Collaborators for Emancipation is an examination of the relationship between President Abraham Lincoln and Congregational minister Owen Lovejoy. Authors William F. Moore and Jane Ann Moore collaborated themselves on both […]
Category: Lincoln
New in paperback: two titles examine Civil War era secrets
Two UIP titles are available in paperback editions today. A Secret Society History of the Civil War Were the forces that drove the United States to civil war prompted by […]
Lincoln vs. Douglas, tale of the tape
On August 21, 1858 upstart challenger Abraham Lincoln entered into the first of seven debates with incumbent Senator Stephen Douglas in Ottawa, Illinois. Lincoln was challenging Douglas to represent Illinois […]
New in paperback: a pioneer, a president and a King
Three UIP titles are available in paperback editions today. Locomotive to Aeromotive: Octave Chanute and the Transportation Revolution Earth, water, air—Octave Chanute grappled with the very elements themselves. He built the massive […]
Abraham Lincoln, Oscar-Hunter?
The much-anticipated film Lincoln, directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Daniel Day-Lewis, recently opened in theaters nationwide. Here in the Land of Lincoln, we’ve always had a strong history of […]
Lawyer the Lincoln
What?! Matthew McConaughey to star in film adaptation of our book Lincoln the Lawyer?? Oops, no. Shelf Awareness reports that Tommy Lee Jones is slated to direct McConaughey in a film version of […]
Transcription Prescription by William C. Edwards
Question (Mom): Who can you be texting over 1,000 times a day? Answer (Daughter): IDN, MBF Jill? (I don’t know, my best friend Jill?) Most of us have seen this […]
It’s Lincoln’s birthday
Has Lincoln always been cool? A new museum in Springfield, Illinois. Obama’s hand on the 16th president’s bible. Shelves full of new biographies. It’s hard for me to tell because I’ve […]
The Chronicle of Higher Education on Lincoln
Peter Monaghan’s Lincoln “Field Report” in The Chronicle Review includes multiple references to University of Illinois Press titles, plus a quote from Rodney O. Davis, co-editor of The Lincoln-Douglas Debates: […]
The New Yorker recommends “Lincoln the Lawyer” online
The New Yorker blog The Book Bench recommends Brian Dirck’s Lincoln the Lawyer. […]
Lincoln scholar on WGN’s Extension 720
Douglas Wilson, co-author of the new book The Lincoln-Douglas Debates: The Lincoln Studies Center Edition, will appear on WGN Radio’s Extension 720 on November 7 at 9:00 PM to discuss […]
The New York Review of Books praises “The Lincoln-Douglas Debates”
The October 23, 2008, issue of The New York Review of Books includes a dual review of Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates That Defined America by Allen Guelzo and The […]