Awards Tomás Q. Morín’s Let Me Count The Ways was nominated for the Vulgar Genius Awards. Winners will be determined by readers’ votes. Show your support for the Let Me Count the Ways by voting at their website, the poll … Continue reading News & Reviews
Awards Mary Clearman Blew’s Think of Horses has won the Western Heritage Award for best Western novel of 2023 from the National Cowboy Hall of Fame/Western Heritage Museum Laura Bylenok’s Living Room is a finalist for the Medal Provocateur Award … Continue reading News & Reviews
Founded in 1907, the Organization of American Historians (OAH) is the largest professional society dedicated to the teaching and study of American history. OAH’s annual conference this year is in Los Angeles, California, from March 30th-April 2nd. You can find Senior Acquisitions Editor Matt … Continue reading UNP at OAH 2023
ICYMI UNP’s new Podcast Behind the Book Awards Susan Nguyen’s Dear Diaspora won the AAAS Outstanding Achievement in Creative Writing (Poetry) Award Reviews Mine Mine Mine Review in Poetry Foundation: “Uhuru Portia Phalafala’s Mine Mine Mine enters not only the South African … Continue reading News & Reviews
Jennifer Helgren is Professor of History at University of the Pacific. She is author of American Girls and Global Responsibility: A New Relation to the World during the Early Cold War (2017) and co-editor of Girlhood: A Global History (2012). … Continue reading From the Desk of Jennifer Helgren: March is the Birthday Month of Camp Fire and Girl Scouts
ICYMI John Dechant – Little Poison Book Trailer Jody Keisner essay in River Teeth Awards 2023 Dr. Harold and Dorothy Seymour Medal Finalists Baseball Rebels: The Players, People and Social Movements That Shook Up the Game and Changed America by Peter … Continue reading News & Reviews
Congratulations to the following Bison Books authors who were nominated for the 33rd annual Reading the West Book Awards! The awards, given to books published in the previous calendar year, celebrate the rich variety of writing in and about this … Continue reading Announcing the Longlist for the Reading the West Book Awards
ICYMI Cooperman Woman Pissing Book Trailer Reviews A Civil Society Review in H-France Reviews: “In this rich and detailed history of French women in freemasonry Allen has shown how, over two centuries, “gendered sociability finally made space for masonic equality” … Continue reading News & Reviews
Reviews Union General Review in Civil War Books and Authors: “William Shea’s Union General is a fine biography that should go a long way toward fostering a wider recognition and appreciation of Samuel Ryan Curtis’s substantial historical legacy.” Gentry Rhetoric Review in … Continue reading News & Reviews
Brenden W. Rensink is Associate Director of the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies and Associate Professor of History at Brigham Young University. He is author of the award-winning book Native but Foreign: Indigenous Immigrants and Refugees in the North … Continue reading From the Desk of Brenden W. Rensink: Engaging the Present with the Past
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