09/23/2021 12:00:00 AMFaculty members explore a range of topics in their new books. Booksculturestory Freedom's Ring: Literatures of Liberation from Civil Rights to the Second Wave By Jacqueline FoertschThe English professor explores the role of "freedom" and "equality" in literature of major rights-seeking movements from the 1960s and 1970s. The American Professor Pundit: Academics in the World of US Political Media By Valerie Martinez- Ebers, co-writer College professors' roles in contributing to political media content is examined by the University Distinguished Research Professor of political science. Sword of Empire: The Spanish Conquest of the Americas from Columbus to Cortés, 1492-1529 By Donald Chipman The Emeritus professor of history draws on his expertise in colonial New Spain in this volume about the Spanish Empire in North America.