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September 28, 2020 (August 10, 2020)

Q&A with Donald W. Rogers, Author of Workers against the City: The Fight for Free Speech in Hague v. CIO

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Donald W. Rogers, author of Workers against the City, answers questions about the labor movement, American history, free speech, CIO v. Hague, and civil liberties. Q: Why did you decide […]

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December 8, 2016 (December 2, 2016)

Backlist Bop: Mythbusting an American institution

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Forbidden Relatives challenges the belief—widely held in the United States—that legislation against marriage between first cousins is based on a biological risk to offspring. In fact, its author maintains, the […]

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May 24, 2016 (May 9, 2016)

Release Party: Game Faces

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Sports figures have a public profile once reserved for the likes of reigning monarchs and movie stars. In the new UIP book Game Faces, Sarah K. Fields looks at six people faced […]

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February 18, 2016 (February 18, 2016)

Throwbacklist Thursday

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Supreme Court justices have stirred up controversy since the early days of the Republic, those days of yore when members of the court attended to their duties in gigantic powdered […]

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March 19, 2015

Baseball on Trial honored

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Baseball on Trial by Nathaniel Grow is co-winner of the 2015 Larry Ritter Book Award from the Society of American Baseball Research. The award recognizes the best new baseball book […]

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March 28, 2014 (March 27, 2014)

Q&A with Baseball on Trial author Nathaniel Grow

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Nathaniel Grow is an assistant professor of legal studies at the University of Georgia’s Terry College of Business. He answered some questions about his new book Baseball on Trial: The Origin of […]

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