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Zimmerman, Zinn, Zingg, and Zuberi

Posted on November 9, 2011 by michael
in all things digital, publishing

Leslie, Heather, and Lisa study the “Z” contract files as they finish up our 5-week, 1,000+ e-book backlist clearance project. […]

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UIP author on the scandal at Penn State

Posted on November 8, 2011 (November 8, 2011) by michael
in author commentary, sports history

Ronald A. Smith, author of the recent book Pay for Play: A History of Big-Time College Athletic Reform and professor emeritus of sports history at Penn State University, supplied the […]

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“Spirit of Rebellion” wins Missouri History Book Award

Posted on November 7, 2011 by michael
in american history, awards, southern history

Dr. Jarod Roll received the 2011 Missouri History Book Award at a ceremony in Columbia’s Tiger Hotel on November 5. Roll won the award for his book, Spirit of Rebellion: […]

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Q&A with Matt Carlson, author of On the Condition of Anonymity

Posted on November 3, 2011 by michael
in american history, author commentary, communication, interviews

On May 2, 2011, we published Matt Carlson’s On the Condition of Anonymity: Unnamed Sources and the Battle for Journalism, which illustrates how unattributed information can be both an effective tool in uncovering necessary information about vital […]

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Art in America reviews “Races of Mankind”

Posted on November 2, 2011 by michael
in american history, art, black studies, Chicago, Illinois / regional, reviews

The November 2011 issue of Art In America magazine features a four-page review, with multiple illustrations, of Marianne Kinkel’s new book Races of Mankind: The Sculptures of Malvina Hoffman.  The book traces […]

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Q&A with Sean Burns, author of Archie Green: The Making of a Working-Class Hero

Posted on October 26, 2011 (October 26, 2011) by michael
in american history, author commentary, interviews, labor history

On November 7, 2011, we will publish Sean Burns’s Archie Green: The Making of a Working-Class Hero, which celebrates one of the most revered folklorists and labor historians of the twentieth century.  […]

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Spirits of Just Men on location

Posted on October 20, 2011 by michael
in american history, author commentary, southern history

A Reading from Spirits of Just Men by Charles Thompson from Charles D. Thompson on Vimeo.   See how you can help fund, via a Kickstarter campaign, the documentary film project […]

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Q&A with CompaƱeros author Jesus Ramirez-Valles

Posted on October 18, 2011 (October 18, 2011) by michael
in author commentary, gay/lesbian, interviews, latino studies

On November 7, 2011, we will officially publish Jesus Ramirez-Valles’s new book CompaƱeros: Latino Activists in the Face of AIDS, which details how eighty gay, bisexual, and transgender (GBT) Latino […]

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Iran-Contra, Crack Cocaine, and the Transformation of Hip-Hop by Miles White

Posted on October 17, 2011 by michael
in american history, black studies, music

In August of 1985, the United States government under the administration of President Ronald Reagan secretly and illegally began selling weapons to Iran, which was engaged in what would be […]

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Octave Chanute biographer speaks with Smile Politely

Posted on October 13, 2011 by michael
in american history, author commentary, interviews

The former Chanute Air Force Base is just fifteen miles down the road in Rantoul, Illinois, so the Chanute name has strong name recognition in this area.  Our local online entertainment magazine Smile […]

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Hands on the Freedom Plow wins a Letitia Woods Brown Book Award

Posted on October 13, 2011 by michael
in awards, black studies, women's history

Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in the SNCC was selected as one of this year’s winners of the Letitia Woods Brown Book Award, sponsored by the Association […]

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Nietzsche: Attempt at a Mythology wins the Ungar German Translation Award

Posted on October 12, 2011 by michael
in awards

Robert E. Norton’s translation of Nietzsche: Attempt at a Mythology by Ernst Bertram is the winner of the Ungar German Translation Award presented by the American Translators Association.  The ATA’s […]

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