University of Minnesota Press

07/16/2025

"I think we’re having the wrong debates about A.I. altogether." Author Leif Weatherby in The New York Times Opinion:

Perhaps the biggest effect A.I. will have on our lives is in giving us a new way to entertain ourselves.

07/16/2025

100th Birthday Appreciation Post.

The University of Minnesota Press was made official at a meeting of the Board of Regents on July 16, 1925. Margaret S. Harding, the Press's first director, was one of the first woman directors of a major university press. She famously worked with a staff that was mostly women and credited her hard-work ethic for heralding the rise and status of a Press that she and so many others were and are incredibly proud of.

During the past year or so Press staff—so many of whom have dedicated multiple decades of their lives to this singular place—have been meeting to plan for this occasion, to reminisce and reflect and decide how we wanted to mark this milestone. We have worked with authors and our community to produce a celebratory video. We have worked with each other to produce a spectacular, super-sized podcast episode. We have launched an exhibit with University of Minnesota Libraries at the University's Elmer Andersen Library that is free to visit through October 3. We have been proud to be featured in Publishers Weekly and University of Minnesota Alumni Association Magazine. (All of which can be found in links at z.umn.edu/ump100.) We have also been grateful for and humbled by the kind and enthusiastic messages received from so many walks of our community, through its many stages and iterations.

Thank you for following us. 💯

07/16/2025

Check out The House on Rondo - A young girl reckons with the demolition of a Black Saint Paul neighborhood to make way for the Interstate in the early 1960s When thirteen-year-old Zenobia has to leave her friends and spend the summer at Grandma's while Mama recovers from a stroke, lif...

07/15/2025

Thank you Publishers Weekly for the birthday wishes! 💯

The press, which was founded in July 1925 to publish pamphlets and bulletins, is celebrating its centennial all year as both its scholarly publishing and its trade and regional lists continue to thrive in a competitive marketplace.

07/10/2025

Now available: A new issue of Future Anterior (Columbia GSAPP) on the theme Experimental Preservation as a Social Practice. The journal is available on Project MUSE, as is an article on Hasselt University International's As Found exhibition.

article: https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/23/article/964488
full issue: https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/54489

including contributors Francesca Murialdo Maria Luna Nobile

07/09/2025

Adapted excerpt from Umayyah Cable's forthcoming Mainstreaming Palestine (Oct. '25) in Truthout:

How cinema fueled a mass uprising for Palestine that rattled corporate giants.

07/09/2025

🎧: Great new episode on our podcast featuring Rose Miron of Newberry Library and author of Indigenous Archival Activism in conversation with Jennifer O'Neal (University of Oregon and contributor to Indigenous Archives Collective) about public history and memory. Miron's book is winner of the National Council on Public History - NCPH book award and Book of Merit award from the Wisconsin Historical Society.

Listen at: https://share.transistor.fm/s/37e696c3

07/09/2025

The U of M Press has been chruning out beautiful books for 100 years.

07/08/2025

Important new books release today:

-Fortress Power by Derek Denman
"Highly relevant for our turbulent times." —Thomas Nail

-Opposition by Imitation by Christina Jerne
"Radically new directions for thinking about social movements." —Kevin McDonald, Middlesex University

-Now in paperback: White Burgers, Black Cash by Naa Oyo A. Kwate, winner of many honors including James Beard Foundation Foreword Reviews The Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) MAAH Stone Book Award Urban Affairs Association American Library Association Association for Humanist Sociology

07/07/2025

Big stack of new non-fiction for the start of the summer! Are you a witch, an abolitionist, a fan, a philosopher, or another kind of student? Come visit us and find a new piece of the world to learn about, or a new analysis of something you love.

07/07/2025

📚📚📚New Book Review!📚📚📚

Ruth Goldstein reviews // The cactus hunters: Desire and extinction in the illicit succulent trade // By Jared D. Margulies, University of Minnesota Press

Find it here in AE 52.3 Early View: ⤵️
https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/amet.13423

07/02/2025

🎧 Has the city become history? A conversation on urbanism in the new millennium, the explosive growth of Bengaluru, and lessons for making a livable city, with Vinay Gidwani, Hemangini Gupta, Kaveri Medappa, Swathi Shivanand, and Michael Goldman.

https://share.transistor.fm/s/4d1ae1d0