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"This American hero understood that his personal success was no substitute for broad equality and achievement."

‘Integration at Second Base’ Review: Jackie Robinson’s Long Game Robinson broke baseball’s color line and led the Brooklyn Dodgers to the World Series. His work fighting racial prejudice wasn’t limited to the world of sports.

Register now for a lecture by Brent Tarter at Virginia Museum of History & Culture!

Thursday, Aug 6 2026, 12 - 1pm

Tarter will discuss his new book "Virginia's Forgotten Founder: The World of Robert Carter Nicholas," the first biography of a neglected but crucial revolutionary figure and a fascinating window into his world.

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Happy to "Ecologies of Resistance: Arts, Activism, and Transdisciplinary Futures in Latin America and the Latinx Worlds," edited by Ilka Kressner, Ana María Mutis, and Elizabeth M. Pettinaroli!

'Ecologies of Resistance' brings together fourteen groundbreaking studies on Latin American and Latinx writing, visual and performing arts, film, and activism that propose alternatives to prevailing colonial and neocolonial conceptions of ecology. The contributors question the artificially imposed separation of the human and nonhuman, human dominance over place, and the concept of progress measured in strictly economic terms. They also examine how the notion of ecology has been discursively framed to justify colonial systems of power. With its integration of ancestral, Afro-Latin American, and Latinx perspectives, this collection proposes new worldviews that emphasize marginalized voices and contest modernity’s troubled legacy.

'Ecologies of Resistance' blurs the lines that have traditionally separated artistic expression from political activism and theory. Its innovative cross-disciplinary approach and exploration of alternative practices and theories from Latin America and Latinx contexts enriches contemporary ecocritical studies and the quest for a world that upholds plural forms of being.

"A thoughtful contribution to the dynamic and growing fields of Latin American ecocriticism and environmental humanities—one that centers expressions of creatives and communities that embrace complexity and imagine futures borne from it."
- Laura Barbas-Rhoden, Wofford College, author of Ecological Imaginations in Latin American Fiction

Ecocrítica

https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10179/

A fascinating discussion from PBS NewsHour with historian Annette Gordon Reed about the complex legacy of Thomas Jefferson, a slaveholder who was nonetheless one of his era's greatest voices for freedom. Reed is the author of the landmark THOMAS JEFFERSON AND SALLY HEMINGS: AN AMERICAN CONTROVERSY. More on the book here: https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/2650/

Thomas Jefferson's complicated legacy 250 years after the Declaration of Independence It's been 250 years since Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of...

Curious about "Homer’s elliptical narrative technique and how it influenced some other writers’ styles and lives"? Read "Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative, and Fate" by Daniel Mendelsohn!

https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/5626/

Three Rings - UVA Press In this genre-defying book, best-selling memoirist and critic Daniel Mendelsohn explores the mysterious links between the randomness of the lives we l

may be over, but the 40% conference discount code still lives...until August 15! Visit our virtual exhibit and take advantage of the limited time promo!

Good to see you Steve Sarson, Adam McNeil, Christopher Pearl, Susan Gaunt Stearns, Frank Cogliano, and Matthew Mason! (And many more)!

https://www.upress.virginia.edu/exhibits/shear26/

Congratulations to Steven Sarson, whose book 'The Course of Human Events: The Declaration of Independence and the Historical Origins of the United States' has been named a finalist for the 2026 George Washington Prize!

https://www.mountvernon.org/about/news/nominees-announced-2026-george-washington-prize-one-americas-most-prestigious-book?utm_id=97757_v0_s00_e0_tv2_a1dennhb8o37yz&fbclid=IwY2xjawTHLopleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEe266h5LkXrxgqWXbecBf6jhgM5ScGa84nIJXx2_8QAhcW8XxglvvP1Gnx6LY_aem_FwwMzmtlrh8Z1MZrsYwtlQ

Nominees Announced for the 2026 George Washington Prize, One of America’s Most Prestigious Book Awards Nominees Announced for the 2026 George Washington Prize, One of America’s Most Prestigious Book Awards

We are here at ! Stop by the booth, browse our books, and take advantage of the conference discount!

Or, if you're not in Philadelphia, visit our virtual exhibit and use promo code valid until August 15

https://www.upress.virginia.edu/exhibits/shear26/

UVA professor and UVAP author Ian Stevenson's quest for evidence of past lives:

Is There Life After Death? This Scholar Tried to Prove It. A psychologist’s quest for evidence of past lives.

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“The Buried Cause” highlights the contents and history of Monument Avenue’s Confederate cornerstones.

"The recovery of the box solved a long-standing mystery related to President Abraham Lincoln . . . [but] Mysteries remain. Though cornerstone boxes were successfully recovered from the monuments for Lee and Jefferson Davis, ones for Matthew Fontaine Maury and Stonewall Jackson are still missing."

What's in the Box?!? “The Buried Cause” highlights the contents and history of Monument Avenue’s Confederate cornerstones.