Category Archives: american history

March 28, 2013

The First to Fly Controversy

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Recently the publication, Jane’s All the World’s Aircraft declared at that aviator Gustave Whitehead, instead of the Wright brothers, was the first to take to the air in the sustained operation of a flying machine. The claim has caused quite a dustup amongst … Continue reading →

February 21, 2013

Q & A with One Woman in a Hundred author Mary Sue Welsh

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Mary Sue Welsh is a former executive director of the Bach Festival of Philadelphia, where she worked with its chair Edna Phillips.  She answered our questions about her new University of Illinois Press book One Woman in a Hundred: Edna Phillips … Continue reading →

February 20, 2013

The Rise and Fall of Early American Magazine Culture wins award

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Jared Gardner’s recent University of Illinois Press book, The Rise and Fall of Early American Magazine Culture has been chosen for the EBSCOhost-RSAP (Research Society for American Periodicals) Book Prize for the best book published over the past two years … Continue reading →

February 20, 2013

Q&A with Lisa Phillips, author of A Renegade Union

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Lisa Phillips is an assistant professor of history at Indiana State University.  She answered our questions about her new book A Renegade Union: Interracial Organizing and Labor Radicalism. Q: What is the “renegade union” of the book’s title? Phillips: Local then … Continue reading →

February 13, 2013

NPR’s Weekend Edition features Wade

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The February 10, 2013, Weekend Edition Sunday featured a segment on Bill Stepp’s version of ”Bonaparte’s Retreat,” which is profiled in Stephen Wade’s book The Beautiful Music All Around Us: Field Recordings and the American Experience.  

February 7, 2013

Albert Figone discusses gambling and game fixing in college sports

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Albert J. Figone is a professor emeritus of kinesiology and a former head baseball and assistant football coach at Humboldt State University.  He answered our questions about his new book Cheating the Spread: Gamblers, Point Shavers, and Game Fixers in … Continue reading →

February 4, 2013

Q&A with Organized Crime in Chicago author Robert M. Lombardo

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Robert M. Lombardo is an associate professor of criminal justice at Loyola University Chicago and a former Chicago Police officer. He answered our questions about his new book Organized Crime in Chicago: Beyond the Mafia. Q: What is your definition … Continue reading →

January 31, 2013

Stephen Wade on Baltimore NPR affiliate WYPR

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Aaron Henkin from WYPR radio in Baltimore conducted an engaging in-depth interview with Stephen Wade, author of the book The Beautiful Music All Around Us: Field Recording and the American Experience, on Henkin’s January 25 Signal program. My favorite part … Continue reading →

January 28, 2013

College gambling on NPR’s Only a Game

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The January 26, 2013, edition of NPR’s syndicated program Only a Game featured an interview with Albert Figone, author of the University of Illinois Press book Cheating the Spread: Gamblers, Point Shavers, and Game Fixers in College Football and Basketball. … Continue reading →

January 17, 2013

Rebels and Runaways wins Florida Historical Society award

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Larry Eugene Rivers’ recent University of Illinois Press book, Rebels and Runaways: Slave Resistance in Nineteenth-Century Florida has earned the Harry T. and Harriette V. Moore Award from the Florida Historical Society. Using a variety of sources such as slaveholders’ wills … Continue reading →