Welcome to the University of Illinois Press virtual exhibit for the 2025 American Historical Association annual conference! Explore our extensive collection of books, journals, blog posts, and more. Use the […]
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Free E-book Giveaway: WHOSE AMERICA?
January’s free e-book is here! Check out Whose America?: U.S. Immigration Policy since 1980 edited by Maria Cristina Garcia and Maddalena Marinari before the month is over! A centerpiece of […]
AUPresses Prompt: Democracy & Threats To It Reading List
The Association of University Presses members have long published scholarly works that contribute to understanding even the most complex or disturbing current events. Now that the results of the U.S. […]
ASA 2024 Virtual Exhibit
Welcome to the University of Illinois Press virtual exhibit for the 2024 American Studies Association annual conference! Explore our extensive collection of books, journals, blog posts, and more. Use the […]
Q&A with the author of ABRAHAM LINCOLN, STATESMAN HISTORIAN
Jesse Derber, author of Abraham Lincoln, Statesman Historian, answers questions on his new book. Q: Why did you decide to write this book? While there are so many aspects of […]
Q&A with the author of LEARNING FOR WORK
Connie Goddard, author of Learning for Work: How Industrial Education Fostered Democratic Opportunity, answers questions on her new book. Q: Why did you decide to write this book? The book […]
Q&A with the author of CONSTRUCTING DISABILITY AFTER THE GREAT WAR
Evan P. Sullivan, author of Constructing Disability after the Great War: Blind Veterans in the Progressive Era, answers questions on his new book. Q: Why did you decide to write […]
Q&A with the author of SONIA JOHNSON
Christine Talbot, author of Sonia Johnson: A Mormon Feminist, answers questions on her new book. Q: Why did you decide to write this book? When Matthew Harris and Joseph Spencer […]
Q&A with the author of LINCOLN’S RISE TO ELOQUENCE
D. Leigh Henson, author of Lincoln’s Rise to Eloquence: How He Gained the Presidential Nomination, answers questions on his new book. Q: Why did you decide to write this book? […]
Q&A with the author of CIRCUS WORLD
Andrea Ringer, the author of Circus World: Roustabouts, Animals, and the Work of Putting on the Big Show, answers questions on her new book. Q: Why did you decide to […]
Q&A with the author of WAIKIKI DREAMS
Patrick Moser, the author of Waikiki Dreams: How California Appropriated Hawaiian Beach Culture, answers questions on his new book. Q: Why did you decide to write this book? I wanted […]
Q&A with the author of SAN FRANCISCO REDS
Robert W. Cherny, the author of San Francisco Reds: Communists in the Bay Area, 1919-1958, answers questions on his new book. Q: Why did you decide to write this book? […]