The first chapter of my new book, The Myth of Manliness in Irish National Culture, 1880-1922, re-imagines the political legend and legacy of Charles Stewart Parnell, the great late-Victorian Irish […]
Archival Discovery by Robin Jensen
My favorite memory of collecting data for Dirty Words: The Rhetoric of Public Sex Education, 1870-1924 took place in the Social Welfare History Archives at the University of Minnesota. I […]
North Carolina Public Radio interviews Faith Holsaert
On January 3, 2011, Faith Holsaert, co-editor of the new book Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC, was a guest on WUNC’s radio program The State […]
The College Bowl Color Line by Charles H. Martin
‘Tis the season, for Christmas presents, holiday cheer, New Year’s resolutions—and college football’s never-ending parade of bowl games (35 in all this year)! When I began the research for […]
Inside Higher Ed interviews Pay for Play author
Ronald A. Smith, author of the new book Pay for Play: A History of Big-Time College Athletic Reform, was interviewed for the January 3, 2011, edition of Inside Higher Ed. […]
University of Illinois Press: Best of 2010
Willis Regier, Director Best Book: John Kenneth Galbraith, The Affluent Society & Other Writings, 1952-1967, Library of America. I read Galbraith’s The New Industrial State when everybody was reading it […]
“Gone to the Country” reviewed in The Wall Street Journal
The December 18, 2010, issue of The Wall Street Journal features a review of Ray Allen’s new book Gone to the Country: The New Lost City Ramblers and the Folk Music […]
May Berenbaum on WGN-TV
On December 16, 2010, May Berenbaum, editor of the new book Honey, I’m Homemade: Sweet Treats from the Beehive across the Centuries and around the World, made cookies on WGN-TV’s “Lunchbreak” segment. […]
Giving Elders Voice by Chia Youyee Vang
As I set out to interview former refugees about their migration and settlement experiences, it became apparent to me that many had been so busy trying to survive and/or help […]
Fear, Faith, and Community by Sigmund Tobias
This originally appeared in the Berkshire Jewish Voice (Oct 29-Nov.7, 2010; Vol. 19, No. 1) ***** My parents and I survived the Holocaust by fleeing to Shanghai where we lived […]
Huffington Post’s The Christian Right in Context, pt. 4
The Huffington Post has published the final segment of a 4-part series by Richard Hughes based on his book Christian America and the Kingdom of God. The Christian Right in Context, Part 4: […]
Hide and Seek, or The History of Difference Under Erasure by David A. Gerstner
When The New York Times reported on December 1, 2010 that the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. “removed [David Wojnarowicz’s video A Fire in My Belly] from an exhibition […]