Run for your lives! eBooks are the future (and the now)!
Today I attended a UIP brown bag lunch about social media sites and how we can use these sites to better promote UIP and its books and journals (and, in […]
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Man in the Mirror
Today’s Inside Higher Ed featured a story about the quarterly journal, The Mariner’s Mirror (published by the British-based Society for Nautical Research), and its honorary editor’s dissatisfaction with the quality […]
The first college radio station?
Hugh Slotten, author of the recent book Radio’s Hidden Voice: The Origins of Public Broadcasting in the United States, was interviewed by Jennifer Waits for the Radio Survivor site. Jennifer: There’s a […]
Robert Lombardo on WGN-TV
Robert Lombardo, author of the new book The Black Hand: Terror by Letter in Chicago, was interviewed March 5, 2010, on WGN-TV’s Midday News. […]
A Riddle of Life and Death Proportions
The Huffington Post publishes Part One of Richard Hughes’s two-part commentary “A Riddle of Life and Death Proportions: Why Conservative Christians So Often Fail the Common Good.” “Why do so […]
More Tell Me More
Following segments earlier this week on Dorothy Dandridge, Pam Grier, Whoopi Goldberg, and Oprah Winfrey, NPR’s Tell Me More wraps up its Divas on Screen feature with Halle Berry. Commentator Mia Mask: […]
“Sweet Tyranny” wins Wentworth Award
Sweet Tyranny: Migrant Labor, Industrial Agriculture, and Imperial Politics by Kathleen Mapes is the winner of the 2010 Richard L. Wentworth/Illinois award in American History. This award for the best […]
Congrats to Alison
Alison D. Goebel, a student assistant in Acquisitions at the University of Illinois Press, was one of eight graduate students on the Urbana-Champaign campus to be awarded a fellowship by the […]
One copy for the whole class
Inside Higher Ed reports today on a copyright case at UCLA. The school offers password protected access to assigned films for students to view outside the classroom on their personal computers. […]
Rounder’s 40th anniversary
The Wall Street Journal‘s Barry Mazor looks at Rounder Records’ 40th anniversary and speaks with Michael Scully, author of The Never-Ending Revival: Rounder Records and the Folk Alliance. Unlike most post-folk-revival […]
James Nowlan on WGN-TV
James Nowlan, co-author of the new book Illinois Politics: A Citizen’s Guide, was interviewed March 2 on WGN-TV’s Midday News. […]
Blues before noon
Steve Cushing, author of the new book Blues Before Sunrise: The Radio Interviews, was interviewed March 1 on WGN-TV’s Midday News. […]