Jared Gardner’s recent University of Illinois Press book, The Rise and Fall of Early American Magazine Culture has been chosen for the EBSCOhost-RSAP (Research Society for American Periodicals) Book Prize […]
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Q&A with Lisa Phillips, author of A Renegade Union
Lisa Phillips is an assistant professor of history at Indiana State University. She answered our questions about her new book A Renegade Union: Interracial Organizing and Labor Radicalism. Q: What is […]
NPR’s Weekend Edition features Wade
The February 10, 2013, Weekend Edition Sunday featured a segment on Bill Stepp’s version of “Bonaparte’s Retreat,” which is profiled in Stephen Wade’s book The Beautiful Music All Around Us: Field Recordings and the American Experience. […]
Albert Figone discusses gambling and game fixing in college sports
Albert J. Figone is a professor emeritus of kinesiology and a former head baseball and assistant football coach at Humboldt State University. He answered our questions about his new book […]
Q&A with Organized Crime in Chicago author Robert M. Lombardo
Robert M. Lombardo is an associate professor of criminal justice at Loyola University Chicago and a former Chicago Police officer. He answered our questions about his new book Organized Crime […]
Stephen Wade on Baltimore NPR affiliate WYPR
Aaron Henkin from WYPR radio in Baltimore conducted an engaging in-depth interview with Stephen Wade, author of the book The Beautiful Music All Around Us: Field Recording and the American […]
College gambling on NPR’s Only a Game
The January 26, 2013, edition of NPR’s syndicated program Only a Game featured an interview with Albert Figone, author of the University of Illinois Press book Cheating the Spread: Gamblers, […]
Rebels and Runaways wins Florida Historical Society award
Larry Eugene Rivers’ recent University of Illinois Press book, Rebels and Runaways: Slave Resistance in Nineteenth-Century Florida has earned the Harry T. and Harriette V. Moore Award from the Florida Historical […]
The New York Times reviews Media Capital
The January 13, 2013, edition of The New York Times includes a review of Aurora Wallace’s new University of Illinois book Media Capital: Architecture and Communications in New York City. “News […]
The Wall Street Journal publishes new review of The Beautiful Music All Around Us
The December 22, 2012, edition of The Wall Street Journal includes Eddie Dean’s review of Stephen Wade’s recent book The Beautiful Music All Around Us: Field Recordings and the American Experience. “The […]
Banjo Newsletter features Stephen Wade
Stephen Wade, author of the new book The Beautiful Music All Around Us: Field Recordings and the American Experience, is the subject of a cover story in the December 2012 issue […]
Abraham Lincoln, Oscar-Hunter?
The much-anticipated film Lincoln, directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Daniel Day-Lewis, recently opened in theaters nationwide. Here in the Land of Lincoln, we’ve always had a strong history of […]