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 elcome to Northeastern University Press, a member press of the University Press of New England (UPNE). Northeastern University Press brings Northeastern University’s distinctive strengths in the humanities and the social sciences to the world of scholarly and general book publishing through its explorations of African-American and women’s literature, criminology, music, sports, and Boston culture and history. The university has earned a reputation as an environment where subject studies have a direct link to the real world and the vibrant urban environment of Boston that Northeastern calls home. Through its rich and diverse publishing program, theory and practice merge, reflecting the core values and identity of the university as a whole.
In addition to our wide variety of stand-alone titles, we publish a number of influential series, including the Northeastern Library of Black Literature, the Northeastern Series on Gender, Crime, and Law, and the Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize. |
FEATURE TITLES
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Black Talk, Blue Thoughts,
and Walking the Color Line
Dispatches from a Black Journalista
Erin Aubry Kaplan; Michael Eric Dyson, fwd.
This lively and thoughtful book explores what it means to be black in an allegedly postracial America
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Cruel and Unusual
The American Death Penalty
and the Founders’ Eighth Amendment
John D. Bessler
This indispensable history of the Eighth Amendment and the founders’ views of capital punishment is also a passionate call for the abolition of the death penalty based on the notion of cruel and unusual punishment |
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In Search of Sacco and Vanzetti
Double Lives, Troubled Times, and the Massachusetts Murder Case That Shook the World
Susan Tejada
An in-depth reexamination with startling new insights into the controversial case |
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George Whitefield Chadwick
The Life and Music of the Pride of New England
Bill F. Faucett
The definitive biography of a major American composer and musical leader |
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