A collection of fully-revised and new essays that explore the richness of Jewish women's history.

This is perhaps more true of Christianity than most other religions, due to the short life of Jesus, his sudden death, the lack of any contemporary records.

Set in the 1960s, Judy Fong Bates’s much-talked-about debut novel is the story of a young girl, the daughter of a small Ontario town’s solitary Chinese family, whose life is changed over the course of one summer when she learns the ...

This was, says Bennett, “Mormonism in the raw on the way to what it would be later.” Now available in paperback for the first time, with a new introduction by the author, Mormons at the Missouri received the Francis M. and Emily Chipman ...

The official journal of the Brigham Young pioneer company is made available for the first time in this book.

The most honored book ever released by the University of Illinois Press, The Plains Across was the result of more than a decade's work by its author.

This book examines a trans-Atlantic chain migration from a Norwegian fjord district to settlements in the nineteenth-century rural Upper Middle West and considers the social and economic conditions experienced in Europe as well as the ...

This classic book offers a lively and penetrating analysis of what the overland journey was really like for midwestern farm families in the mid-1800s.