November’s free e-book is here! Check out Locomotive to Aeromotive: Octave Chanute and the Transportation Revolution by Simine Short before the month is over! French-born and self-trained civil engineer Octave […]
Joseph Horowitz, author of The Propaganda of Freedom: JFK, Shostakovich, Stravinsky, and the Cultural Cold War, answers questions on his new book. Q: Why did you decide to write this […]
Filipino Americans are the second-largest Asian American group in the nation. The celebration of Filipino American History Month in October commemorates the first recorded presence of Filipinos in the continental […]
Tariq D. Khan, author of The Republic Shall Be Kept Clean: How Settler Colonial Violence Shaped Antileft Repression, answers questions on his new book. Q: Why did you decide to […]
How much do you know about American history? The University of Illinois Press has three different state history journals: Connecticut History Review, Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, and […]
Shreerekha Pillai, editor of Carceral Liberalism: Feminist Voices against State Violence, wrote this piece following the killing of Tyre Nichols. My high school years were bracketed by gruesome violence unleashed […]
September’s free e-book is here! Check out Surviving Southampton: African American Women and Resistance in Nat Turner’s Community by Vanessa M. Holden before the month is over! The 1831 Southampton […]
Paul A. Shackel, author of The Ruined Anthracite: Historical Trauma in Coal-Mining Communities, answers questions on his new book. Q: Why did you decide to write this book? Over a […]
Mark Walczynski, author of Jolliet and Marquette: A New History of the 1673 Expedition, answers questions on her new book. Q: Why did you decide to write this book? I […]
Mark Erlich, author of The Way We Build: Restoring Dignity to Construction Work, answers questions on his new book. Q: Why did you decide to write this book? I planned […]
August’s free e-book is here! Check out Journalism and Jim Crow: White Supremacy and the Black Struggle for a New America edited by Kathy Roberts Forde and Sid Bedingfield the […]
July’s free e-book is here! Check out A History of the Ozarks, Volume 1: The Old Ozarks by Brooks Blevins before the month is over! Geologic forces raised the Ozarks. […]