University of Illinois Press

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The University of Illinois Press (UIP) is an American university publisher . It was founded in Champaign , Illinois in 1918 and is part of the University of Illinois . More than 120 new books are published every year. The publishing program also includes around 33 specialist journals , including the Journal of English and Germanic Philology .

Before the publishing house was founded, works were already published as imprints by the university a. a. Abraham Lincoln: The Evolution of His Literary Style by Daniel Kilham Dodge . After 1918, publications on university history and on US President Abraham Lincoln were first published. The first head of the university publishing house was Harrison E. Cunningham , who was also active on the board of trustees of the university. Under his rule, students and professors were able to publish the first scientific work. His successor Wilbur Schramm established important contacts to Claude E. Shannon and Warren Weaver ( The Mathematical Theory of Communication ), Fred Seibert and Theodore Peterson ( Four Theories of the Press ) and Wernher von Braun ( The Mars Project ). Later authors such as Charles E. Osgood , George J. Suci , Percy H. Tannenbaum , Julian Steward and Oscar Lewis were added to the publishing program. The book Science in the British Colonies of America (1970) by Raymond Phineas Stearns won the National Book Award . In the late 1970s, under the direction of Richard L. Wentworth, the publishing house became one of the leading social history publications in the United States. He published John Hope Franklin ( Black Leaders of the Twentieth Century ) and Charles Joyner ( Down by the Riverside: A South Carolina Slave Community )

The prestigious Bancroft Prize for American History and Diplomacy History was awarded to:

  • Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and Socialist (1982) by Nick Salvatore
  • Dark Journey: Black Mississippians in the Age of Jim Crow (1989) by Neil R. McMillen
  • Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi (1994) by John Dittmer

John D. Unruh's book The Plains Across: The Overland Emigrants on the Trans-Mississippi West, 1840-60 (1979), which won numerous prizes , also made an important contribution . The publisher established the Music in American Life and Illinois Short Fiction Series and in the 1970s specialized in anthropology , folklore , African American studies and gender studies . During this time Zora Neale Hurston was also the author . Other poetry writers were Michael S. Harper and Mark Doty . The biggest commercial success was Thunder Below! The USS Barb Revolutionizes Submarine Warfare (1992) by Eugene B. Fluckey .

Recently, the e-book has grown in popularity, including for the University of Illinois Press. The publisher's journals include: American Philosophical Quarterly , American Journal of Psychology , Journal of English and Germanic Philology , Journal of American Folklore, and Ethnomusicology . The publisher is a member of the Association of American University Presses .

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