Staley: The Fight for a New American Labor Movement by Steven K. Ashby and C.J. Hawking has been awarded the C.L.R. James Prize for Best Book in Working-Class Studies by […]
Finally! An answer to the e-book!
Those of you who are worried about the future of print publishing–well, stop! I found, via the awesome MobyLives blog, the perfect solution to those who say you can’t travel […]
Who does Spike Lee think he is?
Daina Berry, author of “Swing the Sickle for the Harvest Is Ripe”: Gender and Slavery in Antebellum Georgia, and Mark Schultz, author of The Rural Face of White Supremacy: Beyond […]
SNCC Way!
In October 2010 we are publishing Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC, in which fifty-two women—northern and southern, young and old, urban and rural, black, […]
Sacred steel
Grammy nominee Robert Randolph graciously provided an endorsement for Robert Stone’s forthcoming book Sacred Steel: Inside an African American Steel Guitar Tradition. “This book honors the legacy of the men who paved […]
Four UIP books nominated for ARSC awards
Four University of Illinois Press books published in 2009 were announced as award finalists by the Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC). Best Research in Recorded Rock and Pop Music John […]
Donald Rogers on Work Safety Regulatory Reform
The tragic death of 29 miners at West Virginia’s Upper Big Branch mine on April 5th, along with President Obama’s call for better federal oversight over mine safety, should remind […]
Fanelli’s findings
On first blush, the results of the PLoS ONE study by Daniele Fanelli don’t seem so surprising: Researcher productivity positively correlates with experimental finds that support a given hypothesis. What […]
“Serving Genius” in the Chicago Tribune
Thomas Saler’s new book Serving Genius: Carlo Maria Giulini was featured today in John von Rhein’s column in the Chicago Tribune. “He was the last great conductor of his generation, […]
Spirit of Rebellion at OAH
Jarod Roll, author of the new book Spirit of Rebellion: Labor and Religion in the New Cotton South, attended this year’s annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians the […]
UIP author wins Guggenheim Fellowship
The UIUC News Bureau reports that Antoinette Burton, co-editor of the recent University of Illinois Press book Moving Subjects: Gender, Mobility, and Intimacy in an Age of Global Empire, has […]
John Broven on WNYC’s Soundcheck
John Broven, author of the new paperback Record Makers and Breakers: Voices of the Independent Rock ‘n’ Roll Pioneers, was interviewed by John Schaefer on today’s edition of WNYC’s Soundcheck. […]