{"id":609,"date":"2026-06-15T16:16:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T20:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/chat\/?p=609"},"modified":"2026-06-15T16:25:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T20:25:54","slug":"book-launches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/chat\/2026\/06\/15\/book-launches\/","title":{"rendered":"2025-2026 Book Celebrations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>2026-2027 CHAT Fellow, Bench Ansfield presented their award-winning book <em>Born in Flames <\/em>to a crowd of over 30 people. Ansfield gave a provocative talk about brownlining, insurance fraud, and New York in the 1960s and 1970s. Co-sponsors for the event included History and Honors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/chat\/files\/2026\/05\/31C8A9BC-31EB-42DA-87DB-0DC7206C0BB8_1_105_c.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-525\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.750008693535487;width:398px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/chat\/files\/2026\/05\/31C8A9BC-31EB-42DA-87DB-0DC7206C0BB8_1_105_c.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/chat\/files\/2026\/05\/31C8A9BC-31EB-42DA-87DB-0DC7206C0BB8_1_105_c-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As a 2022-2023 CHAT Fellow, Alan McPherson workshopped and presented parts of what would become <em>The Breach<\/em>. He and his doctoral student, Joseph Johnson, discussed the book in front of approximately 25 colleagues and graduate students on February 3, 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/chat\/files\/2026\/05\/14-_MG_8091-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-524\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/chat\/files\/2026\/05\/14-_MG_8091-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/chat\/files\/2026\/05\/14-_MG_8091-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/chat\/files\/2026\/05\/14-_MG_8091-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/chat\/files\/2026\/05\/14-_MG_8091-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/chat\/files\/2026\/05\/14-_MG_8091-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2026-2027 CHAT Fellow, Bench Ansfield presented their award-winning book Born in Flames to a crowd of over 30 people. Ansfield gave a provocative talk about brownlining, insurance fraud, and New York in the 1960s and 1970s. Co-sponsors for the event included History and Honors. As a 2022-2023 CHAT Fellow, Alan McPherson workshopped and presented parts &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/chat\/2026\/06\/15\/book-launches\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;2025-2026 Book Celebrations&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/chat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/chat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/chat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/chat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37303"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/chat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/chat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":636,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/chat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions\/636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/chat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/chat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/chat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}