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Category Archives: biography
Backlist Bop: Soviet conspiracy unveiled!
in american history, biography, radical studies
Tagged Backlist Bop, cold war, communism, espionage, Thomas Sakmyster
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Comrades, The Press has asked me, The Bolshevik, to pause from my advice column to fill in with the popular Backlist Bop feature. And good timing it is, for today the roulette wheel of UIP books stops on Radical Studies. … Continue reading
Hirum Cronk Remembered
in american history, biography
Tagged Donald R. Hickey, Hirum Cronk, War of 1812
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He fought for his country at a time when Native Americans still played a major role in New York’s military conflicts. He died when film could be taken of his funeral. On May 13, 1905, the War of 1812 passed finally out of memory, … Continue reading
200 Years of Illinois: The Artful Pose
in art, biography, Getting to know Champaign-Urbana, Illinois / regional
Tagged Allen Stuart Weller, Champaign-Urbana, Lorado Taft, sculpture
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Today marks the birthday of famed sculptor Lorado Taft, born in 1860 in Elmwood, Illinois. A graduate of the Illinois Industrial University—forerunner of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign—Taft studied in France before returning to Chicago to make his reputation and … Continue reading
Happy Birthday, Muddy Waters
in Best of Illinois, biography, music
Tagged blues, Blues All Day Long, Jimmy Rogers, Muddy Waters, music, Music in American Life, Wayne Everett Goins
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Longing for that down home music? Looking for a shot of brilliance? Tryin’ to forget that you asked for water and your woman/man gave you gasoline? Then you must be celebrating the 100th birthday (or it might be the 102nd birthday) of McKinley Morganfield, … Continue reading
200 Years of Illinois: Archaea, the third kind of life on earth
in biography, Illinois / regional, local authors
Tagged 200 Years of Illinois, Carl Woese, Frederick E. Hoxie, science
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Today we turn over the 200 Years of Illinois feature to Steven Lenz and Nicholas Hopkins, authors of an essay (reprinted below) in the new UIP book The University of Illinois: Engine of Innovation. Lenz and Hopkins look into the life and … Continue reading
Anatomy of a Peggy Seeger classic
in biography, music, women
Tagged feminism, folk music, Jean Freedman, Peggy Seeger
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Excerpted from Peggy Seeger: A Life of Music, Love, and Politics, by Jean Freedman Peggy had written some mildly feminist songs, such as “Darling Annie,” about an equal partnership between a man and a woman, and “Nightshift,” about a woman’s … Continue reading
Jose Angel N. on undocumented immigrants and negative growth
in biography, immigration, politics
Tagged essay, Illegal: Reflections of an Undocumented Immigrant, Jose Angel N, UIP authors
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Today at The Point, José Ángel N. contributes an essay drawing on his experiences as an undocumented immigrant to ponder American progress, the idea of home, and today’s fraught immigration atmosphere. When I am invited to share my experience as … Continue reading
Backlist Bop: Betrayal of the Spirit, by Nori J. Muster
in biography, religion
Tagged backlist, religious cults
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Book Riot recently released a list of 100 must-read books on life in cults and oppressive religious sects. Author Elizabeth Allen moved across the tragic, weird, and terrible landscape of misused faith to guide readers toward everything from the Heaven’s … Continue reading
Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, and political words
in biography, literary studies, politics
Tagged George Orwell, Jeffrey Meyers, language, Nineteen Eighty-Four
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Excerpted from Orwell: Life and Art, by Jeffrey Meyers. The chapter deals with George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. The past is one of the dominant themes of the novel. The Party confidently believes: “Who controls the past controls the future: who controls … Continue reading
Release Party: May Irwin, by Sharon Ammen
in African American Studies, biography, music
Tagged American music, May Irwin, racism, women gender and sexuality studies, women singers
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May Irwin reigned as America’s queen of comedy and song from the 1880s through the 1920s. A genuine pop culture phenomenon, Irwin conquered the legitimate stage, composed song lyrics, and parlayed her celebrity into success as a cookbook author, suffragette, … Continue reading