The February 2011 issue of Essence magazine features Charlayne Hunter-Gault’s review of Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC. The stories of the ‘beloved community’ of […]
Richard Hughes on How We Can Save Our Country
Richard Hughes, author of Christian America and the Kingdom of God, started a new three-part series at The Huffington Post titled “Echoes from Gettysburg.” How We Can Save Our Country–Part 1 posted […]
Music & the Wesleys event
On Sunday, January 30, Faith United Methodist Church in Champaign, Illinois, will host an event for the new book Music and the Wesleys, which was co-edited by Nicholas Temperley and […]
Man in pale suit versus the abuse of corporate power: Theodore Dreiser in the Great Depression by Jude Davies
A photograph* among the papers of the novelist Theodore Dreiser shows him in November 1931, during a visit to the coal mining area of Harlan in Kentucky. The seated Dreiser […]
CHE Q&A w/ Dr. Vang
The Chronicle of Higher Education‘s PageView column recently profiled Chia Youyee Vang’s new book Hmong America: Reconstructing Community in Diaspora, including a short interview with Dr. Vang. “Q. As a member of the […]
The NCAA plays a little defense
Both Inside Higher Ed and the Chronicle of Higher Ed published pieces this week on new NCAA president Mark A. Emmert’s comments related to the recent college football scandals. In the comments […]
Hands on the Freedom Plow nominated for an NAACP Image Award
Variety reports today that Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC has been nominated for an NAACP Image Award in the category of Outstanding Literary Work […]
The Makers of the Sacred Harp
The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress recently hosted a lecture by David Warren Steel, author of the new book The Makers of the Sacred Harp. Steel discusses the […]
Regime Change
Editor turnover is a constant, healthy thing in the journals world, and editors ending their terms are usually excited about having more time to dedicate to their own writing, research, […]
Choice Outstanding Titles
Seven recent University of Illinois Press books have been recognized as an Outstanding Academic Title by Choice. Title: From Papyrus to Hypertext: Toward the Universal Digital Library Author: Christian Vandendorpe, translated by […]
Scandalous Men/Scandalized Publics by Joseph Valente
The first chapter of my new book, The Myth of Manliness in Irish National Culture, 1880-1922, re-imagines the political legend and legacy of Charles Stewart Parnell, the great late-Victorian Irish […]
Archival Discovery by Robin Jensen
My favorite memory of collecting data for Dirty Words: The Rhetoric of Public Sex Education, 1870-1924 took place in the Social Welfare History Archives at the University of Minnesota. I […]