I work at UofM, in the Department of History, and just found 27 boxes of of a book from this press in a closet in our department. I had no idea Memphis had a press before, and it was great to learn more about it here on your site! Thank you! The book is "The Exciting Times" by William Sorrels, 1987, if you want to add it! :-)
Regarding small college publishing: I wonder if the problem is not so much with the publishers, they do a good job, but with the lack of material coming out of the higher education system. No good lectures to print. I wonder where the good lectures are today? Any ideas?
Great question. I'm not very knowledgeable on current happenings, but there are a few that used to be great but have mostly been captured by certain trends:
Fleming Lecture Series at LSU
Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures
I did a quick internet search for "University Lecture series in Southern History" and there seems to be a good number of them. Probably could do the same search for any discipline.
I work at UofM, in the Department of History, and just found 27 boxes of of a book from this press in a closet in our department. I had no idea Memphis had a press before, and it was great to learn more about it here on your site! Thank you! The book is "The Exciting Times" by William Sorrels, 1987, if you want to add it! :-)
Regarding small college publishing: I wonder if the problem is not so much with the publishers, they do a good job, but with the lack of material coming out of the higher education system. No good lectures to print. I wonder where the good lectures are today? Any ideas?
Great question. I'm not very knowledgeable on current happenings, but there are a few that used to be great but have mostly been captured by certain trends:
Fleming Lecture Series at LSU
Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures
I did a quick internet search for "University Lecture series in Southern History" and there seems to be a good number of them. Probably could do the same search for any discipline.
Cool , I will check those out. Very interesting post. Thank you.