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A renaissance in Illinois history scholarship has sparked renewed interest in the Prairie State's storied past. Students, meanwhile, continue to pursue coursework in Illinois history to fulfill degree requirements and for their own edification.
This Common Threads collection offers important articles from the Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society. Organized as an approachable survey of state history, the book offers chapters that cover the colonial era, early statehood, the Civil War years, the Gilded Age and Progressive eras, World War II, and postwar Illinois. The essays reflect the wide range of experiences lived by Illinoisans engaging in causes like temperance and women's struggle for a shorter workday; facing challenges that range from the rise of street gangs to Decatur's urban decline; and navigating historic issues like the 1822-24 constitutional crisis and the Alton School Case.
Contributors: Roger Biles, Lilia Fernandez, Paul Finkelman, Raymond E. Hauser, Reginald Horsman, Suellen Hoy, Judson Jeffries, Lionel Kimble Jr., Thomas E. Pegram, Shirley Portwood, Robert D. Sampson, Ronald E. Shaw, and Robert M. Sutton.
| Title Copyright Contents Introduction 1. The Fox Raid of 1752: Defensive Warfare and the Decline of the Illinois Indian Tribe Raymond 2. Great Britain and the Illinois Country in the Era of the American Revolution Reginald Horsman 3. Edward Coles and the Constitutional Crisis in Illinois, 1822–1824 Robert M. Sutton 4. Slavery, the "More Perfect Union," and the Prairie State Paul Finkelman 5. "Pretty damned warm times": The 1864 Charleston Riot and "the inalienable right of revolution" 6. "Honest Men and Law Abiding Citizens": The 1894 Railroad Strike in Decatur Robert D. Sampson 7. The Alton School Case and African American Community Consciousness, 1897–1908 Shirley 8. The Dry Machine: The Formation of the Anti-Saloon League of Illinois Thomas E. Pegram 9. Chicago Working Women's Struggle for a Shorter Day, 1908–1911 Suellen Hoy 10. "I Too Serve America: African American Women War Workers in Chicago, 1940–1945 Lionel Kimble, 11. From the Near West Side to 18th Street: Mexican Community Formation and Activism in Mid-Twentie 12. A Final Push for National Legislation: The Chicago Freedom Movement Ronald E. Shaw 13. From Gang-bangers to Urban Revolutionaries: The Young Lords of Chicago Judson Jeffries 14. The Decline of Decatur Roger Biles |"Mark Hubbard has succeeded in organizing a collection that is thematically coherent, informative, and interesting. Any scholar of Illinois history would profit from reading this fine work." —The Annals of Iowa
"For those seeking glimpses of how our state came to be the way it is, this book of 304 pages is a useful beginning." —Springhouse
|Mark Hubbard is a professor of history at Eastern Illinois University and editor-in-chief of the Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society. He is the author of Illinois's War: The Civil War in Documents and Beyond Party: Cultures of Antipartisanship in Northern Politics before the Civil War.
This Common Threads collection offers important articles from the Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society. Organized as an approachable survey of state history, the book offers chapters that cover the colonial era, early statehood, the Civil War years, the Gilded Age and Progressive eras, World War II, and postwar Illinois. The essays reflect the wide range of experiences lived by Illinoisans engaging in causes like temperance and women's struggle for a shorter workday; facing challenges that range from the rise of street gangs to Decatur's urban decline; and navigating historic issues like the 1822-24 constitutional crisis and the Alton School Case.
Contributors: Roger Biles, Lilia Fernandez, Paul Finkelman, Raymond E. Hauser, Reginald Horsman, Suellen Hoy, Judson Jeffries, Lionel Kimble Jr., Thomas E. Pegram, Shirley Portwood, Robert D. Sampson, Ronald E. Shaw, and Robert M. Sutton.
| Title Copyright Contents Introduction 1. The Fox Raid of 1752: Defensive Warfare and the Decline of the Illinois Indian Tribe Raymond 2. Great Britain and the Illinois Country in the Era of the American Revolution Reginald Horsman 3. Edward Coles and the Constitutional Crisis in Illinois, 1822–1824 Robert M. Sutton 4. Slavery, the "More Perfect Union," and the Prairie State Paul Finkelman 5. "Pretty damned warm times": The 1864 Charleston Riot and "the inalienable right of revolution" 6. "Honest Men and Law Abiding Citizens": The 1894 Railroad Strike in Decatur Robert D. Sampson 7. The Alton School Case and African American Community Consciousness, 1897–1908 Shirley 8. The Dry Machine: The Formation of the Anti-Saloon League of Illinois Thomas E. Pegram 9. Chicago Working Women's Struggle for a Shorter Day, 1908–1911 Suellen Hoy 10. "I Too Serve America: African American Women War Workers in Chicago, 1940–1945 Lionel Kimble, 11. From the Near West Side to 18th Street: Mexican Community Formation and Activism in Mid-Twentie 12. A Final Push for National Legislation: The Chicago Freedom Movement Ronald E. Shaw 13. From Gang-bangers to Urban Revolutionaries: The Young Lords of Chicago Judson Jeffries 14. The Decline of Decatur Roger Biles |"Mark Hubbard has succeeded in organizing a collection that is thematically coherent, informative, and interesting. Any scholar of Illinois history would profit from reading this fine work." —The Annals of Iowa
"For those seeking glimpses of how our state came to be the way it is, this book of 304 pages is a useful beginning." —Springhouse
|Mark Hubbard is a professor of history at Eastern Illinois University and editor-in-chief of the Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society. He is the author of Illinois's War: The Civil War in Documents and Beyond Party: Cultures of Antipartisanship in Northern Politics before the Civil War.
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