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200 Years of Illinois: The most dangerous root

Posted on June 3, 2016 (June 2, 2016) by rkcunningham
in food, Illinois / regional

Horseradish sparks opinions as strong as its taste. Most people, truth to tell, want nothing to do with the root in its fiery, ground-up form. Their relationship to horseradish rests mainly on […]

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Tagged 200 Years of Illinois, Collinsville, food history, horseradish

Saluting an animation pioneer

Posted on June 2, 2016 (June 2, 2016) by rkcunningham
in film

Pioneer of animation Lotte Reiniger features in today’s Google doodle. In 1926, Reiniger made the first feature-length animated film, The Adventures of Prince Achmed. But since Reiniger worked in silhouette […]

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Tagged animation, film history, John Lasseter, Lotte Reiniger

Throwbacklist Thursday: Bar Exam

Posted on June 2, 2016 (June 1, 2016) by rkcunningham
in law, prison

Every week seems to bring more stories of the waste, misuse, cruelty, and injustice of America’s increasingly for-profit prison system. For years, the University of Illinois Press has taken a […]

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Tagged crime, Eleanor Novek, Jennifer K. Wood, Marie Mulvey-Roberts, Michael A. Hallett, prison, prison writing, prisoners, Stephen John Hartnett

Release Party: The Street Is My Pulpit

Posted on May 31, 2016 (May 9, 2016) by rkcunningham
in anthropology, black studies, music

Hip-hop artist Juliani, born Julius Owino, is one of contemporary Kenya’s major music figures. In the new University of Illinois Press release The Street Is My Pulpit, Mwenda Ntarangwi explores […]

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Tagged African music, hip-hop, Juliani, Kenya, Mwenda Ntarangwi, popular music, The Street Is My Pulpit

Jane Bernstein on Rachel in the workplace

Posted on May 27, 2016 (May 27, 2016) by rkcunningham
in biography, disability studies, education, Rachel in the World

Jane Bernstein, author of the UIP books Loving Rachel and Rachel in the World, has a new essay on Vice about her daughter Rachel’s job. As in both her acclaimed memoirs, Bernstein pulls […]

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Tagged child studies, disability studies, Jane Berstein, Rachel in the World, work

200 Years of Illinois: Miles to East St. Louis

Posted on May 26, 2016 (May 25, 2016) by rkcunningham
in Illinois / regional, music

The world changed on May 26, 1926, for on that day Miles Davis entered the world in Alton. The Davises initially lived at 1112 Milnor Street. When Miles was two, […]

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Tagged 200 Years of Illinois, Alton, jazz, Miles Davis

Throwbacklist Thursday: Steel Away

Posted on May 26, 2016 (June 2, 2016) by rkcunningham
in american history, labor history, music

The Stone Age had its cavepeople and thyroidal mammals, the Bronze Age its Hoplites and long poems, the Iron Age its hillforts and bog mummies. The Steel Age seldom gets […]

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Tagged business, Duquesne, Mark Reutter, sacred music, steel guitar, steel industry, unions, William R. Haycraft

200 Years of Illinois: Final Flight

Posted on May 25, 2016 (May 25, 2016) by rkcunningham
in Chicago, Illinois / regional

American Airlines Flight 191 crashed on May 25, 1979. All of the 271 people aboard died, as did two more on the ground. The cause: an improperly repaired engine mount […]

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Tagged 200 Years of Illinois, air disasters, Flight 191

Release Party: Game Faces

Posted on May 24, 2016 (May 9, 2016) by rkcunningham
in law, sports history

Sports figures have a public profile once reserved for the likes of reigning monarchs and movie stars. In the new UIP book Game Faces, Sarah K. Fields looks at six people faced […]

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Tagged baseball, Don Newcombe, Game Faces, law, Sarah K. Fields

Release Party: Cold War Games

Posted on May 23, 2016 (May 23, 2016) by rkcunningham
in american history, sports history

Olympic advertising is in full swing. It is a good time to recall that, not long ago, an Olympic year meant far more than corporate tie-ins and moody video of winsome young […]

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Tagged cold war, Olympics, Release Party, Toby C. Rider

200 Years of Illinois: The Great Depression Is our dinner

Posted on May 20, 2016 (May 16, 2017) by rkcunningham
in Illinois / regional, politics

May 20, 1935 proved that budget impasses have played a part in Illinois history for a long time. That day, the papers printed warnings that over a million state residents […]

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Tagged 200 Years of Illinois, Great Depression, politicians, state government

An often overlooked observance

Posted on May 19, 2016 (May 19, 2016) by rkcunningham
in African American Studies, biography

In 2015, the State of Illinois designated May 19 as Malcolm X Day. It doesn’t always show up on the list of official state holidays, interestingly enough, perhaps due to […]

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Tagged Malcolm X, Peter Goldman
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