Megan Sweeney is an associate professor of English Language & Literature and Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan. She answered our questions about her new book The […]
Postcard of the Day, Part 2
Yesterday’s Picturing Illinois feature started with the northern part of the state. Today we reach far south to Cairo, Illinois. Ohio Street, Cairo, ca. 1910. International Post Card Co. (#550), […]
Postcard of the Day, Part 1
Today, October 29, 2012, is the official publication date of Picturing Illinois: Twentieth-Century Postcard Art from Chicago to Cairo, by John A. Jakle and Keith A. Sculle. Providing rich historical and […]
Say goodbye to farmers’ markets with a sale on Farmers’ Markets of the Heartland
As a farewell to the farmers’ market season here in the Midwest, we are having a sale on Farmers’ Markets of the Heartland by Janine MacLachlan. Get the book for […]
The Wall Street Journal reviews Bluegrass Bluesman
The October 27, 2012, issue of The Wall Street Journal includes a review of the new book, Bluegrass Bluesman: A Memoir by Josh Graves, edited by Fred Bartenstein. “Graves’s name […]
Finding One’s Space in DH
Yesterday Lee Bessette posted about the benefits and pitfalls of doing and defining digital humanities (DH) in Inside Higher Ed’s Blog U: College Ready Writing, “Why I Support an Open […]
Join Illinois at the American Folklore Society’s Annual Meeting
Visit us at the exhibit tables of the Amercan Folklore Society’s annual meeting in New Orleans, LA beginning today. We will feature discounts of 30% on paperbacks and 40% on […]
UIP author on Mormons & Politics in Vanity Fair
D. Michael Quinn, author of the University of Illinois Press book Same-Sex Dynamics among Nineteenth-Century Americans: A Mormon Example, penned a Vanity Fair web exclusive feature titled When Mormons Go to Washington. […]
An Interpretive Overview of Open Wound, part 2
This is the second half of the “Interpretive Overview” by William McKee Evans, the author of Open Wound: The Long View of Race in America. It appears before the Preface […]
An Interpretive Overview of Open Wound, part 1
Right after the last election we published Open Wound: The Long View of Race in America. The work is a capstone achievement by William McKee Evans, professor emeritus of history at […]
Congratulations Koritha Mitchell
Koritha Mitchell’s Living with Lynching: African American Lynching Plays, Performance, and Citizenship, 1890-1930, is the Society for the Study of American Women Writers 2012 Book Award Winner. Living with Lynching: […]
Denise Levertov event at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.
This week we officially published the new biography Denise Levertov: A Poet’s Life by Dana Greene. Levertov was born in England (October 24, 1923), published her first book of poems at […]