Category: Books

  • Who is Sandra Shackelford?
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    Who is Sandra Shackelford?

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      Sandra Shackelford has long been a proponent of racial justice. When her art professor chastised a student due to his race, she boycotted the university. When Emmett Till was lynched, she was among the crowds calling for justice. When Shackelford’s newspaper and recreation center were burned down by the KKK, she moved from the…

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    I Believe in Voice: An Interview with Sandra Shackelford

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    A Portrait of Grief and Courage: Hmong Oral Histories and Folktales, by Sandra Shackelford, with translations by May Lee Lor and transcriptions by Ma Le Lor, is now on sale. Click this link for purchase and pick up information.  Interviewer’s note: Sandra’s written responses have been edited to include further details and quotes that she…

  • ‘What’s Past is Prologue’: An Interview with Greg Neuschafer
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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…

  • Meet the Lead Designer of The Viking House Saga and A Portrait of Grief and Courage
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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…

  • Meet the Project Manager and Chief Copyeditor of A Portrait of Grief and Courage
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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…

  • Meet the Interns: Operations, Outreach, and Fold-Out Production
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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…

  • Inside the Press: The “Foldie-Outtie” Experience
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    Inside the Press: The “Foldie-Outtie” Experience

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    How does our Press hand-craft an ambitious book of fold-out —or foldie-outtie—pages? Learn more from Production Team  insider Brady Hurst!  There is nothing that our team fears more than failing to deliver. So, once our Lower Fox River PCB Clean Up Timeline book hit our production line, we all knew that we would have our work…

  • Launching in December 2023: Landmark book of Hmong Oral Histories and Folktales
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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…

  • Teaching Press Folds into Action with Book Launch on October 18
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    Teaching Press Folds into Action with Book Launch on October 18

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    GREEN BAY, Wis. – Lower Fox River PCB Cleanup Timeline, a new book by Greg Neuschafer, covers one of the most ambitious environmental stability projects in the US to date: the nearly two decades of the removal of contamination in Green Bay’s Fox River. Published by The Teaching Press of UW-Green Bay, the book will…