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In this major new history of the making of the state, Davis tells a sweeping story of Illinois, from the Ice Age to the eve of the Civil War.
Author : James E. Davis
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 17,67 MB
Release : 2000-08-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780253214065
In this major new history of the making of the state, Davis tells a sweeping story of Illinois, from the Ice Age to the eve of the Civil War.
Author : Theodore Calvin Pease
Publisher :
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 36,42 MB
Release : 1918
Category : History
ISBN :
State history at its best, the book still enlightens students of the early nineteenth century, not only about Illinois's experience during those dynamic years but about that of America as well. The Frontier State is the story of America's, as it is of Illinois's, coming of age.
Author : Theodore Calvin Pease
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 42,45 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Illinois
ISBN : 9780252013386
Author : Andreas Reichstein
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 35,52 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781574411348
Wilhelm Wagner (1803-1877), son of Peter Wagner, was born in Dürkheim, Germany. He married Friedericke Odenwald (1812-1893). They had nine children. They emigrated and settled in Illinois. His brother, Julius Wagner (1816-1903) married Emilie M. Schneider (1820-1896). They had seven children. They emigrated and settled in Texas.
Author : Robert Mazrim
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 34,52 MB
Release : 2008-09-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0226514234
When Abraham Lincoln moved to Illinois’ Sangamo Country in 1831, he found a pioneer community transforming from a cluster of log houses along an ancient trail to a community of new towns and state roads. But two of the towns vanished in a matter of years, and many of the activities and lifestyles that shaped them were almost entirely forgotten. In The Sangamo Frontier, archaeologist Robert Mazrim unearths the buried history of this early American community, breathing new life into a region that still rests in Lincoln’s shadow. Named after a shallow river that cuts through the prairies of central Illinois, the Sangamo Country—an area that now encompasses the capital city of Springfield and present-day Sangamon County—was first colonized after the War of 1812. For the past fifteen years, Mazrim has conducted dozens of excavations there, digging up pieces of pioneer life, from hand-forged iron and locally made crockery to pewter spoons and Staffordshire teacups. And here, in beautifully illustrated stories of each dig, he shows how each of these small artifacts can teach us something about the lifestyles of people who lived on the frontier nearly two hundred years ago. Allowing us to see past the changed modern landscape and the clichés of pioneer history, Mazrim deftly uses his findings to portray the homes, farms, taverns, and pottery shops where Lincoln’s neighbors once lived and worked. Drawing readers into the thrill of discovery, The Sangamo Frontier inaugurates a new kind of archaeological history that both enhances and challenges our written history. It imbues today’s landscape with an authentic ghostliness that will reawaken the curiosity of anyone interested in the forgotten people and places that helped shape our nation.
Author : John Van Houten Dippel
Publisher : Algora Publishing
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 40,79 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0875864228
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Author : Silvana R. Siddali
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 48,82 MB
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 1107090768
Frontier Democracy examines the debates over state constitutions in the antebellum Northwest (Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin) from the 1820s through the 1850s. This is a book about conversations: in particular, the fights and negotiations over the core ideals in the constitutions that brought these frontier communities to life. Silvana R. Siddali argues that the Northwestern debates over representation and citizenship reveal two profound commitments: the first to fair deliberation, and the second to ethical principles based on republicanism, Christianity, and science. Some of these ideas succeeded brilliantly: within forty years, the region became an economic and demographic success story. However, some failed tragically: racial hatred prevailed everywhere in the region, in spite of reformers' passionate arguments for justice, and resulted in disfranchisement and even exclusion for non-white Northwesterners that lasted for generations.
Author : Illinois. Centennial Commission
Publisher :
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 26,15 MB
Release : 1918
Category : Illinois
ISBN :
Author : Carl J. Ekberg
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 47,11 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 9780252069246
Winner of the Kemper and Leila Williams Book Prize for the Best Book on Louisiana History, French Roots in the Illinois Country creates an entirely new picture of the Illinois country as a single ethnic, economic, and cultural entity. Focusing on the French Creole communities along the Mississippi River, Carl J. Ekberg shows how land use practices such as medieval-style open-field agriculture intersected with economic and social issues ranging from the flour trade between Illinois and New Orleans to the significance of the different mentalities of French Creoles and Anglo-Americans.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 30,75 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Illinois
ISBN :