February eBook Deals
February 3, 2022
This February, NYU Press celebrates books on Black culture with a great selection of eBooks, on sale for just $1.99 from February 1 to 28! February eBook deals valid through… READ MORE
Category: American Studies
Youth Franchise: The Forgotten Sixties Movement
January 20, 2022
An essay by Jennifer Frost, author of “Let Us Vote!”: Youth Voting Rights and the 26th Amendment. Absent from popular memory and most scholarly histories of the 1960s is the… READ MORE
Taking Down Backpage: An Exclusive Excerpt
January 10, 2022
Read an exclusive excerpt from Taking Down Backpage, an exposé of the world’s largest sex trafficker, all told by Maggy Krell, the prosecutor who led the charge. Maggy Krell, author… READ MORE
January eBook Deals
January 9, 2022
For Martin Luther King Jr. Day on January 17 and Data Privacy Day on January 28, NYU Press presents January eBook deals to inform and educate readers on these important… READ MORE
Critical Race Theory and Diversity in Sports Leadership
September 27, 2021
25 years ago, I set out to address the question: “What can we do about the underrepresentation of African-Americans in the top-level position in sports management?”
An Empire Transformed: A Q&A with Kate Luce Mulry
July 26, 2021
Kate Mulry, author of An Empire Transformed (NYU Press, 2021), spoke with the online journal Current about her writing process, research, and the impetus for her path-breaking work in American history. Read the full conversation below.
Agency, Resistance, Resilience, Identity
April 5, 2021
—Shirley Hune and Gail M. Nomura
How can all of us better challenge falsehoods of Asian American and Pacific Islander women’s docility and call attention to the complexities of their past and present experiences in the United States and elsewhere?
Valentine’s Day and the History of Heterosexuality
February 11, 2021
—Rebecca L. Davis
The meanings that people attach to heterosexuality, and even their sense of what heterosexuality is and why it matters, have a rich and fascinating history.