🆕🎧: Publishing leaders look back at decades of transformation and tenacity in the industry. A conversation for the occasion of director Doug Armato's retirement, with Lisa Bayer, Greg Britton, Jennifer Crewe, Dean Smith, and moderator Bill Germano. share.transistor.fm/s/5c6c6e92

Videos from the Lost Region Conference on Midwestern studies are now live! Watch the opening conference panel exploring critical challenges facing Midwestern studies m.youtube.com/watch?v=xLWv... @midwesternhistory.bsky.social @mpsa.bsky.social @historians.org @oah.org @middlewestpress.bsky.social

One last reviews roundup for 2025—including attention for books by @jlauck1941.bsky.social, @newsguy.bsky.social, and more. Congrats to all our authors, and thanks to our many readers!

Big news: @rustbeltlab.bsky.social has launched “Rust Belt Studies"! We're proud to see KSUP represented in the inaugural issue, which has @jlauck1941.bsky.social's essay from “Where East Meets (Mid)West,” plus a review of Deborah Fleming’s “Ghosts of an Old Forest.” www.rustbeltstudies.org/journal

As the year winds down, a note of thanks to some of the review outlets, literary organizations, and other partners who’ve helped celebrate Kent State University Press’s books and authors in 2025. We’re excited for even bigger things in 2026!

New Episode! Check out the newest installment of Heartland History as we visit with Daniel J. Clark about his new work "Listening to Workers: Oral Histories of Metro Detroit Autoworkers in the 1950s."

CFP uimiddle.wordpress.com/2025/11/20/c... @midwesternhistory.bsky.social @historians.org @oah.org @mpsa.bsky.social @minnpost.bsky.social

CfP extended for "THE MODERN MIDWEST, 1989-2025" series at the Middle West Review. Please see the link for more details.

It's time to recover the lost region. Join us November 15th in Sioux Falls for a historic gathering of scholars committed to revitalizing Midwestern studies. Register now—seats are limited! 🔗 uimiddle.wordpress.com/lost-region-... #MidwesternStudies #RegionalScholarship #Academia #Midwest

New Episode! We mark the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald with authors Thomas M. Nelson and Jerald Podair, whose new book "Wrecked: The Edmund Fitzgerald and the Sinking of the American Economy" was recently released by Michigan State University Press. (1/4)

November 15 uimiddle.wordpress.com/lost-region-... @midwesternhistory.bsky.social @anneofthemidwest.bsky.social @oah.org

Check out the latest episode of @heartlandhistory.bsky.social hosted by Kevin Mason and @joshkluever.bsky.social. Their guests are Tom Nelson and Jerald Podair as they explore their wonderful new book “Wrecked: The Edmund Fitzgerald and the Sinking of the American Economy”

Out Now! "Between Loving and Leaving: Essays on the New Midwestern History" edited by Jon K. Lauck. www.oupress.com/978080619602...

New Episode! Step into the forest with author David Hankensen and discover the remarkable life of Helen Hoover. (1/5)

New Book Release: "Between Loving and Leaving: Essays on the New Midwestern History" edited by Jon K. Lauck was published by the University of Oklahoma Press on September 30. www.oupress.com/978080619602...

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

Poster I made for the Great Midwest Crane Fest!

This is going to be so beautiful! And not just because I have an essay in it!

Spotted @oah.org at the Oxford University Press booth #OAH25

ANNOUNCEMENT: Lost Region Recovery Project Conference Nov 15, 2025 | Sioux Falls, SD 🎯 Reviving Midwestern Studies scholarship 💰 $40 | Register: email [email protected] by Oct 10 📹 #MidwesternStudies #AcademicConference #SiouxFalls uimiddle.wordpress.com/lost-region-...

My painting WISCONSIN FARM

On this day in 1935, Ernie Pyle set out with his wife Jerry to tour the country and report on what he found as the “Hoosier Vagabond” columnist. rayboomhower.blogspot.com/2019/08/the-...

Thanks @publisherswkly.bsky.social for the birthday wishes! 💯 www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

I'm thrilled that my first book review--of John Nelson's Muddy Ground--has been published in the Middle West Review! muse.jhu.edu/issue/54929

"I Was Surprised by the Good Nature of the Students." Free article on student anti-war protests, available now from the latest issue of Middle West Review: bit.ly/46gLfS4

Woken by Sirens would be a good name for a Midwestern band.

