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Everything UIP You Need to Know at #NSWA2018

Posted on November 5, 2018 (November 5, 2018) by michael
in american history, gender, gender studies, NWSA First Book Prize, women's history

Attending NWSA this week? So are we! We’ve got some awesome events happening at our booth this year and some excellent giveaways, so stop by and say hello! Treva Lindsey […]

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“Fake News” From the Journal of American Folklore, Part 6

Posted on November 2, 2018 by michael
in folklore, journals

This is the sixth installment of our blog series exploring the articles in the special issue on “Fake News” from the Journal of American Folklore (vol. 131, no. 522). The special issue on […]

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Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About the Banjo

Posted on October 29, 2018 (October 29, 2018) by michael
in banjo, bluegrass, music

Spanning centuries of music history, the banjo remains a recognizable and unique instrument in genres including bluegrass and folk. As the banjo reaches new parts of the world, we can […]

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Sneak Peek Inside “Bill Monroe: The Life and Music of the Blue Grass Man”

Posted on October 26, 2018 (October 15, 2018) by michael
in american history, biography, bluegrass, excerpt, music

Tom Ewing presents fans of bluegrass music with an in-depth and long-awaited biography on the Blue Grass Man himself, Bill Monroe. Called “insightful” by The Wall Street Journal,  Bill Monroe: The […]

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Q&A with Andrew C. Billings and Jason Edward Black, authors of Mascot Nation

Posted on October 24, 2018 (October 15, 2018) by michael
in media studies, sports history

Andrew C. Billings is a professor and Ronald Reagan Chair of Broadcasting in the Department of Journalism and Creative Media at the University of Alabama. He is the coauthor of Olympic Television: […]

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“Fake News” from the Journal of American Folklore, Part 5

Posted on October 22, 2018 by michael
in Uncategorized

This is the fifth installment of our blog series exploring the articles in the special issue on “Fake News” from the Journal of American Folklore (vol. 131, no. 522). The special […]

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“Fake News” from the Journal of American Folklore, Part 4

Posted on October 18, 2018 (October 18, 2018) by michael
in folklore, journals

This is the fourth installment of our blog series exploring the articles in the special issue on “Fake News” from the Journal of American Folklore(vol. 131, no. 522). The special […]

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Remembering the 1968 Olympic Protest

Posted on October 16, 2018 (September 24, 2018) by michael
in African American Studies, sports history

During the 1968 Olympics at Mexico City, two American 200-meter sprinters, Tommie Smith and John Carlos performed arguably the most overtly political statement in the history of the Modern Olympic […]

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“Fake News” from the Journal of American Folklore, Part 3

Posted on October 9, 2018 by michael
in folklore, journals

This is the third installment of our blog series exploring the articles in the special issue on “Fake News” from the Journal of American Folklore(vol. 131, no. 522). The issue […]

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Pier Luigi Nervi: Architectural Visions of Concrete and Beauty

Posted on October 8, 2018 (September 20, 2018) by michael
in architecture, art, The Callout

The work of Italian engineer and builder Pier Luigi Nervi fascinates and inspires half a century after the completion of his best-known works. The spiraling, web-like patterns of his 1957 […]

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“Fake News” from the Journal of American Folklore, Part 2

Posted on October 4, 2018 by michael
in Uncategorized

This is the second installment of our blog series exploring the articles in the special issue on “Fake News” from the Journal of American Folklore (vol. 131, no. 522). The […]

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“Fake News” from the Journal of American Folklore

Posted on September 25, 2018 by michael
in Uncategorized

After a large number of papers about “Fake News” were proposed for the 2017 Annual Conference of the American Folklore Society, the editorial team of the Journal of American Folklore […]

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