House bureau chiefs: me & Patsy Widakuswara. publicdiplomacy.org/news_mana... #SaveVOA
Final days of the sale!
Come find KSUP books—and @tottencs.bsky.social, our director—at the @lityoungstown.bsky.social Fall Literary Festival! If you’re not in Youngstown, you can still save 30% on titles from the exhibit (with free shipping, through 10/31). Use code LYF30 at checkout:
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October 30, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Final days of the sale!
Kent State University Press turns 60 this year, and we’re grateful to our authors and friends who’ve joined in the celebration with praise for our work—including Kathleen M. Fernandez, @newsguy.bsky.social, David Hassler, and Tom Batiuk. More here: www.kentstateuniversitypress.com/about/six-de...
October 28, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Kent State University Press turns 60 this year, and we’re grateful to our authors and friends who’ve joined in the celebration with praise for our work—including Kathleen M. Fernandez, @newsguy.bsky.social, David Hassler, and Tom Batiuk. More here: www.kentstateuniversitypress.com/about/six-de...
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Here's our hour-long discussion examining the current dissent in America. www.youtube.com/live/RmikNRrv...
US dissent: The emerging anti-Trump resistance | DW News Desk
Americans fed up with President Donald Trump's MAGA agenda have little to point to when it comes to political opposition. Republicans hold the majority in Congress and have so far fended off a rudderless Democratic party. From immigration to education to federal funding cuts, Trump has steamrolled through his vision for how the United States should function. But after months of watching the Trump administration bust up institutions and norms, signs of resistance are emerging. So who is taking up the anti-Trump movement? And are fears justified that America's democracy is in danger?
Chapters:
00:00 Intros
05:04 The ‘No Kings’ Protests
06:00 Scale and Meaning of the Protests
11:01 Protest Power, Polarization & Civil Society Networks
27:19 Beyond the Streets: Other Forms of Opposition
43:04 Report Card on America’s Political Opposition
46:09 Poll Breakdown: How Democrats See Themselves
48:23 Searching for Democratic Leadership
55:30 Press Freedom Under Threat in the U.S.
59:06 Behind the White House Curtain & Final Reflections
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October 22, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Here's our hour-long discussion examining the current dissent in America. www.youtube.com/live/RmikNRrv...
From the New York Post to the Journal of Southern History, KSUP titles continue to help shape conversations around the region and the world. Congrats to all the authors whose books are featured in this month’s stack. Read more at the new roundup of news and reviews.
October news and reviews
Deadbeats, Dead Balls, and the 1914 Boston Braves gets a positive mention in the New York Post, where it’s called “assiduously researched and smartly written.” It also earns a rav…
kentstatebooks.wordpress.com
October 22, 2025 at 1:01 PM
From the New York Post to the Journal of Southern History, KSUP titles continue to help shape conversations around the region and the world. Congrats to all the authors whose books are featured in this month’s stack. Read more at the new roundup of news and reviews.
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It's been too long, Bluesky friends. We're back. We received 10,000+ books this week. Feel free to stop in & check em out
October 17, 2025 at 3:50 PM
It's been too long, Bluesky friends. We're back. We received 10,000+ books this week. Feel free to stop in & check em out
Come find KSUP books—and @tottencs.bsky.social, our director—at the @lityoungstown.bsky.social Fall Literary Festival! If you’re not in Youngstown, you can still save 30% on titles from the exhibit (with free shipping, through 10/31). Use code LYF30 at checkout:
www.kentstateuniversitypress.com
www.kentstateuniversitypress.com
October 17, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Come find KSUP books—and @tottencs.bsky.social, our director—at the @lityoungstown.bsky.social Fall Literary Festival! If you’re not in Youngstown, you can still save 30% on titles from the exhibit (with free shipping, through 10/31). Use code LYF30 at checkout:
www.kentstateuniversitypress.com
www.kentstateuniversitypress.com
More good news from the journal “Civil War History,” which is pleased to welcome Matthew Fox-Amato to its staff as book review editor. He joins editor @jimdowns.bsky.social and associate editor Crystal N. Feimster.
Historian Matthew Fox-Amato joins “Civil War History” as book review editor
In support of its role as a field-defining venue for scholarship on the Civil War Era, the journal Civil War History is pleased to welcome Matthew Fox-Amato to its editorial staff as book review ed…
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October 15, 2025 at 11:37 AM
More good news from the journal “Civil War History,” which is pleased to welcome Matthew Fox-Amato to its staff as book review editor. He joins editor @jimdowns.bsky.social and associate editor Crystal N. Feimster.
