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January 13, 2023 (October 12, 2022)

Q&A with Robert W. Cherny, author of HARRY BRIDGES

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Robert W. Cherny, author of Harry Bridges: Labor Radical, Labor Legend, answers questions on his scholarly influences, discoveries, and reader takeaways from his new book. Q: Why did you decide […]

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November 26, 2019 (November 21, 2019)

The World in a City Awarded the Shelley Fisher Fishkin Prize

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We are pleased to announce The World in a City: Multiethnic Radicalism in Early Twentieth-Century Los Angeles by David M. Struthers won the Shelley Fisher Fishkin Prize for International Scholarship […]

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April 23, 2018 (April 20, 2018)

2018 NWSA/UIP First Book Prize: Call for Papers

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Call for Papers for the 2018 NWSA/UIP First Book Prize The University of Illinois Press and the National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) are pleased to continue the annual competition for […]

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May 31, 2017 (May 23, 2017)

Ask the Bolshevik

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Meet the UI Press is a recurring feature that delves into issues affecting academic publishing, writing, education, and related topics. Today, industry advice columnist The Bolshevik answers your questions. Dear Bolshevik, The […]

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May 24, 2017 (May 23, 2017)

Backlist Bop: Soviet conspiracy unveiled!

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Comrades, The Press has asked me, The Bolshevik, to pause from my advice column to fill in with the popular Backlist Bop feature. And good timing it is, for today […]

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May 11, 2017 (May 10, 2017)

Backlist Bop: John Lennon knows politics ain’t easy

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As the tumultuous late Sixties and early Seventies retreat into history, the zeitgeist is steadily sanding the many rough edges off John Lennon in order to enjoy his music without […]

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March 7, 2017 (March 2, 2017)

Ask the Bolshevik

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Meet the UI Press is a recurring feature that delves into issues affecting academic publishing, writing, education, and related topics. Today, industry advice columnist The Bolshevik answers your questions. Dear Bolshevik, […]

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February 23, 2017 (February 23, 2017)

Backlist Bop: Black power in its many forms

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Despite the growing scholarly interest in the civil rights movement, to date there has been no comprehensive examination of the Black Power movement. Black Power in the Belly of the […]

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January 30, 2017 (January 31, 2017)

Ask the Bolshevik: The alternative reality era

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Meet the UI Press is a recurring feature that delves into issues affecting academic publishing, writing, education, and related topics. Today, industry advice columnist The Bolshevik answers your questions. Dear Bolshevik, […]

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January 19, 2017 (January 20, 2017)

Release Party: Of G-Men and Eggheads

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Back before the FBI was accused of throwing elections, it kept immense files on all sorts of American citizens. Many of these suspicious characters worked as public intellectuals, a class of […]

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December 2, 2016 (November 30, 2016)

Our lives and all lives under the silicon heel

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Excerpted from the new UIP book Goodbye iSlave, by Jack Linchuan Qiu. Hans Rollman at PopMatters reviewed the book here. Welcome to a brave New World of profit making, propelled by high […]

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October 14, 2016 (October 13, 2016)

Ask the Bolshevik: A Nobel confusion

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Dear Bolshevik, As a part of the highbrow academic publishing community, what do you think about Bob Dylan winning the Nobel Prize in Literature? I know you’re not putting out […]

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