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University of Minnesota Press selected as beneficiary of Whole Foods Market's 5% Community Support Day
University of Minnesota Press to publish memoir of 2018 Olympic gold medalist and U.S. Women’s National Cross Country Ski Team member Jessie Diggins
Jessie Diggins' memoir, written with journalist Todd Smith, beautifully intertwines her Olympic gold medal heroics with her effervescent spirit in a candid memoir full of humility and humor that will inspire audiences the world over.
University of Minnesota Press wins four Northeastern Minnesota Book Awards
University of Minnesota Press's Quadrant initiative is revolutionizing interdisciplinary publishing and collaborative scholarship
University Presses Lead the Way for Publisher-Based Ebook Systems
In the 1920s, there were an estimated 12 university presses operating in America; today that number is about 130. Over the years, university presses have forged ahead with some of the more thoughtful and “daring” coverage and analysis of such complex issues as globalization, immigration, civil rights, constitutional law, and so on. Many of these presses have also developed their own areas of specialization and acclaim: MIT and Yale’s coverage of architecture; Princeton, Yale, Columbia, Oxford, and Harvard’s emphasis on literacy criticism; Minnesota’s coverage of cultural critique, ethnic studies, and theory; and some of the excellent regional coverage from Arizona, Kansas, and Nebraska. “As commercial publishers increasingly turn away from books that are deemed unlikely to make a lot of money,” notes the American Association of University Presses, “university presses have found new fields to publish in and new audiences for their books.”
VERGE wins PROSE Award for Best New Journal in Humanities
VIKINGS IN THE ATTIC a finalist for MN Book Award
Wanda Gag's hometown mulls statue memorial
WHISKEY BREAKFAST a runner-up for 2012 Society of Midland Authors award
A poignant, multigenerational tale of the Swedish-American experience for two disparate Chicago families
William D. Green Receives 2020 Hognander Minnesota History Award
William D. Green's 'Degrees of Freedom' wins the third Hognander Minnesota History Award
William D. Green is winner of the 2016 Hognander Minnesota History Award for his book 'Degrees of Freedom: The Origins of Civil Rights in Minnesota, 1865–1912.'