Digitized Book of the Week

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We have digitized seven of the 10 volumes of this important early publication of the American settlement house movement. The Chicago Commons was one of two important settlement houses started in Chicago in the late 1900s--Jane Addams Hull House being the other. The Chicago Commons still exists today (http://www.chicagocommons.org/).

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This hidden gem found deep in the bowels of the Bookstacks, documents the history of the all African-American Eighth Illinois Volunteer Infantry; while there were other infantries of African-American soldiers in the late 1800s, the Eighth Illinois was the first to be led entirely by African American officers. The Eighth Illinois Volunteer Infantry was called by President McKinley to fight in Cuba during the Spanish American War. This volume is filled with photographs, biographical information, the names of all the men in the unit, and an historical account of their service.