Journey back Inside The Blanket Fort this week as we learn about some of the books the SIU Press is celebrating for Women's History Month.
While baseball is traditionally perceived as a game to be played, enjoyed, and reported from a masculine perspective, it has long been beloved among women—more so than any other spectator sport. Breaking into Baseball: Women and the National Pastime, by Jean Hastings Ardell, upends baseball’s accepted history to at last reveal just how involved women are, and have always been, in the American game.
Broadway producer Cheryl Crawford declared in her 1977 autobiography, “The theatre has been my life.” Crawford was notoriously secretive about her private life, and only now, with Milly S. Barranger’s insightful biography A Gambler’s Instinct: The Story of Broadway Producer Cheryl Crawford is her full story revealed.
The Dark Days of Abraham Lincoln's Widow, as Revealed by Her Own Letters, was written in 1927 but barred from timely publication by the Lincoln family. Based on nearly two dozen intimate letters written between Mary Lincoln and her close friend Myra Bradwell, mainly during the former’s 1875 incarceration in an insane asylum, this book was written by Mrs. Bradwell’s granddaughter, Myra Helmer Pritchard, and edited and annotated by historian Jason Emerson.
