D. Michael Quinn, author of the University of Illinois Press book Same-Sex Dynamics among Nineteenth-Century Americans: A Mormon Example, penned a Vanity Fair web exclusive feature titled When Mormons Go to Washington. […]
An Interpretive Overview of Open Wound, part 2
This is the second half of the “Interpretive Overview” by William McKee Evans, the author of Open Wound: The Long View of Race in America. It appears before the Preface […]
An Interpretive Overview of Open Wound, part 1
Right after the last election we published Open Wound: The Long View of Race in America. The work is a capstone achievement by William McKee Evans, professor emeritus of history at […]
Congratulations Koritha Mitchell
Koritha Mitchell’s Living with Lynching: African American Lynching Plays, Performance, and Citizenship, 1890-1930, is the Society for the Study of American Women Writers 2012 Book Award Winner. Living with Lynching: […]
Denise Levertov event at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.
This week we officially published the new biography Denise Levertov: A Poet’s Life by Dana Greene. Levertov was born in England (October 24, 1923), published her first book of poems at […]
Philip Kaufman Q&A at the Chicago Film Festival
Annette Insdorf will lead a Q&A with director Philip Kaufman at the Chicago Film Festival on October 16. Her critically acclaimed book in our Contemporary Film Directors series was published earlier this year. […]
The Accordion in the Americas
Following the critical success of Marion Jacobson’s Squeeze This! A Cultural History of the Accordion in America, we are publishing Helena Simonett’s edited volume The Accordion in the Americas: Klezmer, […]
Celebrate poet Michael S. Harper
CALL FOR PAPERS Michael S. Harper “Canon Maker: Poet, Editor, Teacher, Mentor, Scholar” Wednesday – Friday, March 13-15, 2013 The English Department at The University of Missouri – Columbia in […]
Q&A with Quaker Brotherhood author Allan W. Austin
The abolitionist work of Quakers during the antebellum era has been well documented, and their contemporary anti-war and anti-racism work is familiar to activists around the world. Allan W. Austin, a […]
An introduction from the editor, part 2
Here is the second part of the “Introduction from the editor,” by Fred Bartenstein. Read Bluegrass Bluesman: A Memoir by Josh Graves, available now. “It was clear to me that […]
Cutting the birthday cake at World of Bluegrass
On Josh Graves’s 85th birthday we hosted a booksigning in our World of Bluegrass booth for Fred Bartenstein, editor of Josh’s new book Bluegrass Bluesman: A Memoir. Josh’s widow Evelyn Graves cut […]
An introduction from the editor
Last week we released Bluegrass Bluesman: A Memoir, by Josh Graves, and edited by Fred Bartenstein, a new book in our series Music in American Life. The book was a […]