April 3, 2020

Ingrid Gould Ellen and Justin Peter Steil on Writing The Dream Revisited

“The deep engagement and spirited debate found in The Dream Revisited make it a must-read for political leaders, housing advocates, and researchers seeking to understand the causes and consequences of segregation in America.” ~Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted: Poverty and...

April 3, 2020

Q&A: Claudia Breger on Making Worlds, and What Films to Watch While Social Distancing

“Claudia Breger’s Making Worlds is a vital contribution to the political dimensions of contemporary film and media theory. Breger’s meticulous readings of contemporary cinema create generative openings in impasses that have petrified debate over the past three decades, developing models of cinematic...

April 3, 2020

Hospice of the Creative Class

By Alex Sayf Cummings

“From tobacco and plow to computer and creative economy, this rich and eloquent history shows how a group of civic leaders put rural North Carolina at the forefront of the postindustrial revolution. In California, they say Silicon Valley is one...

April 2, 2020

Q&A: Paige Glotzer on How the Suburbs Were Segregated

“Paige Glotzer’s absorbing, vividly narrated study is a major contribution to the histories of capitalism and of American cities. She shows residential segregation’s roots in longer histories of race and empire, flows of global capital, and the actions of powerful...

April 2, 2020

Shennette Garrett-Scott wins the Darlene Clark Hine Award for Banking on Freedom

We are so pleased to announce that Shennette Garrett-Scott has won the Darlene Clark Hine Award from the Organization for American Historians (OAH) for her book Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal. The Darlene...

April 2, 2020

Join Lowell Frye on a Tour of Our UAA 2020 Virtual Exhibit Booth

Hello, and welcome to Columbia University Press’s virtual booth for the Urban Affairs Association conference! My name is Lowell Frye, and I’m an associate editor here at the press, acquiring books in urban studies. I’m thrilled to be able to...

April 2, 2020

Continue Your Exploration of New Books in Film Studies with Philip Leventhal

Yesterday, I talked about some new books from our Film and Culture series. I did not want to overwhelm you with too much information, so here are four more books we recently published in film studies that I am also...

April 2, 2020

Join Stephen Wesley on a Tour of Our OAH 2020 Virtual Booth

Hello there, I’m Stephen Wesley, the American history editor at Columbia University Press. Since the coronavirus pandemic has canceled most of the spring conferences—the Organization of American Historians annual program included—we are mounting virtual book exhibits on our blog. I...

April 2, 2020

Comedies of Catastrophe, Contagion, and Self-Quarantine: A Spectral Playlist for the Impromptu Apocalypse

One of my favorite books to have worked on from the past few years is Maggie Hennefeld’s  Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes. In this post she offers a list of comedies featuring women who focus on societal catastrophe,...

April 2, 2020

Welcome to Our UAA 2020 Virtual Exhibit Booth!

Hello! Welcome to our Urban Affairs Association 2020 virtual exhibit booth. The global pandemic may have canceled our plans to meet you in person, but that’s not stopping us from bringing our exhibit booth to you. We’ve relocated our booth...

April 2, 2020

Welcome to Our OAH 2020 Virtual Exhibit!

Hello, and welcome to our Organization for American Historians (OAH) 2020 virtual exhibit booth. As coronavirus has canceled the spring academic conferences (and most everything else, for that matter), we are moving our conference booth online. Over the next four...

April 1, 2020

Join Philip Leventhal on a Tour of Our New Books from the Film and Culture Series

Hello, my name is Philip Leventhal, and I acquire new books in film and media studies at Columbia University Press. SCMS is always one of my favorite conferences, so it is particularly disappointing not to be able to attend this...