Soon after we publish a new edited volume we send a message to the book’s editors and contributors thanking them for their work and encouraging them to adopt the book for […]
Why Conservative Christians So Often Fail the Common Good
The Huffington Post has published Part Two of Richard Hughes’s two-part commentary “Why Conservative Christians So Often Fail the Common Good.” Part One has generated hundreds of comments. “For almost forty […]
Lincoln T. Beauchamp Jr. on WGN-TV
Lincoln T. Beauchamp Jr., author of the new book BluesSpeak: The Best of the Original Chicago Blues Annual, was interviewed March 16, 2010, on WGN-TV’s Midday News. […]
Beleaguered libraries, then and now
A blogger at The Urbana Free Library compares the fate of the wondrous library in ancient Alexandria with the squeeze being put on today’s public libraries in the wake of the global […]
Looking for Madame Grandin by Mary Beth Raycraft
As someone who has lived through a successful PhD dissertation, I must admit that dusty old books and grand European libraries are welcome companions. Spending days perusing nineteenth-century French etiquette books […]
Run for your lives! eBooks are the future (and the now)!
Today I attended a UIP brown bag lunch about social media sites and how we can use these sites to better promote UIP and its books and journals (and, in […]
Man in the Mirror
Today’s Inside Higher Ed featured a story about the quarterly journal, The Mariner’s Mirror (published by the British-based Society for Nautical Research), and its honorary editor’s dissatisfaction with the quality […]
The first college radio station?
Hugh Slotten, author of the recent book Radio’s Hidden Voice: The Origins of Public Broadcasting in the United States, was interviewed by Jennifer Waits for the Radio Survivor site. Jennifer: There’s a […]
Robert Lombardo on WGN-TV
Robert Lombardo, author of the new book The Black Hand: Terror by Letter in Chicago, was interviewed March 5, 2010, on WGN-TV’s Midday News. […]
A Riddle of Life and Death Proportions
The Huffington Post publishes Part One of Richard Hughes’s two-part commentary “A Riddle of Life and Death Proportions: Why Conservative Christians So Often Fail the Common Good.” “Why do so […]
More Tell Me More
Following segments earlier this week on Dorothy Dandridge, Pam Grier, Whoopi Goldberg, and Oprah Winfrey, NPR’s Tell Me More wraps up its Divas on Screen feature with Halle Berry. Commentator Mia Mask: […]
“Sweet Tyranny” wins Wentworth Award
Sweet Tyranny: Migrant Labor, Industrial Agriculture, and Imperial Politics by Kathleen Mapes is the winner of the 2010 Richard L. Wentworth/Illinois award in American History. This award for the best […]