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Last night at Washburn University, I was recognized for Las Madres with a 2025 Kansas Notable Book Award. 📚✨ My heartfelt thanks to the State Library of Kansas and @univpressofkansas.bsky.social for believing in these stories and bringing them to readers. 🙏 #LasMadres #KansasNotableBook

I’m at the Kansas Book Festival today at Washburn University, spending time at the @univpressofkansas.bsky.social table and meeting so many thoughtful readers. 📚✨ If you’re here at the festival, I’d love for you to stop by and say hello. 🙏 #LasMadres #KansasNotableBook #KansasBookFestival

The Kansas Book Festival was a day filled with conversations, community, and a shared love of stories. 📚✨ Spending time at the @univpressofkansas.bsky.social table reminded me how meaningful it is to meet readers face-to-face. My thanks to everyone who made this day possible. 💜

What a wonderful time we had with @kansaspublicradio.bsky.social in celebrating the amazing career of Bill Kurtis! Thank you all that showed up and shared your love of Bill's work in journalism and his new book Whirlwind: My Life Reporting the News: kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700640041/.

1) Read @drgarciaauthor.bsky.social new blog on Hispanic Heritage Month entitled "Subjugation" here: kansaspress.ku.edu/blog/2025/09.... 2) Order Las Madres: Latinas in the Heartland Who Led Their Family to Success and get 40% off with code: LASMADRES: kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700637980/.

Don't miss your chance to see authors Pete Janzen and Bob Gress at the following events: -Life Enrichment Program Bethel College, North Newton, KS on Wednesday, September 24, at 10:50AM - Kansas Ornithological Society at Pittsburg State University September 26-28th.

Grateful to Whitney Hodgin and the Dodge City Globe for covering my September 16 talk at Dodge City Community College. 📚 https://www.dodgeglobe.com/author-garcia-shares-message-of-hope-on-mexican-ind-day/#close-modal @univpressofkansas.bsky.social  #LasMadres #KansasNotableBook

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Author Fran Levine will be presenting at the Historical Society of New Mexico conference on September 26th, at 8:30AM - 10:00AM "On Writing Southwest History."

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1) Read blog #2 on Hispanic Heritage Month by @drgarciaauthor.bsky.social here: kansaspress.ku.edu/blog/2025/09.... 2) Order your copy of Las Madres and get 40% off using code: LASMADRES at checkout: kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700637980/. 3) See Dennis live in Kansas: kansaspress.ku.edu/events/.

“I once asked Hobson why anyone should believe his defense of his parents. His answer astonished me: he didn’t love them enough to lie for them.” Jeff Kisseloff revisits Whittaker Chambers’s accusations against Alger Hiss, from Rewriting Hisstory, @univpressofkansas.bsky.social.

Excited to share that I’ll be adding a new stop on my Kansas tour 📚✨ Join me at Best Cellars in Dodge City on Sept 18, 6 PM for a book signing & author event. Honored to bring Las Madres—a 2025 Kansas Notable Book—back to the community that shaped so much of its story. 🍷

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Don't miss your chance to see editors Tom Averill and Leslie VonHolten, along with a few contributors, presenting the book Kansas Matters: Twenty-First-Century Writers on the Sunflower State at @watermarkbooks.bsky.social Watermark Books & Cafe. The event starts at 6:00PM, tomorrow September 12th.

Author Stephen Griffin will be giving a lecture Tulane University on Constitutional Day! Click here for further details: law.tulane.edu/news/profess.... DON'T FORGET to pick up your copy of Broken Trust: Dysfunctional Government and Constitutional Reform: kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700621224/.

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Bill Kurtis had such a wonderful time Printers Row Lit Fest this past weekend! Thanks for showing up Chicago! This line is a great visual that there is a lot of love for Bill and his new book Whirlwind: My Life Reporting the News.

Click the link for more details including how to register for the event at the National Museum of the United States Army : www.thenmusa.org/events/. To purchase a copy of From the Mountains to the Bay, click here: kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700633531/.

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Author Fran Levine had a wonderful time talking about her book Crossings: Women on the Santa Fe Trail at the St. Louis County Library! Enjoy these photos taken at the event by Lucas Peterson. NEXT EVENT: New Mexico Jewish Historical Society on September 8. Register: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi....

Don't miss your chance to see author Isaac Hampton @barnesandnoble.com in Huntsville, AL, on Saturday, September 13th, starting at 2:00PM.

Author Thomas C. Mackey will be giving a book talk on Opposing Lincoln: Clement L. Vallandigham, Presidential Power, and the Legal Battle over Dissent in Wartime at the Paul Sawyier Public Library on Monday, September 8th, from 6:30PM - 7:30PM. Don't miss it!

For the 23rd year in a row, I will be part of the Indiana Historical Society's annual Holiday Author Fair, set this year from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 6 in Indianapolis. One of the books I'll be signing is one I had an essay in this year from the @univpressofkansas.bsky.social.

Author @stephenknott.bsky.social will be the keynote speaker at the upcoming Arizona Council for History Education, on September 13, from 8:00AM - 1:30PM, at the ASU Chandler Innovation Center. Don't miss this opportunity to hear him discuss the book The Lost Soul of the American Presidency.

Author Douglas Bristol will be a panelist at the 2025 Mississippi Book Festival, September 13th. He will be discussing his book Building Bridges: Black GIs, Military Labor, and the Fight for Equality in World War II. Don't miss it!

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“Chambers also said that on some visits to the tiny 30th Street house, he stayed for up to seven days straight. Where? There was no room.” Jeff Kisseloff revisits Whittaker Chambers’s accusations against Alger Hiss, from Rewriting Hisstory by @univpressofkansas.bsky.social.

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Authors Bob Gress(left) and Pete Janzen (right) had a fantastic time at Faith & Life Bookstore! Thanks to all that made it. If you missed the event and would still like to purchase The Guide to Kansas Birds and Birding Hotspots look no further than here: kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700638598/.

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