Stephen Wade, author the recent book The Beautiful Music All Around Us: Field Recordings and the American Experience, was a guest on the April 8, 2013, edition of WGN-TV’s Midday News. […]
The “Nikkei” path breaker with the St. Louis Cardinals
As the St. Louis Cardinals play their 2013 home opener today, Japanese or Japanese American players are no unusual site in Major League ballparks. But that wasn’t always the case. Samuel […]
Q&A with Rob White, author of Contemporary Film Directors book Todd Haynes
The Contemporary Film Directors series presents engagingly written commentaries on the work of living directors from around the world. Todd Haynes author Rob White was Commissioning Editor of Books at […]
The First to Fly Controversy
Recently the publication, Jane’s All the World’s Aircraft declared at that aviator Gustave Whitehead, instead of the Wright brothers, was the first to take to the air in the sustained operation of a […]
Rebels and Runaways wins Florida Book Award
Larry Eugene Rivers’s recent book Rebels and Runaways: Slave Resistance in Nineteenth-Century Florida has received the Bronze Medal in the Florida Book Awards Nonfiction Category for 2012. Published in July […]
Read an excerpt from One Woman in a Hundred
SymphonyNOW has posted an excerpt from Mary Sue Welsh’s book about trailblazing harpist Edna Phillips, One Woman in a Hundred. Phillips was the first woman to hold a principal chair […]
The University of Illinois Press hosts AAUP Book, Jacket, and Journal Show
The University of Illinois Press hosts the annual Book, Jacket and Journal Show, April 1-12, 2013. Sponsored by the Association of American University Presses, nearly 100 books and jackets—the best […]
Nikkei Baseball on Only a Game
Bill Littlefield, the host of NPR’s Only a Game interviewed Samuel Regalado, the author of Nikkei Baseball: Japanese American Players from Immigration and Internment to the Major Leagues. The interview […]
Q & A with Advertising at War author Inger Stole
Inger L. Stole is an associate professor of communications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She answered our questions about her book Advertising at War: Business, Consumers, and Government in […]
Women’s History Month $2.99 e-book sale
For the month of March we have lowered the e-book list price of six Women’s History titles in the University of Illinois Press catalog to $2.99. The Moral Property of Women: […]
Q & A with author L. Andrew Cooper on horror film director Dario Argento
L. Andrew Cooper is an assistant professor of film and digital media at the University of Louisville and the author of the new book in the University of Illinois Press […]
The South Asian invasion of the Oscars
Life of Pi was a big winner at last night’s Oscars, as the film was awarded in four categories including Best Director. Shilpa Davé, author of the forthcoming University of […]