Postcard of the Day, Part 6
Yesterday the Chicago Bears demolished the Tennessee Titans 51-20 in Nashville. Next week Da Bears come home to Soldier Field to play the Houston Texans. Here’s a postcard of that […]
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Postcard of the Day, Part 5
It’s the last weekend before the 2012 presidential election and neither candidate has spent much time campaigning in the State of Illinois, much less in the Press’ hometown of Champaign. 100 years ago William […]
Postcard of the Day, Part 4
Main Street, Galena, ca. 1960. Color-View Inc. (#63769-B), Rockford, Ill.; Ektachrome by Joe E. Clark; Dexter Press, West Nyack, N.Y. Taken from Picturing Illinois: Twentieth-Century Postcard Art from Chicago to […]
Postcard of the Day, Part 3
The West Street business district, Rockford, ca. 1960. Color View, Inc. (#6275-C), Rockford, Ill.; photo by H. Bruechner; printed by Dexter Press, West Nyack, N.Y. Taken from Picturing Illinois: Twentieth-Century […]
Author Megan Sweeney discusses what women read in prison (and why)
Megan Sweeney is an associate professor of English Language & Literature and Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan. She answered our questions about her new book The […]
Postcard of the Day, Part 2
Yesterday’s Picturing Illinois feature started with the northern part of the state. Today we reach far south to Cairo, Illinois. Ohio Street, Cairo, ca. 1910. International Post Card Co. (#550), […]
Postcard of the Day, Part 1
Today, October 29, 2012, is the official publication date of Picturing Illinois: Twentieth-Century Postcard Art from Chicago to Cairo, by John A. Jakle and Keith A. Sculle. Providing rich historical and […]
The Wall Street Journal reviews Bluegrass Bluesman
The October 27, 2012, issue of The Wall Street Journal includes a review of the new book, Bluegrass Bluesman: A Memoir by Josh Graves, edited by Fred Bartenstein. “Graves’s name […]
UIP author on Mormons & Politics in Vanity Fair
D. Michael Quinn, author of the University of Illinois Press book Same-Sex Dynamics among Nineteenth-Century Americans: A Mormon Example, penned a Vanity Fair web exclusive feature titled When Mormons Go to Washington. […]
Denise Levertov event at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.
This week we officially published the new biography Denise Levertov: A Poet’s Life by Dana Greene. Levertov was born in England (October 24, 1923), published her first book of poems at […]
Philip Kaufman Q&A at the Chicago Film Festival
Annette Insdorf will lead a Q&A with director Philip Kaufman at the Chicago Film Festival on October 16. Her critically acclaimed book in our Contemporary Film Directors series was published earlier this year. […]
The Accordion in the Americas
Following the critical success of Marion Jacobson’s Squeeze This! A Cultural History of the Accordion in America, we are publishing Helena Simonett’s edited volume The Accordion in the Americas: Klezmer, […]