Late last week, several media news outlets, including the Chicago Tribune and NPR, reported on the impending retirement of University of Illinois at Chicago professor William Ayers. Most of the […]
Month: August 2010
The Black Elk-SUNY saga continues
Inside Higher Ed follows up the story from two years ago on SUNY Press’ acquisition of a University of Nebraska Press bestseller. Black Elk Speaks is the autobiography of a […]
Advance copies of “Troubled Ground”
Bound advance proofs just arrived for Claude A. Clegg’s forthcoming book Troubled Ground: A Tale of Murder, Lynching, and Reckoning in the New South. Reviews editors will begin receiving their advances […]
Researching high school football in Illinois by Taylor Bell
Organizing material for a book on a subject, like high school basketball in Illinois, that has been done before is difficult enough. Obviously, you are anxious to research new historical […]