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UPK’s Latest in the American Political Thought Series

October 10, 2024

Rylie Oswald In the eleventh week of Election Season with UPK, learn more about America’s major thinkers and political thought movements. The series encompasses everything from figures like Thomas Jefferson…

Author Kathy Rose-Mockry on her new book and LGBTQ activism

October 9, 2024

By Rylie Oswald Katherine Rose-Mockry talks about her new book, Liberating Lawrence, which delves into LGBTQ activism at KU in the 1970s. Rose-Mockry also talks about the recent DEI centers…

UPK Midwestern Politics Reading List

October 3, 2024

Rylie Oswald For the tenth week of the University Press of Kansas’s election content, we have put together a list of our Midwestern politics books. Explore Kansas, Nebraska, and Iowa…

Upcoming Events

Liberating Lawrence: Gay Activism in the 1970s at KU

Tuesday. October 15, 2024 | 6:00 pm

Katherine Rose-Mockry, author of Liberating Lawrence: Gay Activism in the 1970s at the University of Kansas, will speak about her book at the Watkins Museum of History in Lawrence, Kansas. 

Western Historical Association conference

Wednesday. October 23, 2024 | 8:00 am

The University Press of Kansas will be exhibiting at the Western History Association conference in Kansas City, October 23-26. Stop by our booth to speak with our staff and see our latest books on Western...

No Place Like Home film screening and roundtable discussion at WHA/SHA conference

Thursday. October 24, 2024 | 1:30 pm

The film No Place Like Home: The Struggle against Hate in Kansas will be shown at the joint conference of the Western History Association and Southern History Association in Kansas City. The hour-long documentary film,...

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