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Please welcome . . . the UIP Spring/Summer 2026 Catalog! go.illinois.edu/SS26Catalog ✝️🍎🦊🪕🏢🌳🛩️💍🖌️🎥

Last day of the @Latinx_Studies annual meeting! Visit our virtual exhibit and take 50% off all Latinx studies books with code LSA at checkout! press.uillinois.edu/wordpress/lsa-…

Last day of the #SCMS26 annual meeting! Visit our virtual exhibit and take 50% off all film & media studies books with code SCMS at checkout! press.uillinois.edu/wordpress/scms…

#OTD The Virgin of El Panecillo in Quito, Ecuador, was inaugurated in 1975. María Célleri examines the 80-year effort to complete the statue, uncovering the links between the government & Church, & providing readers with a rigorous decolonial analysis. press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p089…

Interested in @Latinx_Studies? This article is free through May 31 for #LSA2026: "The Mexican Consulate: A Key Component in Establishing a Latino Community in Urban Utah" by Jorge Iber from Utah Historical Quarterly Vol. 92, No. 1. scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/uhq/articl…

Last day of the African American Intellectual History Society annual meeting! Visit our virtual exhibit and take 50% off all African American history books with code AAIHS50 at checkout! press.uillinois.edu/wordpress/aaih…

In Italica, Viktor Berberi reviews "Waste and Discard in Italy and the Mediterranean: Theories, Practices, Literature and Film" and Gianni Cicali reviews "Il teatro ‘pre-classicista’ nelle corti padane" @PeterLangGroup. Reviews & more from Vol. 102 No. 2: scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/ital/issue…

✨️ NOW SHOWING✨️ A sneak peak at BUZZ BUSBY: FATHER OF WASHINGTON, D.C., BLUEGRASS by Kip Lornell and Tom Mindte! youtu.be/5SjhieVhxfo Drawing on some fifty hours of interviews with Busby, Lornell & Mindte tell the story of a largely forgotten #bluegrass virtuoso.

Free til May 31: "Alvin H. Caldwell and the Madame C. J. Walker Grade School: The Success of African American Children in a One-Room Schoolhouse, Joppa, Illinois, 1919–1955" by Pamela A. Smoot in Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society. #AAIHS2026 scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jishs/arti…

First day of the African American Intellectual History Society annual meeting! Visit our virtual exhibit and take 50% off all African American history books with code AAIHS50 at checkout! press.uillinois.edu/wordpress/aaih…

Attending #SCMS26, or wishing you were? For anyone interested in Cinema & Media Studies, check out this free article from Music and the Moving Image 19.1: "Post-Bop Trauma: Polish Crime-Jazz Cinema and Its Westward Path to Hollywood" By David Melbye. muse.jhu.edu/article/982277

Announcing Journal of Mormon History Vol. 52, No. 2! Featuring a presidential address from former @MormonHistAssoc president @MossRadke, the Smith-Pettit Lecture "Mormon Handcart Memory" by @pioneermonument, and a new article. Available on @ProjectMuse: muse.jhu.edu/issue/56591

Happy #OpeningDay! Celebrated as a democratic space for all Americans, Seth S. Tannenbaum examines how the game’s socially stratified system reflected changing understandings of inclusion in his new book press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p089… #Baseball #MLB #AmericasGame #America250

The Book of Mormon was first published on this day in March 1830. Check out Robin Scott Jensen's article in Journal of Mormon History Vol. 46, No. 1, "Contextualizing Revelations: Changing Attitudes towards Sacred Texts in the Church of Christ, 1829–1831." scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jmh/articl…

First day of the @Latinx_Studies annual meeting! Visit our virtual exhibit and take 50% off all Latinx studies books with code LSA at checkout! press.uillinois.edu/wordpress/lsa-…

First day of the #SCMS26 annual meeting! Visit our virtual exhibit and take 50% off all film & media studies books with code SCMS at checkout! press.uillinois.edu/wordpress/scms…

Featuring contiributions from @jstuart__, @academijung, @TobinShearer, @mariahlwellman, @KathleenHolsche, @clark_ems, @suscrockford, and many others.

Volume 13 of Mormon Studies Review has arrived! This volume has it all: an introduction from the new editors, a forum on "Mormonism and Lived Religion," review essays, and book reviews. scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/msr/issue/…

The Lincoln Symposium will take place at Carthage College, on Friday, April 24, 2026. Judge Ray McKoski will lead with a discussion of his book DAVID DAVIS, ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S FAVORITE JUDGE carthage.edu/news-events/sp… cc: @TheLincolnForum @lincolnpresfdn @illinoiscourts @UICLaw

#OTD Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire caused the deaths of 146 garment workers in 1911. Pauline Newman helped shape the International Ladies' Garment Workers’ Union into a dominant force in industrial America, to prevent disasters like this. Learn more: press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=c049…

✨OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS✨ The UIP in partnership w/the Disability Histories series & @DisabilityHistr is pleased to welcome submissions for the 3rd annual Outstanding Dissertation in Disability History prize! See prize details here⤵️ press.uillinois.edu/books/disabili… cc: @AHAhistorians