In this interview on WBUR’s “On Point” Heather Hendershot (WHEN THE NEWS BROKE), together with other experts, tries to answer a pressing question: Is the U.S. a democracy? abc7.ws/4bmo2hh

🚨 Upcoming Event | 'The Policing Machine: Enforcement, Endorsements, and the Illusion of Public Input'

Join Tony Cheng, in discussion with Johann Koehler (@LSESocialPolicy), at this Mannheim Criminology & LSE Phelan US Centre event ⤵️

lse.ac.uk/social-policy/…

🗓️ Tues 21 May
⏰ 6:30-8:00pm

TODAY Harvard Book Store: I'll be in conversation w/ Brandon Terry about my book, Freeman's Challenge: The Murder that Shook America's Original Prison for Profit. Hope you can join us!
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I spoke w/the Harvard Gazette about William Freeman's challenge to America's original prison for profit--how it was silenced, and how that silencing planted seeds of racist ideology that dominate today.
news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/… UChicagoPress

“Property taxes have played a key role in fueling segregation since the 20th century”-Read this interview with @AndrewKahrl (THE BLACK TAX) on ITEP’s Just Taxes blog about how property tax systems serve to expand economic discrimination of Black people: bit.ly/4dFlPil

In this episode of STBYM, Robert chats with evolutionary biologist Lee Alan Dugatkin about his new book “The Well-Connected Animal.” You'll learn about the complex social networks of vampire bats, dolphins, bees and more. 

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Social Networks and the Complexity and Beauty of Animal Life

In his fascinating new book, Lee Dugatkin writes about the flexible, intricate, and varied social networks many diverse nonhumans form and use daily.

psychologytoday.com/us/blog/animal…

Neil Diboll, coauthor of THE GARDNER'S GUIDE TO PRAIRIE PLANTS with Hilary Cox, speaks with Margaret Roach about how to identify native plants. Read on in the New York Times: nyti.ms/3K0EF6b

“Another economy is possible because it is thinkable and has already existed.” | Etienne Helmer proposes a new economy inspired by the Ancient Greeks, one that does not divorce wealth creation from its broader social and ethical consequences.
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It is with tears in my eyes that today I am able to finally make this long-awaited announcement that my late father’s book, My Palestine, is now available to order.

My father Mohammad Tarbush, whom Edward Said described “as impressive a man as the Arab world has to show”, lived

At New Lines Magazine, Scott R. Stroud explores how the reformer Ambedkar cast a vision for a more equal society by blending John Dewey’s pragmatist ideas with a novel form of Buddhism: bit.ly/3UIqhnR

'The complexity of animal social behavior is astonishing...'

Author Lee Alan Dugatkin shares his 3 greatest revelations while writing 'The Well-Connected Animal: Social Networks and the Wondrous Complexity of Animal Societies.'

nautil.us/the-astonishin…

Academic book authors: The last day for the Early Bird discount for The Dissertation-to-Book Workshop is Wed., May 15!

Join us to work through The Dissertation-to-Book Workbook (UChicagoPress) with a supportive cohort!

#AcademicTwitter

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For her recent book, Local Interests (UChicagoPress), Sarah Anzia (MPP Harris Policy PhD Stanford University) surveyed elected officials/candidates across municipal governments in the U.S., asking them to rate political activity of various interest groups in cities promarket.org/2024/05/13/loc…

While we prepare for the 2024 Presidential Election, we talked with Ann Southworth, author of BIG MONEY UNLEASHED, to discuss some of the history that has shaped our current political landscape: bit.ly/3KlGTNH

#OTD On May 13, 1888 Brazil abolished slavery. It was the last country in the Americas to abolish slavery. My book Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery (UChicagoPress 2024) tells this story by giving Brazil a prominent place #slaveryarchive press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book…

Don't judge a book etc... but its wonderful to see the cover of my forthcoming book, designed by Annie Leue. The book will be out this autumn with UChicagoPress, and the cover image, from Northern Sudan, is by the one and only Alasdair Pinkerton

Congratulations to our friends and distribution client publishers University of London Press on this honor!

Historian @NataliaPetrzela (FIT NATION) was interviewed on WHYY’s The Pulse to talk about how America came to be obsessed with fitness more than ever, but also less healthy (35:20): n.pr/44Co3Lp

The American Association for the History of Medicine meeting may be ending, but our virtual exhibit is still open! Browse our virtual exhibit and get 30% off and free domestic shipping using promo code EX57714 here: bit.ly/3UNgpKF #AAHM2024