George Kirsch, author of the University of Illinois Press titles Golf in America and Baseball and Cricket: The Creation of American Team Sports, 1838-72, contributed an Opinionator column this week […]
Spring Book Sale – 55% off
The University of Illinois Press is having a sale on select books. 55% off plus free shipping. Click here for details and a full list of titles. […]
The Sound of the 2012 Presidential Candidates
Finished copies of Greg Goodale’s new book Sonic Persuasion: Reading Sound in the Recorded Age just arrived from the printer for an April 25 publication date. The first book in […]
What makes a presidential campaign “good”? by Michele P. Claibourn
The 2012 presidential campaign has arrived, mostly. At least, one of the Republicans you’ve heard of has almost announced his candidacy for the presidency (Newt Gingrich, I’m sure you’ve heard […]
AJP in The New Yorker
In the March 14 issue of The New Yorker, Jill Lepore cites The American Journal of Psychology in the opening paragraph of her article about G. Stanley Hall and the […]
Black Colleges and the NCAA Basketball Tournament by Charles Martin
Basketball fans around the country are being swept up this week in the annual “March Madness.” The first week of competition in the NCAA men’s tournament includes the infamous one-sided […]
Will Kaufman’s Woody Guthrie U.S. tour
Finished copies of Will Kaufman’s book Woody Guthrie, American Radical arrived from the printer last week. The official publication date is April 11, 2011, but the book is starting to […]
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PME + UPeC = UPCC
Project Muse announced today that its Project Muse Editions e-books program is teaming up with the University Press e-book Consortium to become the University Press Content Consortium. “This is a great moment,” […]
Researching the “man of mystery” by Thomas Sakmyster
When some years ago I decided to write a biographical study of J. Peters, a shadowy figure in the history of American communism, I knew that I would face a […]
The New York Times quotes UIP author Rosemary Feurer
Rosemary Feurer, author of the University of Illinois Press book Radical Unionism in the Midwest, 1900-1950, was interviewed by The New York Times for a March 5, 2011, column on Wisconsin’s struggle […]
The Irish Times reviews The Myth of Manliness
Ireland’s newspaper of record, The Irish Times, reviewed Joseph Valente’s new book The Myth of Manliness in Irish National Culture, 1880-1922. Recent international financial interventions brought into the public arena questions […]