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May 23, 2016 (May 23, 2016)

Release Party: Cold War Games

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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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May 17, 2016 (May 16, 2017)

200 Years of Illinois: Near and Deere

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Fleeing debt, John Deere made his way from Vermont to Illinois with a dream: to earn big money making tools. The blacksmith settled in the charmingly-named Grand Detour, Illinois, and […]

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May 15, 2016 (May 5, 2016)

Q&A with Taste of the Nation author Camille Bégin

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Camille Bégin is a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Sensory Studies at Concordia University in Montreal. She answered some questions about her book Taste of […]

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April 29, 2016 (April 28, 2016)

Sensing Chicago awarded by the Illinois State Historical Society

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Sensing Chicago: Noisemakers, Strikebreakers, and Muckrakers by Adam Mack has been given an award for Superior Achievement by the Illinois State Historical Society. The awards committee noted, “This scholarly book […]

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April 28, 2016 (April 26, 2016)

Throwbacklist Thursday: The Pitching Hour

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For a boring sport, baseball sure produces a lot of interesting writing. Maybe because writers have a lot of time to think, take notes, nap, and so on waiting for […]

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April 27, 2016 (April 27, 2016)

200 Years of Illinois: U.S. as in United States

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“My family is American, and has been for generations, in all its branches, direct and collateral.” April 27 marks the 194th anniversary of the birth of Ulysses S. Grant, victor […]

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April 13, 2016 (April 14, 2016)

Bumper crop

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What does America need? You probably have a long list. It might even include “a good five-cent cigar.” What does America NOT need? More corn. We’re swimming in corn. South America is […]

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April 12, 2016 (April 11, 2016)

Author honors at OAH

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The Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting in Providence, Rhode Island, April 7-10, 2016 was a great opportunity for editors and staff from the Press to congregate with people in […]

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April 11, 2016 (April 11, 2016)

Struggle for the Soul of the Postwar South awarded at OAH

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Struggle for the Soul of the Postwar South: White Evangelical Protestants and Operation Dixie by Elizabeth Fones-Wolf and Ken Fones-Wolf has won the David Montgomery Award from the Organization of […]

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April 5, 2016 (April 1, 2016)

5 reasons to visit us at OAH

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If you are headed to the Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting in Providence, Rhode Island during April 7-9 there are a few things you’ll want to be on the […]

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April 4, 2016 (April 4, 2016)

Q&A with the editors of Women, Work, and Worship in Lincoln’s Country

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Ann Dumville and her daughters Jemima, Hephzibah, and Elizabeth were not history makers in the way we traditionally think of such figures. None of these women held high political office […]

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March 24, 2016 (March 24, 2016)

Throwbacklist Thursday: Workin’ on the Railroad

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Though another state calls itself the Crossroads of America, Illinois deserves the title as much as any of the Lower 48, for here the prairie gathers the railroads and interstates to […]

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