TOCWOC – A Civil War Blog

Tonight I want to go back briefly to the subject of academic presses, how they figured into my decision to publish my book myself, and what I see as their good and bad points. Most of the university presses I queried about the sharpshooter book weren’t interested, mainly because it wasn’t a campaign study, a […]

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As we’ve been discussing university presses lately I’d recommend everyone take a few minutes to read Scott McLemee’s recent article in Inside Higher Ed on blogs and university presses. McLemee points out that in general university presses are woefully ignorant of the power of the web, which confirms my own impressions of the admittedly small […]

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