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08/29/2025

Enjoy 50% off all labor studies books with code LABOR25! Offer expires Mon, Sept 1!

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08/29/2025

Today marks the 20th anniversary of , the costliest natural disaster in U.S. history.

In SETTLER COLONIALISM IS THE DISASTER, shows how the rhetoric of improvement allows coloniality to masquerade as rebuilding while white elites consolidate power, profit, and privilege. Displaced and disenfranchised people of color, meanwhile, experience the impact of racial-disaster capitalism, with the chaos surrounding Katrina and COVID-19 obscuring the for-profit economic, political, and social exploitation of non-white New Orleanians.
https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p089145

cc: Xavier University of Louisiana

08/29/2025

Utah Historical Quarterly Volume 93, Issue 3, is now available, featuring 5 new articles (including “'Such Villainy': How Utah's Newspapers Reflected—and Shaped—the 1916 Gubernatorial Race" by Stephanie Thompson Lundeen and "Speaking for Labor: Utah Labor News, 1917–1937" by Victoria M. Grieve), 5 book reviews, and more!

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https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/uhq/issue/93/3

08/28/2025

Have you checked out Vol. 124, Iss. 2 of Journal of English and Germanic Philology yet? Read articles like "West Norse Palatal r in Irish Sources" by Nicolai Egjar Engesland, "Psychological Interiority and Supernatural Agency in Örvar-Odds saga and Hamlet" by Daniel J. Frim, and more. https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/54584

08/28/2025

New Italica! Volume 101, Issue 4 is now available! Featuring 5 new articles, a special section on streaming, a review essay, and 10 other book reviews.

Here's a preview of the articles in the issue:
1️⃣ "Hurray for Made in Italy! Or Sigmund Freud at the Sanremo Music Festival" by Lorenzo Bernini
2️⃣ "Female Body and Trauma in New Neapolitan Cinema" by Etami Borjan and Ana Perić
3️⃣ "Supporting Roles: The Critical Influence of Female Community in Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron" by Megan Tomlinson
4️⃣ "Service-Learning in the Italian Classroom: The Pedagogical Value of Student Interviews in the Italian Heritage Project" by Roberta Cauchi-Santoro
5️⃣ "Silent Echoes: Unveiling Puccini's Hidden Truths in the Wordless Film Puccini e la fanciulla (2008) by Paolo Benvenuti" by Barbara Salani

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https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/ital/issue/101/4

08/27/2025

Unusually warm weather and sunny skies blessed the October 11, 1998, centennial observance of the Virden Massacre, held in that Macoupin County community. But the heat afflicted a Catholic priest, recently off chemotherapy for cancer, as he rested in a shady corner of the town's square before giving the day's closing prayer.

“It was Mother Jones who said, and I quote: ‘Pray for the dead but fight like hell for the living,’” Father Martin B. Mangan began. “We remember the dead, the Virden Martyrs today. But we must also remember, and I quote again, ‘to fight like hell for the living’—and for workers everywhere, and especially, the mine workers here in central Illinois. And so Dear God grant eternal rest unto the Virden Martyrs, who died for justice. And grant eternal solidarity to us who remain to fight for justice. Amen.”

Mangan, beloved for his support of workers during an early 1990s series of lockouts and strikes afflicting Decatur, Illinois, gained strength that day from the example of Mary “Mother” Jones, a late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century labor activist once termed “the most dangerous woman in the United States.” He followed a tradition of inspiration extending into our own times.

In Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society Vol. 118, No. 2, Rosemary Feurer describes the continuing power and influence of Mother Jones in “A Spirit Thread of Labor’s Public History: Memory, a Tradition of Historian Activists, and the Mother Jones Heritage Project.”

https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jishs/article/118/2/11/401298/A-Spirit-Thread-of-Labor-s-Public-History-Memory-a

08/26/2025

In honor of the 15th anniversary of Journal of Animal Ethics, all of the scholarship in Vol. 1, Iss. 1 will be completely free to access for the rest of the year! Check out our blog post to learn more about the journal and the free content available in 2025: https://www.press.uillinois.edu/wordpress/15th-anniversary-of-journal-of-animal-ethics/

08/26/2025

From Europe and the Middle East to the Americas and Australia, wherever Italians migrated a trail of newspapers followed. The larger the community, the more print journalism it consumed. Newspapers propagating ideas that shaped identities vis-à-vis Italy and host countries, maintained a link to Italy, provided practical services, and incubated radical politics.

This special issue of Italian American Review (Vol. 15, No. 1), guest edited by David Aliano and Joseph Sciorra, describes areas of inquiry opened up by recent studies while situating contributors’ articles within new avenues of research drawing on ideas that range from transnationalism to the little-examined wave of post-WWII migration.

https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/iar/issue/15/1

08/26/2025

Happy birthday to Jack Johnson, the first Black heavyweight boxing champion of the world (1908–1915).

Pick up Rudy Mondragón's RINGS OF DISSENT for more fascinating corners of the boxing world as it illuminates what the sport tells us about America.
https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=c046865

08/26/2025

It's !

Today commemorates the 1920 adoption of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits the states & the federal govt from denying the right to vote to U.S. citizens on the basis of s*x.

Check out our newest books that focus on the continued fight for women's equality⤵️
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08/25/2025

This special issue of Journal of American Ethnic History (Vol. 44, No. 4) on "Immigration and Citizenship" delves into the complex web of power relations that shaped the lives of both citizens and non-citizens in America.

Guest editors Hardeep Dhillon and Maddalena Marinari purposefully refer to the analyses of migration and citizenship within this special issue as “critical histories” because they challenge narratives of US citizenship that adhere to liberal narratives of progress and liberal political theory. Moreover, they emphasize human agency and how everyday people understood and redefined US citizenship and their relationship to the law and legal status.

In effect, this special issue showcases how individuals challenged the boundaries of who should be entitled to US citizenship and on what grounds, but also how and why some communities refused or renounced US citizenship.

Read the introduction here: https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jaeh/article/44/4/5/401301/Networks-of-Power-and-Relationality-US-Citizenship

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08/25/2025

The Herbert G. Gutman Prize for Outstanding Dissertation in U.S. Labor and Working-Class History is now open for submissions!

Full details here: https://go.illinois.edu/UIPGutmanPrize

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