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Celebrate University Press Week with us Nov 10-14 by browsing this reading list of amazing University Press publications from University Presses across the US and beyond! #TeamUP #ReadUP

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November 10, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Sean Rost, author of CATCHING HELL FROM ALL QUARTERS: Anti-Klan Activists in Interwar Missouri, was interviewed about his new book on KY3. Watch the full interview here:

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November 7, 2025 at 8:51 PM
On Thursday, Nov. 20, at 6:30pm, Judith Yaross Lee, coeditor of SEEING MAD, will discuss the impact of MAD Magazine at the Cincinnati Art Museum. For more information:

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November 7, 2025 at 6:46 PM
KC Studio Magazine said this about SHARING THE LOVE OF GARDENING: The History of The Westport Garden Club:

"Wolferman deftly guides the reader through the club’s conception and birth and the myriad projects its garden-obsessed, hardworking and dedicated members have conceived and executed."
November 7, 2025 at 6:41 PM
THE DAY THEY HANGED OLD BROWN: The Making of Celebrity and Martyrdom in the Civil War Era by John R. Van Atta is now available! Find the book here:

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November 4, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Dwayne Eutsey's Oct. 29 lecture presented by the Elmira College Center for Mark Twain Studies is now available on YouTube. Find the link here:

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November 3, 2025 at 2:24 PM
TOUCHING HOME: Baseball and the Liberal-Republican Tradition in America by Mary Craig is now available. Find the book here:

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October 31, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Dwayne Eutsey, author of THERE IS NO HUMOR IN HEAVEN: Mark Twain and Religious Liberalism, will deliver a lecture about the book at the Chemung Valley Museum, 415 E. Water Street, Elmira, NY, 14901, on October 30 at 7PM EST.

For more information:

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October 29, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Dwayne Eutsey, author of THERE IS NO HUMOR IN HEAVEN: Mark Twain and Religious Liberalism, will deliver a lecture about the book at the Barn at Quarry Farm, 131 Crane Road, Elmira, NY 14901, on Wednesday, October 29, at 7PM EST.

For more information:

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October 27, 2025 at 5:49 PM
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the 1985 World Series, we’re giving away a free copy of INTERSTATE ’85 by Marshall Garvey.

Comment your answer to the following trivia question on Facebook or Bluesky. The first correct answer across all platforms wins a free copy of the book:
October 27, 2025 at 4:10 PM
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the 1985 World Series, we’re giving away a free copy of INTERSTATE ’85 by Marshall Garvey.

Comment your answer to the following trivia question on Facebook or Bluesky. The first correct answer across all our platforms wins a free copy of the book:
October 24, 2025 at 3:57 PM
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the 1985 World Series, we’re giving away a free copy of INTERSTATE ’85 by Marshall Garvey.

Comment your answer to the following trivia question on Facebook or Bluesky. The first correct answer across all platforms wins a free copy of the book:
October 23, 2025 at 2:32 PM
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the 1985 World Series, we’re giving away a free copy of INTERSTATE ’85 by Marshall Garvey.

Comment your answer to the following trivia question on Facebook or Bluesky. The first correct answer across all platforms wins a free copy of the book:
October 22, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Read an excerpt from INTERSTATE '85: The Royals, the Cardinals, and the Show-Me World Series by Marshall Garvey on the University of Missouri Press blog:

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October 21, 2025 at 5:19 PM
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the 1985 World Series, we’re giving away a free copy of INTERSTATE ’85 by Marshall Garvey.

Comment your answer to the following trivia question on Facebook or Bluesky. The first correct answer across all platforms wins a free copy of the book:
October 20, 2025 at 7:48 PM
This week we are celebrating the 40th anniversary of the 1985 World Series.

Author Marshall Garvey has immortalized the series in his new book, INTERSTATE ’85. We’ll be offering a discount, as well as book giveaways.

Use discount code SHOWME40 to receive 40% off and free shipping!
October 20, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Midwest Book Review said CATCHING HELL FROM ALL QUARTERS: Anti-Klan Activists in Interwar Missouri by Sean Rost is an "original, seminal, and groundbreaking study."
October 17, 2025 at 2:44 PM
In an article in the Columbia Daily Tribune, the Daniel Boone Regional Library called THE NELSON-ATKINS MUSEUM: A History a "compelling narrative of this Kansas City museum’s creation in 1933, highlighting people, events and ambitions."

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October 14, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Join Rabia Gregory, co-editor of CONFLUENCES: Religion, Health, and Diversity in Missouri, for a discussion about the book on Wednesday, October 22, 4:30-6:30 pm, at the MU Student Center, 2206 B&C.

For more information:

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October 14, 2025 at 5:19 PM
The Missouri Historical Review said CATCHING HELL FROM ALL QUARTERS by Sean Rost is a "valuable addition to the literature, a valiant effort at shifting focus in studies of the racist and nativist interwar Ku Klux Klan movement to forefront those working to counter the Klan.”
October 8, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Marshall Garvey, author of INTERSTATE '85, recently appeared on the Sports-Casters podcast to discuss the book. Listen to the episode below:

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October 3, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Collapse at Meuse-Argonne: The Failure of the Missouri-Kansas Division by Robert H. Ferrell

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September 29, 2025 at 5:19 PM
A Youth in the Meuse-Argonne: A Memoir, 1917-1918 by William S. Triplet

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September 29, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Argonne Days in World War I by Horace L. Baker

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September 29, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Wisconsin Bookwatch called SHARING THE LOVE OF GARDENING by Kristie Wolferman a "magnificently illustrated, meticulously researched, impressively well organized and informative horticultural society history."
September 23, 2025 at 2:59 PM