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. […]
Q&A with Richard Linklater author David T. Johnson
David T. Johnson, an associate professor of English at Salisbury University, is the author of Richard Linklater, a new volume in our Contemporary Film Directors series. In this Q&A he discusses […]
Squeeze This! launch party in New York City
On May 17, 2012, the Bowery Poetry Club in NYC will host a launch party for Marion Jacobson’s new book Squeeze This! A Cultural History of the Accordion in America. Dr. Jacobson […]
Join us at IHS!
Visit our tables at the Illinois History Symposium (IHS), “Contested Lands: 1763-1840,” April 26-28 at The Embassy Suites Hotel and Conference Center, East Peoria. The symposium commemorates the 200th anniversary […]
Welcome back Ebertfest
To celebrate the 14th annual Roger Ebert’s Film Festival taking place this week at the Virginia Theater in Champaign, our New Books section is highlighting the four latest titles in our […]
For-Profit Academic Journals “Financially Untenable”
From the Faculty Advisory Council to the Library at Harvard University: We write to communicate an untenable situation facing the Harvard Library. Many large journal publishers have made the scholarly […]
Q&A with Pacific Citizens editor Greg Robinson
Larry and Guyo Tajiri became leading figures in Nisei political life as the central purveyors of news for and about Japanese Americans during World War II. In the new University of […]
It’s National Animal Crackers Day!
I just learned it is National Animal Crackers day. According to CNN, “In 1902, the National Biscuit Company, known as Nabisco today, began to market “Barnum’s Animals,” tugging even more […]
Q&A with Making Sense of American Liberalism co-editor Jonathan Bell
On April 23, 2012, the University of Illinois Press will publish Making Sense of American Liberalism, edited by Jonathan Bell and Timothy Stanley. The volume contains ten essays which offer refreshing and intelligent […]
Retractions on the Rise
Carl Zimmer, writing in the The New York Times, notes a sharp increase in the number of journal article retractions in recent years — by one estimate, a tenfold increase […]