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February 5, 2016 (February 4, 2016)

Not our first Zika

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To judge when an emerging pathogen enters the historical record, we look to medical journals and the Centers for Disease Control. To judge when an emerging pathogen enters the zeitgiest, […]

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February 4, 2016 (February 4, 2016)

Throwbacklist Thursday

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The Zika virus. It’s making headlines and provoking anxieties. A disease-causing pathogen carried by Aedes mosquitoes—the culprits behind yellow fever, dengue, and chikungunya, among other ills—Zika was isolated in Uganda in […]

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February 4, 2016

Winning the War for Democracy receives Griot Award

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David Lucander, author Winning the War for Democracy: The March on Washington Movement, 1941-1946, was recognized by the African American Historical Society of Rockland County (NY) with this year’s Griot […]

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February 1, 2016

$2.99 e-book sale to celebrate Black History Month

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For the month of February 2016, to coincide with Black History Month, we have lowered the e-book list price of three titles in the University of Illinois Press catalog to […]

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January 28, 2016 (January 27, 2016)

Throwbacklist Thursday

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It is no surprise that World War II, the most massive war in human history, receives the most attention from the publishing industry. Biography on figures like Churchill and FDR […]

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January 22, 2016 (January 22, 2016)

Guthrie and Trump

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Will Kaufman, the author of UIP’s Woody Guthrie: American Radical, just published a piece in The Conversation about a recent discovery he made in the Guthrie archives. Maybe you’ve seen it referenced all over […]

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January 21, 2016 (January 20, 2016)

Throwbacklist Thursday

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A Hard Fight for We: Women’s Transition from Slavery to Freedom in South Carolina, by Leslie A. Schwalm African American women fought bravely and tenaciously for their freedom during the […]

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January 14, 2016 (January 14, 2016)

Throwbacklist Thursday

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Drink bothered the Founding Fathers. Not on a personal level, of course. John Adams drank a tankard of hard cider with his breakfast and George Washington went on many a bender. […]

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January 11, 2016 (January 11, 2016)

Suffragette City

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Today the Google Doodle swings to celebrating the birthday of Alice Paul. Born into a close-knit Quaker community, Paul inherited the passion of forebears who fought for abolition. In her […]

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December 31, 2015 (December 30, 2015)

Throwbacklist Thursday: New Year’s Eve on the battlefield

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New Year’s Eve is a time of celebration for most. It’s a time to look forward to better things and a time to reflect on the year that will soon […]

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December 10, 2015 (December 10, 2015)

Sa-lute!

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At its recent conference in Austin, the Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM) recognized the excellence of James Revell Carr‘s Hawaiian Music in Motion: Mariners, Missionaries, and Minstrels. The book is a co-recipient of Alan Merriam […]

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November 16, 2015

Making Photography Matter wins National Communication Association award

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Making Photography Matter: A Viewer’s History from the Civil War to the Great Depression by Cara A. Finnegan has won the Outstanding Book of the Year by the National Communication […]

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