The University of Illinois Press was recognized by Huffington Post in the feature The 17 Most Innovative University Presses And the Books You Will Want From Them. Anis Shivani: For whatever shortsighted […]
T. Rex touchdown
In December we are publishing Ronald A. Smith’s new book Pay for Play: A History of Big-Time College Athletic Reform, which traces attempts at college athletics reform from 1855 through the […]
Rice University’s press to close
The Chronicle of Higher Education reported today that Rice University’s press, which became all-digital four years ago, will close in September. The move ends a high-profile experiment in digital university-press publishing. […]
Farewell, Lisa by Jennifer Reichlin
On Thursday, August 12, Press staff and other guests said their fond farewells to CFO Lisa Emerson, who is off to new adventures after retiring at an impossibly early age. […]
“Stephanie” by Holly Swyers
I interviewed Stephanie from Leftfield for Wrigley Regulars on July 10, 2005. We met for brunch at a place called Chicago Joe’s on Irving Park Road, and we talked for […]
Double Rainbow* Connections
Working at a press that publishes both books and journals is great because it’s a world populated with many different subjects, authors, blog posts, etc. But in the journals department, […]
William Ayers Set to Retire from UIC; In Other News, Glenn Beck’s Head Explodes
Late last week, several media news outlets, including the Chicago Tribune and NPR, reported on the impending retirement of University of Illinois at Chicago professor William Ayers. Most of the […]
The Black Elk-SUNY saga continues
Inside Higher Ed follows up the story from two years ago on SUNY Press’ acquisition of a University of Nebraska Press bestseller. Black Elk Speaks is the autobiography of a […]
Advance copies of “Troubled Ground”
Bound advance proofs just arrived for Claude A. Clegg’s forthcoming book Troubled Ground: A Tale of Murder, Lynching, and Reckoning in the New South. Reviews editors will begin receiving their advances […]
Researching high school football in Illinois by Taylor Bell
Organizing material for a book on a subject, like high school basketball in Illinois, that has been done before is difficult enough. Obviously, you are anxious to research new historical […]
“Hands on the Freedom Plow” events
Editors of the forthcoming book Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC have started arranging events to coincide with the October 2010 publication date. The first date on the current schedule […]
“Media Matters” and Copyright Issues
Yesterday’s Inside Higher Ed update contained links to several posts that mentioned the Librarian of Congress’s release of 3-year exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act on Monday. As a […]