March 2010

Hutaree “Christian Warrior” Militia in Michigan: Author Robert Churchill in New York Times

by kris bishop March 31, 2010

by Robert Churchill, author of To Shake Their Guns in the Tyrant's Face, originally posted as "The Government and the Militia Movement," The New York Times, March 30, 2010 "In the mid 1990s hundreds of militia groups formed across the nation in response to the state-sponsored political violence on display at Ruby Ridge and Waco. The movement was from its earliest days divided between two wings. Constitutional militias emphasized public meetings and membership open to all races and faiths. Their members were motivated by a fear of increasing state violence directed at gun owners, and they were primarily libertarian in [...]

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In Search of Understanding On the First Anniversary of the Publishing of the Torture Memos

by kris bishop March 23, 2010

As we approach the first anniversary of the release of “The Torture Memos,” where do we stand? Can we even now define “torture” in state practice? John Yoo, Jay Bybee, and the other authors of the torture memos have pushed the boundary one way, members of the Obama camp the other, and yet, Lewis and Clark Law School Professor John T. Parry says, even if we reach a solid definition of torture in hopes of prohibiting it, that prohibition will not end such practices. In new release Understanding Torture: Law, Violence, and Political Identity, Parry explains that torture is already [...]

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The University of Michigan Press and Scholarly Publications in the Digital Age

by kris bishop March 17, 2010

University of Michigan Press Director Phil Pochoda and University of Michigan Dean of Libraries Paul Courant speak about the digital publishing revolution and the new era of the academic monograph: ARE YOU TUNED IN? Click here to subscribe to our New Title Announcements and receive only news on new titles that match your specific interests. Check out our Ebook List. Read more about The University of Michigan Press Digital Transition. The University of Michigan Press, a division of MPublishing at the University of Michigan. Click below for bonus inspirational video: The Future of Publishing, by DK Books…

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Samuel Eldersveld, former Ann Arbor mayor, U-M professor, and Press author, dies at 92

by kris bishop March 11, 2010

Ann Arbor lost a former mayor and longtime University of Michigan professor when Samuel Eldersveld died Friday of congestive heart failure. He was 92. Samuel J. Eldersveld was a former mayor of Ann Arbor, a longtime professor of political science at the University of Michigan, and the author of Political Elites in Michigan Societies as well as the focus of the edited volume Comparative Political Parties and Party Elites, edited by Birol A. Yesilada. For almost 60 years, Eldersveld was a mainstay at the University of Michigan Department of Political Science. He also played a key role in the resurgence [...]

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Two critically acclaimed novelists speak at March 19 UMP Author Series event

by Heather Newman March 9, 2010

Debra Spark set her novel in Madison, Wis. Susan Messer placed hers in downtown Detroit the summer of the 1967 riots. Both make you feel as if you actually stepped into those cities. And both will be in Ann Arbor on Friday, March 19, from 5-6:30 p.m., as a joint presentation from the University of Michigan Press Author Series and the UM Library Spotlight Series to read from their books and discuss their methods. A book sale/signing and Q&A will follow. Spark's book, Good for the Jews, is a funny, sharp story about a Jewish family facing everything from love [...]

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