From Beyoncé to Shonda Rhimes to Laverne Cox, African American women have a higher profile up and down our pop culture than at any time in the past. Of course, […]
The composer and the Scarecrow
Harold Arlen composed some of the great classics of the Great American Song Book including “Come Rain or Come Shine,” “Blues in the Night,” “Stormy Weather,” and, of the Wizard […]
Reno’s little helper
As winter turns up its final furies on the Northern Hemisphere, those snowbirds in stirrups depart for Florida and Arizona, there to prepare body and soul for the baseball season […]
University of Illinois Press hosts AAUP Book, Jacket and Journal Show
The University of Illinois Press hosts the annual Book, Jacket and Journal Show, March 4-11, 2016. Sponsored by the Association of American University Presses, nearly 100 books and jackets—the best of university […]
Burn days at Prairie Crossing
Our new release Prairie Crossing looks at a suburban Chicago housing development founded as an experiment to use access to nature as a means to challenge America’s failed culture of suburban sprawl. […]
Q&A with Immigrants against the State author Kenyon Zimmer
Kenyon Zimmer is an assistant professor of history at the University of Texas at Arlington. He answered some questions about his book Immigrants against the State: Yiddish and Italian Anarchism in America. […]
Throwbacklist Thursday
Supreme Court justices have stirred up controversy since the early days of the Republic, those days of yore when members of the court attended to their duties in gigantic powdered […]
Funk the Erotic wins Emily Toth Award
Funk the Erotic: Transaesthetics and Black Sexual Cultures by L. H. Stallings has won the Emily Toth Award for Best Single Work by One or More Authors in Women’s Studies. […]
When the clock strikes rock
One of the most important singles in American music history, “Rock Around the Clock” by Bill Haley and His Comets was the B-side of his first Decca single, a post-apocalyptic novelty […]
Civil Rights in the Texas Borderlands receives C. Calvin Smith Award
Civil Rights in the Texas Borderlands: Dr. Lawrence A. Nixon & Black Activism by Will Guzmán has been honored with the C. Calvin Smith Award presented by the Southern Conference on African American […]
Lincoln on Jefferson
Presidents have the unique perspective on other presidents. After all, a president—living or dead, current or former—belongs to a club that remains very small, and intimately knows a job that’s unlike […]
Ask the Bolshevik
Meet the UI Press is a recurring feature that delves into issues affecting academic publishing, writing, education, and LOVE. Today, industry advice columnist The Bolshevik answers your questions. Dear Bolshevik, Well, […]