Call for Book Proposals: Deadline Extended
The University of Illinois Press, the University Press of Mississippi, and the University of Wisconsin Press, in cooperation with the American Folklore Society and with the support of the Andrew […]
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UIP at SCMS
The University of Illinois Press exhibited its new books in film and media studies at the 2010 convention of the Society for Film and Media Studies in Los Angeles, March […]
Jane Bernstein at the Cleveland International Film Festival
Jane Bernstein is in Cleveland this week for the showing of Rachel Is in the Cleveland International Film Festival. The film, directed by daughter Charlotte Glynn, follows a year in […]
Richard Hughes takes on Glenn Beck
Richard Hughes, author of the recent book Christian America and the Kingdom of God, has some strong words for Glenn Beck in The Huffington Post. When Glenn Beck advised Christians […]
Illinois Politics in the Sun-Times
The March 21, 2010, edition of the Chicago Sun-Times profiled the new University of Illinois Press book Illinois Politics: A Citizen’s Guide by James Nowlan, Samuel Gove, and Richard Winkel. “It’s easy to […]
Scott Christianson to appear on C-Span’s Book-TV
Scott Christianson, author of the new book Freeing Charles: The Struggle to Free a Slave on the Eve of the Civil War, will be featured in a Book-TV segment on […]
Christian Science Monitor on Tiger
George Kirsch, author of the book Golf in America, was consulted by the Christian Science Monitor for its story on Tiger’s return to the Masters. “[The Tiger scandal] raises the […]
A disincentive for course adoptions?
Soon after we publish a new edited volume we send a message to the book’s editors and contributors thanking them for their work and encouraging them to adopt the book for […]
Why Conservative Christians So Often Fail the Common Good
The Huffington Post has published Part Two of Richard Hughes’s two-part commentary “Why Conservative Christians So Often Fail the Common Good.” Part One has generated hundreds of comments. “For almost forty […]
Lincoln T. Beauchamp Jr. on WGN-TV
Lincoln T. Beauchamp Jr., author of the new book BluesSpeak: The Best of the Original Chicago Blues Annual, was interviewed March 16, 2010, on WGN-TV’s Midday News. […]
Beleaguered libraries, then and now
A blogger at The Urbana Free Library compares the fate of the wondrous library in ancient Alexandria with the squeeze being put on today’s public libraries in the wake of the global […]
Looking for Madame Grandin by Mary Beth Raycraft
As someone who has lived through a successful PhD dissertation, I must admit that dusty old books and grand European libraries are welcome companions. Spending days perusing nineteenth-century French etiquette books […]