Coming from the University of Georgia Press
August 1, 2025
Protesting with Rosa Parks
From Stagecoaches to
Driving While Black
Remembering the experiences of more than ninety Black travelers who refused to give up their rights on stagecoaches, steamboats, streetcars, ferries, buses, trains, planes, cars, and even elevators for almost two hundred years.
Images clockwise from top: East Louisiana Railroad Co. train, c.1891; New Orleans & Carrolton RR streetcar ticket, 1868; Mississippi riverboat Governor Allen, c. 1872; burning Freedom Ride bus, Anniston, Ala., 1961.
For more information, go to protestingwithrosaparks.com
Link to UGA Press site
“Many people don’t know the whole truth....I was just one of many who fought for freedom.”
— Rosa Parks, 1988
Medieval Welsh Poetry
Translation by John K. Bollard | Photography by Anthony Griffiths
Cymru Dafydd ap Gwilym
Dafydd ap Gwilym’s Wales
The Welsh texts and English translations of 33 poems by the greatest Welsh poet, with a bilingual Preface and Introduction, and a short essay on Dafydd’s life and work. Anthony Griffiths’ photographs illustrate beautifully places throughout Wales that were familiar to the poet himself. (Gwasg Carreg Gwalch, 2019)
“[R]haid cyfaddef fod y gyfrol hon wedi agor fy llygaid a pheri i mi weld y cerddi o’r newydd. / I must say that this book has indeed made me see the poems with fresh eyes.”
— Dafydd Johnston, Director, Center for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies
Englynion y Beddau
The Stanzas of the Graves
The Welsh texts and English translations of 73 englynion or short stanzas naming the grave sites of mythological and legendary Welsh heroes, composed perhaps in the ninth or tenth century and recorded in the famous 13th-century Black Book of Carmarthen, with stunning photographs by Anthony Griffiths of relevant locations throughout Wales. (Gwasg Carreg Gwalch, 2015)
Medieval Welsh Prose
The Mabinogi
Legend and Landscape of Wales
Translation by John K. Bollard | Photography by Anthony Griffiths
The Mabinogi
also known as
The Four Branches of The Mabinogi
(Gomer Press, 2006)
“I cannot think of a finer intro to such an all important work of literature.”
— Dewi Roberts, gwales.com
Companion Tales to
The Mabinogi
How Culhwch Got Olwen
The Dream of Maxen Wledig
The Story of Lludd & Llefelys
The Dream of Rhonabwy
(Gomer Press, 2007)
“The glory of Anthony Griffiths’ inspired photography [and the] clarity and elegance of Bollard’s writing in the commentary are matched in the translations themselves.
— Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan, Planet
Tales of Arthur
The History of Peredur or The Fortress of Wonders
The Tale of the Countess of the Spring
The History of Geraint son of Erbin
(Gomer Press, 2010)
Named Art/Photography Book of the Year
by the Welsh Books Council.
Medieval Welsh History
Owain Glyndŵr : A Casebook
A collection of 101 original sources from the 14th through the 16th century, in five languages and English translation, with ten essays by noted experts providing context and historical understanding of the longed-for redeemer of the Welsh.
(Liverpool Univ. Press, 2013)
“[T]he definitive collection of texts…relating to the great Welshman’s uprising.”
—Professor John France, Swansea University
African American National Biography Project
Managing Executive Editor 2002-2005 | W.E.B DuBois Institute, Harvard University
African American Lives
A one-volume collection of 611 biographies of African Americans of note.
(Oxford Univ. Press, 2004)
African American National Biography
The eight-volume first edition of AANB contains 4,100 biographies of African Americans of note; the second edition expanded to twelve volumes with nearly 5,000 entries.
(Oxford Univ. Press, 2008, 2012)
“Action is everything. With it we are successful. Without it all our enthusiasm is worse than nothing.”
—David Ruggles, 1838
Lexicography
An innovative thesaurus with 2,700 synonyms in 500 entries, with contrasting definitions and example sentences for each synonym. For budding writers ages 6 to 10.
Pronunciations are given for 28,000 names of people, places, and things from around the world, in both the International Phonetic Alphabet and a Simplified Respelling system.
“Best Reference Book of the Year” —Library Journal
“Outstanding Reference Source” —American Library Association.
A thesaurus suitable for students from 6th to 10th grade, with an innovative on-the-page index that minimizes the number of pages you need to turn.