“On Saturday, June 5, 2021, author Lincoln Mitchell spoke with the Dusty Baker-Sacramento and Lefty O’Doul-San Francisco Bay Area SABR chapters about his new book The Giants and Their City. The book covers major league baseball in San Francisco from 1976-1992.”
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Treat yourself to this great interview with retired Press Director Will Underwood.
“Underwood spent 30 years at Kent State Press, 15 of them as director. The work was in his genes. He grew up Syracuse, New York where his father’s career was at Syracuse University Press. Underwood started working there as a teenager.”
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“Rollye James was joined by Author and radio legend Norm N. Nite, a.k.a Mr. Music, to talk all things rock n’ roll. Listen in while Norm and Rollye discuss Norm’s latest book The House That Rock Built which showcases the fascinating history of the behind the scenes deals that ultimately led to the Rock & […]
Be sure to catch this excellent review of Lincoln Mitchell’s The Giants and Their City: Major League Baseball in San Francisco, 1976–1992. Brought to you by Tom Hoffarth’s Farther Off the Wall blog.
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Civil War Books and Authors reviews No Place for Glory: Major General Robert E. Rodes and the Confederate Defeat at Gettysburg by Robert J. Wynstra.
“No Place for Glory is the product of a rigorous primary source investigation in newspapers, archives, and published sources of all kinds. Another very fine contribution to the Gettysburg historiography, this […]
The Medical Humanities blog reviews Kathleen O’Shea’s So Much More Than a Headache.
“O’Shea’s anthology will be empowering for migraineurs, comforting to those close to them, and essential for medical professionals”—Medical Humanities.
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Learn about chronic migraines on The Real Life Show: Living with a Chronic Illness podcast with So Much More Than a Headache author Kathleen O’Shea.
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Lincoln Mitchell is joined by longtime Giants owner Bob Lurie and the New York Giants Preservation Society to discuss his new book The Giants and Their City: Major League Baseball in San Francisco, 1976-1992.
Marie Claire names The Beauty Defense: Femmes Fatales on Trial by Laura James one of The 10 Best True Crime Books of 2021.
“Attorney and true crime historian Laura James asks whether these women—such as Glasgow socialite Madeline Smith, who poisoned one lover to move on to the next—got away with murder (and other mayhem) because […]
Leon Bibb interviews Gordon H. Shufelt, author of The Uncommon Case of Daniel Brown: How a White Police Officer Was Convicted of Killing a Black Citizen, Baltimore, 1875 for WKYC-TV “We the People”
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