Happy University Press Week! The university press community amplifies voices, disciplines, and communities.

University presses publish authors from around the world and right at home, writing on subjects that are broad, niche, and every level of inquiry in between. Without university presses, many of these authors or subjects would not be heard so clearly in the marketplace of ideas.

Join us all week for the UP Week Blog Tour!

Today read about Politics from the following presses. Be sure to share and tweet your own university press experiences using the hashtag #UPWeek.

University of Chicago Press features an incredible group of recent books that offer rich insight into what’s going on with American politics.

Georgetown University Press provides readers with some resources for those who want to get more engaged in U.S. politics.

University of Wisconsin Press features a Q&A with Michael Lazzarra, author of Civil Obedience, about how dictatorships are supported by civilian complicity.

University of Virginia Press ties in an excerpt from the forthcoming Trump: The First Two Years to the just-decided midterms.

Rutgers University Press highlights three recent politics books: The Politics of Fame by Eric Burns and reissues of Democracy Ancient and Modern by M.I. Finley and Echoes of the Marseillaise by Eric Hobsbawn.

UBC Press features their new series Women’s Suffrage and the Struggle for Democracy.

A new list from LSU Press deals with contemporary social justice issues. Read about Jim Crow’s Last Stand and the recent state vote to ban non-unanimous criminal jury verdicts.

University Press of Kansas features an interview with Dick Simpson and Betty O’Shaughnessy, authors of Winning Elections in the 21st Century.

University of Georgia Press spotlights two recent additions to their Politics and Culture in the Twentieth-Century South series, which focus on defining the white southern identity through politics.

Visit us tomorrow for day three of the UP Week Blog Tour featuring The Neighborhood that highlights a new selection of university presses.