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February 11, 2026
Alias Agnes
Jane Armstrong Tucker was a Boston stenographer scrabbling to get by as a single woman in the Gilded Age, until she was offered a once-in-a-lifetime c…
January 9, 2026
American Bloodlines
Summer 1936: Rainey Bethea, a young Black man, is tried for the rape and murder of an elderly white woman. The all-white, all-male jury takes just fou…
November 28, 2025
The Warner Brothers
One of the oldest and most recognizable studios in Hollywood, Warner Bros. is considered a juggernaut of the entertainment industry. Since its formati…
August 12, 2025
Haint Country
Matthew Sparks and Oliva Sizemore join Jana Byars for a fun, chilling, and thoughtful discussion about about Haint Country: Dark Tales from the Hills …
August 6, 2025
A Political Companion to Frederick Douglass
The year 2018 marks the 200th anniversary of Frederick Douglass’ birth. It can hardly be said that scholars have neglected Douglass; indeed, he is one…
December 22, 2024
Sweet Tooth and Other Stories
Queerness, labels, and allyship are central themes in this moving collection of stories set in Turkey, where Middle Eastern and Euro-American expressi…
April 17, 2024
Strictly Dynamite
Before Salma Hayek, Eva Longoria, and Penelope Cruz, there was Lupe Velez―one of the first Latin-American stars to sweep past the xenophobia of old Ho…
July 3, 2023
Sown in the Stars
"To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to p…
March 28, 2023
Mean...Moody...Magnificent!
By the early 1950s, Jane Russell (1921–2011) should have been forgotten. Her career was launched on what is arguably the most notorious advertising ca…
March 2, 2023
What Things Cost
What Things Cost: An Anthology for the People (UP of Kentucky, 2023) is the first major anthology of labor writing in nearly a century. Here, editors …
February 5, 2023
Half-Life of a Secret
In 1942, the US government began construction on a sixty-thousand-acre planned community named Oak Ridge in a rural area west of Knoxville, Tennessee.…
December 25, 2022
Jayne Mansfield
Jayne Mansfield (1933-1967) was driven not just to be an actress but to be a star. One of the most influential sex symbols of her time, she was known …
November 23, 2022
Lawrence Tierney
In his latest book, Lawrence Tierney: Hollywood's Real-Life Tough Guy (The University of Kentucky Press, 2022) Burt Kearns explores the life of actor …
November 15, 2022
Hollywood at the Races
Today I talked to Alan Shuback about his book Hollywood at the Races: Film's Love Affair with the Turf (UP of Kentucky, 2019) A love of the slapstick…
October 26, 2022
Shari Lewis and Lamb Chop
Two decades after Lewis and Lamb Chop last graced television with their presence, Lewis' daughter Mallory and author Nat Segaloff have set the record …
October 26, 2022
The Hollywood Motion Picture Blacklist
Seventy-five years ago, the Hollywood blacklist ruined lives, stifled creativity, and sent waves of proscription and censorship throughout United Stat…
September 21, 2022
Ernest Lehman
A Hollywood screenwriting and movie-making icon, Ernest Lehman penned some of the most memorable scenes to ever grace the silver screen. Hailed by Van…
August 12, 2022
History by HBO
The television industry is changing, and with it, the small screen's potential to engage in debate and present valuable representations of American hi…
July 21, 2022
War of Supply
The era of modern warfare introduced in World War II presented the Allied Powers with one of the more complicated logistical challenges of the century…
June 14, 2022
Subordinating Intelligence
In the late eighties and early nineties, driven by the post–Cold War environment and lessons learned during military operations, United States policy …