July 7, 2020
by Sandy Horwitt, author of Conversations with Abner Mikva: Final Reflections on Chicago Politics, Democracy’s Future and a Life of Public Service When my old boss and friend Ab Mikva… READ MORE
June 30, 2020
The University Press of Kansas is excited to announce a new editorial series: Politics and Popular Culture. Series editors: Linda Beail and Lilly J. Goren Series Description: There is not yet… READ MORE
June 24, 2020
An excerpt from The Conservative Heartland: A Political History of the Postwar American Midwest. “The Little Guy for the Little Guy; 1969 Minneapolis and the White Working-Class Revolt” by Jeffrey… READ MORE
June 19, 2020
by Nicole Maurantonio, author of Confederate Exceptionalism: Civil War Myth and Memory in the Twenty-First Century On Thursday, June 4, 2020, Virginia governor Ralph Northam announced plans to remove the… READ MORE
June 16, 2020
by Ted Morgan, author of What Really Happened to the 1960s: How Mass Media Culture Failed American Democracy “The past is never dead. It’s not even past”—William Faulkner It’s been… READ MORE
June 15, 2020
The University Press of Kansas is proud to help celebrate Pride Month with a curated list of books studying the legal battle for gay rights… No Place Like Home: Lessons… READ MORE
May 26, 2020
by Elisabeth M. Eittreim, author of Teaching Empire: Native Americans, Filipinos, and US Imperial Education, 1879–1918 CNN ran a devastating though not surprising headline on Monday, May 18, 2020: “Navajo… READ MORE
May 20, 2020
The American vice presidency, as the saying goes, “is not worth a bucket of warm spit.” Yet vice presidential candidates, many people believe, can make all the difference in winning—or… READ MORE
May 15, 2020
by Mary Bryna Sanger, coauthor of After the Cure: Managing AIDS and Other Public Health Crises When After the Cure was published, the nation was just recovering from numerous public health… READ MORE
May 5, 2020
As the global battle against COVID-19 stretches from weeks into months, many people are bound to their couches to binge-watch another show. The staff here at UPK is no different…. READ MORE
