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April 28, 2014 (April 29, 2014)

Mushroom Monday: Amanita jacksonii

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Amanita jacksonii (Pomerleau) No Amanita should be eaten. This is the most widespread midwestern version of the well-known European species Amanita caesarea. An unnamed yellow version with larger spores is […]

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March 24, 2014 (March 12, 2014)

Q&A with Free Black Communities and the Underground Railroad author Cheryl LaRoche

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Cheryl Janifer LaRoche is a lecturer in American studies at the University of Maryland. She answered some questions about her book Free Black Communities and the Underground Railroad: The Geography of […]

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March 20, 2014 (February 21, 2014)

Happy birthday, Spike Lee

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Shelton Jackson “Spike” Lee was born March 20, 1957. With a long varies career that has spanned independent films such as his debut She’s Gotta Have It (1986), to mainstream, big-budget films including […]

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March 18, 2014 (March 17, 2014)

Q&A with Loyalty and Liberty author Alex Goodall

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Alex Goodall is a lecturer in modern history at the University of York, where he specializes in the history of revolutionary and counterrevolutionary politics in the Americas. He answered some questions […]

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March 12, 2014 (March 12, 2014)

The 100 year legacy of Anna Howard Shaw

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Spotlight on Women’s History Month: Trisha Franzen, author of Anna Howard Shaw: The Work of Woman Suffrage writes about this feminist pioneer: It takes a lot of chutzpah for an […]

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March 5, 2014 (March 4, 2014)

Q&A with the editors of Gendered Resistance

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Delores M. Walters is a cultural anthropologist who directs the Southern Rhode Island Area Health Education Center at the University of Rhode Island. The Center aims to alleviate health disparities […]

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March 3, 2014 (March 3, 2014)

Q&A with Illegal: Reflections of an Undocumented Immigrant author José Ángel N.

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José Ángel N. came to the United States from Mexico in the 1990s with a ninth grade education. An undocumented immigrant, N. traveled to Chicago where he found access to ESL […]

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February 25, 2014 (February 26, 2014)

Q&A with Demilitarization in the Contemporary World editor Peter Stearns

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Peter N. Stearns is Provost of George Mason University, author of Globalization in World History and editor of the new UIP book Demilitarization in the Contemporary World.  He answered our questions about the book. […]

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February 20, 2014 (February 19, 2014)

Q&A with Hillary Clinton in the News author Shawn Parry-Giles

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Shawn J. Parry-Giles is a professor of communication and director of the Center for Political Communication and Civic Leadership at the University of Maryland. She answered some questions about her UIP […]

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February 19, 2014 (February 19, 2014)

Read an excerpt of Illegal: Reflections of an Undocumented Immigrant

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“With great eloquence and pathos, N. draws on his daily life and references philosophers from Socrates to Kant to describe the netherworld of the undocumented. He takes solace in his […]

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January 23, 2014 (January 30, 2014)

Q&A with The Battle over Marriage author Leigh Moscowitz

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Leigh Moscowitz is an assistant professor of communication at the College of Charleston. In her UIP book The Battle over Marriage: Gay Rights Activism through the Media the author examines the aims […]

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November 6, 2013 (November 6, 2013)

Happy birthday to ‘The March King’ John Philip Sousa

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Happy 159th birthday to John Philip Sousa. Sousa began his musical education learning the violin at age 6, and when he was 13, his father enlisted him in the United […]

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