Mary Beth Raycraft, translator of the new book A Parisienne in Chicago: Impressions of the World’s Columbian Exposition, will be on cybertour beginning this week: April 1-2 — Exurbanis April […]
“Freeing Charles” in The Wall Street Journal
The March 26, 2010, edition of The Wall Street Journal featured a review of the new University of Illinois Press book Freeing Charles: The Struggle to Free a Slave on […]
Alberta Hunter, the audio
In February we published Steve Cushing’s Blues Before Sunrise which features interviews with prominent blues players, producers, and deejays. Below is an excerpt from the introduction to Cushing’s chapter on Alberta […]
Thomas Saler on WGN-TV
Thomas Saler, author of the new book Serving Genius: Carlo Maria Giulini, was interviewed March 24, 2010, on WGN-TV’s Midday News. […]
The Battle for Guadalcanal
Sometimes a backlist title gains new relevance. HBO’s new mega miniseries The Pacific, produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks, focuses on the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II, including […]
Call for Book Proposals: Deadline Extended
The University of Illinois Press, the University Press of Mississippi, and the University of Wisconsin Press, in cooperation with the American Folklore Society and with the support of the Andrew […]
UIP at SCMS
The University of Illinois Press exhibited its new books in film and media studies at the 2010 convention of the Society for Film and Media Studies in Los Angeles, March […]
Jane Bernstein at the Cleveland International Film Festival
Jane Bernstein is in Cleveland this week for the showing of Rachel Is in the Cleveland International Film Festival. The film, directed by daughter Charlotte Glynn, follows a year in […]
Richard Hughes takes on Glenn Beck
Richard Hughes, author of the recent book Christian America and the Kingdom of God, has some strong words for Glenn Beck in The Huffington Post. When Glenn Beck advised Christians […]
Illinois Politics in the Sun-Times
The March 21, 2010, edition of the Chicago Sun-Times profiled the new University of Illinois Press book Illinois Politics: A Citizen’s Guide by James Nowlan, Samuel Gove, and Richard Winkel. “It’s easy to […]
Scott Christianson to appear on C-Span’s Book-TV
Scott Christianson, author of the new book Freeing Charles: The Struggle to Free a Slave on the Eve of the Civil War, will be featured in a Book-TV segment on […]
Christian Science Monitor on Tiger
George Kirsch, author of the book Golf in America, was consulted by the Christian Science Monitor for its story on Tiger’s return to the Masters. “[The Tiger scandal] raises the […]