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 […]
Sam Lipsyte and David Dougherty discuss Stanley Elkin
On February 28, New York City’s upper east side Barnes & Noble (150 East 86th Street) will host a Writers on Writers program to discuss American novelist Stanley Elkin. The two panelists […]
Blogging by Middle-aged Cat Lovers and More!
For readers 17 or younger (if we have any): RT @slate: RT @nytimes: kidz diss blogs 4 #fb and #twitter http://slate.me/g0nTzG For those between the ages of 34 and 73: So apparently […]