University of Illinois Press

12/09/2025

Vol. 51, Iss, 4 of Journal of Mormon History, official journal of the Mormon History Association, is available online! Articles include "Deconstructing Narratives: The New History of the Beginning of the Church in Brazil" by Fernando Pinheiro da Silva Filho, "Gender Roles and Empowerment Goals: The LDS Women's Experience in Brazil" by Corinne Clarkson, and more. This issue also features an In Memoriam section honoring scholar Jan Shipps and republishes one of her articles, "The Prophet Puzzle: Suggestions Leading Toward a More Comprehensive Interpretation of Joseph Smith," which was originally published in the inaugural issue of the journal in 1974. https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jmh/issue/51/4

12/09/2025

John Gaventa’s keynote address from ASA’s 48th conference is in the latest issue of the Journal of Appalachia Studies! Along with many other articles!
Find out how to access, here:
https://www.appalachianstudies.org/journal-of-appalachian-studies
JAS is published by University of Illinois Press
All 2025 ASA members receive a digital subscription to the spring and fall issues of JAS in 2025!
If you don’t have your 2025 membership renew here:
https://www.appalachianstudies.org/membership

12/09/2025

"Jig dancing matches were taken as seriously as boxing matches in the mid-nineteenth century."

The Q&A for DIAMOND AND JUBA is live!
https://www.press.uillinois.edu/wordpress/qa-with-the-author-of-diamond-and-juba/

12/09/2025

Happy Pub Date to JOHANN MOST: Life of a Radical by Tom Goyens!
https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=c046919

cc: Salisbury University Department of History

12/09/2025

Happy Pub Date to DIAMOND AND JUBA: The Raucous World of 19th-Century Challenge Dancing by April F. Masten!

12/09/2025

👀 👀 Check out this philosophy double feature: David Fenner has recently published "The Ethics of Aesthetic Discourse" in Journal of Aesthetic Education Vol. 59, No. 3, and "Identity Conditions for Gardens" in American Philosophical Quarterly Vol. 62, No. 4.

📄 https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jae/article/59/3/104/402671/The-Ethics-of-Aesthetic-Discourse
📄 https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/apq/article/62/4/395/402641/Identity-Conditions-for-Gardens

12/09/2025

Happy Pub Date to JOSEPH: An Epic by Zachary McLeod Hutchins!

12/09/2025

Happy Pub Date to RINGS OF DISSENT: Boxing and Performances of Rebellion edited by Rudy Mondragón, Gaye Theresa Johnson, and David J. Leonard!

12/09/2025

Dialogue: a journal of Mormon thought Vol. 58, Iss. 3, is here with "Confronting Men's Violence Against Women and Girls in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints" by Suzanne E. Greco, “'Saving the Constitution' with White Christian Nationalism: Ezra Taft Benson, W. Cleon Skousen, and Their Attempt to Solicit the Help of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover" by Matthew L. Harris (author of THUNDER FROM THE RIGHT), "Secret Societies and the Political Context of Joseph Smith's Rewritten Scripture" by Colby Townsend, and more, all . https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/dial/issue/58/3

12/08/2025

Don't miss this OPEN ACCESS article from Vol. 82, Iss. 2 of Polish American Studies by Izabella Kimak: "Unfolding the Memory of World War II: Refugee Experience in John Z. Guzlowski's 'Echoes of Tattered Tongues: Memory Unfolded' and 'Who I Am: Lives Told in Kitchen Polish'"

This article offers an analysis of two publications by John Guzlowski and uses the concepts of memory studies to draw attention to the role of Guzlowski's parents’ wartime and refugee experiences as a driving force behind their son's creative work. https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/pas/article/82/2/41/402347/Unfolding-the-Memory-of-World-War-II-Refugee

12/08/2025

Listen to Rob Miller talk about his new book, The Hours Are Long, But the Pay Is Low, on Tell You What the podcast.

     I sat down with Rob Miller to discuss his new book “The Hours are Long but the Pay is Low; a Curious Life in Independent Music”.  Rob was co-founder of the Bloodshot Records label here in Chicago, which featured independent artists that blended the s