Hist Of The City Of Cairo Illi

Author : John M. Lansden
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780809386598

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A History of the City of Cairo, Illinois by John M. Lansden Pdf

Long out of print and much sought after bycollectors, Lansden’s classic 1910 history of Cairo remains valuable for the early history of the city. Its reprinting here, with a new Foreword by Clyde C. Walton, former Illinois State Historian, thus makes available again one of the finest examples of local history ever written, stressing as itdoes Cairo’s important relations with its area and with the country—in Lansden’s words, “this part of the Valley of the Mississippi—this Illinois Country.”

Author : John McMurray Lansden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Cairo (Ill.)
ISBN : LCCN:75038699

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A History of the City of Cairo, Illinois by John McMurray Lansden Pdf

Author : JOHN MCMURRAY. LANSDEN
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1033548529

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HISTORY OF THE CITY OF CAIRO, ILLINOIS by JOHN MCMURRAY. LANSDEN Pdf

Author : John M. Lansden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1997-05-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 083285719X

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History of the City of Cairo by John M. Lansden Pdf

Author : J. M. Lansden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:500277345

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A History of the City of Cairo, Illinois by J. M. Lansden Pdf

Author : John McMurray 1836 Lansden
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 136271576X

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HIST OF THE CITY OF CAIRO ILLI by John McMurray 1836 Lansden Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : John McMurray 1836 Lansden
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1362712590

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HIST OF THE CITY OF CAIRO ILLI by John McMurray 1836 Lansden Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : John M. Lansden
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-13
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1333216947

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A History of the City of Cairo, Illinois (Classic Reprint) by John M. Lansden Pdf

Excerpt from A History of the City of Cairo, Illinois In the year 1864, Mr. Moses B. Harrell, then long a resident of Cairo, wrote an excellent short history of the city, and the same became the first fifty pages of a city directory of that year. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Herman R. Lantz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : History
ISBN : UCAL:$B669646

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A Community in Search of Itself by Herman R. Lantz Pdf

Cairo, Illinois, at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, was a city favored by geography and climate. It was founded in the early 1800s on great expectations. Its location at the head of major rivers navi­gable both summer and winter and its proximity to coal fields generated predictions that Cairo would soon surpass Louisville, Cincinnati, St. Louis, and even Chicago. Yet itfailed to realize the success its promoters believed inevitable. Using mainly primary sources such as newspapers, city council records, and census data, Herman R. Lantz has traced the history of the city and has pinpointed the economic, social, and psychological factors that helped to retard Cairo's progress while other cities with the same, or even fewer, advantages flourished. The result is an important socio-historical contribution that attempts to explore the process of community failure in the perspective of national success.

Author : Christopher D. Cantwell,Heath W. Carter,Janine Giordano Drake
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780252098178

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The Pew and the Picket Line by Christopher D. Cantwell,Heath W. Carter,Janine Giordano Drake Pdf

The Pew and the Picket Line collects works from a new generation of scholars working at the nexus where religious history and working-class history converge. Focusing on Christianity and its unique purchase in America, the contributors use in-depth local histories to illustrate how Americans male and female, rural and urban, and from a range of ethnic backgrounds dwelt in a space between the church and the shop floor. Their vivid essays show Pentecostal miners preaching prosperity while seeking miracles in the depths of the earth, while aboveground black sharecroppers and white Protestants establish credit unions to pursue a joint vision of cooperative capitalism. Innovative and essential, The Pew and the Picket Line reframes venerable debates as it maps the dynamic contours of a landscape sculpted by the powerful forces of Christianity and capitalism. Contributors: Christopher D. Cantwell, Heath W. Carter, Janine Giordano Drake, Ken Fones-Wolf, Erik Gellman, Alison Collis Greene, Brett Hendrickson, Dan McKanan, Matthew Pehl, Kerry L. Pimblott, Jarod Roll, Evelyn Sterne, and Arlene Sanchez Walsh.

