The University of Illinois Press proudly announces the launch of the Darlene Clark Hine Black History Endowment. Beginning in late 2024, interest from the endowment will begin to yield direct […]
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AHA 2024 Virtual Exhibit
Welcome to the University of Illinois Press virtual exhibit for the 2023 American Historical Association annual conference! Explore our extensive collection of books, journals, blog posts, and more. Use the […]
2023 Conference on Illinois History Virtual Exhibit
Welcome to the University of Illinois Press virtual exhibit for the Conference on Illinois History! Explore our extensive collection of books, journals, blog posts, and more. Use the promo code CILH23 for 50% off of […]
Q&A with Anna Elena Torres and Kenyon Zimmer, editors of WITH FREEDOM IN OUR EARS
Anna Elena Torres and Kenyon Zimmer, editors of With Freedom in Our Ears: Histories of Jewish Anarchism, answer questions on their new book. Q: Why did you decide to write […]
OAH 2023 Virtual Exhibit
Welcome to the University of Illinois Press virtual exhibit for the 2023 Organization of American Historians conference! Explore our extensive collection of books, journals, blog posts, and more. Use the […]
AHA 2023 Virtual Exhibit
Welcome to the University of Illinois Press virtual exhibit for the 2023 American Historical Association annual conference! Explore our extensive collection of books, journals, blog posts, and more. Use the […]
Conference on Illinois History Virtual Exhibit
Visit University of Illinois Press at the Conference on Illinois History in Springfield, IL, October 6-7, 2022 for special sales, author signings, and more! Use the promo code CILH22 for […]
MADAM C. J. WALKER’S GOSPEL OF GIVING shortlisted for the 2022 Indiana Authors Awards
Join us in congratulating Tyrone Mckinley Freeman, whose book, Madam C. J. Walker’s Gospel of Giving: Black Women’s Philanthropy during Jim Crow, has been shortlisted for the 2022 Indiana Authors Awards in […]
SURVIVING SOUTHAMPTON wins the James H. Broussard Best First Book Prize
We are pleased to announce that Surviving South Hampton: African American Women and Resistance in Nat Turner’s Community by Vanessa M. Holden has won the James H. Broussard Best First Book Prize from SHEAR […]
Free E-book Giveaway: CHICAGO CATÓLICO
July’s free ebook is here! Check out Chicago Católico: Making Catholic Parishes Mexican by Deborah E. Kanter before the month is over! Today, over one hundred Chicago-area Catholic churches offer […]
Open access titles available thanks to National Endowment for the Humanities
In an earlier blog post, we announced that Cara A. Finnegan’s Photographic Presidents: Making History from Daguerreotype to Digital, had received a National Endowment for the Humanities Open Book Award (now Fellowships Open […]
AHA 2022 Virtual Exhibit
Welcome to the University of Illinois Press’s virtual exhibit for the 2022 American Historical Association annual meeting. Please step inside our virtual booth and browse new books, journals, author interviews, […]