Books published by University of Illinois Press

Alan Guebert has written the nationally syndicated column "The Farm and Food File" since 1993. His awards include Writer of the Year and Master Writer from the American Agricultural Editors' Association. Alan and his wife, the lovely Catherine, live in rural Delavan, Illinois. He can be found on the Web at www.farmandfoodfile.com. ¿ Mary Grace Foxwell graduated from Saint Mary's College in 2007. She and her husband Andrew co-direct the social media advisory firm Foxwell Digital in Madison, Wisconsin. Gracie may be reached at www.foxwelldigital.com.

Reveals both the promises and the limitations of commercial media as a route to social change.

A comparative analysis of Nazi productions with classical Hollywood films of the same era.

A trans-Atlantic inquiry into German dance studies

At the age of ten and without his parents, Easurk Charr, a convert to Christianity, came to Hawa'ii in 1904 to earn enough money to acquire an education and return to his native Korea as a medical missionary. The Golden Mountain is Charr's story of his early years in Korea, his migration to Hawai'i and the American mainland, and the joys and pain of his life as one of some seven thousand Koreans who migrated to the United States between 1903 and 1905. First published in 1961, Charr's memoir offers touching insights into the experience of early Korean immigrants. He tells eloquently of how difficult it was for him to become a naturalized citizen, even after serving in the U.S. Army. An introduction by Wayne Patterson provides a broader perspective on both Charr and the Korean immigrant experience.

Selected by C. K. Williams as one of the five volumes published in 1991 in the National Poetry Series, The Surface was the first collection in Laura Mullen's acclaimed career.

Examining what makes a man who he is within his own culture.

Highlights the importance of historical myth in popular culture, religion, and politics and situates this nearly century-old debate in American cultural history.

Since 1991 the city of Joliet, Illinois, has commissioned painters for a series of public murals. This title documents the profound transformation in the local mentality wrought by the development of public art in the city.

Stein''s poems reveal the constancy of the American quest for work, family, and dignity, even as they evoke the bruised but still redemptive fruit of human compassion.  

Poetical descriptions of the body, illness, and loss

Introduces a poet whose work, though it treads the ground of silence and loss, bears a redemptive grace. The sculptor, Gislebertus, Doubting Thomas, Theseus, and John Keats share space in the pages of this book. The poet's lyric meditations unravel a constant play of loss and continuation.

Offers a wide-angle view that expands our perspective on Illinois history. This book treats Illinois as a microcosm of the nation, arguing that its history exhibits basic conflicts that had much to do with shaping American society in general.

Documents the lives of Eastern Kentucky Social Club (EKSC) members, a group of black Appalachians who left the eastern Kentucky coalfields and their coal company hometowns in Harlan County. This book uses historical and archival research and personal interviews to explore their reasons and the ties that bind them to eastern Kentucky.

Part memoir, part reportage, and all good reading, Take Down Flag & Feed Horses is the first volume devoted to the daily work of staff members at Yellowstone National Park. Written by a retired National Park Service historian, the book is divided into two parts, the first chronicling daily life at Yellowstone and the second detailing the savage fires that hit the park during the summer of 1988 and their aftermath. Bill Everhart lived at the park during the summer of 1978, accompanying the superintendent and his staff of rangers, naturalists, and scientists on daily rounds. His lively anecdotes and observations will lure readers farther and farther into the book and perhaps into the park as well. He gives a gripping account of the unstoppable fires of 1988 and shows how fire, a presence in the Yellowstone ecosystem for thousands of years, ensures biological diversity.       One of an elite cadre of Park Service employees who served in the system for many years, Everhart would smile knowingly at a comrade''s recollection of an old-timer who left often unnecessary instructions that regularly concluded with, "Take down flag & feed horses (TDF &; FH)." His book, a gentle excursion through places and among people, will be attractive to a wide range of readers.  

Explanations, and effects on how sexualities are understood and experienced in a range of national contexts.

Examines the regional and national history that shaped Cline's career and the popular culture that she so profoundly influenced with her music.

Far from being strictly a men's sport, baseball has long been enjoyed and played by Americans of all genders and classes since it became popular in the 1830s. This work questions the forces that have kept girls who want to play baseball away from the game. It offers a look at the history of women's exclusion from America's national pastime.

The use of confidential sources during a tumultuous period in American history and journalism

Inside an original modern musical mind

The life and music of a bluegrass pioneer, in his own words

Documents the efforts of the Prison Communication, Activism, Research, and Education collective (PCARE) to put democracy into practice by merging prison education and activism.