February 22, 2018

Making the Columbia Encyclopedia

A couple of weeks ago we gave you a brief history of The Columbia Encyclopedia. Today’s “Throwback Thursday” is a behind the scenes look at the making of the encyclopedia. Take note of the manual process of physically punching in the...

February 22, 2018

How Women Came to Matter in American Foreign Policy

We recently released a paperback edition of The Hillary Doctrine: Sex and American Foreign Policy, by Valerie M. Hudson and Patricia Leidl, which originally launched in 2015. Watch the original panel discussion and book launch at the Wilson Center. Remember...

February 21, 2018

Bruce D. Haynes on Writing Down the Up Staircase

Down the Up Staircase is a riveting narrative about three generations of a black family and their struggle to maintain inherited privilege. Written with elegance and penetrating insight, the book shines light on the precarity that all blacks confront, regardless of...

February 21, 2018

How Sex Came to Matter in U.S. Foreign Policy

The United States has made empowering women and girls a cornerstone of our foreign policy, because women’s equality is not just a moral issue, it’s not just a humanitarian issue, it is not just a fairness issue; it is a...

February 21, 2018

Wednesday Excerpt: The Art of Sanctions

  “Sanctions have become a hot policy tool and Richard Nephew—a key sanctions policy practitioner during the Obama administration—has written a masterful insider’s how-to guide. Those dealing with or worried about North Korea, Russia, or Iran would do well to...

February 20, 2018

The FBI’s War on Black-Owned Bookstores

From the author of From Head Shops to Whole Foods: The Rise and Fall of Activist Entrepreneurs. This is an excerpt from a piece that originally appeared in The Atlantic, by author Joshua Clark Davis. At the height of the Black Power movement,...

February 20, 2018

Did it Mean Nothing?

Guest post by authors, Valerie M. Hudson and Patricia Leidl As authors of the book The Hillary Doctrine: Sex and American Foreign Policy, which examines how US foreign policy came to “see” women, and what former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton...

February 20, 2018

New Book Tuesday! At Home in the World, Ethics Challenges in Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology Practice, and More!

Our weekly listing of new books is now available: At Home in the World Women and Charity in Late Qing and Early Republican China Xia Shi Ethics Challenges in Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology Practice Edited by Ezra E. H. Griffith...

February 16, 2018

Weekly RoundUp

By  Joanne Raymond Happy Friday fellow UP-ers!  Before you get settled into weekend mode and your minds wander far away from authors, books and anything academic (unless that’s also your ideal weekend in which case, have at it!), get a...

February 16, 2018

Title Management Today

Yesterday we gave you a glimpse into an average day at the Press in its past. Today we’d like to give you a peek into the present. Title management has come a long way from the days of yore. These...

February 15, 2018

The Personal and the Political in Goralik’s Poetry

“I watch the falling of empires in my brain/ with ridiculous calm” Goralik’s next stops for her book tour in the US: PennState in State College, PA on February 16th at 3:30 pm Hunter College in New York, NY on...

February 15, 2018

REMORSE

This week, our featured book is Erotic Poems from the Sanskrit: An Anthology, edited and translated by R. Parthasarathy. Today we’re featuring some excerpts from the book–poems fit for the reserved and the brokenhearted. Enjoy! REMORSE My face is etched...