October 21, 2020
This year during Open Access Week which takes place worldwide from October 19 – 25, 2020, we’re excited to share with you the open access version of Being Lucky: The Complete Edition. Open Access Week is an international project to make scholarly research freely available to everyone. Gary Dunham, director of the Press, believes that this “reissue of Being Lucky perfectly exemplifies the spirit and mission of Open Access Week.”
October 10, 2020
Since the collapse of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad (Rock Island or simply the Rock) in 1981, this one-time Chicago-based inter-regional carrier has become somewhat of a “cult” railroad among enthusiasts. … READ MORE
September 22, 2020
On September 15, 2020, Jill Long Thompson celebrated the launch of her very new publication, The Character of American Democracy. Featuring special guests including Secretary Leon Panetta, Secretary Dan Glickman, the Honorable Lee Hamilton, the Honorable Paul Helmke, the Honorable Marcy Kaptur, and the Honorable Richard Painter—they discussed the book and its implications for the future of our democracy.
September 9, 2020
In the following introduction to The Character of American Democracy Jill Long Thompson shares an experience from her time serving in the United States House of Representatives. … READ MORE
August 11, 2020
Cast-iron cooking has made a comeback with these easy and delicious recipes from Modern Cast Iron by Ashley L. Jones! With the help of Jones, both new and returning cooks will be able to rival even grandma’s cooking. Keep reading to discover exciting desserts such as a skillet cookie and a Peach Dutch Baby, layered nachos, and even the perfect eggplant parmesan recipe!
August 4, 2020
By Isabelle Parkinson, author of “Democrat or ‘imbecile’? Gertrude Stein’s Useful Knowledge and discourses of intellectual disability in the To-day and To-morrow pamphlet series.”
Everyone who works on Gertrude Stein has read or will read T.S…. READ MORE
By Janis Thornton, author of There’s No Place Like Murder
Fifteen years ago, when I was a staff writer for the Times in Frankfort,… READ MORE
August 3, 2020
by Ivana Bajić-Hajduković, author of “Can You Run Away From Sorrow?”
The summer of 1996 was special in many ways. I had finished high school and passed the college entrance exam…. READ MORE
July 27, 2020
Nina Penner, author of Storytelling in Opera and Musical Theater
One of the industries hardest hit by the pandemic is the performing arts,… READ MORE
July 21, 2020
By Seth McKelvey, author of “Unstate: Disarticulating State Knowledge and Joan Didion’s Democracy”
In the fall of 2014, while revising the earliest drafts of what would eventually become this article,… READ MORE
