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A guest blog post by Dr. Dustin Gish, coeditor with Andrew Bibby of the new book RIVAL VISIONS: How Jefferson and His Contemporaries Defined the Early American Republic.
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Putting Enlightenment Science into Practice: Humboldt, Jefferson, and the Transatlantic Fight against Smallpox. A guest post by Sandra Rebok, author of Humboldt and Jefferson: A Transatlantic Friendship of the Enlightenment.
Booker T. Washington, who emerged from slavery to become one of the leading African American intellectuals around the turn of the 20th century, had ties to Charlottesville that eventually led to a city park being named after him.
A new connection between Washington and this area will be forged virtually via the University of Virginia Press’ electronic imprint, Rotunda, which has acquired “The Booker T. Washington Papers” to create a digital edition.
Washington – an author, pioneer in higher education, adviser to presidents and business leaders, and a pillar in the emerging Black elite and middle class – helped conceive a future for an educated, prosperous Black society in the wake of emancipation and Reconstruction. His views and ideas were not without controversy, however. ...(MORE)
UVA Press Reading Series
The University of Virginia Press is pleased to announce a new reading club that features themed books throughout the year at a discounted rate. The 2020 theme is Virginia Pathways and People for those interested in the flora, fauna, and people of Virginia. Books in the annual series are appropriate for book clubs, classrooms, or just your nearby easy chair. Selected by Press staff, these books will take you on journeys through beautiful landscapes, remarkable and conflicting histories, and engaging ideas and perspectives through fiction, biography, and design. The book series selections for 2020 are specially priced at a 40% discount to you, your family members, or friends with free shipping. Buy all 20 or mix and match to your own interests. Use code 10VPP.
Rotunda
Rotunda was created for the publication of original digital scholarship along with newly digitized critical and documentary editions in the humanities and social sciences. The collection combines the originality, intellectual rigor, and scholarly value of traditional peer-reviewed university press publishing with thoughtful technological innovation designed for scholars and students.
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- Pain—“Racial Hurt and Soul Murder” from African Americans and the Culture of Pain by Debra Walker King
- Seeing—“Trayvon Martin, Mike Brown, and Creative Productivity" from Bad Men by Howard Rambsy II
- Mirrors— “The Making of a Racist” from The Making of a Racist by Charles B. Dew
- Remembering—“Introduction” from Educated in Tyranny—Slavery at Thomas Jefferson’s University by Maurie D. McInnis and Louis Nelson (eds.)
- Reality—"From Researching the Past to Reimagining the Future: Locating Carceral Crisis and the Key to its End, in the Long Twentieth Century" by Heather Ann Thompson in The Punitive Turn: New Approaches to Race and Incarceration, Deborah E. McDowell, Claudrena n. Harold, and Juan Battle (Eds.)
- Action and Light—“Goodness—Altruism and the Literary Imagination. 2012 Ingersoll Lecture by Toni Morrison in Toni Morrison—Goodness and the Literary Imagination, David Carrasco, Stephanie Paulsell, and Mara Willard (eds.)
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