ICYMI, check out this poem by @jackiechic.bsky.social in Italian Americana Volume XXXVIII, Issue 2, from Summer 2020, "Attorney General Heuzel Says That the Error in Printing Does Not Lessen the Force of the Act": scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/ia/artic...

Get your *free* e-book of HIDDEN HISTORIES OF UNATHORIZED MIGRATIONS FROM EUROPE TO THE UNITED STATES edited by Danielle Battisti and S. Deborah Kang! mailchi.mp/illinois/1kv... #AmericanHistory #EuropeanHistory #Immigration #Law

Check out Bulletin No. 246 for "The Relationships Among Music Performance Anxiety, Personality Traits, and Self-Regulated Learning in the Music Practice of Adolescent Performers" by Hsuan-Wen Sharon Juan, and more. scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/bcrme/ar...

I had a great conversation about my new book, Bleacher Seats and Luxury Suites, with @alexkirshner.com, @benlindbergh.bsky.social, and @lindsaygibbs.bsky.social on Slate's "Hang Up and Listen" podcast. Check it out! slate.com/podcasts/han... @illinoispress.bsky.social

PPS. To be very clear, Japanese American players were excluded from the Major Leagues throughout those decades, part of the same segregated system that led to the Negro Leagues. In this thread I shared the story of one of the first offered an MLB contract, which was rescinded after Pearl Harbor.

PS. I relied in particular on two great books to help me research that First Inning: Kerry Yo Nakagawa's Through a Diamond (2001) & Samuel Regalado's Nissei Baseball (2013) from @illinoispress.bsky.social. archive.org/details/thro... www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...

The official publication date for my book, Bleacher Seats and Luxury Suites: Democracy and Division at the Twentieth-Century Ballpark (published by @illinoispress.bsky.social), is tomorrow, March 31 but you can check out this fantastic trailer for the book, created by Daniel Freel, right now!

✨OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS✨ UIP and the @theenwsa.bsky.social are pleased to continue the annual competition for the best dissertation or first book manuscript by a single author in the field of women's and gender studies! Prize details here⤵️ www.press.uillinois.edu/books/NWSAPr...

ICYMI, a look back at Italian Americana Volume XXXVIII, Issue 2, from Summer 2020: The opening section—featuring an interview, a personal essay, and two scholarly articles—focuses on Italy, specifically Southern Italy, Il Mezzogiorno. scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/ia/issue...

📣 CALL FOR PAPERS – Visual Arts Research Special Issue "Unseen Mattering: Indeterminate Perception, Relational Being, and Practices of Making" Proposal deadline: May 15, 2026 Details: www.press.uillinois.edu/journals/id=...

Happy Pub Date to THE DIVIDED CITY AND ITS NEW CINEMAS, 1920-1980 by Amy Murphy! www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0... #AsianAmericanStudies #AfricanAmericanStudies #Communications #FilmStudies #MediaStudies #UrbanStudies #IndigenousStudies

'Tis the end of #NationalReadingMonth, but don't let that stop you from following your nose to your next great read!

Last chance to get your *free* e-book of MEAN GIRL FEMINISM: How White Feminists Gaslight, Gatekeep, and Girlboss by Kim Hong Nguyen! mailchi.mp/illinois/zgk... #FilmStudies #PopularCulture #WomensStudies

Happy Pub Date to RELIGION AFTER THE GODS: Edwin H. Wilson and the American Humanist Association by John S. Haller Jr.! www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=c0... #AmericanHistory #Philosophy #Religion

Happy Pub Date to BLEACHER SEATS AND LUXURY SUITES: Democracy and Division at the Twentieth-Century Ballpark by @sethstannenbaum.bsky.social! www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0... #AmericanHistory #Sports #Baseball

@eladiobobadilla.com's new book, DANGEROUS MIGRATION, illuminates the history of debates over #Mexican labor, the emergence of the #immigrantrights #activism, & the nativist movements that united #Latinos with right-wing white Americans. www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...

Journal of Sport History (@journsporthist.bsky.social) 53.1 contains a forum on "smell and sport history," including by "Sport: Its Pentimento" by @ssydnor.bsky.social. Read on @projectmuse.bsky.social: muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/artic... cc: @nassh1972.bsky.social

In Mormon Studies Review Vol. 13, @mariahlwellman.bsky.social reviews the Hulu reality show "The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives." cc: @jstuart.bsky.social scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/msr/arti...

Check out the Presidential Address from MHA former president Andrea G. Radke-Moss "Monogamy on Display, Plurality Behind the Curtain" in Journal of Mormon History Vol. 52, No. 2, on @projectmuse.bsky.social: muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/artic...

The Polish Review 71.1, a special issue, features an interview with Jadwiga Maurer conducted by Justine Pas in July 2006. They discussed her protagonists; her career as a contributor to Wiadomości; Maurer's views on language + literature; and more. scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/tpr/arti...

Last day of the #LatinxStudies Association annual meeting! Visit our virtual exhibit and take 50% off all Latinx studies books with code LSA at checkout! www.press.uillinois.edu/wordpress/ls...

Last day of the @scmstudies.bsky.social annual meeting! Visit our virtual exhibit and take 50% off all film & media studies books with code SCMS at checkout! www.press.uillinois.edu/wordpress/sc...

