The Kent State University Press

10/28/2025

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. Read more here:

https://www.kentstateuniversitypress.com/about/six-decades-of-publishing-what-matters/

10/22/2025

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.

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…

10/17/2025

Come find KSUP books at the Lit Youngstown Fall Literary Festival!

If you’re not in Youngstown, you can still save 30% on titles from the exhibit. Just use discount code LYF30 at checkout on the KSUP site:

https://www.kentstateuniversitypress.com

Our sale includes free shipping and is good through October 31.

Titles included in the sale are:

Capuzza, The Fifth Star
Fleming, Ghosts of an Old Forest
Fleming, Resurrection of the Wild
Lauck, Where East Meets (Mid)West
Livingston, The Promise of LeBron James
Malone, et al., Light Enters the Grove
Belew, The Deep Blue of Neptune (displayed at the Wick table)
Dekeersgieter, O***m and Ambergris (displayed at the Wick table)
Terrell, The Madness of John Terrell
Nite, The House That Rock Built
Ruffner, Moments of Truth
Vacha, Playhouse Square and the Cleveland Renaissance

Big thanks to everyone involved with the festival!

10/15/2025

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…

10/06/2025

With the Browns and Steelers facing off this Sunday, it seems like a good time to ponder the relationship between Cleveland and Pittsburgh. Christopher Briem, author of our upcoming book “Beyond Steel,” argues it’s worth approaching the cities not as rivals but as Rust Belt partners. His essay on “Cleveburgh” is linked here.

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…

10/03/2025

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…

09/28/2025

09/24/2025

Excited to hear Kent State University Press’s director, Clara Totten, on the American Campus Podcast, where she talks with Lauren Lassabe Shepherd about the meaning and value of university-press publishing.

Get more from American Campus Podcast on Patreon

09/21/2025

The baseball season may be winding down, but “Deadbeats, Dead Balls, and the 1914 Boston Braves” is still going strong. Congrats to Martin Bush, whose book is praised as “assiduously researched and smartly written” in the New York Post!

https://nypost.com/2025/09/20/sports/kyler-murrays-pit-bill-picture-latest-example-of-nfls-indecent-garbage/

09/21/2025