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“Alice Paul” co-author Katherine Adams to appear on NPR affiliate WILL

Posted on February 26, 2008 by michael
in interviews, women's history

Katherine Adams, co-author of the new book Alice Paul and the American Suffrage Campaign, will be interviewed today from 1:06-1:50 PM CST on WILL radio’s Afternoon Magazine. […]

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Erika Falk featured on KARK-TV Little Rock, filmed by C-SPAN’s Book-TV

Posted on February 26, 2008 by michael
in author events, Women for President

  KARK 4 News in Little Rock, Arkansas, covered Erika Falk’s recent event at the Clinton School of Public Service in Little Rock. Watch the news piece here.  For an expanded view […]

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Oscar Simple, Raising the Coens, The Big Awardski, or how I tried to come up with a clever blog post title

Posted on February 25, 2008 (February 25, 2008) by michael
in miscellaneous

  Congratulations to Joel and Ethan Coen, whose No Country for Old Men won four Oscars at last evening’s 80th Academy Awards. The brothers won Oscars for best director, best […]

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In These Times features women for president

Posted on February 25, 2008 (February 26, 2008) by michael
in Women for President, women's history

In These Times is featuring a new piece by Erika Falk, which was adapted from her book Women for President: Media Bias in Eight Campaigns. “Despite striking advances over the last century in women’s […]

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Depression

Posted on February 22, 2008 by michael
in miscellaneous, music

Back in my ’80s record store clerk days I worked with someone who used to engineer recording sessions in the attic of his rented apartment.  One of the bands that he recorded […]

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More on the digital future

Posted on February 22, 2008 by michael
in miscellaneous

Laura Cerruti, Director of Digital Content Development at the University of California Press, shares her notes from two recent publishing conferences on the UC Press blog. “Publishers should not try to compete with […]

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Caught in a net

Posted on February 21, 2008 by michael
in miscellaneous

Mark Lloyd, author of the recent University of Illinois Press book Prologue to a Farce: Communication and Democracy in America, co-authored an article on net neutrality that was just posted at CommonDreams.org. […]

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Jobs vs. reading in the New York Times

Posted on February 21, 2008 (February 21, 2008) by michael
in Uncategorized

Timothy Egan takes on Steve Jobs’s dim view of the state of reading in The New York Times. Please note: I once caught my teenage son listening to his iTouch AND reading […]

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Just Landed: “Dark Victorians”

Posted on February 21, 2008 by michael
in new books

  Vanessa D. Dickerson’s new book Dark Victorians, which explores connections between black Americans and white Victorian Britons, just landed on my desk.  The publication date is March 24, 2008, […]

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The Nashville Scene reviews “Air Castle of the South”

Posted on February 21, 2008 by michael
in music, reviews

  One of Craig Havighurst’s hometown weeklies, the Nashville Scene, reviews his new book Air Castle of the South: WSM and the Making of Music City. “Air Castle of the South pulls […]

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Golf and the water supply

Posted on February 20, 2008 by michael
in sports history

The February 2008 issue of National Geographic magazine includes a piece titled Drying of the West, about water resource issues in the American West.  A caption that accompanies one of […]

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Erika Falk Op-Ed in the Baltimore Sun

Posted on February 20, 2008 (February 26, 2008) by michael
in author commentary, Women for President, women's history

  Today’s Baltimore Sun includes an Erika Falk opinion piece on Hillary Clinton’s status as the “first woman” to run for president.  “I am worried that persistently framing women as ‘firsts’ […]

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