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New Books

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

Chicago History

Cleve, Craig Allen. The Green Hornet streetcar disaster (DeKalb: Northern Illinois U. Press, 2012)

Flood, Dawn Rae. Rape in Chicago : race, myth, and the courts (Urbana: U. of Illinois Press, 2012)

Hine, Darlene Clark. The Black Chicago Renaissance (Urbana: U. of Illinois Press, 2012)

Keating, Ann Durkin. Rising up from Indian country : the battle of Fort Dearborn and the birth of Chicago (Chicago: U. of Chicago Press, 2012)

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

Rua, Merida M. A grounded identidad : making new lives in Chicago's Puerto Rican neighborhoods (Oxford: Oxford U. Press, 2012)

Illinois History

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

Griffin, Donald W. Voices of the Hennepin Canal : promoters, politicians, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Macomb: College of Arts and Sciences and University Libraries, Western Illinois U., 2012)

Gutjahr, Paul C. The Book of Mormon : a biography (Princeton: Princeton U. Press, 2012)

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

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

Watson, Blake A. Buying America from the Indians : Johnson v. Mcintosh and the history of native land rights (Norman: U. of Oklahoma Press, 2012

Illinois Literature

Burkhardt, Barbara. Conversations with William Maxwell (Jackson: U. Press of Mississippi, 2012)

Lincoln Studies and the Civil War

Alonzo, Martin. "Ahora, y para siempre, libres" : Abraham Lincoln y la causa de la Union (Madrid: Gota a Gota Editorial, 2012)

Broadwater, Robert P. Ulysses S. Grant (Santa Barbara, Calif.: Greenwood Press, 2012)

Carter, Stephen L. The impeachment of Abraham Lincoln (New York: Knopf, 2012) [fiction]

Dirck, Brian R. Lincoln and the Constitution (Carbondale: Southern Illinois U. Press, 2012)

Guelzo, Allen C. Fateful lightning : a new history of the Civil War and Reconstruction (Oxford: Oxford U. Press, 2012)

Lincoln, Abraham. The Lincoln Collection (New York: Library of America, 2012)

McWhirter, Christian. Battle hymns : the power and popularity of music in the Civil War (Chapel Hill: U. of North Carolina Press, 2012)

Miller, Randall M. Lincoln and leadership : military, political, and religious decision making (New York: Fordham U. Press, 2012)

Samuels, Shirley. The Cambridge companion to Abraham Lincoln (New York: Cambridge U. Press, 2012)

Simon, John Y. The Union forever : Lincoln, Grant, and the Civil War (Lexington: U. Press of Kentucky, 2012)

Stahr, Walter. Seward : Lincoln's indispensable man (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2012)

Williams, Frank J., and Michael Burkhimer. The Mary Lincoln enigma : historians on America's most controversial First Lady (Carbondale: Southern Illinois U. Press, 2012)