Seven recent University of Illinois Press books have been recognized as an Outstanding Academic Title by Choice. Title: From Papyrus to Hypertext: Toward the Universal Digital Library Author: Christian Vandendorpe, translated by […]
The first chapter of my new book, The Myth of Manliness in Irish National Culture, 1880-1922, re-imagines the political legend and legacy of Charles Stewart Parnell, the great late-Victorian Irish […]
My favorite memory of collecting data for Dirty Words: The Rhetoric of Public Sex Education, 1870-1924 took place in the Social Welfare History Archives at the University of Minnesota. I […]
On January 3, 2011, Faith Holsaert, co-editor of the new book Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC, was a guest on WUNC’s radio program The State […]
‘Tis the season, for Christmas presents, holiday cheer, New Year’s resolutions—and college football’s never-ending parade of bowl games (35 in all this year)! When I began the research for […]
Ronald A. Smith, author of the new book Pay for Play: A History of Big-Time College Athletic Reform, was interviewed for the January 3, 2011, edition of Inside Higher Ed. […]
Willis Regier, Director Best Book: John Kenneth Galbraith, The Affluent Society & Other Writings, 1952-1967, Library of America. I read Galbraith’s The New Industrial State when everybody was reading it […]
The December 18, 2010, issue of The Wall Street Journal features a review of Ray Allen’s new book Gone to the Country: The New Lost City Ramblers and the Folk Music […]
On December 16, 2010, May Berenbaum, editor of the new book Honey, I’m Homemade: Sweet Treats from the Beehive across the Centuries and around the World, made cookies on WGN-TV’s “Lunchbreak” segment. […]
As I set out to interview former refugees about their migration and settlement experiences, it became apparent to me that many had been so busy trying to survive and/or help […]
This originally appeared in the Berkshire Jewish Voice (Oct 29-Nov.7, 2010; Vol. 19, No. 1) ***** My parents and I survived the Holocaust by fleeing to Shanghai where we lived […]
The Huffington Post has published the final segment of a 4-part series by Richard Hughes based on his book Christian America and the Kingdom of God. The Christian Right in Context, Part 4: […]