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 […]
Native American Heritage Month Reading List
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Mascot Nation Awarded Best Book Award from American Studies Division of NCA
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 […]
200 Years of Illinois: Cosmic Fireworks
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 […]
200 Years of Illinois: Danville and the Trail of Death
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 […]
Release Party: Indians Illustrated
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” […]
Release Party: Free Spirits
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 […]
Throwbacklist Thursday
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 […]
Happy Thanksgiving from UIP
One staff member volunteered to work on the holiday… […]
Stealing Indian Women on the big screen
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, […]
University press book controversy
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 […]
Jack Forbes at the UC Davis Bookstore
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. […]
“Stealing Indian Women” adaptation for the big screen
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 […]