Like local food and farmers’ markets? Author Janine Maclaclan will be signing copies of Farmers’ Markets of the Heartland next to the NW entrance to the Market between 9:30-11:30 this […]
The American Theatre and Drama Society has awarded its 2011/2012 Annual Book Award to Living with Lynching: African American Lynching Plays, Performance, and Citizenship, 1890-1930. This award recognizes outstanding works […]
Visit our booth (UPDATE: we have been moved to TENT B on Dearborn) at Printers Row Lit Fest this weekend, and enjoy presentations by these University of Illinois Press authors: […]
Ray Bradbury, author, Illinois native, and subject of Becoming Ray Bradbury, has died. Jonathan Eller, his biographer, had this to say about him in an article last year in New […]
The Telegraph blog of Cowboys & Indians magazine recently interviewed one of our authors. From the post: “In Twentieth Century Drifter: The Life of Marty Robbins, Diane Diekman offers a […]
The 46th Annual Bill Monroe Bean Blossom Bluegrass Festival, “The oldest, continuous running bluegrass festival in the world,” is less than a month away. We have a robust selection of […]
Visit our tables at the Illinois History Symposium (IHS), “Contested Lands: 1763-1840,” April 26-28 at The Embassy Suites Hotel and Conference Center, East Peoria. The symposium commemorates the 200th anniversary […]
Will Ridenour’s been the Press’s programmer for most of the past eleven years. “Programmer” doesn’t completely describe the variety of his duties, nor his wit and literary bonhomie. From Paul: […]
Koritha Mitchell, author of Living with Lynching, gives two very different interviews. “It’s our success that beckons the mob.” Professor Mitchell argues that there is a need to move beyond […]
Union Communication Services, Inc., points out that today is the anniversary of the 1993 lockout in Decatur, IL, as told in our book, Staley: The Fight for a New American […]
Only 12 shopping days until Christmas. We’re sharing our email special with our blog readers. Free shipping on select Illinois-themed books until December 20 when ordered by web or by […]
LASNews, the newsletter of the University of Illinois College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, linked to this This Old Hall, a five-minute video detailing the restoration work currently in progress […]