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July 27, 2016 (July 27, 2016)

Hillary the Hermit Crab

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One of the pleasures of reading Hillary Clinton in the News is the trip back to yesteryear to see the freaks and embarrassments who made up the American media’s infotainment […]

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July 18, 2016 (July 11, 2016)

Release Party: Immigrant Identity and the Politics of Citizenship

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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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July 16, 2016 (July 18, 2016)

The Socialist Mayor and the Industrialist

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Frank Zeidler transformed Milwaukee during his three terms as mayor of the Wisconsin city. However, the kind of change that Zeidler, a member of the Socialist Party of America, brought […]

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July 13, 2016 (July 12, 2016)

200 Years of Illinois: Follow that Bison

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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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July 12, 2016

Q&A with Spider Web author Nick Fischer

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Nick Fischer is Adjunct Research Fellow of the School of Philosophical, Historical and International Studies at Monash University, Melbourne. He answered some questions about his book Spider Web: The Birth of American Anticommunism. […]

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July 11, 2016 (July 11, 2016)

Release Party: Free Spirits

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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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July 7, 2016 (July 8, 2016)

Throwbacklist Thursday: Goils Were Goils and Men Were Men

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Generally considered a bummer of epic proportions, the Great Depression nonetheless inspired a measure of nostalgia. Americans looked back to a simpler time, of lives unencumbered by food, employment, homes, […]

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July 7, 2016 (July 5, 2016)

How ’bout a Nice Hawaiian Putsch?

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For years, native Hawaiians had fought with a modest degree of success to maintain their autonomy. But in 1893, white businessmen—sugar magnates and the like—had taken control by tossing out […]

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June 30, 2016 (June 29, 2016)

Throwbacklist Thursday: The Story of the Smiths

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Often overlooked in the literature written about American families, the Smiths of Western New York nonetheless have a claim over the Rockefellers and Adamses and all the other subjects of […]

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June 25, 2016 (June 27, 2016)

200 Years of Illinois: Union Forever

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In 1862, as the Civil War raged and a Confederate victory seemed quite possible, many of the tensions unleashed by the war found a stage in Pekin. There, on June 25, […]

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June 6, 2016 (June 6, 2016)

Truly the Greatest

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A boxing legend but a towering American cultural figure, Muhammad Ali lived a life beyond adjectives, indeed beyond superlatives, and that’s just what he set out to do. Tributes to […]

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May 26, 2016 (June 2, 2016)

Throwbacklist Thursday: Steel Away

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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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