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Ethical Geography: How abolitionists used spatial practice to reject their own authority
Ralph Waldo Emerson ca. 1857.  Photograph: George Eastman House Photography Collection BY MARTHA SCHOOLMAN Assistant professor of English at Fl ...
#UPWeek: Writing the Continuous Book.
This post is published on the occasion of University Press Week, in which about 30 university presses have published posts on five significant topics: ...
A sustainable planet is a nuclear-free planet.
What if the movement for climate change joined forces with the movement for a nuclear-free planet? Image via Flickr /public domain license. BY ...
Where do cultures go when they die? The story of Codfish, the Indian, and the phonograph.
When the Edison phonograph was first made in the 1890s, people used it to record their own voices. It later became one of the first commercially produ ...
LGBT History Month: A look at behind-the-scenes groundwork that leads to the headline-grabbing victories.
BY RYAN R. THORESON In October 1994, a group of U.S. activists led by Rodney Wilson, a teacher in Missouri, created LGBT History Month ...
Students on Isherwood: "You Can't Help Smiling," on Cabaret and Isherwood's Goodbye to Berlin
Christopher Freeman and James J. Berg, editors of the forthcoming volume  The American Isherwood   (December 2014), have compiled exemplary essays ...
The making of the book: Behind Twin Ports by Trolley
The bustling corner of Superior Street at 5th Avenue West. Images: Minnesota Streetcar Museum/Aaron Isaacs. BY AARON ISAACS Author and editor of ...
Extras: Best to Laugh excerpt, trailer series, and discussion guide
In the opening prologue to her latest novel, Best to Laugh, Lorna Landvik writes: A black cocktail dress, decorated with a smattering of sequins ac ...
Teenage rebellion by music? Not so prevalent anymore.
BY MARK ALLISTER Professor of English, environmental studies, and American studies at St. Olaf College in Minnesota Teenage rebellion takes many for ...
Despite that white students are no longer the numerical majority in U.S. schools, racial inequality persists.
BY GILDA L. OCHOA Professor of sociology and Chicana/o-Latina/o studies at Pomona College Recently, much has been made about census reports that hig ...