Recently added articles from Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society:
The Editor's Page
Jul 01, 2009; ... This summer issue of the Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society includes diverse topics on Illinois history ranging from the interplay of language in the French and Indian period, to the evolution of higher education in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, and finally to ...
"Leaving No 'Unbridged Chasm'": The Office of the High School Visitor at the University of Illinois, 1896-1948
Jul 01, 2009; ... The University of Illinois, through its Office of the High School Visitor, played an integral role during the first half of the twentieth century in promoting school accreditation and curriculum standards as a way to distinguish the goals and purposes of high school. The articulation between ...
The 1947 Centralia Mine Disaster Anthony Fleege
Jul 01, 2009; ... The Centralia #5 Mine disaster of 1947 was the mine explosion that should have never happened. Not months, but years before the explosion both state and federal mine inspectors were writing negative reports about the mine. Both inspectors were submitting quarterly reports and getting no results ...
The Illinois Place Name "Pimitéoui"
Jul 01, 2009; ... Throughout the French era Lake Peoria was known by a Native American name written in the form Pimitéoui. This place name was first noted in the historical record percolating out of the initial visit to the Illinois Country in the winter of 1679-80 by the French explorer Cavelier de La Salle, who ...
Latinos and the New Immigrant Church
Jul 01, 2009; ... Latinos and the New Immigrant Church. By David A. Badillo. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. Pp. xxiii, 275. Notes, index. Cloth, $60.00; Paper, $22.95). Recognizing that the religious dimension of Latino immigration has been grievously neglected, David A. Badillo here ...