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December 23, 2011

ongoing effects of war

authors folklore journals

I work on a number of journals here, journals covering diverse topics, and the variety is really interesting.  Some articles stick with me for a long time. Yesterday I had […]

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April 22, 2011 (April 22, 2011)

Books for Cooks looks at From the Jewish Heartland

folklore food Illinois / regional

This week’s food column in the Chicago Reader features mini-profiles of five new books including the inaugural volume in our Heartland Foodways series, From the Jewish Heartland: Two Centuries of […]

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March 23, 2010

Call for Book Proposals: Deadline Extended

folklore Folklore Studies in a Multicultural World

The University of Illinois Press, the University Press of Mississippi, and the University of Wisconsin Press, in cooperation with the American Folklore Society and with the support of the Andrew […]

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December 1, 2009 (December 1, 2009)

Sing It Pretty

authors folklore music

Bess Lomax Hawes, folklorist, singer, and defender of the folk arts, died last week in Portland, Oregon. We are honored to have published Hawes’s 2008 memoir, Sing It Pretty, as part […]

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July 28, 2009 (July 28, 2009)

Archie Green Tribute in C-U

folklore

The School of Labor and Employment Relations at the University of Illinois will host a memorial honoring University of Illinois Press author Archie Green on September 14, 2009, in the […]

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April 23, 2009

Archie Green tribute

folklore music

The Labor Archives and Research Center in San Francisco will host a musical tribute to Archie Green on June 21, 2009, in the McKenna Theatre at San Francisco State University. Hazel […]

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April 3, 2009

The Nation’s review of “Only a Miner”

folklore reviews

The Nation online posts a 35+ year old review of Archie Green’s Only a Miner. […]

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March 30, 2009

NPR remembers Archie Green

folklore

NPR’s Morning Edition program on March 25, 2009, included a segment on the recently deceased University of Illinois Press author Archie Green. Green moved comfortably through the halls of Congress and […]

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