Category Archives: open access

November 25, 2020

Photographic Presidents by Cara Finnegan Given NEH Open Book Award

Posted by Heather Gernenz
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We’re pleased to announce that Cara A. Finnegan’s forthcoming book, Photographic Presidents: Making History from Daguerreotype to Digital, has been given a National Endowment for the Humanities Open Book Award, a special initiative for scholarly presses to make recent monographs … Continue reading →

July 15, 2020

Marian Wilson Kimber Awarded Sight and Sound Subvention Award

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in american history, art, awards, dance, gender studies, music, open access, poetry, women | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off on Marian Wilson Kimber Awarded Sight and Sound Subvention Award

Marian Wilson Kimber’s book The Elocutionists reclaimed a forgotten performance genre. From the mid-1800s to the 1940s, elocutionists recited poetry or drama with music to entertain audiences, in particular women’s groups. Women, in fact, dominated the art, and their purveyance … Continue reading →

August 26, 2019

Expanding Our Open Access Publishing

Posted by Heather Gernenz
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We are pleased to announce that we will make three timely books open access or partial access in the coming months. UIP has embraced open access publishing as part of its core mission to disseminate scholarship. The journal World History Connected … Continue reading →