University of Illinois Press

10/03/2025

Volume 50, Issue 2 of Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology, official journal of , is available to read online!

Articles in this issue include “Portable X-Ray Fluorescence Analysis of Rock Art Paintings in Southern Illinois” by Sierra M. Bow, Jan F. Simek, and Mark J. Wagner; “Pre-Mississippian Sedentary Settlements in the Tennessee River Valley? Evaluating the Molluscan Evidence from a Freshwater Mussel Shell Mound” by Evan Peacock and Joseph Mitchell; and “Geoarchaeology and Precolonial Occupation History of the Indian Camp Run-Allegheny River Confluence, Ohio River Headwaters, Northwestern Pennsylvania” by Todd Grote, Andrew Myers, and Patricia Stahlman. https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/mcja/issue/50/2

10/03/2025

Last day of the Conference on Illinois History annual meeting!

Visit our virtual exhibit and take 50% off all books on Illinois history with code CILH at checkout!
https://www.press.uillinois.edu/wordpress/2025-conference-on-illinois-history-virtual-exhibit/
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10/03/2025

Free to access until December 31: "The Battle of Nauvoo" by David L. Herron from Vol. 50, Iss. 1 of Journal of Mormon History, official journal of Mormon History Association

This article relies on accounts from the Church History Library to tell the story of the Battle of Nauvoo from a firsthand, Latter-day Saint perspective in the voices of the participants themselves.
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jmh/article/50/1/45/385886/The-Battle-of-Nauvoo

10/02/2025

Interested in issues of safety while doing fieldwork? There will be a session at the Annual Meeting of the American Folklore Society for just that! In preparation, read “Safety in the Field: A Reflection and Progress Report” by Mathilde Frances Lind from Journal of American Folklore Vol. 138, No. 549, free until November 30, 2025. https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jaf/article/138/549/330/402050/Safety-in-the-Field-A-Reflection-and-Progress

Find more free to read articles on our blog: https://www.press.uillinois.edu/wordpress/journal-of-american-folklore-pre-conference-reading/

Abstract. This report contextualizes and summarizes two preliminary discussions on folklorists’ safety in the field, with particular attention to how to prepare and support students and junior colleagues. The first discussion, which took place at the 2023 New York State Folk Arts Roundtable, resul...

10/02/2025

In Vol. 42, No. 1, of American Music, Christi-Anne Castro's article considers the interconnectedness of war-making and gendered race-making in popular sheet music and soldier songs of the Philippine-American War, focusing on gendered power relations, imperialist aspirations, and imagined and real encounters across racial and gendered lines.

Read it on Project MUSE: https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/article/965481

10/02/2025

"Sometimes critical feedback is difficult to read, but this is also the best time an author can encounter it."

The long-awaited Part 2 of UIP editor Alison Syring's discussion about the peer review process is in her latest blog post.
https://www.press.uillinois.edu/wordpress/acquiring-with-alison-volume-5-peer-review-part-2/

10/02/2025

First day of the Conference on Illinois History annual meeting!

Visit our virtual exhibit and take 50% off all books on Illinois history with code CILH at checkout!
https://www.press.uillinois.edu/wordpress/2025-conference-on-illinois-history-virtual-exhibit/
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10/01/2025

Today is World Vegetarian Day, kicking off Vegetarian Awareness Month. In recognition, check out these articles on vegetarianism in France and Poland:

📄 The Anarchist Diet: Vegetarianism and Individualist Anarchism in Early 20th-Century France
✍️ Carl Tobias Frayne
📖 Journal of Animal Ethics (2021) 11 (2): 83–96.
➡️ https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jane/article/11/2/83/291866/The-Anarchist-Diet-Vegetarianism-and-Individualist

📄 The (Food) Voice of the Silent: Fania Lewando and Vegetarianism in the Era of the Polish Republic
✍️ Eve Jochnowitz
📖 Polish American Studies (2024) 81 (1): 16–19.
➡️ https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/pas/article/81/1/16/385865/The-Food-Voice-of-the-SilentFania-Lewando-and

10/01/2025

Happy International Music Day from University of Illinois Press Journals! Check out some recent scholarship from all of our music journals, including American Music, Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, Ethnomusicology, Jazz and Culture, and Music and the Moving Image. https://www.press.uillinois.edu/journals/journals_browse.html

10/01/2025

Get your *free* e-book of SOCIAL VOICES: The Cultural Politics of Singers around the Globe edited by Levi S. Gibbs!
https://mailchi.mp/illinois/pf0mizazsu

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10/01/2025

In Vol. 138, Iss. 457 of Journal of American Folklore, Andre L. Taylor reviews Christopher Carter's THE SPIRIT OF SOUL FOOD.

📝Review: https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jaf/article/138/547/124/397620/The-Spirit-of-Soul-Food-Race-Faith-and-Food
📘Book: https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=85hqw4br9780252044120

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09/30/2025

Last day to get your *free* e-book of PUERTO RICAN CHICAGO: Schooling the City, 1940-1977 by Mirelsie Velázquez!
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