Recently added articles from Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society:
The Editor's Page
Jul 01, 2008; ... The Editor's Page On February 15-17, 2007, the Illinois State Historical Society held its twenty-seventh annual symposium on the campus of Illinois State University (ISU), in part to commemorate ISU's 150th anniversary. In keeping with the theme for the symposium, "Knowledge on the ...
The Founding of Illinois State Normal University: Normal School or State University?
Jul 01, 2008; ... On February 18, 1857, William H. Bissell, the first Republican governor of Illinois, signed "an act for the establishment and maintenance of a Normal University." The statute constituted a fifteen member "Board of Education of the State of Illinois" as the legal entity that owned and governed ...
High Priests of Nature: The Origins of Illinois State Normal "University" in the Antebellum Lyceum
Jul 01, 2008; ... In one of the Bloomington Paragraph's earliest numbers (dated April 26, 1854), there occurs an editorial about a course of three lectures on chemistry, "with experimental illustrations." " [Prof. Wyman's] experiments were beautiful," said the article, "and completely successful; and it would ...
Illinois State University in Springfield, Illinois
Jul 01, 2008; ... The first Illinois State University was founded by Reverend Francis Springer, a Lutheran minister and educator. Immediately upon his arrival in Springfield in 1839, Springer rented a schoolroom and established a private "English and Classical School." As the sole teacher, he offered a curriculum ...
The Transformation of Higher Education in the 1960s: Master Plans, Community Colleges, and Emerging Universities
Jul 01, 2008; ... In 1955 Illinois Governor William Stratton and the General Assembly established the Higher Education Commission made up of legislators, public school leaders, and presidents of public and private colleges and universities. Its charge was to "make a thorough investigation, study and survey of the ...
Germans in the Civil War; The Letters They Wrote Home
Jul 01, 2008; ... Germans in the Civil War; The Letters They Wrote Home. Edited by Walter D. Kamphoefher & Wolfgang Helbich. Translated by Susan Carter Vogel (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2006. Pp. xxxiv, 521. Illustrations, maps, glossary, index. Cloth, $59.95) Although United ...
Key Command: Ulysses S. Grant's District of Cairo
Jul 01, 2008; ... Key Command: Ulysses S. Grant's District of Cairo, By T K Kionka, (Columbia: University of Missouri Press. Pp.xii, 229 pp., $39.95, ISBN 9780-8262-1655-7.) The history of Illinois, the Civil War, and borderlands history are all made richer by the writing of this book. In general and ...
Our Town: A Heartland Lynching, a Haunted Town, and the Hidden History of White America
Jul 01, 2008; ... Our Town: A Heartland Lynching, a Haunted Town, and the Hidden History of White America. By Cynthia Carr. (New York: Crown Publishers, 2006. Pp. 3, 501. Illustrations, photographs, index. Cloth, $25.95) On the scale of American racial ugliness, spectacle lynching-a highly public form of ...
To Rescue My Native Land: The Civil War Letters of William T. Shepherd, First Illinois Light Artillery
Jul 01, 2008; ... To Rescue My Native Land: The Civil War Letters of William T. Shepherd, First Illinois Light Artillery. Edited by Kurt H. Hackmer (Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 2005. Pp. xxiii, 365. Illustrations, map, index. Cloth, $42) To Rescue My Native Land is the latest publication ...
Governor Henry Horner, Chicago Politics, and the Great Depression
Jul 01, 2008; ... Governor Henry Horner, Chicago Politics, and the Great Depression. By Charles J. Masters, (Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press, 2007. Pp-xviii, 243, $24.95.) Master's study is a welcome, if brief addition to the small body of literature on one of Illinois' most ...
Fort Dearborn, A Novel
Jul 01, 2008; ... Fort Dearborn, A Novel. By Jerry Crimmins (Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 2006. Pp. 431. Foreword by Gerald A. Danzer. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. Cloth, $27.95) In Fort Dearborn: a Novel, Chicago newspaper reporter Jerry Crimmins has penned the latest in the ...
Bishop James A. Griffin and the Coal Miners' War
Apr 01, 2008; ... In the winter of 1932-33 violence ripped across the mining towns of Illinois. Drive-by shootings, bombings of public buildings, and acts of sabotage rocked District 12 of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA), an area contiguous with the state boundaries. A split within the union ...
Illinois History Resources in the Vertical File Manuscripts of Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
Apr 01, 2008; ... The Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) of Morris Library, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, holds a treasure trove of primary sources and rare books of interest to researchers worldwide. The collections focus on American philosophy; American, British, and Irish theatre; the Irish ...
Exhibit Review Chicago History Museum: "Catholic Chicago"
Apr 01, 2008; ... The "Catholic Chicago" exhibit aims to illuminate the rich and diverse history of Catholicism in Chicago over nearly two centuries. Six sections illustrating various aspects and time periods of Chicago Catholicism comprise the exhibit. The first section, "Laying Their Foundations," and the last ...
From Slavery to Glory: African Americans Come to Aurora, Illinois 1850-1920
Apr 01, 2008; ... From Slavery to Glory: African Americans Come to Aurora, Illinois 1850-1920. By Dennis Buck. (Aurora, IL: River Street Press 2005. Pp. 207. Illustrations, maps, index. Paper, $18.95) Clear and well-written, Dennis Buck's From Slavery to Glory is an admirable addition to the publications ...
Peter Cartwright, Legendary Frontier Preacher
Apr 01, 2008; ... Peter Cartwright, Legendary Frontier Preacher. By Robert Bray. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2005. Pp. x, 314, Illus., notes, index. Cloth $35.00). Robert Bray, R. Forrest Colwell Professor of American Literature at Illinois Wesleyan University, had researched the ...
Radical Unionism in the Midwest, 1900-1950
Apr 01, 2008; ... Radical Unionism in the Midwest, 1900-1950. By Rosemary Feurer. (Urbana: The University of Illinois Press, 2006, Pp. xix, 320. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index; Paper, $25.00). The historiographical storms of the last twenty years have buffeted labor history as much, if not ...
António De Mattos and the Protestant Portuguese Community in Antebellum Illinois
Apr 01, 2008; ... António De Mattos and the Protestant Portuguese Community in Antebellum Illinois. By David J. Langum, Sr. (Jacksonville, II: Morgan County Historical Society, 2006, Pp. i-v, 141. Illus., notes, index. Cloth $30.00.) David Langum's compact study blends biography with an examination of the ...
Slaves, Salt, Sex & Mr. Crenshaw
Apr 01, 2008; ... Slaves, Salt, Sex & Mr. Crenshaw. By Jon Musgrave (Marion, IL: illinoishistory.com, 2004. Pp. 512. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Paper, $19.95). Abraham Lincoln is credited with the saying: "Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it so." This phrase was the president's ...
The Civil War as a Theological Crisis
Apr 01, 2008; ... The Civil War as a Theological Crisis. By Mark A. Noll. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. Pp. x, 199. Notes, index. Cloth, $29.95). Mark A. Noll of Wheaton College, a preeminent historian of American religion, supplies us with an enlightening, if disturbing, survey ...