Fred Bartenstein, editor of the recent Josh Graves memoir Bluegrass Bluesman, is featured in a recent Music Tomes interview. MT: What are you currently working on? FB: I wrote a number of […]
Stephen Wade on WHYY’s Radio Times
Earlier today, November 14, Stephen Wade appeared on WHYY’s Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane to discuss his new book The Beautiful Music All Around Us and his new CD Banjo Diary. […]
“Denise Levertov” author on PBS
Watch Dana Greene on Denise Levertov on PBS. See more from Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly. Denise Levertov: A Poet’s Life by Dana Greene […]
Write for the World by Stephen Wade
University of Illinois Press author Stephen Wade contributed this piece for the University Press Week blog tour. The tour continues today at University of Nebraska Press. A complete blog tour schedule […]
Postcard of the Day, Part 12
Keith Sculle, co-author of Picturing Illinois: Twentieth-Century Postcard Art from Chicago to Cairo (University of Illinois Press, October 2012), concludes our Postcard of the Day feature with his favorite from […]
It is University Press Week!
As a founding member, we are proud to celebrate 75 years of the American Association of University Presses and the contributions University Presses make to culture, academia, and an informed society […]
Postcard of the Day, Part 11
John Jakle, co-author of Picturing Illinois: Twentieth-Century Postcard Art from Chicago to Cairo (University of Illinois Press, October 2012), reveals his favorite from the book. Figure 131 on page 133 of […]
Saveur savors The Turkey: An American Story
Saveur magazine includes one of our oldies-but-goodies in its Five Thanksgiving Books feature. “For an historical perspective on the centerpiece of the feast, we recommend Andrew F. Smith’s The Turkey: An […]
Postcard of the Day, Part 10
On April 10, 1900, University of Illinois benefactor Arnold Beckman was born in Cullom, Illinois. Fourteen years later this snowy scene of Beckman’s hometown was captured for postcard distribution. Cullom, 1914. No […]
Postcard of the Day, Part 9
Is this Illinois? With the wooded hills in the background, it’s reminiscent of a highway view in West Virginia This is an early 20th Century postcard of Savanna, Illinois, a Mississippi River town […]
Postcard of the Day, Part 8
In recognition of President Obama’s victory, today’s featured postcard is The University of Chicago in the city’s Hyde Park neighborhood. The University of Chicago, ca. 1935. Max Rigot Selling Co., Chicago (#272); C. […]
Postcard of the Day, Part 7
In 2009 we published Steven Ashby and C. J. Hawking’s book Staley: The Fight for a New American Labor Movement. Here’s a postcard view of Decatur’s Staley plant around 1940. The A. E. Staley Manufacturing […]