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Strictly Dynamite
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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.…
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November 23, 2022
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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…
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Seventy-five years ago, the Hollywood blacklist ruined lives, stifled creativity, and sent waves of proscription and censorship throughout United Stat…
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Two decades after Lewis and Lamb Chop last graced television with their presence, Lewis' daughter Mallory and author Nat Segaloff have set the record …
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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
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The television industry is changing, and with it, the small screen's potential to engage in debate and present valuable representations of American hi…
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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 …
September 15, 2021
Engulfed
From Double Indemnity to The Godfather, the stories behind some of the greatest films ever made pale beside the story of the studio that made them. In…
June 29, 2021
Wanting Radiance
Today I talked to Karen Salyer McElmurray about her novel Wanting Radiance (UP of Kentucky, 2020). Fifteen-year-old Miracelle Loving hears the gunsho…
June 2, 2021
Edward M. Almond and the US Army
Edward M. Almond belonged to the generation of US Army officers who came of age during World War I and then ascended to senior command positions durin…
December 15, 2020
Soccer Diplomacy
Today we are joined by Heather Dichter, Associate Professor of Sports History and Sports Management at DeMontfort University and fellow at the interna…
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The Red Shirt
At first, Miles Furling plays football to fit in. By eighth grade he realizes that he is both gay and a football player. After an unsuccessful attempt…