Illinois History and Lincoln CollectionsC

New Books

The following materials have recently been added to our book collection:

Chicago History

Ansell, David A. County : life, death and politics at Chicago's public hospital (Chicago: Academy Chicago Pub., 2011)

Bone, Robert. The muse in Bronzeville : African American creative expression in Chicago, 1932-1950 (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers U. Press, 2011)

Greeley, Andrew M. Chicago Catholics and the struggles within their church (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2011)

Gyure, Dale Allen. The Chicago schoolhouse (Chicago: Center for American Places at Columbia College Chicago, 2011)

Junger, Richard. Becoming the second city : Chicago's mass news media, 1833-1898 (Urbana: U. of Illinois Press, 2011)

Ling, Huping . Chinese Chicago : race, transformational migration, and community since 1870 (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford U. Press, 2012)

McKinney, Megan. The magnificent Medills : America's royal family of journalism during a century of turbulent splendor (New York: HarperCollins, 2011)

Messer-Kruse, Timothy. The trial of the Haymarket Anarchists : terrorism and justice in the Gilded Age (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011)

Neilson, Reid Larkin. Exhibiting Mormonism: the Latter-day Saints and the 1893 Chicago World's Fair (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011)

Reed, Christopher Robert. The Depression comes to the South Side: protest and politics in the Black metropolis, 1930-1933 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011)

Reed, Christopher Robert. The rise of Chicago's Black metropolis, 1920-1929 (Urbana: U. of Illinois Press, 2011)

Smith, Amanda. Newspaper titan : the infamous life and monumental times of Cissy Patterson (New York: Knopf, 2011)

Tracy, Steven C., ed. Writers of the Black Chicago renaissance (Urbana: U. of Illinois Press, 2011)

Wolner, Edward W. Henry Ives Cobb's Chicago : architecture, institutions, and the making of a modern metropolis (Chicago: U. of Chicago Press, 2011)

Illinois History

Carlisle, Linda V. Elizabeth Packard : a noble fight (Urbana: U. of Illinois Press, 2011)

Danzer, Gerald A. Illinois : a history in pictures (Urbana: U. of Illinois Press, 2011)

Ferguson, Gillum. Illinois in the War of 1812 (Urbana: U. of Illinois Press, 2012)

Leichtle, Kurt E., and Bruce G. Carveth. Crusade against slavery : Edward Coles, pioneer of freedom (Carbondale: Southern Illinois U. Press, 2011)

Mazrim, Robert E. At home in the Illinois Country: French colonial domestic site archaeology in the Midwest, 1730-1800 (Urbana: Illinois State Archaeological Survey, U. of Illinois, 2011)

Richter, Donald G. Vermilion County and the Civil War : we are coming, Father Abraham, three hundred thousand more! (Danville, Ill.: Vermilion County Museum Society, 2011)

Rock, Philip J. Nobody calls just to say hello : reflections on twenty-two years in the Illinois Senate (Carbondale: Southern Illinois U. Press, 2012)

Shackel, Paul A. New Philadelphia : an archaeology of race in the heartland (Berkeley: U. of California Press, 2011)

Schmitt, Ronald E. Images of midwestern architecture, Downstate Illinois (Urbana: Ronald E. Schmitt, 2012)

Schmitt, Ronald E. Images of midwestern architecture, Urbana-Champaign (Urbana: Ronald E. Schmitt, 2011)

Virga, Vincent, and Scotti McAuliff Cohn. Illinois, mapping the prairie state through history : rare and unusual maps from the Library of Congress (Guilford, Conn.: Globe Pequot Press, 2011)

Lincoln Studies and the Civil War

Arenson, Adam. The great heart of the republic : St. Louis and the cultural Civil War (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard U. Press, 2011)

Barnhart, Terry A. Albert Taylor Bledsoe : defender of the old south and architect of the lost cause (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State U. Press, 2011)

Blackburn, Robin. Marx and Lincoln : an unfinished revolution (London: Verso Books, 2011)

Blight, David W. American oracle : the Civil War in the civil rights era (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of the Harvard U. Press, 2011)

Borchard, Gregory A. Abraham Lincoln and Horace Greeley (Carbondale: Southern Illinois U. Press, 2011)

Burlingame, Michael. Lincoln and the Civil War (Carbondale: Southern Illinois U. Press, 2011)

Bush, Harold K. Lincoln in his own time : a biographical chronicle of his life, drawn from recollections, interviews, and memoirs by family, friends, and associates (Iowa City: U. of Iowa Press, 2011)

Carwardine, Richard, and Jay Sexton. The global Lincoln (New York: Oxford U. Press, 2011)

Flood, Charles Bracelen. Grant's final victory : Ulysses S. Grant's heroic last year (Cambridge, Mass.: DaCapo Press, 2011)

Gallagher, Gary W. The Union War (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard U. Press, 2011)

Goldfield, David R. America aflame : how the Civil War created a nation (New York: Bloomsburg Press, 2011)

Goodheart, Adam. 1861 : the Civil War awakening (New York: Knopf, 2011)

Green, Michael S. Lincoln and the election of 1860 (Carbondale: Southern Illinois U. Press, 2011)

Harris, William C. Lincoln and the border states : preserving the Union (Lawrence: U. of Kansas Press, 2011)

Hogan, Jackie. Lincoln, Inc. : selling the sixteenth president in contemporary America (Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2011)

Horwitz, Tony. Midnight rising : John Brown and the raid that sparked the Civil War (New York: Henry Holt, 2011)

Jividen, Jason R. Claiming Lincoln : progressivism, equality, and the battle for Lincoln's legacy in presidential rhetoric (DeKalb: Northern Illinois U. Press, 2011)

Lause, Mark A. A secret society history of the Civil War (Urbana: U. of Illinois Press, 2011)

Leonard, Elizabeth D. Lincoln's forgotten ally : Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt of Kentucky (Chapel Hill: U. North Carolina Press, 2011)

McGinty, Brian. The body of John Merryman : Abraham Lincoln and the suspension of habeas corpus (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard U. Press, 2011)

McKirdy, Charles R. Lincoln apostate : the Matson slave case (Oxford: U. Press of Mississippi, 2011)

Magness, Phillip W., and Sebastian N. Page. Colonization after emancipation : Lincoln and the movement for Black resettlement (Columbia: U. of Missouri Press, 2011)

Neely, Mark E. Lincoln and the triumph of the nation : constitutional conflict in the American Civil War (Chapel Hill: U. of North Carolina Press, 2011)

Pritchard, Myra Helmer. The dark days of Abraham Lincoln's widow, as revealed by her own letters (Carbondale: Southern Illinois U. Press, 2011)

Robertson, James. The untold Civil War : exploring the human side of war (Washington, D.C.: National Geographic, 2011)

Scott, Sean A. A visitation of God : Northern civilians interpret the Civil War (Oxford: Oxford U. Press, 2011)

Simpson, Brooks D. The Civil War : the first year told by those who lived it (New York: Library of America, 2011)

Smith, Michael Thomas. The enemy within : fears of corruption in the Civil War North (Charlottesville: U. of Virginia Press, 2011)

Von Hassell, Agostino, and Ed Breslin. Sherman: the ruthless victor (Nashville, Tenn.: Thomas Nelson, 2011)

General American History

Martin, Justin. Genius of place : the life of Frederick Law Olmstead (Cambridge, Mass.: Da Capo Press, 2011)