In the March 14 issue of The New Yorker, Jill Lepore cites The American Journal of Psychology in the opening paragraph of her article about G. Stanley Hall and the […]
Black Colleges and the NCAA Basketball Tournament by Charles Martin
Basketball fans around the country are being swept up this week in the annual “March Madness.” The first week of competition in the NCAA men’s tournament includes the infamous one-sided […]
Will Kaufman’s Woody Guthrie U.S. tour
Finished copies of Will Kaufman’s book Woody Guthrie, American Radical arrived from the printer last week. The official publication date is April 11, 2011, but the book is starting to […]
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PME + UPeC = UPCC
Project Muse announced today that its Project Muse Editions e-books program is teaming up with the University Press e-book Consortium to become the University Press Content Consortium. “This is a great moment,” […]
Researching the “man of mystery” by Thomas Sakmyster
When some years ago I decided to write a biographical study of J. Peters, a shadowy figure in the history of American communism, I knew that I would face a […]
The New York Times quotes UIP author Rosemary Feurer
Rosemary Feurer, author of the University of Illinois Press book Radical Unionism in the Midwest, 1900-1950, was interviewed by The New York Times for a March 5, 2011, column on Wisconsin’s struggle […]
The Irish Times reviews The Myth of Manliness
Ireland’s newspaper of record, The Irish Times, reviewed Joseph Valente’s new book The Myth of Manliness in Irish National Culture, 1880-1922. Recent international financial interventions brought into the public arena questions […]
Detroit Free Press features Hands on the Freedom Plow
The February 26, 2011, edition of the Detroit Free Press includes a feature on the new book Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC. The women […]
Syracuse University Press pulls book, shocks author
Inside Higher Ed reports this morning that Syracuse University Press has ceased publishing a title released last year because of defamation concerns. The press pulled the book after learning of legal threats […]
Who is in charge of college athletic reform?
Ronald Smith, author of the new book Pay for Play: A History of Big-Time College Athletic Reform, has contributed an op-ed piece to the History News Network about the influence of […]
Blogging Wisconsin
Steven Ashby, co-author of the recent book Staley: The Fight for a New American Labor Movement, has been using the book’s website to share his on-the-ground account of the current labor protests in […]