Thrilled that “Oil Courses” by Carolyn Williams-Noren has been selected as the winner of the Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize! We’ll publish Carolyn’s book next fall with our partners at the Wick Poetry Center.
October 10, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Thrilled that “Oil Courses” by Carolyn Williams-Noren has been selected as the winner of the Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize! We’ll publish Carolyn’s book next fall with our partners at the Wick Poetry Center.
With the Browns and Steelers facing off this Sunday, it seems like a good time to ponder the relationship between Cleveland and Pittsburgh. @chrisbriem.bsky.social, author of our upcoming book “Beyond Steel,” argues it’s worth approaching the cities not as rivals but as Rust Belt partners.
Cleveburgh: Christopher Briem’s tale of two Rust Belt cities
Why’s an Ohio-based publisher like Kent State excited for Christopher Briem’s upcoming’s study of Pittsburgh, Beyond Steel? For one thing, we’re invested in relationships be…
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October 6, 2025 at 11:02 PM
With the Browns and Steelers facing off this Sunday, it seems like a good time to ponder the relationship between Cleveland and Pittsburgh. @chrisbriem.bsky.social, author of our upcoming book “Beyond Steel,” argues it’s worth approaching the cities not as rivals but as Rust Belt partners.
Big news! Marcy S. Sacks has received the John T. Hubbell Prize for her article “‘I Shall Forward to You My Contraband’: Tracing Coerced Wartime Black Movement North through an Incomplete Archive." KSUP annually presents the award for the best article published in the journal "Civil War History."
Marcy S. Sacks awarded the 2025 John T. Hubbell Prize
Marcy S. Sacks, Julian S. Rammelkamp Professor of History at Albion College, has been honored with the 2025 John T. Hubbell Prize for her article “‘I Shall Forward to You My Contraband’: Tracing Co…
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October 2, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Big news! Marcy S. Sacks has received the John T. Hubbell Prize for her article “‘I Shall Forward to You My Contraband’: Tracing Coerced Wartime Black Movement North through an Incomplete Archive." KSUP annually presents the award for the best article published in the journal "Civil War History."
New month, new chances to see KSUP authors! Our calendar’s been updated with festivals including @lityoungstown.bsky.social and the Buckeye Book Fair, plus appearances by Mary Noé, Charles Malone, Rebecca Jumper Matheson, and more:
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October 1, 2025 at 1:01 PM
New month, new chances to see KSUP authors! Our calendar’s been updated with festivals including @lityoungstown.bsky.social and the Buckeye Book Fair, plus appearances by Mary Noé, Charles Malone, Rebecca Jumper Matheson, and more:
kentstatebooks.wordpress.com/2024/07/20/b...
kentstatebooks.wordpress.com/2024/07/20/b...
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Introducing the new MNG Bookshop! Our new site houses an extensive collection of academic, professional, and society publications in one space. We have tailored our bookshop to meet the needs of our audience, incorporating features that matter most.
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Introducing the MNG Bookshop!
We're thrilled to announce the official launch of our new online bookshop at https://mngbookshop.co.
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September 29, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Introducing the new MNG Bookshop! Our new site houses an extensive collection of academic, professional, and society publications in one space. We have tailored our bookshop to meet the needs of our audience, incorporating features that matter most.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/introd...
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It was so lovely to chat with @llassabe.bsky.social! University presses are creative, resilient, mission-driven, and just one of my favorite things to talk about.
Excited to hear Kent State University Press’s director, @tottencs.bsky.social, on the American Campus Podcast, where she talks with @llassabe.bsky.social about the meaning and value of university-press publishing.
The future of university presses with Clara Totten - American Campus Podcast
And how to approach an acquisitions editorReferences:Association of University Presses and #AskUpSteven L. Herman. 2024. Behind the White House Curtain. Kent State University Press.Madeleine L'Engle. ...
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September 24, 2025 at 3:07 PM
It was so lovely to chat with @llassabe.bsky.social! University presses are creative, resilient, mission-driven, and just one of my favorite things to talk about.
Excited to hear Kent State University Press’s director, @tottencs.bsky.social, on the American Campus Podcast, where she talks with @llassabe.bsky.social about the meaning and value of university-press publishing.
The future of university presses with Clara Totten - American Campus Podcast
And how to approach an acquisitions editorReferences:Association of University Presses and #AskUpSteven L. Herman. 2024. Behind the White House Curtain. Kent State University Press.Madeleine L'Engle. ...
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September 24, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Excited to hear Kent State University Press’s director, @tottencs.bsky.social, on the American Campus Podcast, where she talks with @llassabe.bsky.social about the meaning and value of university-press publishing.