Journalist Marlene Sanders passed away earlier this week at age 84. In 1964, Sanders was the first woman to anchor an evening network news program when she substituted for Ron […]
Category: labor history
Workers in Hard Times awarded by ILHA
The International Labor History Association (ILHA) has announced that Workers in Hard Times, edited by Leon Fink, Joseph McCartin, and Joan Sangster has been awarded as the ILHA Book of […]
Baseball on Trial wins American Legal History book award
Congratulations to Nathaniel Grow. Grow’s UIP book Baseball on Trial: The Origin of Baseball’s Antitrust Exemption is the winner of the David J. Langum, Sr. Prize in American Legal History/Biography […]
Disaster mismanagement
This week we find the new release by Jacob A. C. Remes, lately seen writing on Hurricane Katrina for The Atlantic. Remes’s book Disaster Citizenship: Survivors, Solidarity, and Power in the Progressive […]
New in paperback: creole culture and beer hall anarchists
Two UIP titles are available in paperback editions today. The Creolization of American Culture: William Sidney Mount and the Roots of Blackface Minstrelsy Painter William Sidney Mount created some of […]
Q&A with Winning the War for Democracy author David Lucander
David Lucander is a professor of history at SUNY Rockland Community College. He recently answered some questions about his UIP book Winning the War for Democracy: The March on Washington Movement, […]
Annexing an island in the empire
On July 7, 1898, President William McKinley signed the Newlands Resolution which annexed the Republic of Hawai’i and created the Territory of Hawai’i. The annexation gave the U.S. use of […]
Q&A with Maya Market Women author S. Ashley Kistler
S. Ashley Kistler is an assistant professor of anthropology and Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Rollins College. In her new book Maya Market Women: Power and Tradition in San Juan Chamelco, […]
The May 4, 1886 bombing that shook the world
On May 4, 1886, someone threw a bomb in Chicago’s Haymarket Square. Timothy Messer-Kruse, author of The Haymarket Conspiracy: Transatlantic Anarchist Networks, and Leon Fink, editor of the recently released Workers in Hard […]
The story of immigrant rights advocate Elvira Arellano continues
Elvira Arellano, a Mexican immigrant rights advocate who made headlines when she took refuge in a Chicago church in 2006, has asked refuge in the United States on humanitarian grounds. Arellano […]
Q&A with Lisa Phillips, author of A Renegade Union
Lisa Phillips is an assistant professor of history at Indiana State University. She answered our questions about her new book A Renegade Union: Interracial Organizing and Labor Radicalism. Q: What is […]
The Haymarket Conspiracy author interviewed on NPR’s Morning Edition
Timothy Messer-Kruse, author of the new University of Illinois Press book The Haymarket Conspiracy: Transatlantic Anarchist Networks, was interviewed on NPR’s Morning Edition about his struggle to change the Wikipedia […]