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Mandi Jourdan

Reporter · US

Indexed articles, last 90 days
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Oct 1, 2026
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  1. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Mandi Jourdan

    Inside The Blanket Fort - Episode 268 (opens the original)

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    Journey back Inside The Blanket Fort as we hear from SIU Press authors at this year's Printers Row Lit Fest in Chicago. We talked with author and retired sergeant Rasul T. Freelain, who served twenty years with the Oak Park Police Department in Illinois. He’s certified by Crisis Intervention Team International as a coordinator and teaches for the Illinois CIT Training Unit. Currently he is working to bring increased awareness to the problem of child-to-parent violence and abuse, or CPVA. He is t

  2. Article · Sep 26, 2026 · Mandi Jourdan

    Inside The Blanket Fort - Episode 267 (opens the original)

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    Journey back Inside The Blanket Fort as we continue to explore some of the books selected to help you “Fall in Love with History” and learn about how Southern Illinois. This week, we’ll continue our look into these fascinating regional history titles that will give you plenty of back-to-school reading. Organizing Freedom: Black Emancipation Activism in the Civil War Midwest is a riveting and significant social history of black emancipation activism in Indiana and Illinois during the Civil War er

  3. Article · Sep 10, 2026 · Mandi Jourdan

    Inside The Blanket Fort - Episode 266 (opens the original)

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    Journey back Inside The Blanket Fort as we settle into September and "Fall in Love with History" through some great SIU Press titles. Augustana College, a predominantly white institution in Rock Island, Illinois, was founded by Swedish Lutheran settlers with a mission to educate for the common good and “serve the neighbor so that all may flourish.” Called to Reckon: Replacing History and Reclaiming Mission at a Midwestern College, a collection edited by Jane E. Simonsen and written by historians

  4. Article · Sep 3, 2026 · Mandi Jourdan

    Inside The Blanket Fort - Episode 265 (opens the original)

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    Journey back Inside The Blanket Fort as we wrap up our look at the Southern Illinois Summer books from SIU Press. Today, over a million people in Illinois claim Irish ancestry and celebrate their love for Ireland. In the concise narrative history The Irish in Illinois, authors Mathieu W. Billings and Sean Farrell bring together both familiar and unheralded stories of the Irish in Illinois, highlighting the critical roles these immigrants and their descendants played in the settlement and the mak

  5. Article · Aug 20, 2026 · Mandi Jourdan

    Inside The Blanket Fort - Episode 264 (opens the original)

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    Journey back Inside The Blanket Fort as we explore a selection of books that explore Summer in southern Illinois. Situated between the Wabash, Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, the Southern Illinois country is rich in history, folk­lore, scenery, and natural resources. At about the latitude of southern Virginia, and extending from the flat prairie farm­land of central Illinois to the rugged Illinois Ozarks, the area is the natural terminal boundary for hundreds of plant species reaching out to all po

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