Simine Short discusses her recent book Locomotive to Aeromotive: Octave Chanute and the Transportation Revolution at the Library of Congress. […]
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Q&A with The Poco Field author Talmage A. Stanley
Talmage A. Stanley is the director of the Appalachian Center for Community Service and an associate professor and chair of the Department of Public Policy and Community Service at Emory & […]
Mitchell Nathanson on NPR’s Only a Game
Mitchell Nathanson, author of the new book A People’s History of Baseball, was interviewed on the March 31, 2012, edition of National Public Radio’s syndicated program Only a Game, hosted by Bill […]
WNYC’s Soundcheck Squeezes This
Marion Jacobson, author of the new book Squeeze This! A Cultural History of the Accordion in America, was a featured guest on the March 20, 2012, edition of WNYC’s Soundcheck program. […]
Donald Hickey interviewed for National Review Online podcast
This year is the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812. To celebrate, the University of Illinois Press has published a Bicentennial Edition of Donald Hickey’s The War of 1812: A […]
Gillum Ferguson on the road
Gillum Ferguson is visiting bookstores, libraries, historical societies, and museums throughout the State of Illinois to discuss and sign copies of his new book Illinois in the War of 1812. […]
Daily Yonder reviews Archie Green
Sean Burns’s recent biography of folklorist Archie Green is the subject of an extended review in Daily Yonder. “Fascinating and insightful. . . . Burns provides an absorbing account of Archie’s […]
Gillum Ferguson on WGN-TV’s Midday News
Gillum Ferguson, author the new book Illinois in the War of 1812, was a guest on the March 8, 2012, edition of WGN-TV’s Midday News. Today at noon, Ferguson will […]
Simine Short on WGN-TV
The March 6, 2012, edition of WGN-TV’s Midday News program featured an interview with Simine Short, author of the recent book Locomotive to Aeromotive: Octave Chanute and the Transportation Revolution. […]
The Catholic Church vs. Birth Control: The Sanger Papers Feature Early Rounds in this Epic Battle by Peter C. Engelman
The current debate over the mandate for employers to cover contraception in health insurance plans harks back to earlier confrontations between the Catholic Church and family planning advocates. From the early […]
Good Times for Equal Time
Finished copies of Aniko Bodroghkozy’s book Equal Time: Television and the Civil Rights Movement just arrived from the printer and will be officially published on March 12, 2012. Equal Time […]
Pete Daniel in PBS program Slavery by Another Name
Pete Daniel, author of the University of Illinois Press book The Shadow of Slavery: Peonage in the South, 1901-1969, explains in the documentary Slavery by Another Name why the 13th […]