We received the sad news late last week that musician Hazel Dickens died at the age of 75. She was the subject and co-author (with Bill Malone) of the 2008 […]
Books for Cooks looks at From the Jewish Heartland
This week’s food column in the Chicago Reader features mini-profiles of five new books including the inaugural volume in our Heartland Foodways series, From the Jewish Heartland: Two Centuries of […]
“Contesting Archives” wins award
Contesting Archives: Finding Women in the Sources, edited by Nupur Chaudhuri, Sherry J. Katz and Mary Elizabeth Perry, was unanimously selected as the recipient of this year’s Barbara “Penny” Kanner […]
Disclaimer (I regret any deviation from our usual standards)
Today’s Inside Higher Ed features a report on the brouhaha caused by a special disclaimer that three regular editors of Synthese (a journal focusing on the philosophy of science) slapped […]
Challenging the Prison-Industrial Complex wins prize
Stephen John Hartnett’s edited book, Challenging the Prison-Industrial Complex: Activism, Arts, and Educational Alternatives, received one of the 2010 PASS (Prevention for a Safer Society) Awards from the National Council […]
“From the Jewish Heartland” on Chicago Public Radio
The April 19, 2011, edition of Chicago Public Radio’s Eight Forty-Eight program featured a conversation with Ellen Steinberg and Jack Prost, co-authors of the forthcoming book From the Jewish Heartland: […]
The Washington Post on DRM-free e-books
The April 8, 2011, issue of The Washington Post includes Rob Pegoraro’s Fast Forward column on the virtues of DRM-free books. The e-book business seems determined to repeat the early mistakes […]
Illini Loyalty Book Launch
The University of Illinois Press and the Larry Kanfer Gallery invite you to celebrate the publication of Illini Loyalty: The University of Illinois. Photographs by Larry Kanfer Text by Alaina […]
National Women’s Studies Association & University of Illinois Press First Book Prize
Deadline to Apply: June 1, 2011 The National Women’s Studies Association and the University of Illinois Press are pleased to announce a new competition for the best dissertation or first […]
The Chronicle of Higher Education reviews Woody Guthrie, American Radical
The April 3, 2011, issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education includes a profile of Will Kaufman’s new book Woody Guthrie, American Radical. “Yes, there have been two major biographies—Joe Klein’s […]
The Journal of Animal Ethics
From the press release: A ground-breaking new journal covering the issue of animal ethics has been launched by a US and UK academic partnership with the goal of widening international […]
Strahov Monastery Library
The media geniuses at 360Cities have produced a 40 gigapixel image of the Strahov Monastery Library in the Czech Republic. Link to the 360Cities image. Via Boing Boing. […]