The abolitionist work of Quakers during the antebellum era has been well documented, and their contemporary anti-war and anti-racism work is familiar to activists around the world. Allan W. Austin, a […]
Category: american history
The Haymarket Conspiracy author interviewed on NPR’s Morning Edition
Timothy Messer-Kruse, author of the new University of Illinois Press book The Haymarket Conspiracy: Transatlantic Anarchist Networks, was interviewed on NPR’s Morning Edition about his struggle to change the Wikipedia […]
Television and the Civil Rights Movement
Henry Jenkins’s Confessions of an Aca-Fan blog features a multi-segment Q&A with Aniko Bodroghkozy, author of Equal Time: Television and the Civil Rights Movement. From Part Three: One of the surprising […]
An Emphasis on Conspiracy, Less on the Trial
Last week Timothy Messer-Kruse, author of The Haymarket Conspiracy: Transatlantic Anarchist Networks, published a post on his own blog in response to a negative review in Dissent. While tacitly acknowledging […]
The Wall Street Journal reviews The Beautiful Music All Around Us
The September 14, 2012, edition of The Wall Street Journal includes Terry Teachout’s enthusiastic review of Stephen Wade’s new book The Beautiful Music All Around Us: Field Recordings and the […]
LA Times reviews The Beautiful Music All Around Us
This week the Los Angeles Times published a sparkling review of Stephen Wade’s new book The Beautiful Music All Around Us: Field Recordings and the American Experience. “Musician and folklorist Stephen Wade dissects […]
Happy Anniversary to Music in American Life
The University of Illinois Press is celebrating the 40th anniversary of its Music in American Life book series with the publication of two new titles: Stephen Wade’s The Beautiful Music […]
Southern Gospel Music
On May 21, 2012, we published Then Sings My Soul: The Culture of Southern Gospel Music. Author Douglas Harrison, an associate professor of English at Florida Gulf Coast University, answered our […]
Publishers Weekly reviews The Beautiful Music All Around Us
On September 10, 2012, we will officially publish Stephen Wade’s book The Beautiful Music All Around Us: Field Recordings and the American Experience, which reveals the backstories of thirteen iconic […]
A look at rare Guthrie photos
A month following Woody Guthrie’s 100th birthday, I am catching up on a gallery of rare photos featured on NPR’s website. University of Illinois Press author Rich Remsberg (Hard Luck Blues: Roots Music Photographs […]
New in paperback: Hands on the Freedom Plow
On August 27, 2012, we will publish a paperback edition of Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC, edited by Faith S. Holsaert, Martha Prescod Norman Noonan, […]
Woody at 100 wrap-up
This past Saturday, July 14, marked 100 years since the birth of Woody Guthrie. Will Kaufman, author of the University of Illinois Press book Woody Guthrie, American Radical, was interviewed and […]