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Legal literacy matters. But are we, as a collective discipline, doing enough to invest in legal literacy research? @drjanetrdecker.bsky.social in Journal of Education Finance and Law Vol. 50, No. 1, on @projectmuse.bsky.social. cc: @educationlaw.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/artic...

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March is National Reading Month! Check out this article from Journal of Aesthetic Education Vol. 54, No. 2: "Dewey, Foucault, and the Value of Horror: Transformative Learning through Reading Horror Fiction" by Lorraine K. C. Yeung. On @projectmuse.bsky.social: muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/artic...

Check out this interview I did with the New Books in Sports podcast! newbooksnetwork.com/bleacher-sea...

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Free to access until March 31: "The Women's Ordination Movement in the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints" by @nancyross.bsky.social , David J. Howlett &Zoe Kruse, from Mormon Studies Review 9 cc: @jstuart.bsky.social
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For Women in Aviation Week, check out this article from Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society Vol. 116, Iss. 2-3 by Theresa L. Kraus on pioneering Chicago Aviator Willa Brown. scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jishs/ar...

For the Love of Labor The Life of Pauline Newman Author: Cathryn J. Prince

"For a biographer, those intimate details matter most — they’re what make history breathe."

The Q&A for FOR THE LOVE OF LABOR is live!
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📖 @torquil.bsky.social reviews "Meanings of Antiquity: Myth Interpretation in Premodern Japan" by Mathieu Felt in JAF: A Global Quarterly No. 551 on @projectmuse.bsky.social: "a masterful study of the reception of the two earliest extant books of Japanese imperial myths" muse.jhu.edu/pub/25/artic...

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🎉 Visual Arts Research Vol. 51, No. 2, is the second of a two-issue special open access volume, and with it, we welcome two new editors to the VAR editorial team: Current editor Sarah Travis is joined by Jennifer Bergmark and Merel Visse. Learn more: www.press.uillinois.edu/wordpress/vi...

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Free article & a great blog post! Check out a list of articles/podcasts from Journal of Olympic Studies. Featured in the blog, “The Esports Question for the Olympic Movement” by Andy Miah, is free to access until May 31. www.press.uillinois.edu/wordpress/jo...

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In Women, Gender, & Families of Color 12.1-2 on @projectmuse.bsky.social , @profpatterson.bsky.social ( @delstateuniv.bsky.social ) writes about being a woman + the first Black American chair of her dept in an HBCU context and carving out space for care in academia.
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Happy Pub Date to FREE CHICAGO: 50 Years of the @chicagoreader.com by Christopher Hass, with a foreword by @chrislhayes.bsky.social!
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#Chicago #Illinois #Communications

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Check out two reviews of "The Anxious Generation" by @jonathanhaidt.bsky.social in American Journal of Psychology Vo. 138, No. 3:

1️⃣ By Joachim I. Krueger: scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/ajp/arti...
2️⃣ By Jeremy D. Tunnell: scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/ajp/arti...

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🏆️ Ludwik Krzyżanowski Award Winner 🏆️ Colin P. Neufeldt and Wojciech Marchlewski's article “Escape to Freedom and Return to Bondage..." was honored as the best article published in The Polish Review in 2024 and is FREE to access scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/tpr/arti...

Cover of Illinois Classical Studies, Volume 50, Issue 2, Fall 2025 Front Cover Image: Coin: AE 22, Reggio (1900.63.0631) [Image 1—side with lyre] Courtesy of The Spurlock Museum, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

More Illinois Classical Studies 50.2:

📄 Plutarch's Presentation of Philopoemen as the “Last of the Greeks”
✍️ Nasser B. Ayash

📄 Tragedy in Nemea: Premature Death and Maternal Grief in Statius's Thebaid Through Seneca's Troades
✍️ Francesca Econimo @jhievents.bsky.social

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🆓 #OpenAccess in Music and the Moving Image Vol. 19, No. 1, @projectmuse.bsky.social: "Post-Bop Trauma: Polish Crime-Jazz Cinema and Its Westward Path to Hollywood" by David Melbye (@huddersfielduni.bsky.social). muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/artic...

