Founded in 1891, the University of Chicago Press is one of the oldest continuously-operating university presses in the United States. From its humble beginnings as a group of printers and typesetters, it soon turned into one of the largest university presses in the United States.
First Publications of the University of Chicago Press
If books should not be judged by their covers, then (university) presses should not be judged by the success of their first publication(s). The University of Chicago Press’s first published book was Robert F. Harper’s Assyrian and Babylonian Letters Belonging to the Kouyunjik Collections of the British Museum, which apparently sold only five copies in its first two years. However, John Dewey’s The School and Society, published soon after in 1899, stayed in print for more than a hundred years.
Interestingly, the University of Chicago Press published scholarly journals from the very beginning, starting with the Journal of Political Economy in 1891. Many of them were therefore firsts in a new field: The American Journal of Sociology, published in 1895, for example, or the Social Service Review, published in 1927, marked the establishment of social work as a profession. Today, the Press’s journals division publishes 49 journals and annuals.
A Brief History of the University of Chicago Press
Like Princeton and Yale University Press, the University of Chicago Press started out physically and organizationally separate from the university: Initially, Boston-based publisher D. C. Heath and Chicago printer R. R. Donnelley ran the Press. This arrangement wasn’t feasible in the long run and the Press became officially a part of the University of Chicago in 1894. During the first 11 years, the Press suffered from financial difficulties, lack of adequate facilities and changes in leadership.
Its fortune changed in 1902 when the Press started the Decennial Publications, one of the earliest and very ambitious publishing programs consisting of articles and monographs by University of Chicago scholars, faculty and administrators on the state of the university and its research. More than just a new publishing project, the Decennial Publications led to a radical reorganization of the Press, its staff, resources and policies: From 1905 onward, the Press also published books by scholars outside the University.
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