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The Recent Upsurge of Anti-Abortion Sentiments and the Constitutional Right...
By John W. Johnson This year has already emerged as the year that anti-abortion activists have achieved their greatest triumphs since the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in Roe v. Wade (1973). As...
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Garcia Named International Latino Book Awards Finalist
Dennis Garcia’s book Marine, Public Servant, Kansas; The Life of Ernest Garcia has been named a finalist the Twentieth Annual International Latino Book Awards. Garcia is nominated in the Best Biography...
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Three UPK Titles Named 2019 Kansas Notable Books
Topeka, KS – Last week State Librarian Eric Norris announced the 14th annual selection of Kansas Notable Books. The fifteen books feature quality titles with wide public appeal, either written by a...
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A Prosecco Toast to 16 Years…
Today is Production Editor Larisa Martin’s last day at the University Press of Kansas. For 16 years her eagle eye has helped authors produce their best work and her magnetic personality filled our...
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UPK’s Dr. John H. Morrow Jr. Named Pritzker Award Recipient
CHICAGO, July 9, 2019— Military historian, professor, and author Dr. John H. Morrow, Jr. is the 13th recipient of the Pritzker Military Museum & Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in...
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Sotirios A. Barber Readdresses the Idea of Constitutional Failure
The Federalist proposes the electoral college and the system of checks and balances as safeguards against demagoguery in the American presidency. In a Washington Post OpEd of July 11, David Lay...
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African Americans in White Suburbia
UPK author Ernest McGowen III’s tremendous 2017 book African Americans in White Suburbia; Social Networks and Political Behavior studies how, despite decades of progress, African Americans living in...
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Nixon, Trump and Courting the Silent Majority
by Seth Blumenthal, author of Children of the Silent Majority;Young Voters and the Rise of the Republican Party, 1968-1980 Listening to White House aides such as Kevin Phillips, who urged a shift to...
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Introducing New Acquisitions Editor Bethany R. Mowry
New UPK acquisitions editor Bethany R. Mowry is a proud Navy brat, a native Kansan, and an expert on maritime history. No, really. “I understand how those things may not really go together,” she says...
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The Supreme Court, the President and Impeachment
by Joshua E. Kastenberg, author of The Campaign to Impeach Justice William O. Douglas; Nixon, Vietnam, and the Conservative Attack on Judicial Independence The Constitution does not expressly set out a...
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Dennis Raphael Garcia and Ernie Garcia to Speak at Dole Center of Politics
Marine, Public Servant, Kansan: The Life of Ernest Garcia author Dennis Raphael Garcia and book subject Ernie Garcia will speak at the Robert J. Dole Center of Politics this Thursday, October 17, at...
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Keith E. Whittington named Thomas M. Cooley Book Prize Recipient
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Georgetown Law’s Center for the Constitution will award its third Thomas M. Cooley Book Prize of $50,000 to Professor Keith E. Whittington of Princeton University for his book,...
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The Jayhawks, Sanctions and the Role We All Play…
by Andrew Malan Milward, author of Jayhawker; On History, Home, and Basketball In 2016 I was hired as an English professor at Auburn University. After the fall semester, I called an old writing buddy...
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The University Press and Building Community
For Danny Caine, owner of the Raven Book Store in downtown Lawrence, Kansas, building community is just another part of the job. “What are we without a community?” Caine asks with a sense of sarcasm....
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Sarah Burns (“The Politics of War Powers”) Q&A
The Constitution of the United States divides war powers between the executive and legislative branches to guard against ill-advised or unnecessary military action. This division of powers compels both...
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Revisiting David E. Kyvig’s “The Age of Impeachment”
Some books seem to live forever, others live multiple lives. In the summer of 2017, as President Trump was making news with pardons, Jeffrey Crouch’s 2009 book The Presidential Pardon Power began to...
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The Road to the Trump Presidency
by Stephen Knott, author of The Lost Soul of the American Presidency; The Decline into Demagoguery and the Prospects for Renewal / Opinions expressed here are entirely his own. Donald Trump is...
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Three Things I Wish I Knew When I Went on the Academic Job Market
by Rachel Neff, author of Chasing Chickens; When Life after Higher Education Doesn’t Go the Way You Planned I started preparing for the academic job market in the summer of 2012. Using my temporary...
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Timothy B. Smith Discusses “The Union Assaults at Vicksburg”
It was the third week of May 1863, and after seven months and six attempts, Ulysses S. Grant was finally at the doorstep of Vicksburg. What followed was a series of attacks and maneuvers against the...
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Roger R. Reese Wins 2019 Norman B. Tomlinson, Jr., Prize
The World War One Historical Association’s 2019 Norman B. Tomlinson, Jr., prize for the best work of history in English on World War One has been awarded to two exceptional historians: Yigit Akin for...
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