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June 22, 2017

Smithsonian Magazine delves into the history of “Baking Powder Wars”

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Smithsonian Magazine recently delved into the fascinating history behind baking powder. Linda Civitello, the author of Baking Powder Wars, was consulted as an expert. Read all about the cutthroat fight that revolutionized […]

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June 12, 2017 (April 16, 2018)

Authors on Issues: Valerie Francisco on “My Family’s Slave”

author commentary authors Authors on Issues Uncategorized women's history

  This is the inaugural post of our new series, Authors on Issues, in which UIP authors weigh in on current events. Valerie Francisco, author of The Labor of Care: Filipina Migrants and […]

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May 8, 2017

Graduation Book Giveaway!

Illinois / regional new books Uncategorized

Starting from May 8th, 2017 at 10 A.M. until May 11th, 2017 5 P.M., University of Illinois Press is sponsoring a graduation book giveaway across all of our social media accounts!  […]

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April 19, 2017 (April 19, 2017)

Dick Simpson on Against the Current

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Dick Simpson, co-author of Corrupt Illinois: Patronage, Cronyism, and Criminality, recently sat down with Dan Proft on the latest edition of Against the Current to talk about the history of […]

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March 16, 2017 (March 14, 2017)

Backlist Bop: Women in film

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Widely regarded as one of the most innovative and passionate filmmakers working in France today, Claire Denis has continued to make beautiful and challenging films since the 1988 release of […]

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February 23, 2017 (February 23, 2017)

Kenneth M. Hamilton on Booker T. Washington

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Recently, Kenneth M. Hamilton sat down with podcast The Bookmonger to discuss his new book, Booker T. Washington in American Memory. It is ten minutes well spent as he discusses how […]

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February 8, 2017 (February 8, 2017)

Winner of the 2016 NWSA/University of Illinois Press First Book Prize announced

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Congratulations to Michele Eggers, winner of the 2016 NWSA/University of Illinois Press First Book Prize for Embodying Inequality: The Criminalization of Women for Abortion in Chile. The award was announced […]

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January 24, 2017 (December 13, 2016)

Release Party: The Age of Noise in Britain, by James G. Mansell

European history Uncategorized

Sound transformed British life in the “age of noise” between 1914 and 1945. The sonic maelstrom of mechanized society bred anger and anxiety and even led observers to forecast the […]

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December 23, 2016 (December 21, 2016)

Holiday break

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The UIP blog will be on break until January 3, 2017. When we return, it’ll be all hot new books on how neoliberal politicians sold, and sold out, the city […]

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December 21, 2016 (December 19, 2016)

Oh gnarly tree

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I am fortunately immune to nostalgia about past celebrations of the yule, with one exception: the Christmas tree. Not a tree in the abstract, but the Christmas tree I grew up with, a […]

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August 30, 2016 (August 7, 2017)

200 Years of Illinois: The Last Hambletonian

Illinois / regional sports history Uncategorized

On August 30, 1980, the last Hambletonian in Du Quoin got underway amidst local sadness and headlines that harness racing’s top event had scored big money in its move to the […]

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January 22, 2016 (January 22, 2016)

“My Thirty Thousand”

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