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 […]
North Carolina Public Radio interviews Faith Holsaert
On January 3, 2011, Faith Holsaert, co-editor of the new book Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC, was a guest on WUNC’s radio program The State […]
The College Bowl Color Line by Charles H. Martin
‘Tis the season, for Christmas presents, holiday cheer, New Year’s resolutions—and college football’s never-ending parade of bowl games (35 in all this year)! When I began the research for […]
Inside Higher Ed interviews Pay for Play author
Ronald A. Smith, author of the new book Pay for Play: A History of Big-Time College Athletic Reform, was interviewed for the January 3, 2011, edition of Inside Higher Ed. […]
University of Illinois Press: Best of 2010
Willis Regier, Director Best Book: John Kenneth Galbraith, The Affluent Society & Other Writings, 1952-1967, Library of America. I read Galbraith’s The New Industrial State when everybody was reading it […]
“Gone to the Country” reviewed in The Wall Street Journal
The December 18, 2010, issue of The Wall Street Journal features a review of Ray Allen’s new book Gone to the Country: The New Lost City Ramblers and the Folk Music […]
May Berenbaum on WGN-TV
On December 16, 2010, May Berenbaum, editor of the new book Honey, I’m Homemade: Sweet Treats from the Beehive across the Centuries and around the World, made cookies on WGN-TV’s “Lunchbreak” segment. […]