Shawn J. Parry-Giles is a professor of communication and director of the Center for Political Communication and Civic Leadership at the University of Maryland. She answered some questions about her UIP […]
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Read an excerpt of Illegal: Reflections of an Undocumented Immigrant
“With great eloquence and pathos, N. draws on his daily life and references philosophers from Socrates to Kant to describe the netherworld of the undocumented. He takes solace in his […]
Happy birthday Anna Howard Shaw
Dr. Anna Howard Shaw was born on February 14, 1847. A leader of the women’s suffrage movement, Shaw was also a physician and one of the first ordained female Methodist ministers in […]
Q&A with Hear Our Truths author Ruth Nicole Brown
Ruth Nicole Brown is an assistant professor of gender and women’s studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the author of Black Girlhood Celebration: Toward a Hip-Hop Feminist […]
Q&A with The Battle over Marriage author Leigh Moscowitz
Leigh Moscowitz is an assistant professor of communication at the College of Charleston. In her UIP book The Battle over Marriage: Gay Rights Activism through the Media the author examines the aims […]
Jazz saxophonist and UIP author Joe Evans, 1916-2014
Accomplished jazzman Joseph James Evans passed away on January 17, 2014 at age 97. His autobiography, Follow Your Heart: Moving with the Giants of Jazz, Swing, and Rhythm and Blues (written […]
Q&A with A Foreign Kingdom author Christine Talbot
Christine Talbot is an assistant professor of women’s studies at the University of Northern Colorado. She answered our questions about her UIP book A Foreign Kingdom: Mormons and Polygamy in American Political […]
Carole Boyce Davies finds a ‘missed opportunity’ in 12 Years a Slave
Carole Boyce Davies, author of Caribbean Spaces: Escapes from Twilight Zones has written about some of differences between the film 12 Years a Slave and the 1854 memoir penned by […]
Caribbean Spaces makes Best of 2013 for The Public Archive
Caribbean Spaces: Escapes from Twilight Zones by Carole Boyce Davies was featured on The Public Archive’s “best of 2013” list of recent work from the fields of Black and Africana Studies. From the […]
Happy birthday, Zora Neale Hurston
Harlem Renaissance author Zora Neale Hurston was born on January 7, 1891. Also an American folklorist and anthropologist, Hurston wrote short stories, plays, essays and four novels including Their Eyes Were Watching […]
Q&A with Making the March King author Patrick Warfield
Patrick Warfield is an associate professor of music at the University of Maryland and the editor of John Philip Sousa: Six Marches. He recently answered our questions about his new […]
Q&A with Chicago River Bridges author Patrick McBriarty
Patrick T. McBriarty is a writer and creative producer based in Chicago and the co-producer, with Stephen Hatch, of the documentary film Chicago Drawbridges. He recently answered some questions about […]