-PSU Press has a snack controversy. -NYU Press has a new blog. -Duke University Press’s blog touts a new edition available as a free download. -University of Washington Press celebrates its […]
Illinois Place Name of the Day – Oct. 29, 2008
Ipava [eye PAY vuh]. Fulton. Village (1853, 1872) nine miles west-southwest of Lewistown. Platted for John Easley as Easleyburg in 1846 and apparently replatted as Pleasantville later that same year. […]
Google suit settled
Inside Higher Ed reports that a lawsuit pitting writers and publishers against Google has been settled. “Under the settlement, Google will pay the authors and publishers who have already sued […]
Local school board bans “Kite Runner” for incoming sophomores
The Kite Runner challenge has been decided. According to The News-Gazette, Champaign’s Unit 4 school board “reversed a committee recommendation Monday night and ruled that the novel The Kite Runner will no […]
Recent awards
Two University of Illinois Press authors have recently been honored for their work. Dr. Norman R. Shapiro’s translation of The Complete Fables of Jean de la Fontaine has been awarded the […]
Illinois Place Name of the Day – Oct. 28, 2008
On November 3, 2008, we are publishing Place Names of Illinois by Edward Callary. Every weekday since October 1 we have posted one of the book’s nearly 3,000 entries. Today […]
Illinois Place Name of the Day – Oct. 27, 2008
Nauvoo [nah VOO, naw VOO]. Hancock. City (1841, 1899) six miles south of Fort Madison, Iowa. The area around modern Nauvoo was known as Quashquema, named for a minor Sauk […]
Salt Lake City – The Last Days
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Illinois Place Name of the Day – Oct. 24, 2008
Hoopeston [HUP stuhn]. Vermilion. City (1877). Modern Hoopeston is the result of an early 1870s merger of three communities: Hoopeston, laid out by Thomas Hoopes and Joseph Satterwhaite; North Hoopeston, […]
Salt Lake City day 2
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Illinois Place Name of the Day – Oct. 23, 2008
Coffee. Wabash. Precinct. Also Coffee Island and Coffee Creek. The traditional story is that a keelboat loaded with coffee was proceeding up the Wabash River and took shelter for the […]
Salt Lake City
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