German composer Josephine Lang was born March 15, 1815. Lang, a prodigiously talented pianist and dedicated composer, participated at various times in the German Romantic world of lieder through her important […]
Pi(e) Day at UIP
Certain members of the UIP staff circle March 14 on their calendars. And with good reason. 3.14 is Pi(e) Day: during which both mathematical principle and carbohydrates are well celebrated […]
Q&A with Caribbean Spaces author Carole Boyce Davies
Carole Boyce Davies is a professor of Africana studies and English at Cornell University. She is the editor of the three-volume Encyclopedia of the African Diaspora: Origins, Experiences, and Culture and several other collections […]
The 100 year legacy of Anna Howard Shaw
Spotlight on Women’s History Month: Trisha Franzen, author of Anna Howard Shaw: The Work of Woman Suffrage writes about this feminist pioneer: It takes a lot of chutzpah for an […]
Living with Lynching author to speak at Library of Congress
How did African Americans survive the period between 1890 and 1930 when mobs lynched members of their communities and proudly circulated pictures of the mutilated corpses? How did African Americans […]
Q&A with the editors of Gendered Resistance
Delores M. Walters is a cultural anthropologist who directs the Southern Rhode Island Area Health Education Center at the University of Rhode Island. The Center aims to alleviate health disparities […]
Remembering composer Robert Ashley
Avant garde composer Robert Ashley passed away Monday, March 3. One of the leading American composers of the post-Cage generation, Ashley’s innovations began in the 1960s when he, along with […]
Q&A with Illegal: Reflections of an Undocumented Immigrant author José Ángel N.
José Ángel N. came to the United States from Mexico in the 1990s with a ninth grade education. An undocumented immigrant, N. traveled to Chicago where he found access to ESL […]
Happy birthday to filmmaker Jacques Rivette
French film director Jacques Rivette was born on March 1, 1928. A member of the French New Wave, alongside François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard, Rivette is best known for his films Celine and Julie Go […]
Contemporary Film Directors $2.99 eBook sale
For the month of March we have lowered the e-book list price of 20+ titles in our Contemporary Film Directors series to $2.99. Click here to view the full list. […]
Caribbean Spaces up for OCM Bocas Prize
Carole Boyce-Davies has been named to the long list for the 2014 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. Caribbean Spaces: Escapes from Twilight Zones is one of three books nominated […]
Q&A with Demilitarization in the Contemporary World editor Peter Stearns
Peter N. Stearns is Provost of George Mason University, author of Globalization in World History and editor of the new UIP book Demilitarization in the Contemporary World. He answered our questions about the book. […]