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October 28, 2016 (October 28, 2016)

Awards: Daisy Turner’s Kin

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This week, we received word that Jane C. Beck’s acclaimed book Daisy Turner’s Kin: An African American Family Saga, won two awards: the 2016 Chicago Folklore Prize and the 2016 Wayland […]

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October 24, 2016 (September 22, 2016)

Release Party: Slavery at Sea

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The new UIP release Slavery at Sea examines the infamous Middle Passage in a new light. Sowande’ Mustakeem reveals for the first time how slavery took critical shape at sea. Expanding the gaze […]

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October 6, 2016 (October 5, 2016)

Throwbacklist Thursday: Boogie Woogie Kugel Boy

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Today marks National Noodle Day, an observance that simultaneously celebrates a food most beloved of preschoolers and college students while making you wonder if this national day trend has gone too […]

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September 29, 2016 (September 29, 2016)

Return of the Word Warrior

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This past Sunday, Washington, D.C. radio station WAMU-FM went into the vaults to find a classic 1949 radio documentary on Ida B. Wells. Part of the classic Destination Freedom series, the […]

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September 2, 2016 (September 1, 2016)

Making Photography Matter awarded by NCA

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Making Photography Matter: A Viewer’s History from the Civil War to the Great Depression by Cara A. Finnegan was recently awarded the James A. Winans and Herbert A. Wichelns Memorial […]

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August 26, 2016 (August 26, 2016)

The Liberationists

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Forty-six years ago today, national feminist groups staged the Women’s Strike for Equality. “If the success of media activism is measured by the amount of news coverage generated, the Strike […]

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August 25, 2016 (August 25, 2016)

“Barnum of the Bigots”

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Not exactly the pride of Bloomington, Illinois, American Nazi leader George Lincoln Rockwell was born into—of all things—a family of vaudeville performers. A former associate shot him to death on August […]

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August 10, 2016 (August 9, 2016)

Fannie Barrier Williams celebrated

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Progressive Era activist and reformer Fannie Barrier Williams was one of the most prominent educated African American women of her generation. A new effort to honor the woman who was a prominent spokesperson […]

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August 9, 2016

“Serious crimes” keep Corrupt Illinois figure in prison

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Inmate No. 40892-424, better known as former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich, had hoped to he would be able to return home early. Those hopes were dashed by a the federal […]

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August 4, 2016 (July 27, 2016)

Throwbacklist Thursday: Welcome to the Machine

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With robots and other thinking devices prepared to replace us in about eight days, we thought it time to curry favor by highlighting UIP titles that engage the dilemmas and […]

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August 2, 2016 (July 29, 2016)

Release Party: Indians Illustrated

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In the second half of the nineteenth century, Americans swarmed to take in a raft of new illustrated journals and papers. Engravings and drawings of “buckskinned braves” and “Indian princesses” […]

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July 30, 2016 (July 20, 2016)

Happy birthday, Eugene Kinckle Jones

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Social activist and influential executive secretary of the National Urban League Eugene Kinckle Jones was born on July 30, 1885. Felix L. Armfield‘s biography Eugene Kinckle Jones: The National Urban League […]

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