Announcing Temple University Press’ Fall 2019 Books
This week in North Philly Notes, we showcase the titles on Temple University Press’ Fall 2019 catalog. Action=Vie: A History of AIDS Activism and Gay Politics in France, by Christophe Broqua...
View ArticleHonoring the largest high school regatta in the world
This week in North Philly Notes, we honor the recent Stotesbury Cup Regatta by posting an excerpt from Dotty Brown’s Boathouse Row, Edward T. Stotesbury was 78 years old in 1927 when he decided to...
View ArticleAnnouncing the new issue of Kalfou
This week in North Philly Notes, we present the table of contents for the new issue of Temple University Press’s journal, Kalfou, edited by George Lipsitz. Please recommend to your library! • To...
View ArticleCelebrating Pride
This week in North Philly Notes, we celebrate Pride month with a dozen Temple University Press’s LGBTQ titles. City of Sisterly and Brotherly Loves: Lesbian and Gay Philadelphia, 1945-1972, by Marc...
View ArticleCelebrating America
This week in North Philly Notes, we celebrate the Fourth of July with ten of Temple University Press’s “American” titles. These books look at colonial America, American culture, and the American...
View ArticleGolden nuggets for moving away from a technological culture to an ecological...
This week in North Philly Notes, William Cohen, author of Ecohumanism and the Ecological Culture, writes about Lewis Mumford and Ian McHarg, who inspired his book and field of study. I was a young city...
View ArticleQuality of Life and Courts
This week in North Philly Notes, Christine Zozula, author of Courting the Community, reflects on how low-level crimes have big implications for local communities. In late July of this year, Los Angeles...
View ArticleOn the anniversary of the McCarran Internal Security Act of 1950
This week in North Philly Notes, Masumi Izumi, author of The Rise and Fall of America’s Concentration Camp Law, writes about the McCarran Internal Security Act, which was enacted on September 23, 1950....
View ArticleRedefining Toxic Masculinity in Trump’s America
This week in North Philly Notes, Cynthia Barounis, author of Vulnerable Constitutions, writes about “anti-prophylactic citizenship,” and Trump’s rhetoric. When I first began to develop the concept of...
View ArticleTemple University Press and Libraries Make 32 Labor Studies Titles Freely...
This week in North Philly Notes, we recap our work reissuing out of print Labor Studies titles with the help of Temple University Libraries and an NEH Grant. In 2017, Temple University Press and Temple...
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Celebrating Filipino American History Month
This week in North Philly Notes, we showcase a dozen Temple University Press titles focusing on Filipino American lives and culture. Temple University Press is proud to be publishing these two new...
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Celebrating Open Access Week
This week in North Philly Notes, in honor of Open Access Week, we highlight Temple University Press’s efforts to promote barrier-free access to our books and journals. The theme of this year’s Open...
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University Press Week Blog Tour: How to be an environmental steward
It’s University Press Week and the Blog Tour is back! This year’s theme is Read. Think. Act. Today’s theme is: How to be an environmental steward. University of Pittsburgh Press @UPittPress Patricia...
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University Press Week Blog Tour: How to build community
It’s University Press Week and the Blog Tour is back! This year’s theme is Read. Think. Act. Today’s theme is: How to build community Paul Farber and Ken Lum, co-editors of our new book Monument Lab...
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Zingers and more from “unfiltered” sportswriter Stan Hochman’s posthumous book
This week in North Philly Notes, Gloria Hochman, editor of Stan Hochman Unfiltered, writes about compiling 100 of her late husband’s columns. As I read through Stan’s 7,000 columns to come up with the...
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Temple University Press’s Annual Holiday Give and Get
This week in North Philly Notes, the staff at Temple University Press suggest the Temple University Press books they would give along with some non-Temple University Press titles they hope to read and...
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Announcing Temple University Press’ Spring 2020 Catalog
Happy New Year! And Happy New Catalog! This week in North Philly Notes, we announce the titles from our Spring 2020 catalog. Shakespeare and Trump, by Jeffrey R. Wilson Revealing the modernity of...
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Discovering How Student Activism Matters
This week in North Philly Notes, Matthew Williams, author of Strategizing against Sweatshops, writes about what he learned by studying college students engaged in strategically innovative activism to...
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Time to Remember French AIDS Activism
This week in North Philly Notes, Christophe Broqua, author of Action = Vie, writes about Act Up-Paris. Since the end of 2018, large-scale mobilizations in France by activist groups have challenged the...
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Celebrating Black History Month
This week in North Philly Notes, we provide a roundup of some of the Press’s recent and classic Black History titles. The Great Migration and the Democratic Party: Black Voters and Realignment of...
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