Tomorrow, Saturday, June 16, from 10:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum in Hyde Park, NY presents the 15th annual Roosevelt Reading Festival. In concurrent sessions throughout the day, fifteen authors of recently published works that draw upon the … Continue reading 15th annual Roosevelt Reading Festival
Rosalyn LaPier is an associate professor in the Environmental Studies Program at the University of Montana and a research associate at the National Museum of Natural History. Her book Invisible Reality: Storytellers, Storytakers, and the Supernatural World of the Blackfeet (Nebraska, 2017) … Continue reading From the Desk of Rosalyn LaPier: “Of course, there is a tipi on the cover!”
The following is an excerpt from The Roger Kahn Reader: Six Decades of Sportswriting (June 2018) by Roger Kahn, edited and with an introduction by Bill Dwyre. Read more … Continue reading Excerpt: The Roger Kahn Reader
The following is an excerpt from Soldiers of the Nation: Military Service and Modern Puerto Rico, 1868-1952 (June 2018) by Harry Franqui-Rivera. During the summer of 2001 I interviewed several Korean War veterans in Puerto Rico. Those interviews were part of my research … Continue reading Excerpt: Soldiers of the Nation
Books The Integration of the Pacific Coast League: Race and Baseball on the West Coast Amy Essington Included in the New York Times Book Review’s Summer Reading List. The Roger Kahn Reader: Six Decades of Sportswriting Roger Kahn; … Continue reading News and Reviews
The following books are now available in paperback editions. Disability Studies and the Environmental Humanities: Toward an Eco-Crip Theory, edited and with an introduction by Sarah Jaquette Ray an Jay Sibara “The most significant disability studies anthology to emerge … Continue reading Now in Paperback
James David Nichols is an assistant professor of history at City University of New York, Queensborough Community College. His new book, The Limits of Liberty: Mobility and the Making of the Eastern U.S.-Mexico Border (July 2018), chronicles the formation of the U.S.-Mexico border from a … Continue reading From the Desk of James Nichols: Of Borders and Birthers
Meghan Warner Mettler is an assistant professor of history at Upper Iowa University. She is the author of How to Reach Japan by Subway: America’s Fascination with Japanese … Continue reading From the Desk of Meghan Mettler: America’s Makeover of Asian Countries
Laurel Zwissler is an assistant professor in the Philosophy and Religion Department at Central Michigan University. Her new book Religious, Feminist, Activist: Cosmologies of Interconnection (Nebraska, 2018) investigates the political and religious identities of women who understand their social-justice activism as religiously motivated. … Continue reading From the Desk of Laurel Zwissler: The Relationship between Religion and Politics
Awards The Modoc War: A Story of Genocide at the Dawn of America’s Gilded Age Robert Aquinas McNally Awarded the Gold Californiana medal from the California Book Awards. Books The Lewis and Clark Expedition Day by Day Gary E. Moulton … Continue reading News and Reviews
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