This week reports have emerged that Japanese-American civil rights activist Richard Aoki was actually an F.B.I. informant in the 1960s. Aoki’s confidant, saxophonist Fred Ho, refutes these claims. Ho, subject […]
NBC News on digital methods and literary history
In a new Future of Tech column at NBC News.com, Devin Coldewey previews University of Illinois Press author Matthew Jockers’s forthcoming book Macroanalysis: Digital Methods and Literary History (June 2013). Jockers … has devised […]
Publishers Weekly reviews The Beautiful Music All Around Us
On September 10, 2012, we will officially publish Stephen Wade’s book The Beautiful Music All Around Us: Field Recordings and the American Experience, which reveals the backstories of thirteen iconic […]
SF Bay Guardian posts Marion Jacobson’s accordion picks
Marion Jacobson, author of Squeeze This! A Cultural History of the Accordion in America, recommends her favorite accordion acts in a San Francisco Bay Guardian event preview. Alex Meixner makes […]
New Journal: Women, Gender, and Families of Color
This month, UIP launches a new journal in cooperation with the University of Kansas. Women, Gender, and Families of Color expands the mission of Black Women, Gender, and Families, which […]
Religion Dispatches investigates southern gospel music
Douglas Harrison, author of the recent University of Illinois Press book, Then Sings My Soul: The Culture of Southern Gospel Music, is the subject of a new Religion Dispatches Q&A. […]
A look at rare Guthrie photos
A month following Woody Guthrie’s 100th birthday, I am catching up on a gallery of rare photos featured on NPR’s website. University of Illinois Press author Rich Remsberg (Hard Luck Blues: Roots Music Photographs […]
Radio Utopia wins Tankard Book Award
The Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) has awarded Matthew C. Ehrlich’s Radio Utopia: Postwar Audio Documentary in the Public Interest the annual Tankard Book Award, which honors […]
Janine MacLachlan discusses Farmers’ Markets of the Heartland
Grub Street Chicago, the Windy City edition of New York Magazine’s food and restaurant blog, recently posted a Q&A with Farmers’ Markets of the Heartland author Janine MacLachlan. So what […]
New in paperback: Hands on the Freedom Plow
On August 27, 2012, we will publish a paperback edition of Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC, edited by Faith S. Holsaert, Martha Prescod Norman Noonan, […]
Pay for Play in Bloomberg
Last month the Penn State football program was hit with NCAA sanctions over the Jerry Sandusky abuse scandal. Yale law professor Stephen L. Carter supports the punishment in a Bloomberg View piece and references […]
Tomorrow! Farmers’ Markets of the Heartland @ Urbana’s Market at the Square
Like local food and farmers’ markets? Author Janine Maclaclan will be signing copies of Farmers’ Markets of the Heartland next to the NW entrance to the Market between 9:30-11:30 this […]