Please join us in honoring women’s history every month and especially in March, as we celebrate with some of our highly anticipated women’s history publications. Have You Got Good Religion?: […]
Tag: African American Women
AAIHS 2024 Virtual Exhibit
Welcome to the University of Illinois Press virtual exhibit for the 2024 African American Intellectual History Society conference! Explore our extensive collection of books, journals, blog posts, and more. Use […]
2024 Black History Month
African American Studies is a cornerstone of the University of Illinois Press. While we honor Black history all year, this month we’re celebrating with some of our favorite and forthcoming […]
ASALH 2023 Virtual Exhibit
The University of Illinois Press stands in solidarity with the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) and the Black community in Florida, who are being […]
AAIHS 2023 Virtual Exhibit
Welcome to the University of Illinois Press virtual exhibit for the 2023 African American Intellectual History Society conference! Explore our extensive collection of books, journals, blog posts, and more. Use […]
2023 Women’s History Month
Please join us in honoring women’s history every month and especially in March, as we celebrate with some of our highly anticipated women’s history publications. Women, Gender, and Families of […]
2023 Black History Month
African American Studies is a cornerstone of the University of Illinois Press. While we honor Black history all year, this month we’re celebrating with some of our favorite and forthcoming […]
ASALH 2022 Virtual Exhibit
Welcome to the University of Illinois Press virtual exhibit for the 2022 Association for the Study of African American Life and History annual conference! Explore our extensive collection of books, […]
MADAM C. J. WALKER’S GOSPEL OF GIVING shortlisted for the 2022 Indiana Authors Awards
Join us in congratulating Tyrone Mckinley Freeman, whose book, Madam C. J. Walker’s Gospel of Giving: Black Women’s Philanthropy during Jim Crow, has been shortlisted for the 2022 Indiana Authors Awards in […]
SURVIVING SOUTHAMPTON wins the James H. Broussard Best First Book Prize
We are pleased to announce that Surviving South Hampton: African American Women and Resistance in Nat Turner’s Community by Vanessa M. Holden has won the James H. Broussard Best First Book Prize from SHEAR […]
Q&A with Miriam Thaggert, author of RIDING JANE CROW
Miriam Thaggert, author of Riding Jane Crow: African American Women on the American Railroad, answers questions on the significance of the time period she writes about, what she hopes readers […]
DREAM BOOKS AND GAMBLERS has been awarded a grant from Furthermore: a program of the J. M. Kaplan Fund
We are pleased to announce that Furthermore: a program of the J. M. Kaplan Fund has awarded a grant to support publication of the book Dream Books and Gamblers: Black Women’s […]