Author : Bonnie Stepenoff
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826273499

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Working the Mississippi by Bonnie Stepenoff Pdf

The Mississippi River occupies a sacred place in American culture and mythology. Often called The Father of Rivers, it winds through American life in equal measure as a symbol and as a topographic feature. To the people who know it best, the river is life and a livelihood. River boatmen working the wide Mississippi are never far from land. Even in the dark, they can smell plants and animals and hear people on the banks and wharves. Bonnie Stepenoff takes readers on a cruise through history, showing how workers from St. Louis to Memphis changed the river and were in turn changed by it. Each chapter of this fast-moving narrative focuses on representative workers: captains and pilots, gamblers and musicians, cooks and craftsmen. Readers will find workers who are themselves part of the country’s mythology from Mark Twain and anti-slavery crusader William Wells Brown to musicians Fate Marable and Louis Armstrong.

Author : Bruce L. Mouser,Henry Louis Gates
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780299301842

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A Black Gambler’s World of Liquor, Vice, and Presidential Politics by Bruce L. Mouser,Henry Louis Gates Pdf

"As Mouser shows, Scott spent his life figuring out--and satisfying--men's interests with liquor, gambling, and women, and . . . [he] refused to be complicit in backing politicians who took him and the broader base of first-generation black voters for dupes. . . . Scott saw the political game for what it was: a game of power."--Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Author : John A. Beadles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780809370054

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Stained with Blood and Tears by John A. Beadles Pdf

Packed with villains, victims, and heroes, Stained with Blood and Tears recounts the story of what has been called the "equal opportunity" lynchings of Will "Froggie" James, who was black, and Henry Salzner, a white man, in the rowdy river town of Cairo, Illinois, on November 11, 1909. This book is the first to focus on one of the most infamous nights of lynching in the history of the United States, when about one thousand men and women were transformed into a murderous mob. The book also details a lesser-known attempted lynching of a suspected purse snatcher by another mob about ninety days later. That mob was beaten back by about a dozen mostly African American deputies and a white sheriff. Stained with Blood and Tears ends with the saga of the killing of a Cairo policeman in the police station by the sheriff from a neighboring county over an incident that began in a Cairo brothel. The book thoroughly examines a dark side of Cairo's past when it had a Jim Crow mind-set and crooked policemen and was awash in liquor and teeming with prostitutes and gambling houses. The violence of the era led the town's Catholic priest to lament, "Must this fair city of ours go ever in garments spattered with blood?"

Author : Brent M.S. Campney
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780252051333

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Hostile Heartland by Brent M.S. Campney Pdf

We forget that racist violence permeated the lower Midwest from the pre-Civil War period until the 1930s. From Kansas to Ohio, whites orchestrated extraordinary events like lynchings and riots while engaged in a spectrum of brutal acts made all the more horrific by being routine. Also forgotten is the fact African Americans forcefully responded to these assertions of white supremacy through armed resistance, the creation of press outlets and civil rights organizations, and courageous individual activism. Drawing on cutting-edge methodology and a wealth of documentary evidence, Brent M. S. Campney analyzes the institutionalized white efforts to assert and maintain dominance over African Americans. Though rooted in the past, white violence evolved into a fundamentally modern phenomenon, driven by technologies such as newspapers, photographs, automobiles, and telephones. Other surprising insights challenge our assumptions about sundown towns, who was targeted by whites, law enforcement's role in facilitating and perpetrating violence, and the details of African American resistance.

Author : Bruce Cline
Publisher : BLACK OAK MEDIA INC
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781618760111

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More History, Mystery, and Hauntings of Southern Illinois by Bruce Cline Pdf

In his first book, Bruce Cline opened the archives of the Little Egypt Ghost Society and the Gaslight Ghoul Club for the first time. Now, join him again as he brings you all new tales of southern Illinois' most notorious places and historical events. You may have heard of John Crenshaw, Little Egypt's notorious slave owner, but did you know that he may have been responsible for the haunting screams emanating from the mysterious Pig Island? Have you heard the story behind the bloody Harpe Brothers, or braved Tuttle Bottoms and its monster? From Southern Illinois University's hidden tunnels, to the Gates of Hell, to the stomping grounds of the Hamp Mine Monster and beyond, join the Little Egypt Ghost Society as they explore some of Illinois' oldest and most interesting places!