Chris Lamb, author of Conspiracy of Silence: Sportswriters and the Long Campaign to Desegregate Baseball published articles over this past week on what inspired Branch Rickey and Jackie Robinson Day. See his full articles in the New York Times and USA Today. Continue reading UNP author in the media
Congratulations to Anne F. Hyde for becoming a Pulitzer finalist! Her book, Empires, Nations & Families: A History of the North American West, 1800-1860, was named a finalist in the History category. Earlier this year, she was awarded the 2012 Bancroft Prize, one of the most coveted awards in the field of history. Empires, Nations, and Families shows how the world of river and maritime trade effectively shifted political power away from military and diplomatic circles into the hands of local people. Congrats again, Anne! Continue reading Hyde becomes Pulitzer finalist
Congratulations to Ken Armstrong for winning a Pulitzer in investigative reporting! Armstrong and Michael J. Berens of The Seattle Times won for their coverage of how a little known governmental body in Washington moved patients from safer pain-killers to a cheaper but more dangerous drug. Armstrong is one of the authors of Scoreboard, Baby, where he goes behind the scenes of the Huskies’ Cinderella story to reveal a timeless morality tale. Libby Sander of the Chronicle of Higher Education called Scoreboard, Baby a tale that "should be required reading for anyone linked to university life." Continue reading Armstrong wins Pulitzer
Happy Opening Day to baseball fans all across the country! According to Shelf Awareness, UNP is doing its part by having more than 118 baseball titles in print. And David Davis of the New York Times said, “the pulse of baseball beats strongly in the heart of Cornhusker Nation.” Davis interviewed interim editor-in-chief, Rob Taylor, about how the press started to publish so many baseball books. Read the full article here. And Dorothy Seymour Mills reviewed Conspiracy of Silence by Chris Lamb for the New York Journal of Books as “…overwhelming evidence of the effectiveness of the black press in … Continue reading Baseball season is here
Author Ellen Cassedy's article “What Lithuania can teach us about dealing with the Holocaust” for Haaretz Daily Newspaper in Israel, discusses how Lithuania can provide a dialogue for helping people understand the Holocaust. “The approach to the Jewish past thatI saw in Lithuania poses questions, rather than supplying answers,” Cassedy said. “Rather than being forced to repent, people are invited to design their own vehicles of remorse.” See full article here. Cassedy’s new book, We Are Here, is a memoir of her personal journey discovering her Yiddish background and an exploration of the people of Lithuania. In October, Cassedy will … Continue reading Lithuanian past and present
This week in Bloomberg Business Week, Colleen Barry shows how ex-mafia land is producing prize-winning wine. Wine from the Centopassi vineyard which is on display at the Vinitaly wine fair through tomorrow in Verona are “the result of a (EURO) 1.2 billion ($1.6 billion) European Union-Italian project to integrate ex-Mafiosi property in the southern regions of Sicily, Calabria, Puglia and Campagna back into the legal economy.” In Robert Camuto’s book, Palemento, he chronicles his journey through Sicily where he explores the emerging wine scene while also discovering the anti-Mafia movement growing in the former mob vineyards around infamous Corleone. Read … Continue reading Ex-mafia land and Italian wine
This week on the Jewish Book Council, Rabbi Barry Schwartz began discussing his new book, Judaism’s Great Debates. His book, which will be published in July, is an engaging and well-researched argument that debate and disputation are not only encouraged within Judaism but reside at the very heart of Jewish history and theology. Schwartz's post is titled, “We Need More Jewish Debate, Not Less,” and is the first of three blog posts he's writingfor the Jewish Book Council this week. Continue reading Judaism’s Great Debates
Read the begining of We Are Here: Memories of the Lithuanian Holocaust by Ellen Cassedy:
"A soft summer rain was falling as a white-haired woman made her way to the microphone. “Tayere talmidim!” she began. “Dear students!” Through the pattering of drops on my umbrella, I leaned forward to catch her words. The old woman’s name was Bluma, a flowery name that matched her flowered dress. She was a member of the all-but-vanished Jewish community in Vilnius, Lithuania, the city once known as the Jerusalem of the North. “How fortunate I am,” she said in a quavering voice. “I have lived long enough to see people coming back to Vilnius to study Yiddish.”
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Congratulations to UNP author Anne F. Hyde for being awarded the 2012 Bancroft Prize! Hyde won the award for her book Empires, Nations, and Families: A History of the North American West, 1800-1860. The Bancroft Prize is awarded annually by the trustees of Columbia University to three books published on the subjects of American history and diplomacy. It is among the most prestigious prizes in the field. Empires, Nations, and Families is an exploration of the American West just after the Louisiana Purchase, tracing family stories from the Canadian North to the Spanish and Mexican borderlands and from the Pacific … Continue reading Hyde wins Bancroft Prize
In Coyote Warrior, Paul VanDevelder tells the epic story of the three tribes that saved Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery from starvation, their century-long battle to forge a new nation, and the extraordinary journey of one man to redeem a father's dream–and the dignity of his people. VanDevelder was contacted by a group of Albuquerque lawyers to start a scholarship fund for Native-American students called the “Coyote Warrior Fund.” The first two students to receive the money are graduating this year. And this Friday is The First Thirteen – Personal Reflections of the Argument, which is a symposium comprised … Continue reading Native American lawyer symposium
