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Q&A with Team Chemistry author Nathan Michael Corzine

Posted on February 8, 2016 (February 3, 2016) by michael
in american history, author commentary, authors, sports history

Nathan Michael Corzine is an instructor in history at Coastal Carolina Community College. He recently answered some questions about his book Team Chemistry: The History of Drugs and Alcohol in Major League […]

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Tagged alcohol, baseball, baseball history, drugs, Nathan Michael Corzine, sports, Team Chemistry

Winning the War for Democracy receives Griot Award

Posted on February 4, 2016 by michael
in american history, authors, awards, black studies, labor history

David Lucander, author Winning the War for Democracy: The March on Washington Movement, 1941-1946, was recognized by the African American Historical Society of Rockland County (NY) with this year’s Griot […]

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Tagged A. Philip Randolph, civil rights, David Lucander, Winning the War for Democracy

Signal Traffic awarded by SCMS

Posted on February 1, 2016 (February 4, 2016) by michael
in authors, awards, communication, media studies

Signal Traffic: Critical Studies of Media Infrastructures, edited by Lisa Parks and Nicole Starosielski, has won the Best Edited Collection Award for 2015-2016, awarded by the Society for Cinema and […]

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Tagged anthropology, geography, Lisa Parks, Nicole Starosielski, Signal Traffic

$2.99 e-book sale to celebrate Black History Month

Posted on February 1, 2016 by michael
in $2.99 sale, american history, black studies

For the month of February 2016, to coincide with Black History Month, we have lowered the e-book list price of three titles in the University of Illinois Press catalog to […]

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$2.99 e-book sale to celebrate the American Historical Association’s 130th annual meeting

Posted on January 1, 2016 (December 22, 2015) by michael
in $2.99 sale

For the month of January 2016, to coincide with the American Historical Association annual meeting January 7-10 in Atlanta, we have lowered the e-book list price of three titles in […]

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Throwbacklist Thursday: New Year’s Eve on the battlefield

Posted on December 31, 2015 (December 30, 2015) by michael
in american history, backlist classics, Lincoln, military history

New Year’s Eve is a time of celebration for most. It’s a time to look forward to better things and a time to reflect on the year that will soon […]

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Tagged Civil War

“Uncle Honey” a family affair

Posted on December 30, 2015 by michael
in author commentary, author events, authors, biography, Illinois / regional, interviews, local authors

Thousands of newspaper readers across North America are familiar with Alan Guebert’s family members. Since 1993, along with the agribusiness issues of the day, Guebert has sprinkled family memories into […]

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Tagged agriculture, Alan Guebert, Mary Grace Foxwell, The Land of Milk and Uncle Honey

The University of Illinois Press Best of 2015

Posted on December 23, 2015 (January 4, 2016) by michael
in best of lists

Every December since 2007 we have posted an annual list of our pop culture favorites. The University of Illinois Press Best of 2015 edition is in alphabetical order by staff […]

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Roll Over, Tchaikovsky! awarded by the Society for Ethnomusicology

Posted on December 2, 2015 (December 2, 2015) by michael
in awards, gay/lesbian, music

Roll Over, Tchaikovsky! Russian Popular Music and Post-Soviet Homosexuality by Stephen Amico has been awarded the Marcia Herndon Prize by the Gender and Sexualities Section of the Society for Ethnomusicology. […]

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Tagged ethnomusicology, Stephen Amico

$2.99 e-book sale to celebrate Frank Sinatra’s 100th birthday

Posted on December 1, 2015 by michael
in $2.99 sale, film

For the month of December 2015, to coincide with Frank Sinatra’s 100th birthday, we have lowered the e-book list price of When Frankie Went to Hollywood: Frank Sinatra and American Male […]

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$2.99 e-book sale on Ethnomusicology titles

Posted on December 1, 2015 by michael
in $2.99 sale, music

For the month of December 2015, we have lowered the e-book list price of two ethnomusicology titles in the University of Illinois Press catalog to $2.99. Hawaiian Music in Motion: […]

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Muddying the Waters recognized at NWSA

Posted on November 17, 2015 (November 17, 2015) by michael
in authors, awards, feminist studies

Muddying the Waters: Coauthoring Feminisms across Scholarship and Activism by Richa Nagar was named as Honorable Mention in the Gloria Anzaldúa Book Prize by the National Women’s Studies Association. The […]

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Tagged Dissident Feminisms, NWSA, Richa Nagar
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