Bridget Barry will be representing UNP at the American Association of Geographers annual meeting this year in New Orleans from April 10-14. The conference celebrates the latest in research and applications in geography, sustainability, and GIScience. Here are some of the books … Continue reading AAG preview
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 Making My Pitch: A … Continue reading Happy Book Birthday to Making My Pitch!
Books The Pitcher and the Dictator: Satchel Paige’s Unlikely Season in the Dominican Republic Averell “Ace” Smith Article on the author and book in the Los Angeles Times: “While baseball is at the heart of the book, The Pitcher and the … Continue reading News and Reviews
The following is by Mimi Schwartz, award-winning author of numerous books including When History is Personal (March 2018). Her essays have been widely anthologized, and ten of them have been listed as Notables in the Best American Series. This piece will also be featured … Continue reading From the Desk of Mimi Schwartz: Why I Write
The following is an excerpt from American Colossus: Big Bill Tilden and the Creation of Modern Tennis (March 2018) by Allen M. Hornblum. From Chapter 1: “A Game of Society” There is no sensation in the sporting world so thoroughly enjoyable … Continue reading Excerpt: American Colossus
Reading is important for all ages. Here’s a sampling of books for the young reader in your life. Can You Dance Like John? Jeff Kurrus Photographs … Continue reading A List for Younger Readers
The following is by from Kimberly J. Lamay Licursi, author of Remembering World War I in America (March 2018). Lamay Licursi is an adjunct instructor of history at Siena College in New York. When I first began studying the United States in … Continue reading Marking the Centenary of World War I in America
UNP is a proud publisher of women writers and women’s history. Celebrate Women’s History Month with these reading suggestions. Westerns: A Women’s History Victoria Lamont This thoroughly-researched and engaging history disproves the assumption that the Western genre has always … Continue reading Reading List: Women’s History Month
The following is by Amanda Ottaway, author of The Rebounders: A Division I Basketball Journey (March 2018). Ottaway is a journalist in New York City. She attended Davidson College on a full athletic scholarship and majored in English. Her work has appeared in the Nation magazine, … Continue reading After the Last Buzzer
Robertson Allen is an independent scholar and ethnographer who researches digital games, war and violence, and food cultures. His book America’s Digital Army: Games at Work and War (Nebraska, 2017) is an ethnographic study based on his years of behind-the-scenes ethnographic fieldwork within … Continue reading America’s Offerings to the Gun Deity
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