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UMass Press Podcast
Interviews with authors of University of Massachusetts Press books.
May 29, 2024
Everyday Reading
Everyday Reading: Middlebrow Magazines and Book Publishing in Post-Independence India (U Massachusetts Press, 2024) is a timely book on the history o…
May 23, 2024
Food Margins
An anthropologist walks into a grocery store—no that’s not the start of a joke, that’s the true story of how Cathy Stanton came to be involved with Qu…
May 7, 2024
Teaching the History of the Book
Edited by Matteo Pangallo and Emily Todd, Teaching the History of the Book (University of Massachusetts Press 2023) is the first collection of its kin…
April 22, 2024
Forever Struggle
Chinatown has a long history in Boston. Though little documented, it represents the city's most sustained neighborhood effort to survive during eras o…
December 10, 2023
American Relics and the Politics of Public Memory
The gold epaulettes that George Washington wore into battle. A Union soldier's bloody shirt in the wake of the Civil War. A crushed wristwatch after t…
December 4, 2023
How the News Feels
In How the News Feels: The Empathic Power of Literary Journalists (University of Massachusetts Press, 2023), Jonathan D. Fitzgerald examines a mode of…
November 23, 2023
When Will the Joy Come?
How do Black women in higher education create, experience, and understand joy? What sustains them? While scholars have long documented sexism, racism,…
October 25, 2023
From Union Halls to the Suburbs
For decades, Americans for Democratic Action (ADA) was perhaps the most influential multi-issue organization in American liberalism. The first book-le…
September 27, 2023
An Abolitionist Abroad
Sarah Parker Remond (1826–1894) left the free black community of Salem, Massachusetts, where she was born, to become one of the first women to travel …
May 25, 2023
Fighting Over There
U.S. foreign policy has long been built on a dichotomy of an irreplaceable "here" and an expendable "there." In his 2003 announcement of the military …
April 4, 2023
The Wandering Womb
Today I talked to S. L. Wisenberg about her book The Wandering Womb: Essays in Search of Home (U Massachusetts Press, 2023). As a child, S. L. Wisenb…
February 19, 2023
Race in the Crucible of War
When African American servicemen went to fight in the Vietnam War, discrimination and prejudice followed them. Even in a faraway country, their milita…
February 8, 2023
Design with Nature on Cape Cod and the Islands
Cape Cod and the islands of Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket are special places known for their distinctive flora, including pine-oak forests, sandplai…
January 24, 2023
"Fame Is Not Just for the Fellas"
In “Fame is Not Just for the Fellas”: Female Renown and the Childhood of Famous Americans Series (University of Massachusetts Press, 2022), Gregory Pf…
October 12, 2022
The Spirit of Colonial Williamsburg
On any given night, hundreds of guests walk the darkened streets of Colonial Williamsburg looking for ghosts. Since the early 2000s, both the museum a…
August 31, 2022
Service Denied
Wartime military service is held up as a marker of civic duty and patriotism, yet the rewards of veteran status have never been equally distributed. C…
August 30, 2022
Our Kind of Historian
Journalist, activist, popular historian, and public intellectual, Lerone Bennett Jr. left an indelible mark on twentieth-century American history and …
July 22, 2022
American Unitarian Churches
The Unitarian religious tradition was a product of the same eighteenth-century democratic ideals that fueled the American Revolution and informed the …
June 6, 2022
Urban Archipelago
The Boston Harbor Islands have been called Boston's "hidden shores." While some are ragged rocks teeming with coastal wildlife, such as oystercatchers…
May 27, 2022
We Begin Bombing in Five Minutes
Ronald Reagan’s hagiography has created an entire mythology around the 40th president of the US; anticommunism and the fight against the ‘Evil Empire’…