Dr. Jarod Roll received the 2011 Missouri History Book Award at a ceremony in Columbia’s Tiger Hotel on November 5. Roll won the award for his book, Spirit of Rebellion: […]
Category: american history
Q&A with Matt Carlson, author of On the Condition of Anonymity
On May 2, 2011, we published Matt Carlson’s On the Condition of Anonymity: Unnamed Sources and the Battle for Journalism, which illustrates how unattributed information can be both an effective tool in uncovering necessary information about vital […]
Art in America reviews “Races of Mankind”
The November 2011 issue of Art In America magazine features a four-page review, with multiple illustrations, of Marianne Kinkel’s new book Races of Mankind: The Sculptures of Malvina Hoffman. The book traces […]
Q&A with Sean Burns, author of Archie Green: The Making of a Working-Class Hero
On November 7, 2011, we will publish Sean Burns’s Archie Green: The Making of a Working-Class Hero, which celebrates one of the most revered folklorists and labor historians of the twentieth century. […]
Spirits of Just Men on location
A Reading from Spirits of Just Men by Charles Thompson from Charles D. Thompson on Vimeo. See how you can help fund, via a Kickstarter campaign, the documentary film project […]
Iran-Contra, Crack Cocaine, and the Transformation of Hip-Hop by Miles White
In August of 1985, the United States government under the administration of President Ronald Reagan secretly and illegally began selling weapons to Iran, which was engaged in what would be […]
Octave Chanute biographer speaks with Smile Politely
The former Chanute Air Force Base is just fifteen miles down the road in Rantoul, Illinois, so the Chanute name has strong name recognition in this area. Our local online entertainment magazine Smile […]
Garden & Gun reviews Spirits of Just Men
The October/November 2011 issue of Garden & Gun magazine includes Clyde Edgerton’s review of Charles Thompson’s new book Spirits of Just Men: Mountaineers, Liquor Bosses, and Lawmen in the Moonshine […]
Chicanas of 18th Street
Leonard G. Ramirez’s new book, Chicanas of 18th Street: Narratives of a Movement from Latino Chicago, with contributions by Yenelli Flores, María Gamboa, Isaura González, Victoria Pérez, Magda Ramírez-Castañeda, and Cristina […]
The Hayloft Gang arrives
In August 2008 we published a collection edited by Chad Berry titled The Hayloft Gang: The Story of the National Barn Dance. The book, a look at the nation’s most popular country […]
Book-TV to air Woody Guthrie, American Radical program
On September 17, 2011, C-Span’s Book-TV will air Will Kaufman’s Woody Guthrie, American Radical program, which was filmed at Barnes & Noble’s New York/Upper West Side location on August 23rd. […]
From the Jewish Heartland in the Chicago Tribune
This week, the Chicago Tribune‘s Food & Dining section included a feature on the recent book From the Jewish Heartland: Two Centuries of Midwest Foodways. Under the headline “Rosh Hashana, heartland-style: Heritage recipes […]