From the forthcoming University of Illinois Press book The Story Within Us: Women Prisoners Reflect on Reading (September 2012) edited by Megan Sweeney: “While allowing Ku Klux Klan publications such […]
Q&A with Bean Blossom author Thomas A. Adler
The 46th Annual Bill Monroe Bean Blossom Bluegrass Festival begins June 9 and runs through June 16. We spoke with Thomas A. Adler, author of the recent book Bean Blossom: The Brown […]
Banjos and Bluegrass
The 46th Annual Bill Monroe Bean Blossom Bluegrass Festival, “The oldest, continuous running bluegrass festival in the world,” is less than a month away. We have a robust selection of […]
Great infographic about publishing
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 […]