Barsamian to speak on founding a radio show, October 29

image of David Barsamian

Alternative Radio founder David Barsamian, an Illinois State Presidential Speaker Series guest, will present “Creating Indie Media in an Era of Corporate Control: How I Did It” at 1 p.m. Thursday, October 29, on the second floor of Milner Library.

Decipher History: Explore the past through letters and diaries

Photograph of Emily Vecchi Noble, Circus and Allied Arts Collection

Reading other people’s diaries and mail might be frowned upon by many, but not by Milner Library’s Special Collections Librarian, Maureen Brunsdale. Of course, the letters and diaries she peruses are over 100 years old, and part of the Decipher History project.

ISU alum’s book explores how prisons depicted in pop culture

Congratulations to Dawn K. Cecil ’93, M.A. ’95, on the publication of her first book, Prison Life in Popular Culture: From The Big House to Orange Is the New Black, which is an extensive examination of how prisons are depicted in the media and other aspects of popular culture.