51ĀŅĀ×

Here is the latest news from the 51ĀŅĀ× Press:

51ĀŅĀ× Press book wins major award from American Historical Association

 by University of Notre Dame professor Paul Ocobock, has , which recognizes the best book in British, British imperial, or British commonwealth history since 1485.

51ĀŅĀ× Press is one of the few non-Ivy presses to win an AHA award this year. It is a leading African studies publisher in the United States.

ā€œAn Uncertain Ageā€ is in flagship series New African Histories, which publishes cutting-edge and classroom-ready scholarship by rising stars in the field. Other books in the series have won major prizes; most recently, Julie MacArthurā€™s ā€œā€&²Ō²ś²õ±č;won the 2018 Joel Gregory Prize, which recognizes the best book in African studies by an author at a Canadian institution.

51ĀŅĀ× Press author Robert Gipe profiled in Oxford American

Beth Macy, author of the bestselling ā€œDopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America,ā€ spoke with Robert Gipe, author of the illustrated novels ā€œā€ (2015) and ā€œā€ which was released this past March. 

ā€œHis art is both homespun and cutting-edge, a call to grieve and to foster positive change,ā€ Macy writes. ā€œI first devoured Robert Gipeā€™s books and plays because I wanted to understand Appalachia. I was searching for deeper insights than the victim-blaming bootstrap narrativeā€¦ I hoped Gipe could help me process my own secondary trauma.ā€

Read ā€œā€ for the full profile.