University Press Week 2014: Day 4, “Throwback Thursday”

UPW-Logo-2014_croppedToday's University Press Week blog tour theme is "Throwback Thursday," with six presses looking back into their histories.

Temple University Press has a post describing the development of their influential Asian History and Culture series.

Wesleyan University Press features an Alice Notley poem.

Harvard University Press created a quiz, asking readers to determine whether titles from the backlist are real, or actually titles of songs by "the hyper-literary, lyrically-mischievous, artfully-anachronistic indie-folk-pop balladeers The Decemberists."

University of Washington Press takes a look back at six classics of Asian American literature.

University of Toronto Press focuses on Canadian history.

MIT Press offers a retrospective on former MIT Press designer Muriel Cooper featuring rarely-before-seen photographs.