The 1455 Literary Arts has announced that Tim Wendel, author of Escape from Castro’s Cuba and Castro’s Curveball, will speak at the 1455 Summer Festival, the organization’s free and accessible virtual event, as part of a session entitled “Tim and … Continue reading Upcoming Event: Tim Wendel to Participate in 1455 Summer Festival
Join the Springfield Public Library’s virtual event on Monday, July 19, 2021 at 7:00 p.m. EST as Springfield resident David Krell discusses his new book, 1962: Baseball and America in the Time of JFK. Watch the virtual event here! In … Continue reading Upcoming Event: Author David Krell to Discuss His Book
Andrew T. Jarboe is an assistant professor of liberal arts at Berklee College of Music. He is also a history teacher at Match High School in Boston, Massachusetts. He is the editor of War News in India: The Punjabi Press during World … Continue reading Excerpt: Indian Soldiers in World War I
The following is from the University of Nebraska Press Spring 2021 Newsletter, i.e. Pippa Biddle is a writer based in the Hudson Valley. Her work has been published by numerous publications, including the Atlantic, Guernica, AMC Outdoors, Maine Magazine, and Wired. She is the author of … Continue reading Behind the Book with Pippa Biddle
Join SABR and Elliott Bay Book Company for Triple Play: Three Books, Three Authors on Baseball for a virtual event on Tuesday, July 6, 2021 at 8:00 p.m. CST. Mark Amour will be hosting Steve Steinberg, Larry Baldassaro, and Don … Continue reading Upcoming Event: Three Books, Three Authors on Baseball
Books The Great Kosher Meat War of 1902 Review in the Jewish Voice and Opinion: “Scott Seligman, historian, and genealogist explores the Lower East Side of this great-grandmother in his book The Great Kosher Meat War of 1902.” Forty Years … Continue reading News & Reviews
Paulette F. C. Steeves (Cree-Métis) is an associate professor of sociology and Canada Research Chair Tier II Indigenous History Healing and Reconciliation at Algoma University. She is also an adjunct faculty at Mount Allison University. Her book, The Indigenous Paleolithic of … Continue reading From the Desk of Paulette Steeves: The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere
UNP staff members are always reading new books, both within our list and outside of what we publish. Here are some of the titles where our noses have been buried. “I just started the audiobook for Rivers of London by … Continue reading June Reading List
In light of the recent discovery of the remains of 215 children at the site of the Kamloops Indian Residential School in Canada, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, a member of the Laguna Pueblo, has announced a new initiative … Continue reading Reading List: Indigenous Education Series
The following is from the University of Nebraska Press Spring 2021 Newsletter, i.e. Peter J. Longo is a professor of political science at the University of Nebraska at Kearney. He is coauthor of The Nebraska State Constitution: A Reference Guide, Second Edition (Nebraska, 2010). His … Continue reading PAB Member Eschews the Limelight: A Profile of Peter J. Longo
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