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Team up with the Association of University Presses and Rutgers University Press and look for exciting events during University Press Week, November 8-14.

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November 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM

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We will be exhibiting at the annual conference so stop by to visit us.

30% Off Conference Special

Whether you are attending or not, you can order our books for 30% off with free U.S. shipping. Discount code: RNWSA25.

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November 7, 2025 at 8:00 PM

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We will be exhibiting at the annual conference so stop by to visit us.

30% Off Conference Special

Whether you are attending or not, you can order our books for 30% off with free U.S. shipping. Discount code: RAAA25.

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November 7, 2025 at 8:00 PM

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Amy Shea discusses her new book TOO POOR TO DIE: THE HIDDEN REALITIES OF DYING IN THE MARGINS with Stephen Pimpare (@stephenpimpare.bsky.social) on the New Books Network (@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social):

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November 6, 2025 at 8:19 PM

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We will be exhibiting at the annual conference so stop by to visit us.

30% Off Conference Special

Whether you are attending or not, you can order our books for 30% off with free U.S. shipping. Discount code: RHES25.

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November 6, 2025 at 8:00 PM

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MNG - University Presses

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Upending hierarchies of class, religion, and gender, The Paris Commune emerged as a touchstone for the subsequent century-and-a-half of revolutionary and radical social movements.

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November 6, 2025 at 4:04 PM

Rutgers University Press

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We will be exhibiting at the annual conference so stop by to visit us.

30% Off Conference Special

Whether you are attending or not, you can order our books for 30% off with free U.S. shipping. Discount code: RASHE25.

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November 5, 2025 at 8:00 PM

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Wunpini F. Mohammed, PhD

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Book is out! 💃🏿💛💙

Guys, I wrote a WHOLE book! Oh my God! 🙈😊

You can order it via @rutgersupress.bsky.social here
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November 2, 2025 at 12:16 PM

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Melissa Ludtke, author of "Locker Room Talk: A Woman’s Struggle to Get Inside" had a lively conversation with Hillary Clinton, former U.S. Secretary of State at the 92 Street Y in New York last night. Watch the entire conversation.

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November 1, 2025 at 4:06 PM

Rutgers University Press

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We will be exhibiting at the annual conference so stop by to visit us.

30% Off Conference Special

Whether you are attending or not, you can order our books for 30% off with free U.S. shipping. Discount code: RHES25.

www.rutgersuniversit...

#HES25

October 31, 2025 at 7:00 PM

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Academe

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Committee A member Joan W. Scott praises Jane S. Smith’s A Blacklist Education as “a carefully wrought analysis of power and of different kinds of resistance to it.” Read the full review in #Academe:

Legacies of Teacher Persecution and Resistance

Joan W. Scott reviews A Blacklist Education by Jane S. Smith.

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September 18, 2025 at 6:24 PM

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Dartmouth Arts and Sciences

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Congratulations to professor Rachel Feldman, who received the American Academy of Religion’s 2025 Book Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion: Analytical-Descriptive Studies for her book “Messianic Zionism in the Digital Age” from @rutgersupress.bsky.social.

Prof. Rachel Feldman Wins AAR's Book Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion: Analytical-Descriptive Studies

Professor Rachel Feldman is the 2025 receipient of the American Academy of Religion Awards for Excellence in the Study of Religion: Analytical-Descrip

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October 27, 2025 at 7:50 PM

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Melissa Ludtke, author of "Locker Room Talk: A Woman’s Struggle to Get Inside" had a lively conversation with Hillary Clinton, former U.S. Secretary of State at the 92 Street Y in New York last night.

www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/locker-room-...

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October 29, 2025 at 9:29 PM

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American Sociological Association

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In his new book, Class Cultures and Social Mobility, ASA member Paul Dean (Ohio Wesleyan University) reveals how first-gen graduates leverage unique skills—their working-class cultural capital—in college and their professional careers. @rutgersupress.bsky.social

Class Cultures and Social Mobility - Rutgers University Press

When working-class first-generation students enter college or the professional workplace, they often find themselves immersed in entirely new worlds. They mu...

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October 23, 2025 at 2:45 PM

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Congratulations to Karen Fang, whose book BACKGROUND ARTIST: THE LIFE AND WORK OF TYRUS WONG was a finalist for the Theatre Library Association's 2024 Richard Wall Memorial Award for exemplary work in the field of recorded performance. Kudos!

October 23, 2025 at 1:57 PM

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"Menace of Our Time: The Long War Against American Communism" by Aaron J. Leonard

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October 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM

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"The Golden Girls: Tales from the Lanai" Edited by Taylor Cole Miller and Alfred L Martin Jr.

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October 21, 2025 at 3:00 PM

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Lorraine Mangione, author of MARY CLIMBS IN: THE JOURNEYS OF BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN'S WOMEN FANS, writes about the celebrations for the 50th anniversary of the "Born to Run" album for the Daily Hampshire Gazette: gazettenet.com/2025/10/17/t...