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April 25, 2011

Hazel Dickens passes away

music

We received the sad news late last week that musician Hazel Dickens died at the age of 75.  She was the subject and co-author (with Bill Malone) of the 2008 […]

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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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April 22, 2011

“Contesting Archives” wins award

awards women's history

Contesting Archives: Finding Women in the Sources, edited by Nupur Chaudhuri, Sherry J. Katz and Mary Elizabeth Perry, was unanimously selected as the recipient of this year’s Barbara “Penny” Kanner […]

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April 20, 2011

Disclaimer (I regret any deviation from our usual standards)

higher education journals

Today’s Inside Higher Ed features a report on the brouhaha caused by a special disclaimer that three regular editors of Synthese (a journal focusing on the philosophy of science) slapped […]

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April 20, 2011

Challenging the Prison-Industrial Complex wins prize

awards

Stephen John Hartnett’s edited book, Challenging the Prison-Industrial Complex: Activism, Arts, and Educational Alternatives, received one of the 2010 PASS (Prevention for a Safer Society) Awards from the National Council […]

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April 19, 2011 (April 19, 2011)

“From the Jewish Heartland” on Chicago Public Radio

author commentary food Illinois / regional interviews

The April 19, 2011, edition of Chicago Public Radio’s Eight Forty-Eight program featured a conversation with Ellen Steinberg and Jack Prost, co-authors of the forthcoming book From the Jewish Heartland: […]

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April 15, 2011 (April 15, 2011)

The Washington Post on DRM-free e-books

all things digital publishing

The April 8, 2011, issue of The Washington Post includes Rob Pegoraro’s Fast Forward column on the virtues of DRM-free books. The e-book business seems determined to repeat the early mistakes […]

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April 12, 2011

Illini Loyalty Book Launch

author events

The University of Illinois Press and the Larry Kanfer Gallery invite you to celebrate the publication of Illini Loyalty: The University of Illinois. Photographs by Larry Kanfer Text by Alaina […]

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April 7, 2011 (April 7, 2011)

National Women’s Studies Association & University of Illinois Press First Book Prize

awards publishing

Deadline to Apply: June 1, 2011 The National Women’s Studies Association and the University of Illinois Press are pleased to announce a new competition for the best dissertation or first […]

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April 5, 2011 (April 5, 2011)

The Chronicle of Higher Education reviews Woody Guthrie, American Radical

higher education music reviews

The April 3, 2011, issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education includes a profile of Will Kaufman’s new book Woody Guthrie, American Radical. “Yes, there have been two major biographies—Joe Klein’s […]

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April 4, 2011

The Journal of Animal Ethics

journals

From the press release: A ground-breaking new journal covering the issue of animal ethics has been launched by a US and UK academic partnership with the goal of widening international […]

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April 1, 2011

Strahov Monastery Library

libraries

  The media geniuses at 360Cities have produced a 40 gigapixel image of the Strahov Monastery Library in the Czech Republic. Link to the 360Cities image. Via Boing Boing. […]

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