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April 1, 2025 (March 18, 2025)

Free E-book Giveaway: SHADOW TRACES

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April’s free e-book is here! Check out Shadow Traces: Seeing Japanese/American and Ainu Women in Photographic Archives by Elena Tajima Creef before the month is over! Images of Japanese and […]

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February 13, 2025 (February 5, 2025)

Q&A with the author of CHRISTIAN AMERICAN AND THE KINGDOM OF GOD

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Christina Littlefield, coauthor of Christian America and the Kingdom of God: White Christian Nationalism from the Puritans through January 6, 2021, answers questions about her new book. Q: Why did […]

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February 6, 2025 (February 5, 2025)

Q&A with the author of RECLAIMING MODERNITY

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Larry Bennett, editor of Reclaiming Modernity: Essays on a Paradoxical Nostalgia, answers questions about his new book. Q: Why did you decide to write this book? As I indicate in […]

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October 1, 2024 (September 19, 2024)

Free E-book Giveaway: MANIFEST TECHNIQUE

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October’s free e-book is here! Check out Manifest Technique: Hip Hop, Empire, and Visionary Filipino American Culture by Mark R. Villegas before the month is over!  Filipino Americans have been […]

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August 1, 2024 (July 17, 2024)

Free E-book Giveaway: BUY BLACK

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August’s free e-book is here! Check out Buy Black: How Black Women Transformed US Pop Culture by Aria S. Halliday before the month is over!  Buy Black examines the role American […]

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June 19, 2024 (June 10, 2024)

Q&A with the author of WAIKIKI DREAMS

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Patrick Moser, the author of Waikiki Dreams: How California Appropriated Hawaiian Beach Culture, answers questions on his new book. Q: Why did you decide to write this book?   I wanted […]

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May 1, 2024 (April 15, 2024)

Free E-book Giveaway: BUILDING SUSTAINABLE WORLDS

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May’s free e-book is here! Check out Building Sustainable Worlds: Latinx Placemaking in the Midwest edited by Theresa Delgadillo, Ramon H. Rivera-Servera, Geraldo L. Cadava, and Claire F. Fox before […]

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January 1, 2024 (November 28, 2023)

Free E-book Giveaway: DRESSED FOR FREEDOM

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January’s free e-book is here! Check out Dressed for Freedom: The Fashionable Politics of American Feminism by Einav Rabinovitch-Fox before the month is over!  Often condemned as a form of […]

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August 15, 2023 (August 22, 2023)

Q&A with Shreerekha Pillai, editor of CARCERAL LIBERALISM

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Shreerekha Pillai, editor of Carceral Liberalism: Feminist Voices against State Violence, answers questions on her new book. Q: Why did you decide to write this book?   This is a case […]

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July 1, 2023 (June 30, 2023)

Free E-book Giveaway: A HISTORY OF THE OZARKS, VOLUME 1

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July’s free e-book is here! Check out A History of the Ozarks, Volume 1: The Old Ozarks by Brooks Blevins before the month is over!  Geologic forces raised the Ozarks. […]

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February 1, 2023 (January 24, 2023)

Free E-book Giveaway: AFRO-NOSTALGIA

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February’s free e-book is here! Check out Afro-Nostalgia: Feeling Good in Contemporary Black Culture by Badia Aha-Legardy before the month is over!  As early as the eighteenth century, white Americans […]

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October 27, 2022 (October 14, 2022)

Q&A with the authors of MARIANNE MEETS THE MORMONS

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Heather Belnap, Corry Cropper, and Daryl Lee, authors of Marianne Meets the Mormons: Representations of Mormonism in Nineteenth-Century France, answers questions on their scholarly influences, discoveries, and reader takeaways from […]

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