A newsletter for friends of RAGS

A newsletter for friends of RAGS

Division of Research, Graduate Studies and Technology Transfer

A MESSAGE FROM UNIVERSITY PRESS DIRECTOR WILL UNDERWOOD

The Kent State University Press advances knowledge through publishing. Each year the Press publishes 30 new titles and a quarterly journal, Civil War History.  University Press publications are reviewed in academic journals and publicized by media such as Cleveland‘s Plain Dealer, the New York Times, National Public Radio, PBS and the History Channel. University Press publications spread the good name and educational mission of KentStateUniversity to readers and scholars in Ohio, across the country and throughout the world. Visit the Press online at www.kentstateuniversitypress.com.

Recent University Press highlights include:

·        * Rix Mills Remembered: An Appalachian Boyhood by folk artist Paul Patton was the winner in the About Ohio category of the Ohioana Book Awards and was honored with the Special Book Award for Young Readers by the Colonial Dames of America

·        * John L. O’Sullivan and His Times by Robert Sampson won the top prize from the Biographical Committee of the Society of Midland Authors.

·       *  Celebrated novelist Tony Hillerman wrote the narrative that accompanies a remarkable collection of World War II photographs published in Kilroy Was There: A GI’s War in Photos. At the book’s launch in June Mr. Hillerman spoke on the Kent Campus, signed books at retail outlets in Northeast Ohio and was interviewed on Cleveland’s WCPN 90.3 FM.  The book is receiving national attention, and sales are brisk.

On Oct. 6, 2004 the Press co-hosted "True Crime," a special program on the Kent Campus featuring Press authors Albert Borowitz, author of Blood & Ink: An International Guide to Fact-Based Crime Literature; Jonathan Goodman, author of The Passing of Starr Faithfull; James Badal, author of In the Wake of the Butcher: Cleveland's Torso Murders; and Cuyahoga County prosecutor Bill Mason, coauthor of Dr. Sam Sheppard on Trial: The Prosecutors and the Marilyn Sheppard Murder. A booksigning and reception followed.  Watch for future events.