Southern Illinois University Press

Welcome to our virtual booth! We invite you to peruse materials on our website and make use of the OAH conference discount for 30% off all history books valid through October 1, 2020.

We at SIU Press would love to explore whether your manuscript would be a good fit for our list. We are interested in historical studies of inequalities, disabilities, labor, crime, prisons, and marginalized groups, particularly those set in the Midwest, as well as studies of American military culture and Civil War history and memory. We publish first-time and established authors both inside and outside the academy.

New in American History

• Duty beyond the Battlefield: African American Soldiers Fight for Racial Uplift, Citizenship, and Manhood, 1870–1920 by Le’Trice D. Donaldson
• Fortune and Faith in Old Chicago: A Dual Biography of Mayor Augustus Garrett and Seminary Founder Eliza Clark Garrett by Charles H. Cosgrove
• The Ordeal of the Jungle: Race and the Chicago Federation of Labor, 1903–1922 by David Bates
• German Americans on the Middle Border: From Antislavery to Reconciliation, 1830–1877 by Zachary Stuart Garrison
• Organizing Freedom: Black Emancipation Activism in the Civil War Midwest by Jennifer R. Harbour

Anticipated Upcoming Releases

• Lincoln and the American Founding by Lucas E. Morel (June 2020)
• Vicksburg Besieged edited by Steven E. Woodworth and Charles D. Grear (June 2020)
• Tales of Forgotten Chicago by Richard C. Lindberg (July 2020)
• Edith: The Rogue Rockefeller McCormick by Andrea Friederici Ross (August 2020)
• Imagining Wild Bill: James Butler Hickok in War, Media, and Memory by Paul Ashdown & Edward Caudill (September 2020)
• Women Making War: Female Confederate Prisoners and Union Military Justice by Thomas F. Curran (October 2020)

American History Series

• Engaging the Civil War
• Concise Lincoln Library
• Civil War Campaigns in the West
• World of Ulysses S. Grant