The art of José Gamaliel González on display in Chicago
Saturday, August 24 marks the final day of the exhibit José Gamaliel González: The Artist at 80 at the Carlos & Dominguez Fine Arts Gallery in Chicago. Dr. Marc Zimmerman, […]
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Reconsidering the Chicago School of architecture
Thomas Leslie, author of Chicago Skyscrapers, 1871-1934, recently spoke with WGLT-FM public radio about what architecture says not only about a city’s history, but about interpreting an urban identity. “Chicago skyscrapers […]
Happy birthday to Ola Belle Reed
Although there is some slight dispute over her exact birthday, records say Ola Belle Campbell Reed, was born on August 18, 1916, in Lansing, North Carolina. She was the fourth of […]
Q&A with Charles Ives in the Mirror author David C. Paul
David C. Paul is an assistant professor of musicology and theory at the University of California, Santa Barbara and author of Charles Ives in the Mirror: American Histories of an […]
Illinois Press director Regier on ‘On War’ in Chronicle of Higher Education
University of Illinois Press director Willis G. Regier writes about German-Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz, and the influential tome On War, in the Chronicle of Higher Education. With protracted wars in […]
Happy birthday to bluegrass pioneer Rose Maddox
Rose Maddox, the lead singer of America’s “most colorful hillbilly band” the Maddox Brothers and Rose, was born on August 15, 1925. Rose went from very modest beginnings to fronting […]
The Chronicle of Higher Education features Chicago Skyscrapers
Thomas Leslie, author of the new University of Illinois Press book Chicago Skyscrapers, 1871-1934, is the subject of a Chronicle of Higher Education feature. Thomas Leslie likes to warn his […]
Q&A with James Doering author of The Great Orchestrator
James M. Doering is a professor of music at Randolph-Macon College and author of The Great Orchestrator: Arthur Judson and American Arts Management. We asked him a few questions about […]
Richard Linklater author David T. Johnson on filmmaker’s latest
At this point I can only add to the effusive praise that has greeted the release of Richard Linklater’s latest film, Before Midnight, with my own. So let me just […]
George Szell the teacher
Orchestra and opera conductor George Szell was known not only for his prolific career and innovations, but also for his tempestuous personality. Referred to, even in his obituary, as a “tyrant of […]
AEJMC conference — $2.99 eBook sale
To coincide with the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) annual meeting August 8-10, 2013, in Washington, D.C., we are offering eBook versions of three University of Illinois […]
King: A Biography $2.99 eBook sale
On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered one of the most famous and enduring speeches in American history. For the month of August 2013 the University of Illinois […]