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January 12, 2015

Q&A with The Neighborhood Outfit author Louis Corsino

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Louis Corsino is a professor of sociology at North Central College. He recently answered some questions about his book The Neighborhood Outfit: Organized Crime in Chicago Heights. Q: Who were the […]

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November 17, 2014 (October 28, 2014)

New in paperback: American music and American history

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Two UIP titles are available in paperback editions today. Charles Ives in the Mirror: American Histories of an Iconic Composer Charles Ives was a virtual unknown in his lifetime. But […]

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November 11, 2014 (November 20, 2014)

“The word ‘discomfort’ is a weak description”

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American troops first faced poison gas on February 2, 1918. German artillery units used the cover of a heavy afternoon fog to lob shells filled with phosgene and diphosgene on […]

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November 3, 2014 (October 15, 2014)

New in paperback: creole culture and beer hall anarchists

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Two UIP titles are available in paperback editions today. The Creolization of American Culture: William Sidney Mount and the Roots of Blackface Minstrelsy Painter William Sidney Mount created some of […]

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October 6, 2014 (October 10, 2014)

Q&A with Winning the War for Democracy author David Lucander

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David Lucander is a professor of history at SUNY Rockland Community College. He recently answered some questions about his UIP book Winning the War for Democracy: The March on Washington Movement, […]

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October 3, 2014 (October 2, 2014)

Fannie Barrier Williams wins Letitia Woods Brown Book Award

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Fannie Barrier Williams: Crossing the Borders of Region and Race by Wanda A. Hendricks has been selected as one of this year’s winners of the Letitia Woods Brown Book Award […]

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September 22, 2014 (September 19, 2014)

Q&A with NFL Football author Richard Crepeau

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Richard C. Crepeau is a professor of history at the University of Central Florida and former president of the North American Society for Sports History. He answered some questions about […]

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September 18, 2014 (September 22, 2014)

Q&A with Collaborators for Emancipation authors

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Collaborators for Emancipation is an examination of the relationship between President Abraham Lincoln and Congregational minister Owen Lovejoy. Authors William F. Moore and Jane Ann Moore collaborated themselves on both […]

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September 17, 2014 (September 4, 2014)

New in paperback: Black Women & Politics in New York City

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Black Women & Politics in New York City Now available in paperback, Black Women & Politics in New York City documents African American women fighting for justice, civil rights, and […]

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September 16, 2014 (September 17, 2014)

The Barb sinks a carrier

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Seventy years ago today, the American submarine USS Barb torpedoed the Japanese carrier Unyo in the South China Sea, one of the legendary feats of the famed sub and its skipper, […]

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September 15, 2014 (September 4, 2014)

New in paperback: two titles examine Civil War era secrets

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Two UIP titles are available in paperback editions today. A Secret Society History of the Civil War Were the forces that drove the United States to civil war prompted by […]

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September 3, 2014 (September 4, 2014)

ASALH $2.99 ebook sale

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For the month of September, to coincide with the Association for the Study of African American Life and History annual meeting September 24-28 in Memphis, we have lowered the e-book […]

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