The University of Illinois Press is pleased to announce the launch of the second 100-book collection from Big Ten Open Books! The Indigenous North Americans collection explores history, culture, and […]
August’s free e-book is here! Check out Roots of the Black Chicago Renaissance: New Negro Writers, Artists, and Intellectuals, 1893-1930 edited by Richard A. Courage and Christopher Robert Reed before […]
Every year, the University of Illinois Press hires a graduate student from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Department of English to spend the spring semester working at the Press and […]
The Fall/Winter 2025 catalog is here! We have a wonderful array of new titles to share with you. Check out the preview below! We have an exciting group of new […]
A proposal is usually the first document authors generate to communicate their ideas about their proposed project. However, is a book proposal necessary for everyone? That depends. From my point […]
Going into the 2025 volume year with 50 years of history, the Journal of Education Finance is expanding to become the Journal of Education Finance and Law through the Education […]
Raymond J. McKoski, author of David Davis, Abraham Lincoln’s Favorite Judge, answers questions about his new book. Q: Why did you decide to write this book? Returning to our home […]
Did you miss us? We’re back again with all the Journals news from the first half of 2025 in this Journals Q1–Q2 UPdate! We are proud to announce that we […]
Ellen Koskoff, author of Bittersweet Sounds of Passage: Balinese Gamelan Angklung Cremation Music, answers questions about her new book. Q: Why did you decide to write this book? I wrote […]
Calling all film scholars! Back by popular demand, Journal of Film and Video, the official journal of the University of Film & Video Association, is releasing a reading list of […]
July’s free e-book is here! Check out Money, Marriage, and Madness: The Life of Anna Ott by Kim E. Nielsen before the month is over! Anna Ott died in the […]
Juneteenth is a federal holiday in the United States that is celebrated annually on June 19 to commemorate the ending of slavery. The holiday’s name, first used in the 1890s, is a portmanteau of the words “June” […]