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 […]
State History Trivia

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. […]
Gene Allen, author of Mr. Associated Press: Kent Cooper and the Twentieth-Century World of News, answers questions on his scholarly influences, discoveries, and reader takeaways from his new book. Q: […]
Kristine M. McCusker, author of Just Enough to Put Him Away Decent: Death Care, Life Extension, and the Making of a Healthier South, 1900-1955, answers questions on her new book. […]
Lorenzo Costaguta, author of Workers of All Colors Unite: Race and the Origins of American Socialism, answers questions on his new book. Q: Why did you decide to write this […]
Gregory J. Kaliss, author of Beyond the Black Power Salute: Athlete Activism in an Era of Change, answers questions on his new book. Q: Why did you decide to write […]