Major Press Release: 12/15/2021 

*Reacting Consortium and UNCP to partner in publishing all Reacting games.

The Reacting Consortium, Inc. is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement with the University of North Carolina Press to publish all Reacting to the Past games. Beginning in the summer and fall of 2022, UNCP will publish the thirty games currently published by W. W. Norton and the Reacting Consortium Press. UNCP will also publish, as regular imprints of the press, all future Reacting to the Past games. This will consolidate Reacting offerings and make it easier for instructors to find and use Reacting materials. It will also facilitate and simplify the process for developing and publishing Reacting games.

“The Consortium has long sought to bring all of its games under the broad umbrella of an outstanding university press,” declared Mark Carnes, Executive Director of the Reacting Consortium. “While we’re excited by this opportunity to expand and rationalize the Reacting pedagogy, we appreciate W. W. Norton, whose fine team did so much to promote and refine Reacting to the Past during its formative years.” The Reacting Consortium will continue to partner with W. W. Norton on the Flashpoints series of short games.

“This agreement was the culmination of countless hours of work by the Executive Committee of the Reacting Board, chaired sequentially by Anthony Crider (physicist, Elon University) and Gretchen Galbraith (Dean of Arts and Sciences, SUNY Potsdam), and including Publishing Director Jace Weaver (historian, University of Georgia) and Nick Proctor, chair of the Reacting Editorial Board (historian, Simpson College), along with Dr. Jenn Worth, Administrative Director, and Maddie Provo, Membership Director, of the Reacting Consortium staff,” Carnes added.

You can read more here on the blog of UNC Press. 

The Reacting Consortium, Inc., a not-for-profit 501 (c) 3 corporation, governs the Reacting to the Past pedagogy, in which students play complex games, set in the past, their roles informed by important texts. The Reacting pedagogy is used by over 500 colleges and universities in the United States—and also by several dozen universities elsewhere.

For further information: Mark Carnes mcarnes@barnard.edu
Jenn Worth jworth@barnard.edu
Gretchen Galbraith galbragr@potsdam.edu