An Interpretive Overview of Open Wound, part 2
This is the second half of the “Interpretive Overview” by William McKee Evans, the author of Open Wound: The Long View of Race in America. It appears before the Preface […]
This is the second half of the “Interpretive Overview” by William McKee Evans, the author of Open Wound: The Long View of Race in America. It appears before the Preface […]
Right after the last election we published Open Wound: The Long View of Race in America. The work is a capstone achievement by William McKee Evans, professor emeritus of history at […]
Koritha Mitchell’s Living with Lynching: African American Lynching Plays, Performance, and Citizenship, 1890-1930, is the Society for the Study of American Women Writers 2012 Book Award Winner. Living with Lynching: […]
Here is the second part of the “Introduction from the editor,” by Fred Bartenstein. Read Bluegrass Bluesman: A Memoir by Josh Graves, available now. “It was clear to me that […]
Last week we released Bluegrass Bluesman: A Memoir, by Josh Graves, and edited by Fred Bartenstein, a new book in our series Music in American Life. The book was a […]
Stephen K. Ashby, co-author of Staley: The Fight for a New American Labor Movement, has spoken out strongly over the past several weeks about the Chicago Public Schools teachers’ strike. […]
It will be a be a busy week for University of Illinois Press staff and authors. We will be at the Association for the Study of African American Life and […]
The University of Illinois Press seeks a Publicity Coordinator to develop publicity campaigns and implement publicity efforts for the Press’s entire book list (trade, scholarly, regional), focusing primarily on newly […]
Last week Timothy Messer-Kruse, author of The Haymarket Conspiracy: Transatlantic Anarchist Networks, published a post on his own blog in response to a negative review in Dissent. While tacitly acknowledging […]
Today SoLost, the video magazine of Oxford American, released a lovely interview and profile called Bill C. Malone: Scholarly Hero of Country Music. Malone also published two books in our […]
We have a selection of new titles that examine the different ways the U.S. legal system has defined insanity, especially in relation to gender. All of these books look at […]
We would like to welcome Michael Roux as new Marketing Manager, and Stephanie Turza as soon-to-be new Journals Production Editor. Michael officially began his position yesterday after nearly seven years […]