Happy publication day, Dr Ida Milne! Stacking the coffins is now officially available and you can buy your copy here: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526122698/

Dr. Cornel West reflects on the life of Rev. Dr. James Cone newblackmaninexile.net/2018/05/dr-cor…

In his new book, James Williams launches a plea to society and to the tech industry to help ensure that the technology we all carry with us every day does not distract us from pursuing our true goals in life. Read 'Stand Out of Our Light' here: ow.ly/Va1R30kfKRd

Walt Whitman was born #OTD in 1819. In celebration, check out Pulitzer-prize winning writer and Princeton University professor C.K. Williams's On Whitman, an exploration of Leaves of Grass as he first encountered it press.princeton.edu/titles/9123.ht… It's also available in #audiobook format

"American Poetry in Performance: From #WaltWhitman to Hip Hop" by Tyler Hoffman. Performance poetry, identity, and nationality throughout American history. #ReadUP press.umich.edu/3091522/americ…

NEW How did the data collected in mental hospitals starting in the early 19th century give rise to the science of human heredity? UCLA professor Theodore Porter sheds light on this and more in his new book, Genetics in the Madhouse press.princeton.edu/titles/11242.h…

Excerpt from POWER-LINED by Daniel L. Wuebben University of Nebraska at Omaha #newbooks unpblog.com/2019/07/12/exc…

“...bravely explores all-black sports teams on their own terms, calling for more scholarly studies of this history independent of integration. It also brings to light teams and individuals that have, for too long, been overlooked."—Sport Hist. Rev. uapress.com/product/separa…

.Inside Higher Ed features BORDER LAND, BORDER WATER by C.J. Alvarez in this roundup for "Reading the Border Crisis." Read the roundup → insidehighered.com/views/2019/07/… #bordercrisis #ReadUP

👏🏽👏🏽 “The New Noir: Race, Identity, and Diaspora in Black Suburbia” by Orly Clerge is coming Oct. ‘19 (& is available for preorder now ucpress.edu/book/978052029…)

For The Washington Post, author Candy Gunther Brown explains the reasoning behind religious criticisms of public school mindfulness programs. Learn more about her book, DEBATING YOGA AND MINDFULNESS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS, on our website: bit.ly/2UrGKj5 washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/…

American Parishes: Remaking Local Catholicism, edited by Gary J. Adler Jr., Tricia C. Bruce, and Brian Starks #NewRelease ow.ly/qLI330oK8n0

Via Los Angeles Times 50 years after Apollo 11, the moon’s allure still resonates ow.ly/LFIH50uYTra

New books by Saidiya Hartman and you betta call me Dr. Dunbar explore counternarratives of Black life as "a sisterhood of reference and retrieval that arcs back to 1619 and the beginnings of African enslavement," writes Jehan. buff.ly/2JE09Ga

There's still time (until June 30) to apply for Feminist Press's Louise Meriwether First Book Prize. Open to women of color and nonbinary writers of color for their fiction or nonfiction mss. Winner receives $5K advance + publication. feministpress.org/louise-meriwet…

It's here! #MakingStarsPhysical

Why academics should redefine successful health research to include goals impacting health in real world settings. oxford.ly/2KQtmNX SBM Leah Zullig, PhD

Sarah Kinkel, author of Disciplining the Empire, discusses the 18th-century British Navy, her love of science fiction and gifting books as a public service in this week's Times Higher Education timeshighereducation.com/books/books-in…

Is your university racist? Five questions to ask. ow.ly/Mz3e30kb4hf

Join Writing on the Wall tonight for A Tale of Two Georges: Orwell and Garrett on the Road to Wigan Pier. Tickets available here: bit.ly/2H7mcpI