Last week, Mariah Bear of Weldon Owen Publishing posted the following infographic, explaining how a book comes to be published. Link to the original post. […]
Book trailer for The Beautiful Music All Around Us
Stephen Wade’s forthcoming book The Beautiful Music All Around Us: Field Recordings and the American Experience will be published in September 2012. Visit Stephen’s information page for details on his […]
John Miles Foley
The University of Illinois Press mourns the passing of John Miles Foley, who died on May 3 at the age of 65. Our Press had the privilege of publishing his […]
The Boston Globe reviews A People’s History of Baseball
The May 13, 2012, edition of the The Boston Globe includes a review of Mitchell Nathanson’s new book A People’s History of Baseball. “The most enjoyable moment in A People’s History of […]
Working Class Studies Association award for Archie Green
The Working Class Studies Association has awarded Sean Burns’s Archie Green: The Making of a Working-Class Hero a 2012 CLR James Award for Best Book. Archie Green celebrates one of the most revered folklorists and labor historians […]
Farmers’ Markets are in season
The official publication date of Janine MacLachlan’s new book Farmers’ Markets of the Heartland is still weeks away (June 4), but copies have arrived at the warehouse and are being […]
More ISHS award winners
In addition to the award for Gillum Ferguson’s new book Illinois in the War of 1812, the Illinois State Historical Society recognized two University of Illinois Press books at the […]
Q&A with Child Care in Black & White author Jessie B. Ramey
Jessie B. Ramey is an ACLS New Faculty Fellow in Women’s Studies and History at the University of Pittsburgh. Her study, Childcare in Black and White: Working Parents and the […]
Stephen Wade: Banjo Diary and The Beautiful Music All Around Us
In September 2012 musician and author Stephen Wade will simultaneously publish his latest projects: an hour-long CD titled Banjo Diary: Lessons from Tradition (Smithsonian Folkways) and the book The Beautiful Music All […]
Illinois in the War of 1812 wins Russell P. Strange Award
Gillum Ferguson’s book, Illinois in the War of 1812 (University of Illinois Press), is the 2012 recipient of the Illinois State Historical Society’s Russell P. Strange “Book of the Year” award. […]
Becoming Ray Bradbury a finalist for 2012 Locus Award
Congratulations to Jonathan R. Eller whose book Becoming Ray Bradbury was announced as a finalist for a 2012 Locus Award in the category of Non-fiction. Other nominees in the category include […]
Brooks Blevins discusses Arkansas murder
Brooks Blevins, author of the new book Ghost of the Ozarks: Murder and Memory in the Upland South, was recently interviewed for the Ozarks Public Radio segment Sense of Place. […]