Books published by University of Illinois Press

In X=, Stephen Berg winds through the wreck of longing and loss, navigating the strains of curious beauty with flashes of electrifying clarity. Stripping bare the burdens of gnawing, unknowing fear, Berg has found his way into a voice of great energy and spontaneity, into a form of overwhelming urgency and detail.

Attempts to rescue dialogues on human sexuality, sexual diversity, and gender from insular exchanges based primarily on biblical scholarship and denominational ideology.

A new edition of the classic study of slave life in the American South

Investigating how gender affects voting

The University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign campus offers vistas rich with memories and splendor. This collection of over thirty classic images gives YOU, the Coloring Illini, a chance to conjure multihued masterworks from one hundred and fifty years of school history. The whole UIUC experience is here. The Union. The Quad. The Idea Garden. Whether you like brush pens or color pencils, the high quality paper will hold the whole Pantone spectrum of colors. Whether you seek fun or inspiration, the pictures will stoke your creative fires. Orange, Blue, and U is the perfect invitation for students, alums, and the worldwide university community to see UIUC as its canvas.

A treasury of Christmas memories and images from the Land of Lincoln

"One of our very finest         poets in full stride." -- HarvardReview, on Adjusting         to the Light       A 1995 recipient of the Academy         Award in Literature of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Miller         Williams is one of America's best known and loved poets. He also has won         the prestigious Poets' Prize; the Amy Lowell Award in Poetry, presented         by Harvard University; the Prix de Rome for Literature from the American         Academy of Arts and Letters, and many others.       Williams's newest collection         is built of the idiom of ordinary speech. Mostly narrative and dramatic,         these indelible poems are populated by individuals who go about their         lives much as all of us do; in fear of pain and loneliness, in hope of         something like love. The breath of Williams's talent gives them life,         his honesty and precision make them unforgettable.

A surefire guarantee for the headaches and stomach upsets of the late twentieth century, The Lemon Jelly Cake carries readers back to kinder, gentler times in a small town at the turn of the century. Evoking a forgotten America of lush lawns, bountiful summer picnics, and shady front porches, the tale is set when the day's toughest decision might have been what to serve for dinner or which suit or dress to wear.In this new Prairie State Books edition, an introduction by longtime Millikin University faculty member and Findlay resident Dan Guillory situates the book and its charming tale firmly in the Central Illinois of 1900.

Surveys the jazz trumpeter's career from the formative years of jazz in New Orleans, through his club successes in Chicago after 1930, to his last European tour in 1954.

A Renaissance man in a Revolutionary time, Benjamin Franklin had interests and knowledge not only in religion but in literature, philosophy, politics, publishing, history, and scientific inquiry, among many other disciplines. This title examines Franklin's search for the Divine using a similar, multifaceted approach.

 This story is told in the words of a tragic figure in American history - a hook-nosed, hollow-cheeked old Sauk warrior who lived under four flags while the Mississippi Valley was being wrested from his people.The author is Black Hawk himself - once pursued by an army whose members included Captain Abraham Lincoln and Lieutenant Jefferson Davis. Perhaps no Indian ever saw so much of American expansion or fought harder to prevent that expansion from driving his people to exile and death.He knew Zebulon Pike, William Clark, Henry Schoolcraft, George Catlin, Winfield Scott, and such figures in American government as President Andrew Jackson and Secretary of State Lewis Cass. He knew Chicago when it was a cluster of log houses around a fort, and he was in St. Louis the day the American flag went up and the French flag came down.He saw crowds gather to cheer him in Philadelphia, Baltimore, and New York - and to stone the driver of his carriage in Albany - during a fantastic tour sponsored by the government.And at last he dies in 1838, bitter in the knowledge that he had led men, women, and children of his tribe to slaughter on the banks of the Mississippi.After his capture at the end of the Black Hawk War, he was imprisoned for a time and then released to live in the territory that is now Iowa. He dictated his autobiography to a government interpreter, Antoine LeClaire, and the story was put into written form by J. B. Patterson, a young Illinois newspaperman. Since its first appearance in 1833, the autobiography has become known as an American classic.

An endearing tribute to the well-grounded majesty of Illinois barns

Offers a grandstand seat to a golden age: Behold the 1871 team as it plays for the title in nine different borrowed uniforms after losing everything in the Great Chicago Fire; and Attend West Side Grounds at Polk and Wolcott with its barbershop quartet.

      Meet Aunt Molly Jackson (1880-1960), one of American folklore''s most         fascinating characters.       A coal miner''s daughter, she grew up in eastern Kentucky, married a miner,         and became a midwife, labor activist, and songwriter. Fusing hard experience         with rich Appalachian musical tradition, her songs became weapons of struggle.       In 1931, at age fifty, she was "discovered" and brought north,         sponsored and befriended by an illustrious circle of left-wing intellectuals         and musicians, including Theodore Dreiser, Alan Lomax, and Charles Seeger         and his son Pete. Along with Sarah Ogan Gunning, Jim Garland (two of Aunt         Molly''s half-siblings), Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly, and other folk musicians,         she served as a cultural broker, linking the rural working poor to big-city         left-wing activism.       Shelly Romalis draws upon interviews and archival materials to construct         this portrait of an Appalachian woman who remained radical, raucous, proud,         poetic, offensive, self-involved, and in spirit the "real" pistol         packin'' mama of the song.       "Mr. Coal operator call me anything you please, blue, green, or         red, I aim to see to it that these Kentucky coalminers will not dig your         coal while their little children are crying and dying for milk and bread."                 -- Aunt Molly Jackson         

Presents a biography of Abraham Lincoln, based on the author's own observations and on letters and interviews he had compiled for the purpose. This edition also traces the story of how this landmark biography got written. The annotation provided affords the reader a look at the biography's sources.