Bibliograph

A Bicentennial commemorative of the Prairie State, readings from the "Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society", edited by David W. Scott

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A Bicentennial commemorative of the Prairie State, readings from the "Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society", edited by David W. Scott

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

A Bicentennial commemorative of the Prairie State

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1019841468

Responsibility statement

edited by David W. Scott

Sub title

readings from the "Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society"

Summary

"This collection of thirty-three articles, originally published in the Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society from 1918 to 2015, commemorates both the Illinois bicentennial and 110 years of the journal's publication"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Foreword / Leah Joy Axelrod -- Preface / David W. Scott -- The Illinois state historical society and its journal / David W. Scott -- The frontier in Illinois history / Ray A. Billington -- Tavern theatre in early Chicago / Arthur W. Bloom -- The pioneer squatter / Robert W. McCluggage -- Journalism in Illinois before the Thirties / Carl R. Miller -- The Underground Railrood in Illinois / Larry Gara -- John Jones : a study of a Black Chicagoan / Charles A. Gliozzo -- Education in Illinois before 1857 / Robert Gehlmann Bone -- A vanishing frontier : the development of a market economy in DuPage county / Stephen J. Buck -- The Mormons in Illinois, 1838-1846 : a special introduction / Stanley B. Kimball -- Cracker Barrel days in old Illinois stores / Gerald Carson -- Higher education in transition , 1850-1870 / Ernest G. Hildner -- Murder at a Methodist camp meeting : the origins of Abraham Lincoln's most famous trial / Daniel W. Stowell -- Richard J. Oglesby, Lincoln's rail-splitter / Mark A. Plummer -- Lincoln's intimate friend : Leonard Swett / Robert S. Eckley -- I for one am ready to do my part : the initial motivations that inspired men from Northern Illinois to enlist in the U.S. Army, 1861-1862 / Wayne N. Duerkes -- Illinois soldiers and the Emancipation Proclamation / David Wallace Adams -- The Civil War comes to "Egypt" / Jasper W. Cross -- Did the cow do it? : a new look at the cause of the Great Chicago Fire / Richard F. Bales -- Classical music in chicago and the founding of the symphony, 1850-1905 / robert McColley -- Politics and parks : businessmen and the recreation movement / Michael P. McCarthy -- The sanitation revolution in Illinois, 1870-1900 / F. Garvin Davenport -- Joliet's enterprising Universalists : the church and the city in late nineteenth-century Illinois / Timothy Dean Draper -- Illinois and the four progressive-era amendments to the United States Constitution / John D. Buenker -- Hegemony and resistance at the world's Columbian Exposition : Simon Pokagon and the Red Man's rebuke / Lisa Cushing Davis -- "How I hate this hateful war!" : an Illinois farm woman faces World War I / Virginia R. Boynton -- Society annual report, 1922-23 / Jessie Palmer Weber -- A tribute to Jessie Palmer Weber / Evarts Boutell Greene -- Hell and high water : the flood of 1937 in Southern Illinois / Richard Lawrence Beyer -- Bishop James A. Griffin and the Coal Miners' War / Susan Karina Dickey -- A special place : Lake Forest and the Great Depression / Frederick Mercer Van Sickle -- A reinterpretation of Black strategies for change at the Chicago World's Fair, 1933-1934 / Christopher Robert Reed -- The transformation of higher education inthe 1960s : master plans, community colleges, and emerging universities / David W. Scott -- Personal reflections on the Sixth Illinois Constitutional Convention of 1969-1970 / John Alexander

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