University Of Illinois Press: 158 books
Illinois History
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
A renaissance in Illinois history scholarship has sparked renewed interest in the Prairie State's storied past. Students, meanwhile, continue to pursue coursework in Illinois history to fulfill degree requirements and for their own edification.
This Common Threads collection offers important articles...
An Illini Place
Building the University of Illinois Campus
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
Why does the University of Illinois campus at Urbana-Champaign look as it does today? Drawing on a wealth of research and featuring more than one hundred color photographs, An Illini Place provides an engrossing and beautiful answer to that question. Lex Tate and John Franch trace the story of the...
The University of Illinois
Engine of Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
The founding of the university in 1867 created a unique community in what had been a prairie. Within a few years, this creative mix of teachers and scholars produced innovations in agriculture, engineering and the arts that challenged old ideas and stimulated dynamic new industries. Projects ranging...
Dream Shot
The Journey to a Wheelchair Basketball National Championship
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
In 2008, the men's wheelchair basketball team at the University of Illinois set out to achieve their sport's pinnacle: a college national championship. That lofty goal represented another stage of a journey begun in 1948 when Tim Nugent established the Gizz Kids wheelchair squad. Embedded with the...
Cemeteries of Illinois
A Field Guide to Markers, Monuments, and Motifs
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
Illinois is home to cemeteries and burial grounds dating back to the Native American era. Whether sprawling over thousands of acres or dotting remote woodlands, these treasure troves of local and state history reflect two centuries of social, economic, and technological change. This easy-to-use guidebook...
Creating the Land of Lincoln
The History and Constitutions of Illinois, 1778-1870
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
In its early days, Illinois seemed destined to extend the American South. Its population of transplants lived an upland southern culture and in some cases owned slaves. Yet the nineteenth century and three constitutions recast Illinois as a crucible of northern strength and American progress. Frank...
Jobs and the Labor Force of Tomorrow
Migration, Training, Education
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
The new volume in the Urban Agenda series addresses the challenges shaping the development of human capital in metropolitan regions. The articles, products of the 2016 Urban Forum at the University of Illinois at Chicago, engage with the overarching idea that a dynamic metropolitan economy needs a...
Making an Antislavery Nation
Lincoln, Douglas, and the Battle over Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
This sweeping narrative presents an original and compelling explanation for the triumph of the antislavery movement in the United States prior to the Civil War. Abraham Lincoln's election as the first antislavery president was hardly preordained. From the country's inception, Americans had struggled...
The Rise and Fall of the Associated Negro Press
Claude Barnett's Pan-African News and the Jim Crow Paradox
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
For more than fifty years, the Chicago-based Associated Negro Press (ANP) fought racism at home and grew into an international news organization abroad. At its head stood founder Claude Barnett, one of the most influential African Americans of his day and a gifted, if unofficial, diplomat who forged...
Race News
Black Journalists and the Fight for Racial Justice in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
Once distinct, the commercial and alternative black press began to crossover with one another in the 1920s. The porous press culture that emerged shifted the political and economic motivations shaping African American journalism. It also sparked disputes over radical politics that altered news coverage...
My Curious and Jocular Heroes
Tales and Tale-Spinners from Appalachia
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
We were going down the road, and we came to this house. There was a little boy standing by the road just crying and crying. We stopped, and we heard the biggest racket you ever heard up in the house. œWhat ™s the matter, son? œWhy, Maw and Paw are up there fightin ™. œWho is your Paw,...
Four Theories of the Press
The Authoritarian, Libertarian, Social Responsibility, and Soviet Communist Concepts of What the Press Should Be and Do
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1963
Presented here are four major theories behind the functioning of the world's presses: (1) the Authoritarian theory, which developed in the late Renaissance and was based on the idea that truth is the product of a few wise men; (2) the Libertarian theory, which arose from the works of men like Milton,...
Creating the Big Ten
Courage, Corruption, and Commercialization
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
Big Ten football fans pack gridiron cathedrals that hold up to 100,000 spectators. The conference's fourteen member schools share a broadcast network and a 2016 media deal worth $2.64 billion. This cultural and financial colossus grew out of a modest 1895 meeting that focused on football's brutality...
by Robert W. Cherny
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Victor Arnautoff reigned as San Francisco's leading mural painter during the New Deal era. Yet that was only part of an astonishing life journey from Tsarist officer to leftist painter. Robert W. Cherny's masterful biography of Arnautoff braids the artist's work with his increasingly leftist politics...