OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS
Fall/Winter 2026
NEW TRADE
Ohio’s First Ladies
From the Midwest to the White House
Katherine Jellison, ed.
This engaging collection of essays explores the lives and legacies of six Ohio-born First Ladies:
Lucy Webb Hayes, Lucretia Rudolph Garfield, Caroline Scott Harrison, Ida Saxton McKinley, Helen Herron Taft, and Florence Kling Harding. With contributions by leading scholars, the volume moves beyond traditional biography to examine how each woman’s Ohio roots shaped her public role and influenced her husband’s political career at both state and national levels. thinking about ohio
november 2026
5½ × 8½ in. | 192 pp. | 14 b&w illus.
paper $24.95 t isbn 9780821427187
cloth $60.00 t isbn 9780821427170
Going Across the Water
New and Selected Poems of Harry Humes
Daniel Donaghy with Michael Garrigan, eds.
Harry Humes carved out a unique place in American literature by chronicling Appalachian working-class life, natural landscapes, and disappearing rural traditions in Appalachian Pennsylvania with rare lyricism, humility, and precision. This volume not only preserves the work of a significant American poet, offering scholars, teachers, and general readers a generous overview of the clarity, beauty, craft, and emotional depth of his substantial body of work. It allows future generations to rediscover poetry that deepens our understanding of how our labor, our landscapes, and our love shape us and change the ways we live and what we care about.
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Newfound Jim Wayne Miller
First published in 1989, this Gnomon Press edition was released in 1996
In Newfound, Jim Wayne Miller offers a lyrical, plain-spoken coming-of-age story set in Appalachian Tennessee. In episodic vignettes, young Robert navigates his parents’ divorce, life on his grandparents’ farms, and seasonal rhythms. By age seventeen he leaves Newfound Creek for Berea College, shaped by family lore and hard-won lessons.
august 2026
5½ × 8½ in. | 224 pp. paper $21.95 t isbn 9780917788598
His First, Best Country
Jim Wayne Miller
Published in 1993 by Gnomon Press
In His First, Best Country, the sequel to Newfound, Jim Wayne Miller delivers an unforgettable Appalachian novel. His lyrical prose captures the pull of home as he explores our ties to land, neighbors, and self, exploring what’s most painful and sustaining about belonging.
august 2026
5½ × 8½ in. | 224 pp. paper $21.95 t isbn 9780917788550
november 2026
6 × 9 in. | 320 pp.
paper
$24.95 t isbn 9780804012676
cloth $49.95 s isbn 9780804012669
The Last of ‘The Waltz Across Texas’ and Other Stories
Jo Carson
Published in 1993 by Gnomon Press
The Last of ‘The Waltz Across Texas’ and Other Stories marks Jo Carson’s debut fiction collection. Across its pages, her keen imagination and sharp humor bring to life well-drawn characters navigating family, friends, and community.
august 2026
5½ × 8½ in. | 160 pp. paper $21.95 t isbn 9780917788536
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Marco Wyss
This groundbreaking biography of Félix HouphouëtBoigny—the first in English—explores the life of Côte d’Ivoire’s long-serving leader and his pivotal role in Africa’s decolonization. It illuminates the neocolonial collusion of Françafrique and offers fresh insight into postcolonial governance and international relations.
Activating Emancipation
Race, Slavery, and Islamic Respectability Among the Ḥrāṭīn in Colonial Mauritania
Khaled Esseissah
Activating Emancipation redefines Mauritania’s abolition story by centering Ḥrāṭīn voices. Drawing on rare oral and written sources, Khaled Esseissah reveals how Ḥrāṭīn communities asserted freedom and reshaped power through strategies of resistance, religion, and agency from colonial times onward.
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Walter Sisulu
A Sense of Outrage
Tom Lodge with Roger Southall
This biography presents Walter Sisulu as a central architect of South Africa’s anti-apartheid movement. It examines his strategic leadership in the ANC’s mass mobilization, his role in armed struggle, and his influence from the Rivonia trial to post-1989 reorganization, offering a vital historiographical corrective.
Marginalizing Colonialism
The Politics of Urban Growth in Bolgatanga
Domenico Cristofaro
Marginalizing Colonialism uncovers how Bolgatanga, a northern Ghanaian town, transformed from a dispersed settlement into a regional hub between the 1890s and 1940s—not through colonial planning but instead through African agency, land negotiations, and trade networks that redefined power and space.
new african histories
september
6 × 9 in. 276 pp.
4 b&w illus.
paper $39.95 s isbn 9780821427071
cloth $120.00 s isbn 9780821427064
Histories of Global Health in Africa
Melissa Graboyes and Jennifer Tappan
Histories of Global Health in Africa introduces readers to the history of health-related interventions in Africa over the past century. The highly accessible book argues that only by beginning to acknowledge these histories can the field chart a new path for the future.
Includes an online teaching guide.
Pan-African Resonance
Music, Migration, and Everyday Practice in London and Accra
Alison Okuda
Pan-African Resonance traces how Ghanaian and Caribbean migrants forged solidarity through music in London and Accra from the independence era to the 1970s. Drawing on recordings, oral histories, and archives, it shows how highlife, calypso, and reggae sustained everyday Pan-Africanism across generations
No Ordinary Letter
A Gendered History of Rural Violence and Shame in Apartheid South Africa
Jill E. Kelly
No Ordinary Letter shows how rural women in 1959
Natal confronted the expansion of apartheid by crafting knowledge, shame tactics, and contextspecific uses of violence. It shows how male-led nationalism first sidelined but then later embraced their strategies, reframing feminist and intellectual histories of apartheid resistance.
january 2027
5½ × 8½ in. 364 pp.
paper $39.95 s isbn 9780896803558
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Regulating Religious Coexistence
The Intricacies of Interfaith Cooperation in Coastal Kenya
Erik Meinema
Regulating Religious Coexistence explores how Muslims, Christians, and practitioners of indigenous African religions negotiate coexistence in coastal Kenya. It analyzes political secularism, interfaith initiatives, religious competition, and pluralistic practices, showing how historical governance and global connections shape diverse models of religious interaction.
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Resourceful Kingdoms
Customary Institutions, Contested Ownership, and Development in Africa
Shingirai L. Taodzera
A study of how Uganda’s Bunyoro Kingdom was sidelined in the struggle for oil ownership, Resourceful Kingdoms explores environmental and social impacts, compares successful indigenous resource models, and introduces strategic coexistence as a path to community-led resource governance.
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