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Old South, New South, or Down South? Florida and the Modern Civil Rights Movement wins the 2010 Harry T. and Harriette V. Moore Award.

The Harry T. and Harriette V. Moore Award recognizes an outstanding book relating to Florida's ethnic groups. Sponsored by the Florida Historical Society, winners of this award have exposed and analyzed a significant social issue from a historical perspective.

Former WVU Press director Dr. Patrick Conner has received WVU's 2010 Heebink Award for Distinguished and Extended State Service. Read more about Dr. Conner's dedication to the Press.

WVU Professor John Ernest, editor of Hearts of Gold by J. McHenry Jones, discusses his role as co-editor of this text and series co-editor of Regenerations: African American Literature and Culture.

Watch this vidcast here.

Regenerations: African American Literature and Culture is a new series devoted to reprinting editions of important African American texts that either have fallen out of print or have failed to receive the attention they deserve. 

Regenerations encourages research that develops and extends the understanding of African American literary and cultural history, while promoting regional and local research that represents the complex dynamics of African American experience.

To promote his new book The Pale Light of Sunset: Scattershots and Hallucinations in an Imagined Life , Lee Maynard is returning to his home state of West Virginia. If you're in the Morgantown or Charleston area from October 9, 2009 - October 13, 2009 check out one of his readings, get an autographed copy of his book, or ask him a question about his writing. See his schedule of events!

Watch former WV congressman Ken Hechler discuss the devastation of Mountaintop Removal in West Virginia and learn more about this environmental destruction in Bringing Down the Mountains: The Impact of Mountaintop Removal on Southern West Virginia Communities.

Because of its literary success and national popularity, Ecco, an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers, recently approached WVU Press in regards to acquiring the rights to The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart by M. Glenn Taylor.

Listen to three well-known West Virginians interpret the poetry of one of our state's poet laureates.

Kate Long, Colleen Anderson' and Debbie Haught, well-known around West Virginia and beyond for their oral interpretation of poetry and drama, have each recorded a poem from Louise McNeill's Paradox Hill to celebrate National Poetry Month. Listen to their interpretations on Vic Burkhammer's MountainWord blog.

Receive 25% off each of these titles during our Spring Cleaning Sale! Click here to learn more about these titles and this award.

For the first time in the history of the West Virginia University Press, one of our titles has earned a spot in the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers collection. For the first time in the history of the West Virginia University Press, one of our titles has earned a spot in the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers collection.