March 26, 2015

Two Early Chicago Films Heading to Blu-Ray

The following post is by Michael Smith, co-author with Adam Selzer of Flickering Empire: How Chicago Invented the U.S. Film Industry In the introduction to Flickering Empire, Adam Selzer and I quote film scholar Susan Doll who said that it...

March 25, 2015

Sandra Fahy on North Korea and the Impact of Famine

Read excerpts from an interview with Sandra Fahy, author of “Marching Through Suffering,” on North Korea’s current social situation and the challenges of studying the North Korean people.

March 25, 2015

Interview with Michael Glover Smith, Co-Author of "Flickering Empire (Part 2)

Read the second part of our discussion with Michael Glover Smith, author of “Flickering Empire: How Chicago Invented the U.S. Film Industry.”

March 24, 2015

New Book Tuesday: Junk DNA, Michael Jackson's Harmattan, The End of Cinema, and More!

Our weekly listing of new titles: Junk DNA: A Journey Through the Dark Matter of the Genome Nessa Carey Harmattan: A Philosophical Fiction Michael Jackson The End of Cinema?: A Medium in Crisis in the Digital Age André Gaudreault and...

March 24, 2015

Interview with Michael Smith, co-author of "Flickering Empire"

Michael Smith, author of “Flickering Empire: How Chicago Invented the U.S. Film Industry,” discusses how the Second City used to be first in film.

March 23, 2015

Injustice at Home, New Opportunities Abroad — Author Events this Week

We’re very excited about this week’s participation of Columbia University Press in two special events that engage with some of the most pressing social, economic, and environmental issues of our time: First off is tonight’s conversation between James Liebman, author...

March 20, 2015

University Press Roundup

Our weekly links roundup of the best blog posts from around the world of academic publishing!

March 20, 2015

A Genealogy of Morgan Stanley

Read the chapter on Morgan Stanley from GENEALOGY OF AMERICAN FINANCE, by Robert E. Wright and Richard Sylla.

March 19, 2015

Charles Royce's Foreword to Genealogy of American Finance

Read Charles M. Royce’s foreword to GENEALOGY OF AMERICAN FINANCE.

March 18, 2015

An Overview of the Big 50 Banks

Read “Overview of the Big 50,” a set of introductory infographics from GENEALOGY OF AMERICAN FINANCE, by Robert E. Wright and Richard Sylla.

March 17, 2015

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

In celebration of St. Patrick’s Day, here’s a list of great Dalkey Archive Press titles in their Irish Literature Series!

March 17, 2015

A Brief History of Banking in the United States

Read “A Brief History of Banking in the United States,” the introduction to GENEALOGY OF AMERICAN FINANCE, by Robert E. Wright and Richard Sylla.