Learning More about The Riel Problem: An Excerpt
24 May 2024
Excerpted from The Riel Problem: Canada, the Métis, and a Resistant Hero by Albert Braz Preface The Riel Problem: Canada, the Métis, and a Resistant Hero builds on my 2003… READ MORE
Category: History
March 8, 2024 / Celebrating International Women’s Day through Books
8 March 2024
Guest post by Anindita Mukherjee On March 8, International Women’s Day, University of Alberta Press celebrates the achievements of women around the world and renews its commitment to gender equality… READ MORE
March 8, 2018: Excerpt from 10 Days That Shaped Modern Canada
3 March 2023
“Viola Desmond was the catalyst for jumpstarting the modern civil rights movement in Canada.” Aaron W. Hughes, author “Eighteen years before the razing of Africville, and nine years before Rosa… READ MORE
A Two-Year Internship
29 April 2022
A Guest Post by Richard Costa When I first visited the Press in late 2019, it was located in Ring House 2. Our Associate Director and Manager of Planning and… READ MORE
Cover Photograph for “Our Whole Gwich’in Way of Life Has Changed / Gwich’in K’yuu Gwiidandài’ Tthak Ejuk Gòonlih”
8 January 2021
A photograph by James Jerome appears on the cover of our newest book, Our Whole Gwich’in Way of Life Has Changed / Gwich’in K’yuu Gwiidandài’ Tthak Ejuk Gòonlih: Stories from… READ MORE
Black History Month
20 February 2020
University of Alberta Press published two new books in time for Black History Month. In An Autobiography of the Autobiography of Reading Dionne Brand reflects on her early reading of… READ MORE
Celebrating 50 Years in Publishing!
9 January 2019
The University of Alberta Press celebrates 50 years of publishing in 2019. In anticipation of this milestone, we embarked on a project to re-imagine our visual identity. Our goal was… READ MORE
St. Albert, Métis Settlement Field Trip
8 November 2018
St. Albert, a few kilometres north of Edmonton, is one of the largest and most history-rich Métis settlements in Canada. To learn more of this history and culture, the University… READ MORE
Books. Inordinately valuable.
1 November 2017
The staff of the University of Alberta Press had a treat on Monday: a visit to the Bruce Peel Special Collections! Linda Quirk, Assistant Special Collections Librarian, and Kevin Zak, Exhibitions… READ MORE
