The Teaching Press
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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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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…
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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…
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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…
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Skål! The Viking House Saga Launches on October 4th
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GREEN BAY, Wis — All who love a Viking tale are invited to celebrate the book launch of The Viking House Saga: A Journey into Experiential Archeology at UW-Green Bay, co-authored by Dr. Heidi Sherman and Dr. Owen Christianson. The event takes place on October 4th in Wood Hall 215 at 4:30 pm and will be streamed…
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Mimi and Rupert Books: Our New Imprint Takes Wing
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The signs of spring have arrived at UWGB. On our Green Bay campus, Peregrine falcons nest atop the David A Cofrin Library. One pair of falcons began nesting there in 2017 to lay eggs and teach their fledglings to fly. This first falcon couple was named “Mimi” and “Rupert,” and their descendants have now brought…
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Transcendent: An Interview with Morgan Moran
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Over the summer and fall of 2021, fourteen interns with The Teaching Press had the opportunity to participate in book design, copyediting, developmental editing, client engagement, project management, printing, market research, and several other aspects of the production process for The Teaching Press’s newest book, Call Me Morgue, written by debut author Morgan Moran and…
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Do Not Be A Death Tourist
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After Morgan Moran quit her advertising job, death work seemed easy—but the only easy part about it was the preparation: gory Instagram accounts, murder movies, playing “carry the corpse” with friends. With each new encounter—hearse rides, cremations, embalming—she’s surprised as her work with the dead becomes life-giving, and her glimpses of grief become revelations. What else…
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The Teaching Press Dances with Death
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Dead bodies, decapitated heads, and the person that keeps them company. In a sometimes wrenching, often irreverent collection of “death snacks,” debut author Morgan Moran captures her fascination with death and its inner workings in her book, Call Me Morgue. The book is based on the author’s blog, which chronicles her journey into death work…
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UW-Green Bay alumna pens deep thoughts on death with a book launch, Friday, May 6!
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Check out the UW-Green Bay News and Features Call Me Morgue article written by freelance writer Kristin Bouchard by following the link here to learn more about The Teaching Press’s newest book!