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By Elizabeth Oglesby/The Conversation
In the United States’ heated national debate about immigration, two views predominate about Central American migrants: President Donald Trump portrays them as a national security threat, while others respond that they are refugees from violence.
Little is said about the substantial contributions that Central Americans have made to U.S. society over the past 30 years.
Posted on January 21, 2019
By Len Davis/YouTube
‘Owner Joseph Judd of Myopic Books on Milwaukee Avenue in Wicker Park talks about bookstore life, his changing neighborhood, the emergence of online book sellers, and much more in a wide ranging interview for the CITY 2000 project, an archive now housed at the UIC. Subscribe to and enjoy lots more great videos from Chicago and around the world on this channel and at my website.’
Posted on January 8, 2019
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Hello Steve Rhodes,
Based on your recent visit, we thought you might be interested in these items:
* I Survived the Great Chicago Fire, 1871
* I Survived the Hindenburg Disaster, 1937
* I Survived the Children’s Blizzard, 1888
* I Survived the American Revolution, 1776
Posted on December 29, 2018
By SIU Press
“This first-ever pictorial record of the people and methods of the Illinois-Kentucky Fluorspar District from the 1900s to the 1990s covers early and modern means of extracting, hoisting, processing, and transporting the mineral from mine mouth to end user.
“Nearly 100 images carefully selected by author Herbert K. Russell show early pick-and-shovel extraction and open-flame lighting as well as primitive drilling methods and transportation by barrels, buckets, barges, mule teams, and trams, in addition to the use of modern equipment and sophisticated refinement procedures such as froth flotation.
“Russell also provides an overview of the many industrial uses of fluorspar, from metal work by ancient Romans to the processing of uranium by scientists seeking to perfect the atomic bomb.”
Posted on December 19, 2018
By Jonathan Schroeder and Janet Borgerson/The Conversation
When we hear the word “stereo” today, we might simply think of a sound system, as in “turn on the stereo.”
But stereo actually is a specific technology, like video streaming or the latest expresso maker.
Sixty years ago, it was introduced for the first time.
Whenever a new technology comes along – whether it’s Bluetooth, high-definition TV or Wi-Fi – it needs to be explained, packaged and promoted to customers who are happy with their current products.
Stereo was no different. As we explore in our recent book, Designed for Hi-Fi Living: The Vinyl LP in Midcentury America, stereo needed to be sold to skeptical consumers. This process involved capturing the attention of a public fascinated by space-age technology using cutting-edge graphic design, in-store sound trials and special stereo demonstration records.
Posted on December 14, 2018
By William Hazelgrove
ST. CHARLES – A new book has turned aviation upside down with amazing reviews and a full write-up in the Smithsonian with the assertion that Wilbur Wright was the man responsible for inventing the first plane capable of powered flight.
Bestselling author William Hazelgrove’s new book, Wright Brothers, Wrong Story, has set the assumed belief that the brothers worked in tandem on its head by delving into the papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright and emerging with a very different story than the standard team story of two men who banded together to produce the world’s first airplane. As pointed out in the Daily Mail, the book explores the family life of the brothers as well and the strange proclivities of the insular Wright children who never left home.
Posted on December 6, 2018
By SIU Press
William Butler Ogden was a pioneer railroad magnate, one of the earliest founders and developers of the City of Chicago, and an important influence on U.S. westward expansion.
His career as a businessman stretched from the streets of Chicago to the wilds of the Wisconsin lumber forests, from the iron mines of Pennsylvania to the financial capitals in New York and beyond.
Jack Harpster’s The Railroad Tycoon Who Built Chicago: A Biography of William B. Ogden is the first chronicle of one of the most notable figures in 19th-century America.
Posted on December 4, 2018
By Idrees Ahmad/The Conversation
For Marie Colvin, it was Lebanon’s War of the Camps that brought home the power of journalism.
In April 1987, the Burj al Barajneh Palestinian refugee camp was besieged by Amal, a Shia militia backed by the Syrian regime.
Colvin and her photographer, Tom Stoddart, paid an Amal commander to briefly hold fire while they ran into the camp across no-man’s land. The assault on the camp was relentless and women were forced to run a gauntlet of sniper fire to get food and water for their families.
One young woman, Haji Achmed Ali, was shot as she tried to re-enter the camp with supplies. As she lay there wounded, no man dared pull her to safety. But then, Colvin reported:
Posted on November 26, 2018
Jonathan Franzen’s 10 Rules
for Novelists
Number Eight Just Makes Us Sad
The few lessons I’ve learned about writing essays all came from my editor at The New Yorker, Henry Finder. I first went to Henry, in 1994, as a would-be journalist in pressing need of money. Largely through dumb luck, I produced a publishable article about the U.S. Postal Service
https://us.macmillan.com/excerpt?isbn=9780374147938
How had the short-fingered vulgarian reached the White House? When Hillary Clinton started speaking in public again, she lent credence to a like-goes-with-like account of her character by advancing a this-followed-that narrative. Never mind that she’d mishandled her emails and uttered the phrase “basket of deplorables.” Never mind that voters might have had legitimate grievances with the liberal elite she represented; might have failed to appreciate the rationality of free trade, open borders, and factory automation when the overall gains in global wealth came at middle-class expense; might have resented the federal imposition of liberal urban values on conservative rural communities. According to Clinton, her loss was the fault of James Comey–maybe also of the Russians.
NEVER MIND SHE WON THE POPULAR VOTE
and it was the fault of those things
this essay is all over the place and not particularlly insihgtluf or even knoweldgaebl. the shirky stuff is bonkers.
he just contradicted himself on cimate change and hte left.
the end of literature, novels, essays is an evergreen.
Posted on November 16, 2018
