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May 12, 2017 (May 11, 2017)

Hirum Cronk Remembered

american history biography

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 […]

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April 29, 2017 (April 28, 2017)

200 Years of Illinois: The Artful Pose

art biography Getting to know Champaign-Urbana Illinois / regional

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 […]

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April 4, 2017 (March 22, 2017)

Happy Birthday, Muddy Waters

Best of Illinois biography music

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 […]

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March 20, 2017 (March 16, 2017)

200 Years of Illinois: Archaea, the third kind of life on earth

biography Illinois / regional local authors

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 […]

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March 1, 2017 (February 28, 2017)

Anatomy of a Peggy Seeger classic

biography music women

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 […]

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February 27, 2017 (February 27, 2017)

Jose Angel N. on undocumented immigrants and negative growth

biography immigration politics

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 […]

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January 31, 2017 (January 31, 2017)

Backlist Bop: Betrayal of the Spirit, by Nori J. Muster

biography religion

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 […]

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January 25, 2017 (January 25, 2017)

Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, and political words

biography literary studies politics

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 […]

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January 17, 2017 (December 12, 2016)

Release Party: May Irwin, by Sharon Ammen

African American Studies biography music

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 […]

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January 12, 2017 (January 10, 2017)

Backlist Bop: Tiny Kline and the Circus of Life

biography women

When people ask me about life in a circus, all I can think is that it must be drafty in those tents. Fortunately for all of us, longtime circus performer Tiny […]

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December 23, 2016 (December 14, 2016)

Christmas in the Land of Milk and (Uncle) Honey

author commentary authors biography Christmas Illinois / regional local authors

Alan Guebert’s book The Land of Milk and Uncle Honey may have been inspired by a little homemade wine. Guebert, has been writing his nationally syndicated column “The Farm and Food […]

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December 14, 2016 (December 13, 2016)

Release Party: Alfred Bester, by Jad Smith

biography literary studies science fiction

Alfred Bester’s classic short stories and the canonical novel The Stars My Destination made him a science fiction legend. Fans and scholars praise him as a genre-bending pioneer and cyberpunk […]

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