With Exploring Nature in Illinois: A Field Guide to the Prairie State, naturalists Michael Jeffords and Susan Post provide a panorama of the natural diversity found in Illinois. The book […]
Q&A with Hillary Clinton in the News author Shawn Parry-Giles
Shawn J. Parry-Giles is a professor of communication and director of the Center for Political Communication and Civic Leadership at the University of Maryland. She answered some questions about her UIP […]
Read an excerpt of Illegal: Reflections of an Undocumented Immigrant
“With great eloquence and pathos, N. draws on his daily life and references philosophers from Socrates to Kant to describe the netherworld of the undocumented. He takes solace in his […]
Women for President’s Day
What do Victoria Woodhull, Belva Lockwood, Margaret Chase Smith, Shirley Chisholm, Patricia Schroeder, Lenora Fulani, Elizabeth Dole and Carol Moseley Braun have in common? Each of these women ran for […]
Happy birthday Anna Howard Shaw
Dr. Anna Howard Shaw was born on February 14, 1847. A leader of the women’s suffrage movement, Shaw was also a physician and one of the first ordained female Methodist ministers in […]
Q&A with Hear Our Truths author Ruth Nicole Brown
Ruth Nicole Brown is an assistant professor of gender and women’s studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the author of Black Girlhood Celebration: Toward a Hip-Hop Feminist […]
Meet the Press: new faces for 2014
Towards the end of last year the Press welcomed three new faces to the staff. Now that we are well into 2014, it’s past time to introduce the new members […]
Intelligently Designed author weighs in on Bill Nye vs. Ken Ham
So Ken Ham and Bill Nye debated. Young-earth creationists were the winners by virtue of being on the same stage with a nationally known science educator before a national audience. […]
Black History Month $2.99 e-book sale
For the month of February we have lowered the e-book list price of five Black History titles in the University of Illinois Press catalog to $2.99. King: A Biography, Third Edition […]
Q&A with The Battle over Marriage author Leigh Moscowitz
Leigh Moscowitz is an assistant professor of communication at the College of Charleston. In her UIP book The Battle over Marriage: Gay Rights Activism through the Media the author examines the aims […]
How the Michigan Avenue bridge changed Chicago
It would be hard for any visitors or residents of modern-day Chicago to think of Michigan Avenue as a “quiet, tree-lined residential street.” Yet, Patrick T. McBriarty, author of Chicago […]
Jazz saxophonist and UIP author Joe Evans, 1916-2014
Accomplished jazzman Joseph James Evans passed away on January 17, 2014 at age 97. His autobiography, Follow Your Heart: Moving with the Giants of Jazz, Swing, and Rhythm and Blues (written […]