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Amy Etcheson

Interim Director, SIU Press

Amy Etcheson is the Interim Director of SIU Press at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, IL. She is the program host and co-creator of Inside The Blanket Fort radio program and podcast.

  • Journey back Inside The Blanket Fort this week as we continue our discussion of the recently published book Illinois Trails & Traces: Portraits and Stories along the State’s Historic Routes.  
  • Journey back Inside The Blanket Fort as we talk with Daniel Overturf who took all of the photographs for the SIU Press book Illinois Trails & Traces: Portraits and Stories along the State’s Historic Routes with text by Gary Marx and a foreword by U.S. Senator Dick Durbin. This book takes the reader on a journey down early buffalo traces and Native American trails, and then shows how these paths evolved into wagon roads and paved highways.
  • Journey back Inside The Blanket Fort this week as we continue our discussion with Donna D. McCreary, author of Mary Lincoln Demystified: Frequently Asked Questions about Abraham’s Wife.
  • Journey back Inside The Blanket Fort as we honor Women's History Month this week with a book about a famous and often misunderstood woman: Mary Todd Lincoln.
  • Journey back Inside The Blanket Fort this week as we mark the anniversary of the death of Malcolm X, we hear from an author who was hugely influenced by the civil rights leader. Reggie Brown was a student at SIU in the late 1960s. His book, A View from the Inside: On the Front Line of Afro-American Liberation, was released by Saluki Publishing in 2017.
  • Journey back Inside The Blanket Fort this week as we continue to honor Black History Month with SIU Press books that celebrate Black History and feature stories of and by the people who have shaped it.
  • Journey back Inside The Blanket Fort this week as we celebrate Black History, and continue our discussion with David A. Joens and his book From Slave to State Legislator: John W.E. Thomas, Illinois’s First African American Lawmaker from SIU Press.
  • Journey back Inside The Blanket Fort this week as we honor Black History Month. Today, a look at some of the SIU Press books that celebrate Black History and foreground the stories of the people who shaped it.
  • Journey back Inside The Blanket Fort this week as we learn more about a new book America’s Hardscrabble General: Ulysses S. Grant, from Farm Boy to Shiloh, by Jack Hurst, which released by SIU Press in November 2022.
  • Journey back Inside The Blanket Fort this week as we continue our discussion with authors Michael Mark Chemers and Mike Sell about their new theatre book Systemic Dramaturgy: A Handbook for the Digital Age.