Author: meachamr
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Historic Book Captures A Portrait of Brown County’s First Immigrants
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UW-Green Bay’s Teaching Press launches rare collection of oral storytelling and photographs on December 13 Read all about our new title in Inside UW-Green Bay News Click here to purchase your copy of A Portrait of Grief and Courage: Hmong Oral Histories and Folktales today!
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On Sale: Lower Fox River PCB Cleanup Timeline: An Electronic Reference Library
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You are invited to explore the world of unintended consequences of producing carbonless paper and its underlying chemistry of Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) on the health of the Fox River and Lower Green Bay. Using an interactive timeline, this book by author Greg Neuschafer offers an overview of 70-years of PCBs impacting the river, from…
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‘What’s Past is Prologue’: An Interview with Greg Neuschafer
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Author Greg Neuschafer published The Lower Fox River Clean Up: An Electronic Resource Library with The Teaching Press in October 2023. Email the Teaching Press to buy your copies! Interviewers’ notes: This interview was conducted via e-mail by Abby Jurk and Autumn Johnson, in stages, from 2022-2023. Why embark on this project? Let me begin…
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Meet the Lead Designer of The Viking House Saga and A Portrait of Grief and Courage
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The Teaching Press had 21 students working as interns and staff in Fall 2023. We’re featuring their work in small batches—the same way we print books at the Press! Emily Heling was lead designer for two Teaching Press titles in 2023: The Viking House Saga: A Journey into Experiential Archeology at UW-Green Bay, by Owen…
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Meet the Project Manager and Chief Copyeditor of A Portrait of Grief and Courage
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The Teaching Press had 21 students working as interns and staff in Fall 2023. We’re featuring their work in small batches—the same way we print books at the Press! Olivia Meyer became the Project Manager on A Portrait of Grief and Courage: Hmong Oral Histories and Folktales, in early 2023, when the manuscript was still…
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Meet the Interns: Promotion, Publicity, and A Portrait…
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The Teaching Press had 21 students working as interns and staff in Fall 2023. We’re featuring their work in small batches—the same way we print books at the Press! This team of Fall 2023 interns focused on creating engagement and interest in our books, especially our 2022 titles Call Me Morgue and Wandering Toft Point:…
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Meet the Interns: Promotion, Production, and A Viking House Saga
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The Teaching Press had 21 students working as interns and staff in Fall 2023. We’re featuring their work in small batches—the same way we print books at the Press! This group of interns focused on creating press publicity for our titles, including our Fall 2023 launch of The Viking House Saga: A Journey into Experiential…
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Meet the Interns: Operations, Outreach, and Fold-Out Production
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The Teaching Press had 21 students working as interns and staff in Fall 2023. We’re featuring their work in small batches—the same way we print books at the Press! This group of interns operated our machines and print our books—and Fall 2023 was challenging! Managers Jair Zeuske and Ethan Craft taught our team how to…
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Meet the Press Director
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Who gets to work with all of these amazing interns? Meet the Press Director! Dr. Rebecca Meacham founded The Teaching Press in 2018 and, with the Press’s first interns, launched the first book, The Village and The Vagabond by Tim Weyenberg, in 2019. Since then, she’s worked with over 100 interns on a wide range…
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Launching in December 2023: Landmark book of Hmong Oral Histories and Folktales
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Launching in December 2023, A Portrait of Grief and Courage documents the lives of Hmong refugees in Green Bay, Wisconsin, in the 1980s and 1990s. Forced to flee from their homes to escape The Secret War in Laos, many Hmong fled to Thailand as refugees, then to the U.S. The first Hmong families arrived in…