Books Better Times: Short Stories Sara Batkie Review from the New York Times Book Review: “Batkie’s stories shrewdly commingle the hopeless and the hopeful.” The Spanish Craze: America’s Fascination with the Hispanic World, 1779–1939 Richard L. Kagan Review from Kirkus: “Interesting … Continue reading News and Reviews
The following is an excerpt from Practiced Citizenship: Women, Gender, and the State in Modern France (January 2019) edited by Nimisha Barton and Richard S. Hopkins. For over fifty years, scholars have grappled with the model of citizenship first forwarded by the … Continue reading Excerpt: Practiced Citizenship
The following is an accumulation of 2018 publicity thoughts from Anna Weir, Jackson Adams, and Rosemary Sekora. The past year was exciting for UNP. We welcomed a new publicist to Team Publicity in April, we celebrated the two new additions … Continue reading The Marketeers Club: Best of 2018
The following is an excerpt from Staging Family: Domestic Deceptions of Mid-Nineteenth-Century American Actresses (December 2018) by Nan Mullenneaux. It is a new book in the Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality series, which promotes rigorous and … Continue reading Excerpt: Staging Family
Early Modern Cultural Studies is an interdisciplinary series that examines a wide range of aesthetic works and moments in their original cultural milieu. The series is interested in questions about a rapidly changing world where politics, religion, national identity, and gender … Continue reading Series Update: Early Modern Cultural Studies
Renya K. Ramirez is an enrolled member of the Winnebago of Nebraska and professor of Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz. She is the author of Standing Up to Colonial Power: The Lives of Henry Roe and Elizabeth Bender Cloud (December 2018). … Continue reading From the Desk of Renya K. Ramirez: Writing as Granddaughter and Academic
The following is an excerpt from Late Westerns: The Persistence of a Genre (December 2018) by Lee Clark Mitchell. From the Introduction Consider a handful of scenarios recently set in the American West: a corpse repeatedly buried and disinterred on its journey … Continue reading Excerpt: Late Westerns
Below is an excerpt from Shades of Gray: Writing the New American Multiracialism by Molly Littlewood McKibbin (December 2018). This book is the newest title in the Borderlands and Transcultural Studies series. From Chapter Three “Black Like Me”: Negotiating Blackness … Continue reading Excerpt: Shades of Gray
Book Birthdays celebrate one year of a book’s life in tweets, reviews, and more. This month we’re saying Happy First Book Birthday to A Pictographic History of the Oglala Sioux, 50th Anniversary Edition (Nebraska, 2017). About the Book: Originally published in 1967, … Continue reading Happy Book Birthday to A Pictographic History of the Oglala Sioux!
Richard Ravalli teaches history at William Jessup University. He is the author of Sea Otters: A History which is now available. Elakha—the Clatsop-Chinookan word for sea otter—has been … Continue reading From the Desk of Richard Ravalli: The Translocated Otter
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