Introducing our fifth virtual book tour, the Edible West! COVID-19 is proving to be a harsh taskmaster, providing an education on concerns great and small, but one of the earliest lessons it taught us as a nation is the vulnerability … Continue reading Virtually Bison Books: Edible West
Dr. Harry Franqui-Rivera is an Associate Professor of History at Bloomfield College, New Jersey. He is also a public intellectual, political analyst, cultural critic, blogger and NBC, Latino Rebels, and Huff Post contributor. His book Soldiers of the Nation is … Continue reading From the Desk of Harry Franqui-Rivera: My Lisa Simpson Moment
Books The Star and the Scepter: A Diplomatic History of Israel Praise from the Jerusalem Report: “As a history, The Star and the Scepter delivers a matter-of-fact account of Jewry’s international relations; it concerns itself with praxis, not theory (and … Continue reading News and Reviews
The University of Nebraska Press is happy to announce that Huascar Medina, the current Poet Laureate of Kansas, will be the judge for the 2021 Backwaters Press Prize in Poetry competition. Submissions will be accepted April 1 through May 1. … Continue reading Announcing the Judge for the 2021 Backwaters Press Prize in Poetry
Diane Kiesel is the author of She Can Bring Us Home: Dr. Dorothy Boulding Ferebee, Civil Rights Pioneer (Potomac Books, 2015). She Can Bring Us Home is the winner of the 2015 Richard Slatten Award for excellence in Virginia biography … Continue reading From the Desk of Diane Kiesel: Another Alpha Kappa Alpha Who Made an Impact Before Vice President Harris
Tommy Lasorda, legendary Dodgers manager, passed away last Thursday at the age of 93. He was manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers from 1976 through 1996; and during his twenty years as manager, the Dodgers won two World Series in … Continue reading Remembering Tommy Lasorda
Books Cold War Resistance: The International Struggle over Antibiotics Praise in the LA Review of Books: “Landas’s book is timely in the COVID-19 era, not just because it shows how much control pathogens have over our lives but also because … Continue reading News and Reviews
Chris Petty is a space and aviation enthusiast and author of Beyond Blue Skies: The Rocket Plane Programs That Led to the Space Age as well as The High Frontier blog. His articles have appeared on Adam Savage’s Tested site and the Space Review. Chuck Yeager, … Continue reading From the Desk of Chris Petty: Remembering Chuck Yeager
Books The Speed Game: My Fast Times in Baseball Praise from The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: “This is the second memoir by a basketball coach that I read over the long Thanksgiving weekend and it lived up to what … Continue reading News and Reviews
The following was originally published on Joanne Leedom-Ackerman’s website. She is the editor of The Journey of Liu Xiaobo: From Dark Horse to Nobel Laureate (Potomac Books, 2020). PEN International marks the ten-year anniversary of the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to writer, … Continue reading Ten-Year Anniversary of the Nobel Peace Prize Awarded to Liu Xiaobo
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