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November 16, 2015

Making Photography Matter wins National Communication Association award

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Making Photography Matter: A Viewer’s History from the Civil War to the Great Depression by Cara A. Finnegan has won the Outstanding Book of the Year by the National Communication […]

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November 2, 2015 (November 2, 2015)

RIP Grantland

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Late Friday, when all of our institutions bravely shunt their bad news out the door, ESPN announced that it would shutter its prestige site Grantland, effective immediately. Founded in 2011 […]

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October 31, 2015 (October 28, 2015)

Terrifying information

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Winston Churchill summed it up when he said, “To those of us who study the course of human events, one thing is clear. People are wack.” That is never truer […]

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July 3, 2015 (June 30, 2015)

Land of the Free

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The University of Illinois Press wishes you a great Independence Day holiday. […]

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May 8, 2015

Orson Welles Week: Trivia

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With today the seventieth anniversary of V-E Day, we tie in the end of that conflict with our Orson Welles Week celebration. In this trivia question, the great director meets […]

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April 16, 2015 (April 15, 2015)

Book cover bracket winner

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Weeks in the making, the UIP Book Cover Tournament comes to an end today. It was an interesting final, with Cinderella story Ring Shout, Wheel About taking on powerhouse favorite Chicago Architecture. Do […]

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April 4, 2015 (April 6, 2015)

Stephen Wade on Muddy Waters

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Some years back, University of Illinois Press author and roots music scholar Stephen Wade shared the origins of Muddy Waters’ classic song “I Can’t Be Satisfied” (amen, brother) in this National […]

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April 4, 2015 (April 2, 2015)

M-A-N

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One hundred or 102 years ago today, Muddy Waters entered our universe. He went on to become a man. M-A-N. A hoochie coochie man. A natural born lovers man. A […]

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April 2, 2015 (April 2, 2015)

The Final Four of book covers

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Intense action defined our Elite Eight match-ups as architecture and shrooms triumphed over music and beer. Chicago River Bridges and Chicago Skyscrapers, 1871–1934 will now vie to represent Windy City landmarks in […]

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April 1, 2015

$2.99 e-book sale on Asian American Studies titles

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For the month of April 2015, to coincide with the Association of Asian American Studies’ annual conference, we have lowered the e-book list price of three titles in the University […]

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March 28, 2015 (March 25, 2015)

The Elite Eight of book covers

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Eight. It’s a magic number. In fact, physicists consider it the second magic number. Racing fans love it. Billiards fans obsess over it. Eight is the only Fibonacci number (except […]

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March 24, 2015 (March 24, 2015)

The Sweet Sixteen of book covers

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As a unit at a Very Large University, we here at UIP pay avid attention to the NCAA basketball tournaments, even though the Fighting Illini have of late fallen into a […]

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