We attended this year's meeting of the Southern Historical Association in Charlotte, North Carolina from November 9 to 12, 2023. Although the meeting is over, our virtual booth is open through December 15, 2023 and offers great deals on our Southern history titles. Use code SHA23 for discount prices and free shipping within the US for orders over $75. … Continue reading Highlights from the 2023 SHA Conference
Highlights from the 2023 ASALH Conference
We attended this year's annual conference of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History in Jacksonville, Florida, from September 20 to 24, 2023. Although the meeting is over, our virtual booth is open through December 15, 2023 and offers great deals on our African American studies titles. Use code ALH23 for discount prices and free … Continue reading Highlights from the 2023 ASALH Conference
New Paperback Release: Picturing Black New Orleans
“Fascinating.”—LA Weekly “[An] alluring book.”—New Orleans Magazine “Anthony delivers a warm and detailed portrait of Collins and some facets of New Orleans’ rich and richly complicated culture in the early 20th century.”—Gambit “Readers will appreciate amusing and emotional anecdotes while also gaining a strong sense of what New Orleans was like in those 20th-century decades for … Continue reading New Paperback Release: Picturing Black New Orleans
New Film Shares Pioneering Photography of Florestine Perrault Collins
Thomas Allen Harris’s new documentary Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People is “a family memoir, a tribute to unsung artists and a lyrical, at times heartbroken, meditation on imagery and identity,” according to the New York Times. “It’s a film dense with both information and purpose,” says LA Weekly. … Continue reading New Film Shares Pioneering Photography of Florestine Perrault Collins
Monthly Review Roundup: January 2014
UPF books received some great reviews in January! See what people have been saying about our books over the past month. Library Journal reviewed Michele Albion's The Quotable Eleanor Roosevelt: Fringe Florida: Travels among Mud Boggers, Furries, Ufologists, Nudists, and Other Lovers of Unconventional Lifestyles By Lynn Waddell “Waddell has the reporter’s eye for odd detail (even … Continue reading Monthly Review Roundup: January 2014
The Florida Bookshelf 