This week we received finished copies of Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC. The editors are participating on panels at the ASALH meeting this weekend in […]
Shadow of the Racketeer wins Labor History award
David Witwer’s book, Shadow of the Racketeer: Scandal in Organized Labor, has won the journal Labor History‘s prize for the best book on labor history published in 2009. The book tells […]
My Last Full Day by Fran Markowitz
This is the sixth post of a multi-part series by Fran Markowitz—author of the new book Sarajevo: A Bosnian Kaleidoscope—on her recent trip to Sarajevo and Banja Luka, Bosnia-Herzegovina, August 23-31, […]
Richard Hughes, HuffPost, and hostility toward Muslims
Richard Hughes, author of the book Christian America and the Kingdom of God, contributed a new piece to The Huffington Post titled Jesus and Strangers: What the Bible Teaches About Christian-Muslim […]
Book vs. Cloud
About the book again: I hardly ever keep books around unless I really plan to read or reread them, and I admit I don’t entirely understand the collector mentality. Books […]
Greta Redux by Fran Markowitz
This is the fifth post of a multi-part series by Fran Markowitz—author of the new book Sarajevo: A Bosnian Kaleidoscope—on her recent trip to Sarajevo and Banja Luka, Bosnia-Herzegovina, August 23-31, […]
Mississippi Sacred Steel by Robert Stone
I look forward to visiting Mississippi this winter to continue documenting musicians from the Jewell Dominion side of the sacred steel guitar tradition. Shown here, left to right, are Jamel […]
To Banja Luka and back again by Fran Markowitz
This is the fourth post of a multi-part series by Fran Markowitz—author of the new book Sarajevo: A Bosnian Kaleidoscope—on her recent trip to Sarajevo and Banja Luka, Bosnia-Herzegovina, August 23-31, […]
Recovering the Commons authors interviewed by Huffington Post
In March 2010 we published Herbert Reid & Betsy Taylor’s new book Recovering the Commons: Democracy, Place, and Global Justice, which culls key concepts from grassroots activism to hold critical […]
The New Lost City Ramblers
We just received finished copies of Ray Allen’s new book Gone to the Country: The New Lost City Ramblers & the Folk Music Revival. Formed in 1958 by Mike Seeger, […]
Book trailer for Bringing Aztlan to Mexican Chicago
On August 2, 2010, we published Bringing Aztlán to Mexican Chicago: My Life, My Work, My Art, the autobiography of José Gamaliel González. Born near Monterrey, Mexico, and eventually settling in […]
In the Bascarsija and beyond by Fran Markowitz
This is the third post of a multi-part series by Fran Markowitz—author of the new book Sarajevo: A Bosnian Kaleidoscope—on her recent trip to Sarajevo and Banja Luka, Bosnia-Herzegovina, August 23-31, […]