Temple University Press is a
university press founded in 1969 that is part of
Temple University
Temple University (Temple or TU) is a public university, public Commonwealth System of Higher Education, state-related research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1884 by the Baptists, Baptist minister Russell Conwell an ...
(
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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). It is one of thirteen publishers to participate in the
Knowledge Unlatched pilot, a global library consortium approach to funding
open access book An open-access monograph is a scholarly monograph which is made openly available online with open license.
Concept
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s.
The organization's mission at the time of its founding, according to Gerald J. Mangone, Temple University's then-provost, was to "broaden the outlet for the best volumes of an increasinbly productive faculty," by enabling those academics "to publish significant research that will increase knowledge in the humanities, social and natural sciences."
History
Maurice English
Maurice English (October 21, 1909 – November 18, 1983) was a poet, journalist, and author who is noted for having headed the presses of the University of Chicago, Temple University, and the University of Pennsylvania.
Following his death, ...
was appointed as the first director of the organization. An honors graduate of
Harvard University
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who had been awarded a
Fulbright
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creative writing fellowship in recognition of the publication of his book, ''Midnight in the Century'', English was a recipient of the Ferguson Prize for Poetry in 1965, bureau chief for
Voice of America
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, and a senior editor for the
University of Chicago Press
The University of Chicago Press is the largest and one of the oldest university presses in the United States. It is operated by the University of Chicago and publishes a wide variety of academic titles, including '' The Chicago Manual of Style'' ...
prior to his hiring by Temple. According to English, "The goal of a university press is primarily to maintain and express the standards of its university in the realms of scholarship and research."
By the 1980s and 1990s, Temple University Press had become a globally respected scholarly press. Directed by David Bartlett during this era, the organization's mission had been broadened to not only publish the work of scholars at Temple University, "but to aid in the dissemination of work by scholars across the nation and around the world." Still considered a mid-sized university press in the United States in 1989, it published "twice as many" books that year as it did in 1988, for a total of roughly sixty publications released and approximately two million dollars in sales. Its best-selling book that decade was ''Still Philadelphia: A Photographic History, 1890-1940'' by Fredric M. Miller, Morris J. Vogel, and Allen F. Davis. Between its 1983 release and early January 1989, it had sold roughly twelve thousand copies. In 1984, it was awarded the Philadelphia Book Clinic Certificate of Award.
Publication successes during the 1990s included Nancy Whittier's ''Feminist Generations: The Persistence of the Radical Women's Movement'', which was awarded the Outstanding Academic Title for 1995 by ''Choice''.
In 2000, the press published the autobiography of longtime Philadelphia television news anchorman,
Larry Kane. Released in September of that year, ''Larry Kane's Philadelphia'' presented Kane's recollections of major breaking news events such as the riots at the
1968 Democratic National Convention
The 1968 Democratic National Convention was held August 26–29 at the International Amphitheatre in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Earlier that year incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson had announced he would not seek reelection, thus maki ...
and the
1985 MOVE bombing
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, as well as his candid descriptions of his fellow reporters, local, national and world leaders, and entertainment personalities, including Philadelphia mayor
Frank Rizzo,
Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul II ( la, Ioannes Paulus II; it, Giovanni Paolo II; pl, Jan Paweł II; born Karol Józef Wojtyła ; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his ...
,
The Beatles
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,
Charles Barkley, performers in the annual
Mummers Parade, and
Frank Sinatra. The forward for Kane's book was written by veteran American journalist
Dan Rather
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.
In January 2005, the press published its first children's book, ''P Is for Philadelphia'', an "alphabetic tour of the city and the region, illustrated by the area's public school children." Released in time to be used by teachers for Read Across America Day, which was sponsored by the
National Education Association
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, the book was written by Susan Korman.
In 2014, Mary Rose Muccie was named executive director of Temple University Press and Temple University's library officer for scholarly communications.
Aaron Javsicas was named editor-in-chief of the press in 2016. An acquisitions editor at Temple University Press who spent his formative years at the Greenwood Friends School before honing his editorial and management skills as an intern at the ''
Press Enterprise'' in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, as a production assistant at a New Orleans weekly newspaper and as an acquisitions editor in the scholarly and textbook divisions of
Palgrave MacMillan
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and
W. W. Norton & Company, Javsicas oversees the production of academic and historical books.
Abridged list of publications
1970s
*Aurand, Harold W. ''From the Molly Maguires to the United Mine Workers: The Social Ecology of an Industrial Union, 1869-1897''. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Temple University Press, 1971.
*McGrath. Earl J. ''Should Students Share the Power?'' Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Temple University Press, August 19, 1970.
1980s
*Miller, Fredric M., Allen F. Davis, and Morris Vogel. ''Still Philadelphia: A Photographic History, 1890-1940'' (winner of the Philadelphia Book Clinic Certificate of Award, 1984). Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Temple University Press, March 1983.
*Theoharis, Athan G. and John Stuart Cox. ''The Boss: J. Edgar Hoover and the Great American Inquisition''. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Temple University Press, 1988 (out of print).
1990s
*Francione, Gary L. ''Animals, Property, and the Law''. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Temple University Press, May 1995.
*Whittier, Nancy. ''Feminist Generations: The Persistence of the Radical Women's Movement'' (winner of the Outstanding Academic Title, in ''Choice'', 1995). Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Temple University Press, June 1995.
2000s
*Kane, Larry. ''Larry Kane's Philadelphia''. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Temple University Press, September 2000.
*Lyons, Robert S. ''On Any Given Sunday: A Life of Bert Bell''. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Temple University Press, November 2009.
2010-2020
*Ecenbarger, William. ''Pennsylvania Stories Well Told''. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Temple University Press, March 2017.
*Yee, Shirley J. ''An Immigrant Neighborhood: Interethnic and Interracial Encounters in New York before 1930''." Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Temple University Press, December 2011.
2021-present
*Bennett, Larry, John D. Fairfield, and Patricia Mooney-Melvin, editors. ''Bringing the Civic Back In: Zane L. Miller and American Urban History''. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Temple University Press, September 2022.
*Gale, Dennis E. ''The Misunderstood History of Gentrification: People, Planning, Preservation, and Urban Renewal, 1915-2020''. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Temple University Press, February 2021.
[Krulikowski, Anne E.]
Book Review: Gale, Dennis E. The Misunderstood History of Gentrification: People, Planning, Preservation, and Urban Renewal, 1915–2020
" in ''History: Reviews of New Books'', 49:6, 141-143.
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