The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota

23/09/2025

It's once again NEW BOOK DAY at The Digital Press!!

We are very excited to announce the publication of Shawn Graham's book Practical Necromancy for Beginners: A Short Incomplete Opinionated Introduction to Artificial Intelligence for Archaeology and History Students.

This book offers a focused guide for historians and archaeologists who want to figure out how to use AI in their research and their classroom. The title of the book invokes the haunting figure of the necromancer, an ancient priest who could talk to ghosts. He advocates a kind of digital necromancy in our approach to Large Language Model (LLM) AIs and encourages us to "break them, push them, prod them, make them give up the ghosts in their data."

Download a FREE, Open Access copy here:

Download | PurchaseMedia Kit Shawn Graham, Practical Necromancy for Beginners: A Short Incomplete Opinionated Introduction to Artificial Intelligence for Archaeology and History Students. Grand For…

09/09/2025

Check out the latest book from The Digital Press.

Context and Content is the first book length treatment of the work of WD (Wild Drawing). Over 100 photographs of his work in Athens and further afield complement a half dozen new essays on his work and an interview with the author.

The book was edited by Kostis Kourelis and published in collaboration with WD. And, like all Digital Press books, it's free (or available as a paperback).

Download | PurchaseMedia Kit Wild Drawing (WD), Context and Content: The Art of WD. Edited by Kostis Kourelis. Grand Forks, ND: The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota Wild Drawing (WD)…

18/03/2025

A couple of years ago we published Tuna Kalaycı's edited volume, Archaeologies of Roads.

It was a slow mover at first, but, over the last year, it has become one of our most popular titles. Check it out. It's free and it's good:

Download | PurchaseMedia Kit Tuna Kalaycı, ed. Archaeologies of Roads. 2023. What happens if we think of roads not only as a static archaeological object but as a dynamic and complex phenomenon? In…

11/03/2025

It's NEW BOOK DAY at The Digital Press.

Check out Michael G. Michlovic’s An Archaeology of the Red River of the North! This book provides an expansive survey of the indigenous cultures and peoples in the region of the Red River from the recession of Lake Agassiz around 9000 years ago to the intrusion of the Europeans.

It's an insightful and much needed addition to the archaeology of North Dakota, western Minnesota, and Manitoba. And it's a free download or a low cost paperback!

Download | PurchaseMedia Kit Michael G. Michlovic, An Archaeology of the Red River of the North. 2025 An Archaeology of the Red River of the North offers an expansive survey of the indigenous …

11/02/2025

We are excited to announce the publication of a revised and expanded version of Eric Burin's edited volume: Picking the President: Understanding the Electoral College.

It's a massive update to a modern classic (in our humble opinion) and, as with all Digital Press books, you can download it for free (or buy a low-cost paperback version):

It is my pleasure to announce the publication a Revised and Expanded Edition of Eric Burin’s Picking the President: Understanding the Electoral College. This edition features over a doze…

12/11/2024

It's NEW BOOK DAY! And we're very excited to have once again collaborated with North Dakota Quarterly on a book project.

Check out Ismael Gaspirali's The Muslims of Darürrahat translated by Çiğdem Pala Mull and edited by Sharon Carson.

It's a brilliant utopian novel written in the 19th century by a Crimean Tartar intellectual, Ismael Gaspirali, that transcends its historical and national context by offering drama, intrigue, and wisdom.

It's also free.

Download | PurchaseMedia Kit Ismail Gaspirali, The Muslims of Darürrahat. Translated by Çiğdem Pala Mull. Edited by Sharon Carson. 2024. In Ismail Gaspirali’s 1890s story The Muslims of Darürrahat,…

15/10/2024

It's new book day at the The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota:

Check out Big Pandemic on the Prairie: The Spanish Flu in North Dakota by Chris Price. It's an engaging and well-researched study of how North Dakota communities, politicians, and institutions responded to the deadliest pandemic of the 20th century. It not only tells some surprising stories about North Dakota's reaction to the Spanish Flu, but also offers some revealing insights to how we responded to the COVID-19 pandemic in the 21st century.

Download it for free here or grab a $15 paperback to support the work of the Digital Press:

About a decade ago, in the very early days of the Digital Press at the University of North Dakota, I approached a graduate student with the idea to write a little book on the last wood framed churc…

09/10/2024

In 'Grand Forks at 150: The First Fifty,' students' 150-word essays tell new stories of heartbreak and joy from city's first 150 years

17/09/2024

As promised, a sneak peek at the revised and expanded edition of Picking the President: Understanding the Electoral College.

What better thing to check out on Constitution Day? And even if we accept that freedom ain't free, this book still is:

Check out the this Constitution Day Special Preview from the folks who brought you Picking the President. It is chocked full of primary sources, maps, and tables useful for exploring the origins of…

16/09/2024

If you're around the University of North Dakota campus tomorrow, stop by the UND Law School to hear Eric Burin and Mark Jendrysik (as well as publisher Bill Caraher) talk about the US Electoral College and get a sneak preview of a new revised and expanded edition of Burin's best selling edited volume Picking the President: Understanding the Electoral College.

Details are here:

Naturalization ceremony, Electoral College panel discussion and other events will honor Constitution’s 237th birthday

03/09/2024

It's NEW BOOK DAY at the Digital Press!

We are excited to share David Pettegrew's Corinthian Countrysides: Linked Open Data and Analysis from the Eastern Korinthia Archaeological Survey. As all books from the press, it is available as an open access, free digital download (with no registration or anything like) and as an affordable paperback.

Check out the announcement here:

It is our pleasure to announce the publication of David Pettegrew’s Corinthian Countrysides: Linked Open Data and Analysis from the Eastern Korinthia Archaeological Survey. This book presents…

28/11/2022

Looking for a way to enjoy the o**y of cyber-capitalism without the capitalism?

Check out our Cyber Monday sale (feat. North Dakota Quarterly).

Everything is free. One click download.

It’s Cyber Monday which, to my mind, isn’t really a thing. That said, we live in a world where quite a few things that aren’t things (e.g. the entire internet) seem to exist and go about their dail…