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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,...
Recent Books in Military History
The Inland Campaign for Vicksburg
Five Battles in Seventeen Days, May 1-17, 1863
Firsthand Accounts of Vietnam War Protest and Resistance
U.S. Marines and American Manhood in the Great War Era
Reserve Readiness Challenges in Modern Military History
African American Marines in the Age of Power, Protest, and Tokenism
The Swamp and River Expeditions, January 1-April 30, 1863
Black Troops in the Civil War, 1862-1865
Second Edition, Revised and Expanded