Looking for that perfect gift for your UIUC graduate? Larry Kanfer will sign copies of his new photography book Illini Loyalty: The University of Illinois during graduation weekend. Visit him at […]
Category: Illinois / regional
A historian’s perspective on the 2011 Missouri spillway flood by Jarod Roll
Right now a man-made flood is inundating part of Missouri after the US Army Corps of Engineers ‘activated’ the Bird’s Point-New Madrid Spillway by dynamiting the riverfront levee guarding parts […]
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 […]
“From the Jewish Heartland” on Chicago Public Radio
The April 19, 2011, edition of Chicago Public Radio’s Eight Forty-Eight program featured a conversation with Ellen Steinberg and Jack Prost, co-authors of the forthcoming book From the Jewish Heartland: […]
The New York Times quotes UIP author Rosemary Feurer
Rosemary Feurer, author of the University of Illinois Press book Radical Unionism in the Midwest, 1900-1950, was interviewed by The New York Times for a March 5, 2011, column on Wisconsin’s struggle […]
Illinois Books make Great Gifts!
Only 12 shopping days until Christmas. We’re sharing our email special with our blog readers. Free shipping on select Illinois-themed books until December 20 when ordered by web or by […]
James Ballowe on WGN-TV
James Ballowe, author of the new book Christmas in Illinois, was interviewed November 26, 2010, on WGN-TV’s Midday News. […]
Christmas in Champaign, Illinois
Calling all prospective East Central Illinois Black Friday survivors. This coming Sunday, November 28, the Champaign Public Library will host an event for the new anthology Christmas in Illinois. At 2:00 p.m., […]
Taylor Bell on WGN-TV
Taylor Bell, author of the new book Dusty, Deek, and Mr. Do-Right: High School Football in Illinois, was interviewed August 27, 2010, on WGN-TV’s Midday News. […]
Holly Swyers on WGN
Holly Swyers, author of the new book Wrigley Regulars: Finding Community in the Bleachers, is scheduled to appear on WGN radio and television in the next few weeks. Tonight, August […]
A Knight in Istanbul
In book publishing we’re busy talking about the need to expand our social networking efforts, to create online communities around books and authors, to consider content from the customer’s perspective […]
“Illinois Politics” authors at IUB literary fest
James Nowlan and Richard Winkel, co-authors of the new book Illinois Politics: A Citizens Guide, will participate in the Illini Union Bookstore’s summer literary fest in Champaign. On Tuesday, July […]