#OTD The Virgin of El Panecillo in Quito, Ecuador, was inaugurated in 1975. María Célleri examines the eighty-year effort to complete the statue, uncovering the links between the government & Church, and providing readers with a rigorous decolonial analysis. www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...

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! www.press.uillinois.edu/wordpress/aa...

✨️ 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 IL State Historical Society. #AAIHS2026 scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jishs/ar...

"A masterful addition to the historiography of early American soccer." Garrett Lewis reviews BEYOND THE FIELD by @brianbunk.bsky.social in Journal of Sport History (@journsporthist.bsky.social) Vol. 53, No. 1 on @projectmuse.bsky.social: muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/artic... cc: @nassh1972.bsky.social

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! www.press.uillinois.edu/wordpress/aa...

It's out in the world! The first journal article actually based on my dissertation research and not just some wild hare I decided to chase into print. Thanks especially to @jstuart.bsky.social and Cristina Gagliano for making it happen.

Great time to check out some great books, including Making Michigan Home which shows how placemaking and civil rights went far beyond just one man named Cesar Chavez @illinoispress.bsky.social #AcademicSky #Latinx #History #EduSky #Chicanx www.press.uillinois.edu/wordpress/ls...

Attending #SCMS26 or wishing you were? For anyone interested in Cinema & Media Studies, check out this 🆓 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. @scmstudies.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/article/982277

"I think about this tension on a near daily basis" @alisonsyring.bsky.social is back with a new blog post! www.press.uillinois.edu/wordpress/ac...

Announcing Journal of Mormon History Vol. 52, No. 2! Featuring a presidential address from former MHA president Andrea G. Radke-Moss, the Smith-Pettit Lecture "Mormon Handcart Memory" by Cynthia C. Prescott, and a new article. Available now on @projectmuse.bsky.social: muse.jhu.edu/issue/56591

I talked about my new book Women in Hollywood's Dream Factory: Tales of Inequality, Abuse, and Resistance on a recent podcast episode for the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social. Learn more about the volume here: newbooksnetwork.com/women-in-hol.... @illinoispress.bsky.social @mngupbooks.bsky.social

Happy Opening Day! Celebrate by reading my op-ed @lohud.com and if you like it, check out my book, Bleacher Seats and Luxury Suites: Democracy and Division at the Twentieth-Century Ballpark, which will be published March 31 by @illinoispress.bsky.social. www.lohud.com/story/opinio...

#NowReading2026 DRESSED FOR FREEDOM: THE FASHIONABLE POLITICS OF AMERICAN FEMINISM by Einav Rabinovich-Fox via @illinoispress.bsky.social brewed with Maruyama Coffee #Books 📚 💙 #BookSky

Happy #OpeningDay! Celebrated as a democratic space for all Americans, @sethstannenbaum.bsky.social examines how the game’s socially stratified system reflected changing understandings of inclusion in his new book www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0... #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 46.1, "Contextualizing Revelations: Changing Attitudes towards Sacred Texts in the Church of Christ, 1829–1831." scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jmh/arti...

First day of the #LatinxStudies Association annual meeting! Visit our virtual exhibit and take 50% off all Latinx studies books with code LSA at checkout! www.press.uillinois.edu/wordpress/ls...

First day of the @scmstudies.bsky.social annual meeting! Visit our virtual exhibit and take 50% off all film & media studies books with code SCMS at checkout! www.press.uillinois.edu/wordpress/sc...

Mormon Studies Review Vol. 13 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/issu...

The fourth annual Lincoln Symposium will take place at Carthage College in Kenosha, WI, on Friday, April 24, 2026. Judge Ray McKoski will lead with a discussion of his book DAVID DAVIS, ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S FAVORITE JUDGE www.carthage.edu/news-events/...

In Journal of Film and Video 78.2, Oliver Richards reviews "Queer for Fear: Horror Film and The Queer Spectator" by Heather O. Petrocelli (@uniwalespress.bsky.social). Check it out on @projectmuse.bsky.social: muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/artic...

#OTD The 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: www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=c0...

In Journal of Animal Ethics Vol. 16, No. 1, Wasseem Emam (@ethicalseafood.bsky.social) outlines why the ethical lives of aquatic animals matter—and why justice, sustainability, and development frameworks must not bypass them. Read on @projectmuse.bsky.social: muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/artic...

New book from @illinoispress.bsky.social: Daniel Burnham and Louis Sullivan: Personal Histories of Two Icons of American Architecture by Trygve Thoreson www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...

New book from @illinoispress.bsky.social: For the Love of Labor: The Life of Pauline Newman by Cathryn J. Prince www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=c0...

New book from @illinoispress.bsky.social: Women in Hollywood's Dream Factory: Tales of Inequality, Abuse, and Resistance edited by Karen McNally www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=c0...

New from @illinoispress.bsky.social: Bleacher Seats and Luxury Suites: Democracy and Division at the Twentieth-Century Ballpark by Seth S. Tannenbaum www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...

I had a great conversation with Dr. Heather Warfield on the Psychology of Pilgrimage podcast about the 1927 American Legion convention in Paris and blind veteran Frank Schoble, about whom I write in the epilogue to my book, Constructing Disability after the Great War (@illinoispress.bsky.social)