We’re pleased to announce that Joshua Hollands has won the Labor and Working-Class History Association’s 2020 Herbert G. Gutman Prize for Outstanding Dissertation for his project “Work and Sexuality in […]
Welcome to the 2021 virtual exhibit for the Labor and Working-Class History Association! Enjoy our extensive representation of labor history in our books, blog posts, and more. From May 20– […]
Cara A. Finnegan, author of Photographic Presidents: Making History from Daguerreotype to Digital, answers questions on her scholarly influences, discoveries, and reader takeaways in her book. Q: Why did you […]
Our Fall 2021 catalog is here! We have an excellent batch of books coming that we can’t wait to get in your hands. This season’s cover features art by John […]
Welcome to the University of Illinois Press’s virtual exhibit for the 2021 Association for Recorded Sound Collections annual conference! We hope you’ll step inside our virtual booth and browse new […]
Jason Stacy, author of Spoon River America: Edgar Lee Masters and the Myth of the American Small Town, answers questions about his inspirations and discoveries while writing his book. Q: […]
The University of Illinois Press seeks an Acquisitions Editor/Senior Acquisitions Editor to be involved in discussions of focus and direction of publishing program. This position is responsible for acquiring at […]
May’s free ebook is here! We’re giving away Muncie India(na): Middletown and Asian America by Himanee Gupta-Carlson! Muncie, Indiana, remains the epitome of an American town. Yet scholars built the […]
We are pleased to announce that two of our titles have won awards from the Illinois State Historical Society. Chicago Católico: Making Catholic Parishes Mexican by Deborah Kanter received an […]
We’re pleased to announce that three new, forthcoming music titles have been awarded publication subventions from the American Musicological Society. These funds help offset the costs of publication and allows […]
Please consider submitting to one of our exciting journal titles! The University of Pittsburgh’s Jazz Studies program, in collaboration with the University of Illinois Press, invites scholars and artists to submit […]
Candace Bailey, author of Unbinding Gentility: Women Making Music in the Nineteenth-Century South, recently answered some questions about the inspirations behind and discoveries she made while writing her new book. […]