Influential architect Francis Barry Byrne was born on December 19, 1883. Born and raised in Chicago, Byrne worked with Frank Lloyd Wright as a member of the group of architects known […]
The Organs of J. S. Bach – $2.99 eBook sale
The Organs of J. S. Bach: A Handbook by Christoph Wolff and Markus Zepf To celebrate the holiday season we have lowered the eBook list price of The Organs of […]
Zane Grey: His Life, His Adventures, His Women – $2.99 eBook sale
Zane Grey: His Life, His Adventures, His Women by Thomas H. Pauly To celebrate the holiday season we have lowered the eBook list price of Zane Grey: His Life, His Adventures, […]
The University of Illinois Press Best of 2013
Every December since 2007 we have posted a list of our favorite pop culture nuggets of the year. The University of Illinois Press Best of 2013 edition is in alphabetical order […]
Happy birthday to Chicago’s Grand Avenue bridge
On December 13 Chicago’s Grand Avenue Bridge turned 100 years old. The bridge opened on in 1913 on what was once called Indiana Avenue—which makes sense as it is just […]
Journal of Appalachian Studies joins UIP Journals
Exciting news out of our Journals Department! The Journal of Appalachian Studies will be published by the University of Illinois Press beginning in 2014. Currently in its nineteenth volume, the […]
Q&A with Chicago River Bridges author Patrick McBriarty
Patrick T. McBriarty is a writer and creative producer based in Chicago and the co-producer, with Stephen Hatch, of the documentary film Chicago Drawbridges. He recently answered some questions about […]
Happy Thanksgiving from UIP
One staff member volunteered to work on the holiday… […]
Adopt the Bechdel Rating System by Linda Layne
My co-author, Frances Bronet, Dean of the School of Architecture and Allied Arts at University of Oregon, recently emailed me to tell me that some movie theaters in Sweden had […]
Q&A with Karma Chavez, author of Queer Migration Politics
Karma R. Chávez is an assistant professor of Communication Arts and Chican@ and Latin@ Studies at University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the cofounder of the Queer Migration Research Network and […]
University Press Week: Innovation in Scholarly Publishing
University Press Week continues with another event that highlights the unique ways scholarly publishers are meeting the challenges of the 21st century. You can check out a special online panel […]
University Press Week: Ideas Unbound
How do blind people understand race? What does quantitative data reveal about the real “game change” in the 2012 presidential election? Is digital data crunching proving that Jane Austin thumps Herman […]