D. Leigh Henson, author of Lincoln’s Rise to Eloquence: How He Gained the Presidential Nomination, answers questions on his new book. Q: Why did you decide to write this book? […]
Q&A with the author of LINCOLN’S RISE TO ELOQUENCE
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Q&A with the author of CIRCUS WORLD
Andrea Ringer, the author of Circus World: Roustabouts, Animals, and the Work of Putting on the Big Show, answers questions on her new book. Q: Why did you decide to […]
Q&A with the author of WAIKIKI DREAMS
Patrick Moser, the author of Waikiki Dreams: How California Appropriated Hawaiian Beach Culture, answers questions on his new book. Q: Why did you decide to write this book? I wanted […]
Q&A with the author of SAN FRANCISCO REDS
Robert W. Cherny, the author of San Francisco Reds: Communists in the Bay Area, 1919-1958, answers questions on his new book. Q: Why did you decide to write this book? […]
Q&A with the author of BLACK CYCLISTS
Robert J. Turpin, the author of Black Cyclists: The Race for Inclusion, answers questions on his new book. Q: Why did you decide to write this book? After learning about […]
Q&A with the author of TO ADVANCE THE RACE
Linda M. Perkins, the author of To Advance the Race: Black Women’s Higher Education from the Antebellum Era to the 1960s, answers questions on her new book. Q: Why did […]
Q&A with the author of COUNTERFEITING LABOR’S VOICE
Mark A. Lause, the author of Counterfeiting Labor’s Voice: William A. A. Carsey and the Shaping of American Reform Politics, answers questions on his new book. Q: Why did you […]
Q&A with a co-editor of REPARATIONS AND REPARATORY JUSTICE
Mary Frances Berry, co-editor with Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua and V. P. Franklin of Reparations and Reparatory Justice: Past, Present, and Future, answers questions on their new book. Q: Why did […]
OAH 2024 Virtual Exhibit
Welcome to the University of Illinois Press virtual exhibit for the 2024 Organization of American Historians conference! Explore our extensive collection of books, journals, blog posts, and more. Use the […]
Free E-book Giveaway: FOR A JUST AND BETTER WORLD
April’s free e-book is here! Check out For a Just and Better World: Engendering Anarchism in the Mexican Borderlands, 1900-1938 by Sonia Hernández before the month is over! Caritina Piña […]
UIP Announces the Darlene Clark Hine Black History Endowment
The University of Illinois Press proudly announces the launch of the Darlene Clark Hine Black History Endowment. Beginning in late 2024, interest from the endowment will begin to yield direct […]
AAIHS 2024 Virtual Exhibit
Welcome to the University of Illinois Press virtual exhibit for the 2024 African American Intellectual History Society conference! Explore our extensive collection of books, journals, blog posts, and more. Use […]