Tag Archives: history

March 11, 2020

Q&A with Dawn Durante, compiler of 100 Years of Women’s Suffrage

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Dawn Durante is a senior acquisitions editor at the University of Illinois Press. In honor of Women’s History Month, we asked her some questions about her new anthology, 100 Years of Women’s Suffrage: A University of Illinois Press Anthology. 100 Years … Continue reading →

August 8, 2016

Release Party: Mister Pulitzer and the Spider

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New in stores, Mister Pulitzer and the Spider marks the release of a truly monumental reconsideration of what journalism’s journey from the 1800s to today. A spidery network of mobile online media has supposedly changed people, places, time, and their meanings. … Continue reading →

July 14, 2016

Throwbacklist Thursday: The Bastille Library

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To commemorate Bastille Day, the University of Illinois Press celebrates its backlist of books on France and the French. Le Jazz: Jazz and French Cultural Identity, by Matthew F. Jordan Matthew F. Jordan deftly blends textual analysis, critical theory, and … Continue reading →

April 21, 2016

200 Years of Illinois: Dark Skies

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April 21, 1967, dawned cool and foggy in northern Illinois. It had been a tough winter and the cold had yet to fully retreat. In fact, it would snow again three days later in some parts. Not the kind of day you … Continue reading →

May 12, 2015

Happy International Nurses Day

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In observance of International Nurses Day, an excerpt from Nursing Civil Rights: Gender and Race in the Army Nurse Corps, by Clarissa J. Threat. Before 1941 African Americans did not ignore the military’s call for nurses. Hoping to participate, black nurses … Continue reading →

April 10, 2015

Q&A with authors of The Real Cyber War

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Shawn Powers and Michael Jablonski are the authors of The Real Cyber War:  The Political Economy of Internet Freedom. Q: When the phrase “cyber war” is used, is the rhetoric designed to describe the internet as a theater of war: a place where … Continue reading →

November 26, 2014

Best of Illinois: Very sporting

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Metrics used to refer to a baffling system of weights and measures that Americans refused to adopt. These days, however, sports fans quote a different kind of metrics that measure everything from K/BB ratio to Kobe’s plus-minus. We live in an age … Continue reading →

November 17, 2014

From Heidi to Humble Howard

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Today marks the anniversary of the “Heidi Game,” an infamous moment in television history but also part of the story of how far professional football has come in its bid to conquer the zeitgeist. November 17, 1968: the Oakland Raiders score two touchdowns … Continue reading →