The Appalachian Literary Arts & Storytelling Festival is interested in the variety of ways that Appalachians tell authentic stories. Yes, the oral storytelling tradition, but also authors, poets, musi...

A Kentucky farmer, he railed against agribusiness and championed small family farms and the environment, winning widespread acclaim.

Jack Marchbanks, historian, lecturer, and host of Jazz Sunday, visits the Bexley Library to celebrate the release of his book Art and Activism: Jazz Artists and Writers in the Civil Rights Vanguard. ....

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(On June 16, 1976, the youth of Soweto, Johannesburg’s massive Black township, rose up to protest a new rule making Afrikaans the language of instruction in their schools—a language that most did n…

With the impending 50th anniversary of the Soweto Uprising, South Africa’s biggest rebellion against apartheid, it is important to remember who the...

Michelle Howry has been named editorial director of the division’s Little, Brown Spark imprint, while Mulholland’s Joshua Kendall and Algonquin’s Nadxieli Nieto have left the company.

Judith Resnik didn’t grow up dreaming of space, but when NASA opened its doors to women astronauts in the late 1970s, she stepped forward—and soared. One...

Niki Stavrou, the founder and CEO of the Nikos Kazantzakis Estate, owner of the Kazantzakis Heritage Collection, oversees the global… Continue reading Niki Stavrou on Translating Two Classic Kazantzak...

Cincinnati-based photographer Thomas Schiff’s new book contains over 100 panoramic views of our nation’s most beautiful civic buildings.

Ohio University Press proudly announces that several of its recent publications have received prestigious awards from leading scholarly organizations.

Once again this year, Ohio University Press will offer the OHIO community a 40% discount off of its books, in all formats.

A little over two decades ago, Zimbabwe undertook its Fast Track Land Reform Programme. Critics saw it as nothing more than an assault on human and property ...

In the past few decades, Western studies of Afrofuturism have grown to encompass examples deriving from multiple sites across the diaspora, as well as from t...