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Tuesday, April 6, at 7PM CT, Leonne M. Hudson will be giving a Zoom webinar on his SIU Press book, BLACK AMERICANS IN MOURNING! This talk is hosted by the Lincoln Presidential Foundation as part of the Four Score Speaker Series! us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Celebrate National Poetry Month with SIU Press! UNEARTH by Chad Davidson: siupress.com/9780809337712/… FIELDGLASS by Catherine Pond: siupress.com/9780809338146/… HINGE by Molly Spencer: siupress.com/9780809337972/… INSTRUCTIONS, ABJECT & FUMING by Julianna Baggott: siupress.com/9780809335732/…

ECHOES OF CABRINI-GREEN by Rudolph Elliot Willis was featured in two major publications! ESSENCE: essence.com/commerce/15-bo… THE ROOT: theroot.com/books-by-black…

ESSENCE AUTHORS: 15 Books By Black Authors We’re Looking Forward To In April essence.com/commerce/15-bo…

In Episodes 247 and 248 of INSIDE THE BLANKET FORT, SIU Press celebrated Women's History Month by exploring a stellar list of books. Hear more about these titles in Episode 247 (wsiu.org/2026-03-19/ins…) and Episode 248 (wsiu.org/2026-04-02/ins…). #insidetheblanketfort #podcast

Happy April Fool's Day from SIU Press! 🎩😂🎤 Did you know our 16th president had a sense of humor? Check out these two books which discuss Abraham Lincoln and where his sense of humor came into play! #AprilFools #AprilFoolsDay #AbrahamLincoln siupress.com/lincoln-2/

This is not an April Fool's joke! The Devil's Backbone Fiction Series opens today! The window to submit closes on May 31, 2026! Click the link to get to our Duotrope for submission: duotrope.com/duosuma/submit…

Women covered wars for their newspapers, wrote war propaganda for their governments, published their wartime diaries, described fighting alongside men, and used wartime experience for their fiction and poetry. siupress.com/9780809322466/…

As a continued celebration of #WomensHistoryMonth, we have two books from First Ladies of the US! 📚🖊️ While in February we celebrated the work of their husbands, now we celebrate them! siupress.com

WE ARE A COLLEGE AT WAR weaves experiences of students and faculty at the all-female Rockford College (now Rockford University) in Rockford, Illinois, to paint a picture of the role women and college students played during World War II. siupress.com/9780809334629/…

In VOTE AND VOICE, Wendy B. Sharer explores the rhetorical and pedagogical practices of two prominent postsuffrage organizations. siupress.com/9780809327508/…

Case studies of Detroit, St. Louis, Chicago, and Cleveland follow Black women across the Midwest as they participated in the marches, strikes, and supported the Unemployed Councils and the Scottsboro Boys’ defense. siupress.com/9780809338559/…

SIU Press author Rudolph Elliot Willis' upcoming book ECHOES OF CABRINI-GREEN got a feature at BlackNews.com! blacknews.com/news/rudolph-e…

#Baseball has always had a feminine side, and generations of women have sought—and been sought after—to participate in the sport, even when doing so meant challenging the cultural mores of their era. siupress.com/9780809326273/…

UTOPIAN GENDERSCAPES focuses on three prominent yet understudied intentional communities—Brook Farm, Harmony Society, and the Oneida Community. siupress.com/9780809338351/…

In Episode 246 of INSIDE THE BLANKET FORT, we celebrate the life of SIU Press author Herbert K. Russell, who recently passed away. wsiu.org/2026-03-05/ins…

Drawing on survivor interviews, public records, and newspaper archives, AMERICA'S DEADLIEST TWISTER offers a detailed account of the storm, but more important, it describes life in the region at that time. siupress.com/9780809333462/…

Happy St. Patrick's Day! Authors Mathieu W. Billings and Sean Farrell bring together both familiar and unheralded stories of the Irish in Illinois, highlighting the critical roles these immigrants and their descendants played. siupress.com/9780809337996/…

This critical bilingual anthology collects and contextualizes primary writings of understudied revolutionary mexicana social activists who published with presses during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. siupress.com/9780809337408/…

Crosby rejected the culturally prescribed roles for women of her era and background in search of an independent, creative, and socially responsible life. Crosby published and promoted modern writers and artists. siupress.com/9780809329014/…