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Joihn Sherer assesses the Sustainable History Monograph Pilot (SHMP), " an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation–funded initiative to publish open digital editions of high-quality books from university presses in the field of history":
Making OA Monographs More Discoverable, Usable, and Sustainable, Longleaf Services, August 12, 2020
Hello H-CivWar Readers:
Today we feature Michael J. Turner to talk about his new book Stonewall Jackson, Beresford Hope, and the Meaning of the American Civil War in Britain, published by Louisiana State University Press in October 2020.
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Dartmouth News reports that the publishing consortium run by Dartmouth College and Brandeis University will be shutting down by the end of 2018, with Dartmouth College Press and Brandeis University Press taking control of their own imprints.
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Ionut C. Popescu.
Emergent Strategy and Grand Strategy: How American Presidents Succeed in Foreign Policy.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017. 248 pp.
$54.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4214-2377-7. 
Reviewed by Owen Flanagan (Independent Scholar) Published on H-FedHist (January, 2021) Commissioned by Caryn E. Neumann (Miami University of Ohio Regionals)
