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Music Tomes interview with Fred Bartenstein

Posted on November 21, 2012 by michael
in american history, author commentary, interviews, music

Fred Bartenstein, editor of the recent Josh Graves memoir Bluegrass Bluesman, is featured in a recent Music Tomes interview. MT: What are you currently working on? FB: I wrote a number of […]

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Stephen Wade on WHYY’s Radio Times

Posted on November 14, 2012 by michael
in american history, music

Earlier today, November 14, Stephen Wade appeared on WHYY’s Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane to discuss his new book The Beautiful Music All Around Us and his new CD Banjo Diary. […]

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“Denise Levertov” author on PBS

Posted on November 14, 2012 by michael
in author commentary, poetry, religion

Watch Dana Greene on Denise Levertov on PBS. See more from Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly. Denise Levertov: A Poet’s Life by Dana Greene […]

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Write for the World by Stephen Wade

Posted on November 14, 2012 (November 27, 2012) by michael
in author commentary

University of Illinois Press author Stephen Wade contributed this piece for the University Press Week blog tour. The tour continues today at University of Nebraska Press. A complete blog tour schedule […]

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Postcard of the Day, Part 12

Posted on November 13, 2012 by michael
in Illinois / regional, Postcard of the Day

Keith Sculle, co-author of Picturing Illinois: Twentieth-Century Postcard Art from Chicago to Cairo (University of Illinois Press, October 2012), concludes our Postcard of the Day feature with his favorite from […]

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Postcard of the Day, Part 11

Posted on November 12, 2012 by michael
in Illinois / regional, Postcard of the Day

John Jakle, co-author of Picturing Illinois: Twentieth-Century Postcard Art from Chicago to Cairo (University of Illinois Press, October 2012), reveals his favorite from the book. Figure 131 on page 133 of […]

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Saveur savors The Turkey: An American Story

Posted on November 9, 2012 by michael
in american history, food

Saveur magazine includes one of our oldies-but-goodies in its Five Thanksgiving Books feature. “For an historical perspective on the centerpiece of the feast, we recommend Andrew F. Smith’s The Turkey: An […]

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Postcard of the Day, Part 10

Posted on November 9, 2012 by michael
in Illinois / regional, Postcard of the Day

On April 10, 1900, University of Illinois benefactor Arnold Beckman was born in Cullom, Illinois.  Fourteen years later this snowy scene of Beckman’s hometown was captured for postcard distribution. Cullom, 1914.  No […]

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Postcard of the Day, Part 9

Posted on November 8, 2012 by michael
in Illinois / regional, Postcard of the Day

Is this Illinois?  With the wooded hills in the background, it’s reminiscent of a highway view in West Virginia  This is an early 20th Century postcard of Savanna, Illinois, a Mississippi River town […]

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Postcard of the Day, Part 8

Posted on November 7, 2012 by michael
in Chicago, Illinois / regional, Postcard of the Day

In recognition of President Obama’s victory, today’s featured postcard is The University of Chicago in the city’s Hyde Park neighborhood. The University of Chicago, ca. 1935. Max Rigot Selling Co., Chicago (#272); C. […]

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Postcard of the Day, Part 7

Posted on November 6, 2012 by michael
in Illinois / regional, Postcard of the Day

In 2009 we published Steven Ashby and C. J. Hawking’s book Staley: The Fight for a New American Labor Movement.  Here’s a postcard view of Decatur’s Staley plant around 1940. The A. E. Staley Manufacturing […]

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Chicago Reader features Picturing Illinois

Posted on November 6, 2012 by michael
in Illinois / regional

The Chicago Reader reminisces while reading Picturing Illinois: Twentieth-Century Postcard Art from Chicago to Cairo. “Postcards used to be a common form of communication. Particularly with those of a certain era. […]

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