University of Toledo Press

The mission of the University of Toledo Press is to publish professional quality books with relevance to general readers in Toledo, Northwest Ohio, and the Western Lake Erie region. The UT Press will read and consider for publication manuscripts that investigate, highlight, and celebrate the unique identity of our region’s communities, institutions, and individuals. It will consider scholarly and general nonfiction, fiction, photography or poetry manuscripts. It will also consider manuscripts by writers with a biographical connection to the region.

Current Publications

  • 30 Below on Christmas Eve
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    30 Below on Christmas Eve

    Andrew Fisher

    NEW!

    The companion book to "What a Time It Was." Army veteran Andrew Fisher has returned to share the experience of those locals who served in the Korean War.

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  • The Calling
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    The Calling

    Blair Grubb, MD

    Dr. Blair Grubb shares stories that deal with the uniquely intimate relationship between patients and their physicians.More Info >>

  • Arab Americans In Toledo
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    Arab Americans In Toledo

    Samir Abu-Absi

    Toledo’s Arab American experience is a great American story of an ethnic community finding fertile soil, sinking roots and flourishing. This has been the story of ethnic groups whose American experience...More Info >>

  • A Community of Scholars: Recollections of the Early Years of the Medical College of Ohio
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    A Community of Scholars: Recollections of the Early Years of the Medical College of Ohio

  • The Land of the Three Miamis
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    The Land of the Three Miamis

    Barbara Alice Mann

    Land of the Three Miamis is different from Barbara Mann’s long list of previous publications on Native American history and culture in that there are not pages of copious footnotes to back up her assertions and arguments.More Info >>

  • What A Time It Was
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    What A Time It Was

    Andrew Fisher

    OUT OF STOCK

    Army veteran Andrew Fisher has compiled and edited a book based on some of the Veterans’ History Project interviews that are archived in the Ward M. Canaday Center of the University of Toledo’s Carlson Library.

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  • Some Women Howl
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    Some Women Howl

    Star Bowers

    Star Bowers lives in Toledo. Given economic reality, she, like so many poets from the urban, industrial Midwest, has adapted to living on the margins.More Info >>

  • All Cool
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    All Cool

    Nick Muska

    Global traveler and inveterate bohemian hipster, Nick Muska's poems reach across boundaries of content and form to include roughly spoken, joyful poems of place and kinship and cadenced, bluesy songs of work and labor.More Info >>

  • The Essential Big Red
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    The Essential Big Red

    Lynne Walker

    The Essential Big Red: Selected Poems by Lynne Walker (143 pages) is a selection of the work of a Toledo-based writer whose poems chronicle her life from her childhood in the "Dogpatch" area of Sylvania...More Info >>

  • From Institutions to Independence
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    From Institutions to Independence

    Barbara L. Floyd

    Professor Floyd's book is an important contribution to our understanding of the need to include those members of our community who live with disabilities.

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  • The Irish in Toledo
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    The Irish in Toledo

    Seamus Metress and Molly Schiever

    The Irish in Toledo: History and Memoryis the story of the devastation and rebirth of a people and their culture—the bitter destruction of the Irish in their own country...More Info >>

  • Hungarian American Toledo
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    Hungarian American Toledo

    Thomas E. Barden and John Ahern

    In 1892, the National Malleable Castings Company of Cleveland, Ohio, transferred approximately 200 Hungarian workers from its home foundry to a newly built East Toledo site.More Info >>

  • Glass Will: An Anthology of Toledo Writers
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    Glass Will: An Anthology of Toledo Writers

    Joel Lipman

    Since its 1986 publication, GLASS WILL has grown steadily in reputation as a comprehensive anthology of Toledo area poetry during the later decades...More Info >>

  • John Justus at Indian Ridge
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    John Justus at Indian Ridge

    John Justus

    The University of Toledo Urban Affairs Center Press is pleased to announce the release of its first audio media project—a compact disc titled John Justus at Indian Ridge. More Info >>

  • I'll Take You There
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    I'll Take You There

    Matthew A. Donahue

    In this history in words and pictures, Donahue explores one of America's unique African-American Cultural Centers, Hines Farm, located in a rural African-American enclave...More Info >>