📚Also reviewed in Journal of American Ethnic History Vol. 45, No. 2:
- "Emergency in Transit" @ucpress.bsky.social
- "Undoing Slavery" @pennpress.bsky.social
- "Horace M. Kallen in the Heartland" @univpressofkansas.bsky.social
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***Hybrid Book Launch***

Hidden Histories of Unauthorized Migrations from Europe to the United States (UIP 2025)

WHEN: Thursday, March 26, 2026
4:00 - 5:30pm

WHERE: Taliaferro Hall, 2110 (The Berlin Room) or over Zoom.

REGISTER: go.umd.edu/hiddenhistories

March's Free E-Book! Mean Girl Feminism How White Feminists Gaslight, Gatekeep, and Girlboss By Kim Hong Nguyen. University of Illinois Press.

Get your *free* e-book of MEAN GIRL FEMINISM: How White Feminists Gaslight, Gatekeep, and Girlboss by Kim Hong Nguyen!
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#FilmStudies #PopularCulture #WomensStudies

Contemporary Plays by African American Women Ten Complete Works Author: Edited by Sandra Adell

Last chance to get your *free* e-book of CONTEMPORARY PLAYS BY AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN: Ten Complete Works edited by Sandra Adell!
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#AfricanAmericanStudies #Drama #LiteraryStudies #WomensStudies

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In American Music 42.3 Miranda Bartira Tagliari Sousa reviews "A Respectable Spell: Transformations of Samba in Rio de Janeiro" by Carlos Sandroni, translated by Michael Iyanaga, a UIP title!
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Book: www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=46...

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📣 New Journal Alert! Please join us in welcoming Journal of the Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi Society, edited by Mukhtar Ali (@uofilsystem.bsky.social), to the University of Illinois Press! Details on our blog: www.press.uillinois.edu/wordpress/

Learn more about the book Horace M. Kallen in the Heartland: The Midwestern Roots of American Pluralism by Michael C. Steiner here kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700629541/

#heartland #americanheartland #midwest #pluralism #upkansas

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In a forum in Journal of Film and Video 78.1, @miguelgaggiotti.bsky.social reveals that non-professional actors were essential to the austere style of Robert Bresson's films and the director's conception of his own work as a director. On @projectmuse.bsky.social: muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/artic...

Cover of Diasporic Italy: Journal of the Italian American Studies Association, Volume 5, 2025 Cover image: Art of a father and son entitled "Paternità" by Thomas Brazzolotto

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NEW PODCAST: Diasporic Italy editor Ryan Calabretta-Sajder interviews Elisa Bordin + Theodora Patrona, guest editors of a special issue "Fathers & Sons" to discuss the representation of Italian American fathers. cc: @iasa1966.bsky.social

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UI Press | Thomas J. Suhrbur | Public Education and Social Reform Suhrbur pays particular attention to the impact of race, gender, religion, and tax policy on the IEA and public schools. He also examines the IEA’s evolution from a professional organization…

Tom Suhrbur will be at the @ieanea.bsky.social Aspiring Educators Conference, presenting on & signing copies of his new book, PUBLIC EDUCATION & SOCIAL REFORM: A History of the Illinois Education Association
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Check out the #OpenAccess Music and the Moving Image Vol. 19, No. 1, on @projectmuse.bsky.social! Featuring work by David Melbye (@huddersfielduni.bsky.social), Wouter Capitain (@uni-goettingen.de), and Hugh Maloney (@uniofnottingham.bsky.social). muse.jhu.edu/issue/56380

📚Also reviewed in Journal of American Ethnic History Vol. 45, No. 2:
- "Emergency in Transit" @ucpress.bsky.social
- "Undoing Slavery" @pennpress.bsky.social
- "Horace M. Kallen in the Heartland" @univpressofkansas.bsky.social
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Check out Stephanie Aubry and @drafoulis.bsky.social's "Centering Oral Histories to Build Communities of Care in Troubling Times" in JAF: A Global Quarterly Vol. 139, No. 551, on @projectmuse.bsky.social: scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jaf/arti...

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We are pleased to announce the winner of the 2025 National Women's Studies Association Book Prize!
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