Grateful to Cleveland Magazine (@clevelandmag.bsky.social) for including KSU Press in this writeup of book publishing in Northeast Ohio—and pleased to see more attention for “Light Enters the Grove”!

In the mail: the very large new issue of Middle West Review. My piece on William H. Gass is on page 601.

The Spring 2025 Middle West Review is here! The only journal dedicated exclusively to Midwest studies - exploring America's heartland through politics, history, culture, and identity. 📖 Available now through Project MUSE - lnkd.in/eTZpdckW #MiddleWestReview #MidwestStudies

Welcome to the world, Great Lakes in 50 Maps!!! 🌊https://www.arcadiapublishing.com/collections/50-maps/products/9781540270009 @alexbhill.bsky.social

Thank you for @coryhaala.bsky.social for organizing such an important panel about the archival lifeblood that makes out research possible

Thanks to SHSI for hosting @midwesternhistory.bsky.social! Shout-out to the great scholars at #MHA2025, esp. Pam Riney-Kehrberg's fantastic plenary on the still-visible Farm Crisis + prize winners like Erik McDuffie (best book) and @twincitiespbs.bsky.social (Broadcast Wars). Fantastic conference.

Stopped in Peoria on my way home to pay my respects at the Dan Fogelberg memorial. Thanks to @jlauck1941.bsky.social for his engagement to write about his career for the @middlewestreview.bsky.social a few years ago.

Be sure to visit our booth at the 11th Annual Midwestern History Association Conference in Des Moines, Iowa, May 15-16! #MHA2025 @midwesternhistory.bsky.social

Of potential interest to #MHA2025 attendees! Order here: www.kentstateuniversitypress.com/2024/where-e...

#MHA2025 starts today! Looking forward to great first day of panels. Keep an eye out for updates on panels and our awards announcements later this evening.

First day of the Midwestern History Association annual meeting! Visit our virtual exhibit and take 50% off all regional books with code MIDWEST25 at checkout! www.press.uillinois.edu/wordpress/mi... #MHA2025 #Midwest

Impending release of the Oxford Handbook of Midwestern History. It’s been a labor of love for almost a decade with many contributors. @jlauck1941.bsky.social @jeffwells.bsky.social

"Cartographer Hill delivers a diverting compendium of 50 different views of the 'vast inland freshwater seas' along the border between the U.S. and Canada... Readers will be able to while away the hours with this one." -PW beltpublishing.com/products/gre... @alexbhill.bsky.social

Midwest skyscraper. Oxford, KS. #kansasphotography #midwestphotography #landscapephotography #photography

Another big month for KSUP authors, including @newsguy.bsky.social, @jlauck1941.bsky.social, and more. Join us in celebrating their April successes.

Spotted @oah.org at the Oxford University Press booth #OAH25

Stop by the @univnebpress.bsky.social booth at #OAH25 to check out our new books and series! @oah.org

Thanks to everyone who’s stopped by our exhibit at today’s Rust Belt Humanities Symposium at Ursuline College—featuring books by @jlauck1941.bsky.social and more. And thanks too to the organizers at @rustbeltlab.bsky.social!

Love seeing people take photographs of @jlauck1941.bsky.social and Gleaves Whitney's new collection "Where East Meets (Mid)West." Tag us if you're moved to share images of your own!

Happy pub day to @jlauck1941.bsky.social and Gleaves Whitney, whose book "Where East Meets (Mid)West" is now available. Congrats to the editors, and to all the contributors—including @marystockwell.bsky.social, @gswphd.bsky.social, @drdonnad.bsky.social, and @awyle.bsky.social.

Lá Fhéile Pádraig sona duit. Happy St. Patrick's Day. #stpatricksday

New book @ksupress.bsky.social fyi @midwesternhistory.bsky.social

The academic journal OHIO HISTORY has ceased publication. It began in 1887. @midwesternhistory.bsky.social

"There is nothing simple about small-town life." @rsdeeren.bsky.social talks with @johncounts138.bsky.social about his debut collection "Bear County, Michigan" @nupress.bsky.social