I work on a number of journals here, journals covering diverse topics, and the variety is really interesting. Some articles stick with me for a long time. Yesterday I had […]
Category: folklore
Books for Cooks looks at From the Jewish Heartland
This week’s food column in the Chicago Reader features mini-profiles of five new books including the inaugural volume in our Heartland Foodways series, From the Jewish Heartland: Two Centuries of […]
Call for Book Proposals: Deadline Extended
The University of Illinois Press, the University Press of Mississippi, and the University of Wisconsin Press, in cooperation with the American Folklore Society and with the support of the Andrew […]
Sing It Pretty
Bess Lomax Hawes, folklorist, singer, and defender of the folk arts, died last week in Portland, Oregon. We are honored to have published Hawes’s 2008 memoir, Sing It Pretty, as part […]
Archie Green Tribute in C-U
The School of Labor and Employment Relations at the University of Illinois will host a memorial honoring University of Illinois Press author Archie Green on September 14, 2009, in the […]
Archie Green tribute
The Labor Archives and Research Center in San Francisco will host a musical tribute to Archie Green on June 21, 2009, in the McKenna Theatre at San Francisco State University. Hazel […]
The Nation’s review of “Only a Miner”
The Nation online posts a 35+ year old review of Archie Green’s Only a Miner. […]
NPR remembers Archie Green
NPR’s Morning Edition program on March 25, 2009, included a segment on the recently deceased University of Illinois Press author Archie Green. Green moved comfortably through the halls of Congress and […]