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 […]
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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 […]
Music Tomes interview with Fred Bartenstein
Fred Bartenstein, editor of the recent Josh Graves memoir Bluegrass Bluesman, is featured in a recent Music Tomes interview. MT: What are you currently working on? FB: I wrote a number of […]
Stephen Wade on WHYY’s Radio Times
Earlier today, November 14, Stephen Wade appeared on WHYY’s Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane to discuss his new book The Beautiful Music All Around Us and his new CD Banjo Diary. […]
Saveur savors The Turkey: An American Story
Saveur magazine includes one of our oldies-but-goodies in its Five Thanksgiving Books feature. “For an historical perspective on the centerpiece of the feast, we recommend Andrew F. Smith’s The Turkey: An […]
An Interpretive Overview of Open Wound, part 2
This is the second half of the “Interpretive Overview” by William McKee Evans, the author of Open Wound: The Long View of Race in America. It appears before the Preface […]
An Interpretive Overview of Open Wound, part 1
Right after the last election we published Open Wound: The Long View of Race in America. The work is a capstone achievement by William McKee Evans, professor emeritus of history at […]