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Release Party: The Loyal West, by Matthew E. Stanley

Posted on February 1, 2017 (January 11, 2017) by rkcunningham
in African American Studies, american history, Illinois / regional, military history

A free region deeply influenced by southern mores, the Lower Middle West represented a true cultural and political median in Civil War–era America. Here grew a Unionism steeped in the […]

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Tagged Civil War, midwest, racism

Backlist Bop: Betrayal of the Spirit, by Nori J. Muster

Posted on January 31, 2017 (January 31, 2017) by rkcunningham
in biography, religion

Book Riot recently released a list of 100 must-read books on life in cults and oppressive religious sects. Author Elizabeth Allen moved across the tragic, weird, and terrible landscape of […]

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Tagged backlist, religious cults

Ask the Bolshevik: The alternative reality era

Posted on January 30, 2017 (January 31, 2017) by rkcunningham
in publishing, radical studies

Meet the UI Press is a recurring feature that delves into issues affecting academic publishing, writing, education, and related topics. Today, industry advice columnist The Bolshevik answers your questions. Dear Bolshevik, […]

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Tagged Ask the Bolshevik, censorship, Meet the UI Press, Publishing

Books win awards!

Posted on January 27, 2017 (January 27, 2017) by rkcunningham
in american history, anthropology, awards, dance, gender studies, Illinois / regional

Two more authors added their excellent works to the UIP trophy case, a piece of furniture already fill to burstin’ in recent weeks. Christina Sunardi won the Philip Brett Award from the […]

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Tagged Asian studies, child development, Java, labor studies, sexuality, women's studies

Backlist Bop: Oppressing good teachers

Posted on January 27, 2017 (January 31, 2017) by rkcunningham
in american history, education, gay/lesbian

And They Were Wonderful Teachers reports the history of state oppression of gay and lesbian citizens during the Cold War and the dynamic set of responses it ignited. Focusing on Florida’s […]

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Tagged LGBT, teaching

Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, and political words

Posted on January 25, 2017 (January 25, 2017) by rkcunningham
in biography, literary studies, politics

Excerpted from Orwell: Life and Art, by Jeffrey Meyers. The chapter deals with George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. The past is one of the dominant themes of the novel. The Party confidently […]

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Tagged George Orwell, Jeffrey Meyers, language, Nineteen Eighty-Four

Release Party: The Age of Noise in Britain, by James G. Mansell

Posted on January 24, 2017 (December 13, 2016) by rkcunningham
in European history, Uncategorized

Sound transformed British life in the “age of noise” between 1914 and 1945. The sonic maelstrom of mechanized society bred anger and anxiety and even led observers to forecast the […]

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Tagged Britain, intellectual history, modernity, noise, sensory history

Sa-lute: Another award for “Funk the Erotic”

Posted on January 24, 2017 (January 20, 2017) by rkcunningham
in African American Studies, literary studies, music

Awards season continues with one of our already-lauded books receiving another prize. L. H. Stallings‘s Funk the Erotic: Transaesthetics and Black Sexual Cultures has won the Alan Bray Memorial Book Award, […]

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Tagged gender studies, popular culture, sexuality studies, women's studies

200 Years of Illinois: Town of Steel

Posted on January 23, 2017 (January 20, 2017) by rkcunningham
in Illinois / regional

On January 21, 1972, DC Comics declared the largely misnamed Metropolis, Illinois the official home town of Superman. Metropolis had already adopted the Son of Krypton, and as we all […]

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Tagged 200 Years of Illinois, Metropolis, slavery, Superman

Release Party: Of G-Men and Eggheads

Posted on January 19, 2017 (January 20, 2017) by rkcunningham
in american history, communication, radical studies

Back before the FBI was accused of throwing elections, it kept immense files on all sorts of American citizens. Many of these suspicious characters worked as public intellectuals, a class of […]

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Tagged FBI, John Rodden, red scare

Backlist Bop: Snobs, not so many slobs

Posted on January 19, 2017 (January 17, 2017) by rkcunningham
in sports history

              Outsiders, in general, consider January off-season for golf in the northern United States. The intemperate weather replaces the pond and sand trap with […]

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Tagged cultural history, golf, sociology, sports

Release Party: May Irwin, by Sharon Ammen

Posted on January 17, 2017 (December 12, 2016) by rkcunningham
in African American Studies, biography, music

May Irwin reigned as America’s queen of comedy and song from the 1880s through the 1920s. A genuine pop culture phenomenon, Irwin conquered the legitimate stage, composed song lyrics, and […]

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Tagged American music, May Irwin, racism, women gender and sexuality studies, women singers
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