Eugene Kinckle Jones (1885–1954) is an underknown figure in American history, but he was instrumental in professionalizing black social work in America. Author Felix L. Armfield discusses his discovery of […]
Category: interviews
Q&A with Marty Robbins biographer Diane Diekman
Author Diane Diekman has followed up her 2007 biography of country music star Faron Young with a new book on Marty Robbins. Here she discusses the research and writing of Twentieth Century Drifter: […]
NPR explores Beauty Shop Politics
NPR’s Michel Martin speaks with Tiffany Gill, author of the University of Illinois Press book Beauty Shop Politics: African American Women’s Activism in the Beauty Industry on the December 28, […]
Ronald Smith interviewed by Urbana-Champaign NPR affiliate about college athletic reform
On January 3, 2012, Ronald Smith, professor emeritus of sports history at Penn State University and author of the recent book Pay for Play: A History of Big-Time College Athletic Reform, […]
Q&A with Mark Lause, author of A Secret Society History of the Civil War
On December 26, 2011, we will publish Mark Lause’s A Secret Society History of the Civil War, which unravels the influence and power of antebellum secret societies. Dr. Lause, a professor […]
Q&A with We Are the Union author Dana Cloud
On December 5, 2011, we published We ARE the Union: Democratic Unionism and Dissent at Boeing by Dana Cloud, an associate professor of communication studies at the University of Texas, […]
Interviews with author Koritha Mitchell
Koritha Mitchell, author of Living with Lynching, gives two very different interviews. “It’s our success that beckons the mob.” Professor Mitchell argues that there is a need to move beyond […]
Becoming Ray Bradbury in Illinois Issues
The December 2011 edition of Illinois Issues magazine includes a feature on Jonathan Eller’s new book Becoming Ray Bradbury. “Eller, who has known Bradbury since the 1980s, focused his book […]
Sean Burns discusses Archie Green on Berkeley’s KPFA radio
Sean Burns, author of the new book Archie Green: The Making of a Working-Class Hero, was a guest on KPFA radio’s Against the Grain program. Hear Sean’s hour-long interview with co-host Sasha […]
NBC’s Nightly News interviews Ronald Smith
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy On November 20, 2011, NBC’s Nightly News interviewed Ronald A. Smith, professor emeritus of sports history at Penn […]
Q&A with Matt Carlson, author of On the Condition of Anonymity
On May 2, 2011, we published Matt Carlson’s On the Condition of Anonymity: Unnamed Sources and the Battle for Journalism, which illustrates how unattributed information can be both an effective tool in uncovering necessary information about vital […]
Q&A with Sean Burns, author of Archie Green: The Making of a Working-Class Hero
On November 7, 2011, we will publish Sean Burns’s Archie Green: The Making of a Working-Class Hero, which celebrates one of the most revered folklorists and labor historians of the twentieth century. […]