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Throwbacklist Thursday: Sounds of Joy

Posted on July 21, 2016 (July 20, 2016) by rkcunningham
in biography, music

The UIP catalog includes an immense store of knowledge about American music. We don’t publish blog posts on Sunday morning, so we’re taking this beautiful Thursday to point the way […]

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Tagged African American Women, gospel music, Music in American Life

Release Party: A Cole Porter Companion

Posted on July 20, 2016 (July 11, 2016) by rkcunningham
in biography, music

If Harold Arlen built a reputation for chronicling love on the rocks, Cole Porter gained lasting fame and the adulation of a grateful culture for his celebrations of successful romance. […]

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Tagged Cole Porter, Don M. Randel, Matthew Shaftel, music, Music in American Life, Susan Forscher Weiss

Release Party: Making the News Popular

Posted on July 19, 2016 (July 19, 2016) by rkcunningham
in communication

The professional judgment of gatekeepers defined the American news agenda for decades.  Making the News Popular, now available from the University of Illinois Press, examines how subsequent events brought on a […]

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Tagged Anthony Nadler, History of Communication, journalism, Making the News Popular, News

200 Years of Illinois: Goodbye Norma Jean

Posted on July 18, 2016 (July 18, 2016) by rkcunningham
in Illinois / regional

On July 17, 1972, disaster struck in Oquawka, for on that day a bolt from dark skies struck down a 6,500-lb. elephant named Norma Jean. The star of the Clark & […]

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Tagged 200 Years of Illinois, circuses, Oquawka

Not Safe for Democracy

Posted on July 18, 2016 (July 18, 2016) by rkcunningham
in communication

Some background on this weekend’s events from the new University of Illinois book Media in New Turkey: The Origins of an Authoritarian Neoliberal State, by Bilge Yesil. While the Turkish […]

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Tagged Bilge Yesil, journalism, Media in New Turkey, Middle Eastern studies, Turkey

Release Party: Immigrant Identity and the Politics of Citizenship

Posted on July 18, 2016 (July 11, 2016) by rkcunningham
in american history, eBooks, immigration

The latest e-book in our trendsetting Common Threads series, Immigrant Identity and the Politics of Citizenship draws on decades of scholarship to provide the context for current discussions about immigration, a topic of national […]

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Tagged 2016 election, Common Threads, immigration, John Bukowczyk, journals

Oh Knowledge Obscura

Posted on July 15, 2016 (July 12, 2016) by rkcunningham
in Illinois / regional

Answers below. 1. The 1994 Illini defense boasted one of the most talented linebacker corps in Big Ten history. Dana Howard won the Butkus Award, teammate Kevin Hardy would earn […]

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Tagged trivia, University of Illinois

Throwbacklist Thursday: The Bastille Library

Posted on July 14, 2016 (July 14, 2016) by rkcunningham
in European history, gay/lesbian, music

To commemorate Bastille Day, the University of Illinois Press celebrates its backlist of books on France and the French. Le Jazz: Jazz and French Cultural Identity, by Matthew F. Jordan […]

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Tagged Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, France, gay history, history, jazz, Modernism

200 Years of Illinois: Follow that Bison

Posted on July 13, 2016 (July 12, 2016) by rkcunningham
in american history, Illinois / regional

On July 15, 1805, William Rector undertook an important, if arduous, task. By government order, he was to survey the Buffalo Trace, also known as the Vincennes Trace, a makeshift […]

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Tagged 200 Years of Illinois, Buffalo Trace, early Illinois, Vincennes Trace

200 Years of Illinois: Triple Digits

Posted on July 12, 2016 (July 11, 2016) by rkcunningham
in Chicago

Anyone who lived through the 1995 heat wave in Chicago remembers it, and the memories may be slightly more vivid for those who coped without air conditioning (hand up). It unfolded […]

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Tagged 200 Years of Illinois, Chicago heat wave, disasters

Release Party: Free Spirits

Posted on July 11, 2016 (July 11, 2016) by rkcunningham
in american history, native american

Often dismissed as a nineteenth-century curiosity, spiritualism in fact influenced the radical social and political movements of its time. Believers filled the ranks of the Free Democrats, agitated for land […]

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Tagged Civil War, Free Spirits, Mark A. Lause, Native Americans, spiritualism

You the Mancini

Posted on July 8, 2016 (July 6, 2016) by rkcunningham
in biography, music

Successful beyond belief in his chosen trade of making soundtrack music, Henry Mancini also enjoyed good fortune (made one, too) with forays into the pop charts. When he hit, he […]

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Tagged biography, film, Henry Mancini, John Caps, music, Music in American Life
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