It’s 2021 and after a long wait, the Olympic Games are returning this summer! We’ve assembled a list of titles featuring the history and impact of the Games to help […]
Category: sports history
1619 Project Reading List: Sports and Racism
This August marked the 400th anniversary of slaves arriving in America. To commemorate the anniversary, The New York Times Magazine launched the 1619 Project, a major initiative led by Nikole […]
Q&A with Matthew C. Ehrlich, author of Kansas City vs. Oakland
Matthew C. Ehrlich is a professor emeritus of journalism at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His books include Heroes and Scoundrels: The Image of the Journalist in Popular Culture and Radio Utopia: Postwar […]
Call for Book Proposals: Studies in Sports Media, Edited by Victoria E. Johnson and Travis Vogan
If sport provides a powerful lens through which social norms are produced, reproduced, and challenged, sports media compose key mechanisms through which these meanings are built and communicated. As studies […]
Tolga Ozyurtcu on “Living the Dream”
Tolga Ozyurtcu, Ph.D. is a Assistant Professor of Instruction in the Department of Kinesiology and Health Education at the University of Texas at Austin. He recently shared his thoughts on […]
Q&A with the Authors of Hockey: A Global History
Stephen Hardy is a retired professor of kinesiology and affiliate professor of history at the University of New Hampshire. Andrew C. Holman is a professor of history and the director of Canadian […]
Q&A with Andrew C. Billings and Jason Edward Black, authors of Mascot Nation
Andrew C. Billings is a professor and Ronald Reagan Chair of Broadcasting in the Department of Journalism and Creative Media at the University of Alabama. He is the coauthor of Olympic Television: […]
NFL Reading List
Football season is well underway and we’re here to add a dose of football and NFL themed reads to your TBR. Featuring reads that will educate you on the origins […]
Remembering the 1968 Olympic Protest
During the 1968 Olympics at Mexico City, two American 200-meter sprinters, Tommie Smith and John Carlos performed arguably the most overtly political statement in the history of the Modern Olympic […]
Q&A with Roger R. Tamte, author of “Walter Camp and the Creation of American Football”
Roger R. Tamte is a patent attorney and scholar of early American football who has studied Camp for many years. He recently answered some questions with us about his new […]
3rd & FINAL IPad Giveaway
The University of Illinois Press is celebrating its 100th Anniversary this year. In order to celebrate, we decided to do something special for our readers. In honor of 100 years, we have […]
Q&A with Jesse Berrett, author of “Pigskin Nation: How the NFL Remade American Politics”
Jesse Berrett earned a PhD in History at the University of California, Berkeley. He has worked as a rock critic, television columnist, and book reviewer. He teaches history at University High […]