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Only a month 'til the publication of “Framing the First World War: How Divergent Views Shaped a Global Conflict”, edited by me, @mpmfinch.bsky.social & @dmorganowen.bsky.social!

US readers: get 30% discount (code: FRAMINGWWI) & free shipping if you order direct from @univpressofkansas.bsky.social

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"Voigt’s work is a masterful reexamination of AIM’s fight for #sovereignty and the manifestation of #Indigenous #masculinity within that fight." - Paul McKenzie-Jones on "Reinventing the #Warrior" by Matthias André Voigt. Read: doi.org/10.1080/27708888.2025.2498228

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1) Read the blog "The Sleepy Lagoon Case: It's Happening Again" by Mark A. Weitz, Author here: kansaspress.ku.edu/news/.

2) Order The Sleepy Lagoon Murder Case: Race Discrimination and Mexican-American Rights and receive 40% off with code: SLEEPYLAGOON (kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700617470/).

Join the New York Law School event featuring author Mark A. Graber!

RSVP today: www.nyls.edu/events/book-....

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Listen to Bill Kurtis read his own story through the audiobook version of Whirlwind. Now available on Apple Books, Amazon, and other retail vendors.

Publication announcement!

Get your copy of U.S. v. Darby Lumber by John A. Fliter today and get 30% off + free shipping* with code: DARBYLUMBER at checkout (kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700640591/).
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With Plainspoken approach, University Press of Kansas pursues regional audience — and writers • Kansas Reflector Plainspoken Books is is really interested in telling authentic Midwest stories and getting them in front of national a national readership.

Opinion editor @claywires.bsky.social writes: With Plainspoken approach, University Press of Kansas pursues regional audience — and writers @univpressofkansas.bsky.social #ksleg

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Last night at Washburn University, I was recognized for Las Madres with a 2025 Kansas Notable Book Award. 📚✨

My heartfelt thanks to the State Library of Kansas and @univpressofkansas.bsky.social for believing in these stories and bringing them to readers. 🙏

#LasMadres #KansasNotableBook

I’m at the Kansas Book Festival today at Washburn University, spending time at the @univpressofkansas.bsky.social table and meeting so many thoughtful readers. 📚✨

If you’re here at the festival, I’d love for you to stop by and say hello. 🙏

#LasMadres #KansasNotableBook #KansasBookFestival

The Kansas Book Festival was a day filled with conversations, community, and a shared love of stories. 📚✨

Spending time at the @univpressofkansas.bsky.social table reminded me how meaningful it is to meet readers face-to-face. My thanks to everyone who made this day possible. 💜

What a wonderful time we had with @kansaspublicradio.bsky.social in celebrating the amazing career of Bill Kurtis! Thank you all that showed up and shared your love of Bill's work in journalism and his new book Whirlwind: My Life Reporting the News:
kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700640041/.

1) Read @drgarciaauthor.bsky.social new blog on Hispanic Heritage Month entitled "Subjugation" here: kansaspress.ku.edu/blog/2025/09....

2) Order Las Madres: Latinas in the Heartland Who Led Their Family to Success and get 40% off with code: LASMADRES: kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700637980/.

Don't miss your chance to see authors Pete Janzen and Bob Gress at the following events:

-Life Enrichment Program Bethel College, North Newton, KS on Wednesday, September 24, at 10:50AM

- Kansas Ornithological Society at Pittsburg State University September 26-28th.

Grateful to Whitney Hodgin and the Dodge City Globe for covering my September 16 talk at Dodge City Community College. 📚

https://www.dodgeglobe.com/author-garcia-shares-message-of-hope-on-mexican-ind-day/#close-modal

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Happy Constitutional Day! Get 50% off select titles now through September 18th! You don't want to miss this deal: kansaspress.ku.edu/constitution....

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Keith Miller & Scott Bean Photography will be at:
1) Flint Hills Discovery Center, Sept. 21st, at 2:00PM
2) The Dusty Bookshelf - Manhattan, Sept. 23rd, at 6:30PM

Author Fran Levine will be presenting at the Historical Society of New Mexico conference on September 26th, at 8:30AM - 10:00AM "On Writing Southwest History."

We are all setup @apsa.bsky.social conference! Enjoy 40% off + free shipping* on select titles now through October 10: kansaspress.ku.edu/apsa-2025/.

1) Read blog #2 on Hispanic Heritage Month by
@drgarciaauthor.bsky.social
here: kansaspress.ku.edu/blog/2025/09....

2) Order your copy of Las Madres and get 40% off using code: LASMADRES at checkout: kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700637980/.

3) See Dennis live in Kansas: kansaspress.ku.edu/events/.

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“I once asked Hobson why anyone should believe his defense of his parents. His answer astonished me: he didn’t love them enough to lie for them.”

Jeff Kisseloff revisits Whittaker Chambers’s accusations against Alger Hiss, from Rewriting Hisstory, @univpressofkansas.bsky.social.

Excited to share that I’ll be adding a new stop on my Kansas tour 📚✨

Join me at Best Cellars in Dodge City on Sept 18, 6 PM for a book signing & author event. Honored to bring Las Madres—a 2025 Kansas Notable Book—back to the community that shaped so much of its story. 🍷

Read the @chicagotribune.com article here: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/27/c....

Purchase your copy of Whirlwind: My Life Reporting the News by Bill Kurtis here: kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700640041/.

Don't miss your chance to see editors Tom Averill and Leslie VonHolten, along with a few contributors, presenting the book Kansas Matters: Twenty-First-Century Writers on the Sunflower State at @watermarkbooks.bsky.social Watermark Books & Cafe. The event starts at 6:00PM, tomorrow September 12th.

Author Stephen Griffin will be giving a lecture Tulane University on Constitutional Day! Click here for further details: law.tulane.edu/news/profess....

DON'T FORGET to pick up your copy of Broken Trust: Dysfunctional Government and Constitutional Reform: kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700621224/.

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