Skip to content

Illinois Press Blog

Archives

Categories

Search…

November 7, 2008 (November 7, 2008)

Indoctrination by Susan K. Freeman

author commentary women's history

Susan K. Freeman is author of the new book Sex Goes to School: Girls and Sex Education before the 1960s. ***** Virginity pledges and purity balls strike many of us […]

Read More

November 6, 2008 (November 10, 2008)

UIP author to appear on Bill Moyers Journal

black studies interviews

William P. Jones, author of The Tribe of Black Ulysses: African American Lumber Workers in the Jim Crow South, will be a guest of Bill Moyers Journal on Friday, November 7. The […]

Read More

November 6, 2008

The Economics of College Football

sports history

Michael Oriard contributed a column to today’s Slate comparing the economics of college football to professional football. “We’ve been hearing for years that big-time college football is becoming indistinguishable from the […]

Read More

November 5, 2008 (November 5, 2008)

At Friml’s Dining Room Table by William Everett

author commentary music

William Everett is author of the latest volume in our American Composers series, Rudolf Friml. ***** Researching the life and music of Rudolf Friml for the new book was (and remains) […]

Read More

November 5, 2008

Erika Falk in the Baltimore Sun

Women for President

Erika Falk, author of Women for President: Media Bias in Eight Campaigns, comments on women candidates in today’s Baltimore Sun. “Clinton’s campaign was covered much more seriously by the mainstream […]

Read More

November 4, 2008

Just Landed: November & December titles

black studies film Illinois / regional music new books

A handful of new books landed on my desk in the past few weeks: –Ballroom, Boogie, Shimmy Sham, Shake: A Social and Popular Dance Reader edited by Julie Malnig (November […]

Read More

November 3, 2008

Lincoln scholar on WGN’s Extension 720

Illinois / regional interviews Lincoln

Douglas Wilson, co-author of the new book The Lincoln-Douglas Debates: The Lincoln Studies Center Edition, will appear on WGN Radio’s Extension 720 on November 7 at 9:00 PM to discuss […]

Read More

November 3, 2008 (November 3, 2008)

Illinois Place Name of the Day – November 3, 2008

Illinois / regional Place Names of Illinois

The official publication date of Edward Callary’s Place Names of Illinois has arrived.  I conclude our month-long feature with the derivation of our state’s name. Illinois. State. The name is […]

Read More

November 3, 2008 (November 3, 2008)

Studs Terkel

Chicago

I was out of town for the weekend, and so did not see the news that Studs Terkel died until this morning. About five years ago I saw him engaged […]

Read More

October 31, 2008

Happy Halloween from the University of Illinois Press

miscellaneous

[…]

Read More

October 31, 2008

David Zalaznik book launch in Peoria

author events Illinois / regional

The launch celebration for David Zalaznik‘s new book of photography, Life along the Illinois River, will take place November 7, 4:00-7:00 PM, at the Peoria Art Guild.  Today’s edition of the Peoria Journal […]

Read More

October 31, 2008

Please do not mail any books for consideration

awards

An announcement received today from the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library Association reads: “The Herbert Hoover Book Award has been discontinued due to a restructuring of priorities. Please do not mail any […]

Read More

  • «
  • 1
  • …
  • 246
  • 247
  • 248
  • 249
  • 250
  • …
  • 278
  • »
Proudly powered by WordPress | Theme: UI Press Custom by understrap.com.(Version: 1.0.0)