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Holiday break

Posted on December 23, 2016 (December 21, 2016) by rkcunningham
in Uncategorized

The UIP blog will be on break until January 3, 2017. When we return, it’ll be all hot new books on how neoliberal politicians sold, and sold out, the city […]

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200 Years of Illinois: Raggedy Riches

Posted on December 22, 2016 (December 19, 2016) by rkcunningham
in Illinois / regional

On Christmas Eve, 1880, an Arcola painter-illustrator and his wife welcomed John Gruelle to the family. John sank roots into the professional illustration trade himself at age 25 when he […]

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Tagged 200 Years of Illinois, Raggedy Ann, toys

Oh gnarly tree

Posted on December 21, 2016 (December 19, 2016) by rkcunningham
in Uncategorized

I am fortunately immune to nostalgia about past celebrations of the yule, with one exception: the Christmas tree. Not a tree in the abstract, but the Christmas tree I grew up with, a […]

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Tagged holidays

Backlist Bop: “All Around the Year,” by Jack Santino

Posted on December 20, 2016 (December 19, 2016) by rkcunningham
in folklore

Today we venture into the vaults to shed light on a Nineties UIP release. All Around the Year surveys the American year to delve into how and why we celebrate the […]

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Tagged holidays, Jack Santino

Christmas in Illinois: Dear Santa

Posted on December 19, 2016 (December 14, 2016) by rkcunningham
in Christmas, Illinois / regional

From the UIP release Christmas in Illinois, edited by James Ballowe: Before sitting on Santa’s lap in department stores became the way children let Santa and their parents know what […]

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Tagged Christmas in Illinois, holidays, James Ballowe

Corrupt Illinois strikes again!

Posted on December 15, 2016 (December 15, 2016) by rkcunningham
in Chicago, politics

Chicago alderman Willie Cochran received news of his impending federal indictment on corruption charges while attending a City Council meeting. You can’t say he skips out on work. You can […]

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Tagged Corrupt Illinois, crime, Dick Simpson, Thomas Gradel

Backlist Bop: Soy meets world

Posted on December 15, 2016 (December 7, 2016) by rkcunningham
in Christmas, food

The World of Soy, edited by Christine M. Du Bois, Chee-Beng Tan, and Sidney Mintz It’s the happy season when we feast on all the high-calorie favorites we feel too […]

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Tagged food studies, holidays, soy

Release Party: Alfred Bester, by Jad Smith

Posted on December 14, 2016 (December 13, 2016) by rkcunningham
in biography, literary studies, science fiction

Alfred Bester’s classic short stories and the canonical novel The Stars My Destination made him a science fiction legend. Fans and scholars praise him as a genre-bending pioneer and cyberpunk […]

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Tagged Alfred Bester, Jad Smith, modern masters of Science Fiction

200 Years of Illinois: The Cavaness Murders

Posted on December 13, 2016 (December 12, 2016) by rkcunningham
in Illinois / regional

On December 13, 1984, a remarkable murder took place outside of St. Louis. Dale Cavaness, a physician in Eldorado, Illinois, killed his ne’er-do-well son Sean with two gunshots to the […]

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Tagged 200 Years of Illinois, Eldorado, true crime

Journal Spotlight: History of the Present

Posted on December 12, 2016 (December 12, 2016) by rkcunningham
in american history, European history, journals, world history

History of the Present, launched in 2010, is devoted to history as a critical endeavor. Its aim is twofold: to create a space in which scholars can reflect on the […]

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Tagged African history, American history, Asian history, European history, history of slavery, History of the Present, journals, researching, slavery

The most important race of their lives

Posted on December 9, 2016 (December 8, 2016) by rkcunningham
in communication, sports history

Excerpted from Six Minutes in Berlin: Broadcast Spectacle and Rowing Gold at the Nazi Olympics, by Michael J. Socolow A few hours later, with the Germans having already compiled one […]

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Tagged Berlin Olympics, Michael J. Socolow, Nazis, Olympic history, Olympics, radio. broadcasting history, rowing

Cole Porter on tour, sort of

Posted on December 8, 2016 (December 8, 2016) by rkcunningham
in author events, music

Master songsmith Cole Porter is no longer around to play command performances or record duets with pop stars. But the music lives on. Yesterday Susan Forscher Weiss, an editor of […]

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Tagged bookstores, Cole Porter, music
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