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November 14, 2022 (November 9, 2022)

Native American Heritage Month Reading List

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What started at the turn of the century as an effort to gain a day of recognition for the significant contributions the first Americans made to the establishment and growth […]

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October 28, 2019

Mascot Nation Awarded Best Book Award from American Studies Division of NCA

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We are pleased to announce that Mascot Nation: The Controversy over Native American Representations in Sports by Andrew C. Billings and Jason Edward Black has won the Best Book Award […]

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July 4, 2017 (June 28, 2017)

200 Years of Illinois: Cosmic Fireworks

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On July 4, 1054, an extraordinary event attracted the attention of peoples around the world. A supernova appeared in the constellation Taurus. This guest star, to use a Chinese term, suddenly […]

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September 16, 2016 (September 14, 2016)

200 Years of Illinois: Danville and the Trail of Death

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The President does not know the truth. He, like me, has been imposed upon. He does not know that you made my young chiefs drunk and got their consent and […]

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August 2, 2016 (July 29, 2016)

Release Party: Indians Illustrated

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In the second half of the nineteenth century, Americans swarmed to take in a raft of new illustrated journals and papers. Engravings and drawings of “buckskinned braves” and “Indian princesses” […]

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July 11, 2016 (July 11, 2016)

Release Party: Free Spirits

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Often dismissed as a nineteenth-century curiosity, spiritualism in fact influenced the radical social and political movements of its time. Believers filled the ranks of the Free Democrats, agitated for land […]

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October 15, 2015 (October 15, 2015)

Throwbacklist Thursday

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Academic publishing often forces one into the unappreciated but necessary job of Killjoy. It comes with the territory of challenging convention and shoveling the cultural/historical b.s. out of the barn. Having […]

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November 28, 2013 (November 27, 2013)

Happy Thanksgiving from UIP

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One staff member volunteered to work on the holiday… […]

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October 8, 2009 (October 8, 2009)

Stealing Indian Women on the big screen

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Under These Same Stars, a new film inspired by Carl J. Ekberg’s recent University of Illinois Press book Stealing Indian Women: Native Slavery in the Illinois Country, is premiering in Ste Genevieve, […]

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July 15, 2008 (July 15, 2008)

University press book controversy

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Inside Higher Ed has a piece this morning on SUNY Press taking over publication rights for Black Elk Speaks from University of Nebraska Press. “For most university presses, a book […]

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May 23, 2008 (June 13, 2008)

Jack Forbes at the UC Davis Bookstore

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Jack Forbes, author of The American Discovery of Europe, spoke recently to a crowd of fifty patrons at the UC Davis Bookstore.  Tradebooks buyer Paul Takushi captured the event.       […]

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May 15, 2008 (May 16, 2008)

“Stealing Indian Women” adaptation for the big screen

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The Southern Illinoisan reported over the weekend that Under These Same Stars, an adaptation of Carl Ekberg’s recent book Stealing Indian Women, is being filmed in Alto Pass, Illinois. “Carl […]

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