Southern Illinois University Press imprint: 153 books
Inventing Loreta Velasquez
Confederate Soldier Impersonator, Media Celebrity, and Con Artist
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2016
She went by many names—Mary Ann Keith, Ann Williams, Lauretta Williams, and more—but history knows her best as Loreta Janeta Velasquez, a woman who claimed to have posed as a man to fight for the Confederacy. In Inventing Loreta Velasquez, acclaimed historian William C. Davis delves into the...
Breaking into Baseball
Women and the National Pastime
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2005
While baseball is traditionally perceived as a game to be played, enjoyed, and reported from a masculine perspective, it has long been beloved among women— more so than any other spectator sport. Breaking into Baseball: Women and the National Pastime upends baseball’ s accepted history to at last...
An Indispensable Liberty
The Fight for Free Speech in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Most Americans today view freedom of speech as a bedrock of all other liberties, a defining feature of American citizenship. During the nineteenth century, the popular concept of American freedom of speech was still being formed. In An Indispensable Liberty: The Fight for Free Speech in Nineteenth-Century...
by Roger W. Brucker, Richard A. Watson
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 1987
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 1987
In 1925 the geological connection between Flint Ridge and Mammoth Cave was proved when dye placed in a Flint Ridge spring showed up in Echo River at Mammoth Cave.
That tantalizing swirl of dye confirmed speculations that were to tempt more than 650 cavers over half a century with the thrill of...
by Charles F. Howlett, Audrey Cohan
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
One of America’s preeminent educational philosophers and public intellectuals, John Dewey is perhaps best known for his interest in the study of pragmatic philosophy and his application of progressive ideas to the field of education. Carrying his ideas and actions beyond the academy, he tied his...
by Sass Brown
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
Sass Brown’s darkly funny debut collection of poems explores both the isolation and the absurdity of twenty-something apartment living. The world Brown creates in USA-1000 overflows with infomercials, classic Hollywood films, billboard messages, strip clubs, and fortune-tellers, illuminating our...
Quintilian on the Teaching of Speaking and Writing
Translations from Books One, Two, and Ten of the "Institutio oratoria"
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
Quintilian on the Teaching of Speaking and Writing, edited by James J. Murphy and Cleve Wiese, offers scholars and students insights into the pedagogies of Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (ca. 35–ca. 95 CE), one of Rome’s most famous teachers of rhetoric. Providing translations of three key sections...
Chicago Death Trap
The Iroquois Theatre Fire of 1903
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2006
On the afternoon of December 30, 1903, during a sold-out matinee performance, a fire broke out in Chicago’ s Iroquois Theatre. In the short span of twenty minutes, more than six hundred people were asphyxiated, burned, or trampled to death in a panicked mob’ s failed attempt to escape. In Chicago...
by Lisa Fay Coutley
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
COR series Open Competition winner
Finalist, INDIEFAB Book of the Year
Lisa Fay Coutley’s lyrical debut collection, Errata, investigates the delicate balance between parent and child, love and loss, hope and grief. Errata’s narrator reflects on struggles and fears that span generations...
Shattered Sense of Innocence
The 1955 Murders of Three Chicago Children
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016
In October 1955, three Chicago boys were found murdered, their bodies naked and dumped in a ditch in Robinson Woods on the city’s Northwest Side. A community and a nation were shocked. In a time when such crimes against children were rare, the public was transfixed as local television stations aired...
The Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant
(Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant)
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2019
Written in the early twentieth century for her children and grandchildren and first published in 1975, these eloquent memoirs detail the life of General Ulysses S. Grant’s wife. First Lady Julia Dent Grant wrote her reminiscences with the vivacity and charm she exhibited throughout her life, telling...
by Ted Okuda, Jack Mulqueen
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
At one time every station in Chicago—a maximum of five, until 1964–produced or aired some programming for children. From the late 1940’s through the early 1970’s, local television stations created a golden age of children’s television unique in American broadcasting. Though the shows often...
Chicago TV Horror Movie Shows
From Shock Theatre to Svengoolie
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
Although the motion picture industry initially disparaged and feared television, by the late 1950s, studios saw the medium as a convenient dumping ground for thousands of films that had long been gathering dust in their vaults. As these films found their way to local TV stations, enterprising distributors...
1865
America Makes War and Peace in Lincoln’s Final Year
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
In 1865 Americans faced some of the most important issues in the nation’s history: the final battles of the Civil War, the struggle to pass the Thirteenth Amendment, the peace process, reconstruction, the role of freed slaves, the tragedy of Abraham Lincoln's assassination, and the trials of the...