Lawrence Richards, author of the book Union-Free America: Workers and Antiunion Culture, is scheduled to appear on C-Span’s Washington Journal program on Labor Day, Monday, September 7, 9:30-10:00 a.m. (Eastern). His segment […]
Mushrooms in the Chicago Tribune
The September 2, 2009, issue of the Chicago Tribune includes a profile of Joe McFarland and Gregory Mueller’s new book Edible Wild Mushrooms of Illinois and Surrounding States. If you […]
Inside Higher Ed on Global Campus
Inside Higher Ed reports today on the failure of Illinois’ Global Campus initiative. […]
Lists, more lists!
It’s not time for our 2009 end-of-the-year favorites yet but blogs at the Los Angeles Times and NPR’s All Songs Considered have me thinking. LA Times posted a list yesterday titled The 46 […]
Berle Adams
Berle Adams, co-founder of Mercury Records and the subject of Chapter 2 of John Broven’s new book Record Makers and Breakers: Voices of the Independent Rock ‘n’ Roll Pioneers, died […]
$526 per page
Inside Higher Ed reports on a recently released paper that anazlyed the cost of printing humanities and social science journals. The analysis of the eight journals was conducted to help […]
Chang vs. Yang
In April we published Doris T. Chang’s book Women’s Movements in Twentieth-Century Taiwan, which featured this beautiful cover. On August 4, 2009 Random House published Xianhui Yang’s Woman from Shanghai: […]
Is the peer review process broken?
Daniel J. Myers expresses concern in the The Chronicle of Higher Education about his popularity as a peer reviewer. In the past month, I have been asked to review not one […]
Orenic to speak in Chicago
Liesl Miller Orenic will discuss her new book On the Ground: Labor Struggle in the American Airline Industry at the Open University Of The Left, Lincoln Park Library, 1150 W. Fullerton in Chicago, […]
Beito op-ed in L.A. Times on T. R. M. Howard
David Beito and Linda Royster Beito, authors of the new book Black Maverick: T. R. M. Howard’s Fight for Civil Rights and Economic Power, penned an op-ed in today’s Los […]
Larry Kanfer on Chicago Tonight
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Inside Higher Ed profiles “College Football”
Kurt Edward Kemper, author of the new book College Football and American Culture in the Cold War Era, was interviewed in today’s edition of Inside Higher Ed. Q: At institutions like Louisiana […]