In The Pandemic Workplace, anthropologist Ilana Gershon turns her attention to the US workplace and how it changed—and changed us—during the pandemic. In this excerpt, we share a snippet from the book’s introduction. Introduction At some point in the week of March 9, 2020, people’s daily lives in the United States
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As we wrap up the dog days of summer, we are excited to mark one last, very different sort of dog day before the arrival of autumn: National Dog Day on August 26. To celebrate National Dog Day this year, we have put together a reading list of books new
In honor of Women in Translation Month, we are pleased to share this exciting list of recent books from the University of Chicago Press and our marketing distribution client publishers that evidence the evocative power of women’s writing from around the globe. From The University of Chicago Press Slashing Sounds
In honor of the 2024 Olympic Games, kicking off tomorrow in Paris, we’ve put together a list of our favorite books on sports history and culture, techniques, analytics, and the history of the Games. Learn how to optimize your swing on the golf course, set your pace on the track,
In her new book, Embodied Histories, historian Katya Motyl explores the everyday acts of defiance that formed the basis for new, unconventional forms of womanhood in early twentieth-century Vienna. The figures Motyl brings back to life defied gender conformity, dressed in new ways, behaved brashly, and expressed themselves freely, overturning assumptions
In celebration of Pride Month, we’d like to highlight one of our authors whose work thoughtfully examines the history of psychiatry’s impact on the lives of queer and gender-nonconforming people. In the mid-twentieth century, American psychiatrists proclaimed homosexuality a mental disorder, one that was treatable and amenable to cure. Drawing
Mann Gulch: A National Legacy at Seventy-Five, a Guest Post from John N. Maclean
August 5, 2024, marks the seventy-fifth anniversary of Montana’s deadly Mann Gulch fire, immortalized by Norman Maclean in his best-selling book, Young Men and Fire. Today, Maclean’s son, John N. Maclean, will deliver this speech for an anniversary observance at Montana’s state capital in Helena. A quarter century ago, Bob