Book launch days are always the best days, and today’s book (re)launch is particularly sweet. The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota is happy to announce its tenth book, Chris Price’s The Old Church on Walnut Street: A Story of Immigrants and Evangelicals. The book is a microhistory of a single building in Grand Forks, North Dakota that opens onto a century-long story of immigrants and evangelicals in this community. The turn-of-the-century wood-frame church is sadly long gone, but the story that Chris Price tells of the pastors, the congregation, and life in Grand Forks is a timely reminder that the state of North Dakota and its…

Last Saturday night, a bunch of troublemakers got together at Ojata Record in beautiful Grand Forks, North Dakota to talk about punk rock in the Trump era. As part of that event, The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota put together a little grab bag of music, books, and documents donated by punk rockers and various colleagues. Thanks to Andrew Reinhard, Chris Matthews and Quiz Show, June Panic, Brian Schill, Bret Weber, and everyone else who made this possible and contributed something fun to the little handout. Here’s a link to that packet. The part of this little packet…

Next week, Bill Caraher is going to hang out with some pretty fun guys and talk about punk rock in the  Trump era at Ojata Record in Grand Forks. The event is partly to celebrate the publication of Brian Schill’s new book, This Year’s Work in the Punk Bookshelf, Or, Lusty Scripts (Indiana University Press, 2017), which he and Bill chatted about over on the North Dakota Quarterly page in November and the book that Bret Weber and Bill Caraher wrote, The Bakken: An Archaeology of an Industrial Landscape (NDSU Press 2017).  There will be bands: June Panic and the Semaphores and Mistaken Thieves. There’s a free…