Western Illinois Regional Studies

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Illinois
ISBN : UOM:39015073409123

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Western Illinois Regional Studies by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Illinois
ISBN : UOM:39015073408976

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Western Illinois Regional Studies by Anonim Pdf

Author : James Krohe
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780809336029

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Corn Kings and One-Horse Thieves by James Krohe Pdf

"This popular general history of the middle third of Illinois is organized thematically and covers the Woodland period of prehistory until roughly 1960"--

Author : Jeffrey W. Hancks,Adam J. Carey
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 073856141X

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Western Illinois University by Jeffrey W. Hancks,Adam J. Carey Pdf

Western Illinois University (WIU), located in Macomb and Moline, has a rich history of service to the people of Illinois. Founded in 1899, WIU began as a normal school for the training of rural teachers. It has grown into a university of over 12,000 students, offering a broad range of quality undergraduate and graduate degrees in its four academic colleges and School of Extended Studies. This book tells the unique story of WIU, from its humble beginnings to today, with special emphasis on its astounding growth and development in the decades following World War II.

Author : Herbert K. Russell
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2005-07-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0252073142

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Edgar Lee Masters by Herbert K. Russell Pdf

Drawn from all of Edgar Lee Masters's diaries correspondence, and the unpublished chapters of his 1936 autobiography, this is the first full-length biography of the celebrated author of "Spoon River Anthology", one of the most widely read and discussed volumes of poetry ever written in America. 25 photos.

Author : Donald E. Pitzer
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807898970

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America's Communal Utopias by Donald E. Pitzer Pdf

From the Shakers to the Branch Davidians, America's communal utopians have captured the popular imagination. Seventeen original essays here demonstrate the relevance of such groups to the mainstream of American social, religious, and economic life. The contributors examine the beliefs and practices of the most prominent utopian communities founded before 1965, including the long-overlooked Catholic monastic communities and Jewish agricultural colonies. Also featured are the Ephrata Baptists, Moravians, Shakers, Harmonists, Hutterites, Inspirationists of Amana, Mormons, Owenites, Fourierists, Icarians, Janssonists, Theosophists, Cyrus Teed's Koreshans, and Father Divine's Peace Mission. Based on a new conceptual framework known as developmental communalism, the book examines these utopian movements throughout the course of their development--before, during, and after their communal period. Each chapter includes a brief chronology, giving basic information about the group discussed. An appendix presents the most complete list of American utopian communities ever published. The contributors are Jonathan G. Andelson, Karl J. R. Arndt, Pearl W. Bartelt, Priscilla J. Brewer, Donald F. Durnbaugh, Lawrence Foster, Carl J. Guarneri, Robert V. Hine, Gertrude E. Huntington, James E. Landing, Dean L. May, Lawrence J. McCrank, J. Gordon Melton, Donald E. Pitzer, Robert P. Sutton, Jon Wagner, and Robert S. Weisbrot.

Author : J. Ellen Gainor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 573 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781108804875

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Susan Glaspell in Context by J. Ellen Gainor Pdf

Susan Glaspell in Context provides new, accessible, and informative essays by leading international scholars and artists on Pulitzer Prize winner Susan Glaspell's life, career development, writing, and ongoing global creative impact. The collection features wide-ranging discussions of Glaspell's fiction, plays, and non-fiction in both historical and contemporary critical contexts, and demonstrates the significance of Glaspell's writing and other professional activities to a range of academic disciplines and artistic engagements. The volume also includes the first analyses of six previously unknown Glaspell short stories, as well as interviews with contemporary stage and film artists who have produced Glaspell's works or adapted them for audiences worldwide. Organized around key locations, influences, and phases in Glaspell's career, as well as core methodological and pedagogical approaches to her work, the collection's thirty-one essays place Glaspell in historical, geographical, political, cultural, and creative contexts of value to students, scholars, teachers, and artists alike.

Author : Bárbara Ozieblo Rajkowska,Bárbara Ozieblo
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0807848689

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Susan Glaspell by Bárbara Ozieblo Rajkowska,Bárbara Ozieblo Pdf

Celebrates the life and work of Susan Glaspell who won the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1931 and who is recognized for her groundbreaking feminist dramas.

Author : Jon Lauck
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781609381899

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The Lost Region by Jon Lauck Pdf

The American Midwest is an orphan among regions. In comparison to the South, the far West, and New England, its history has been sadly neglected. To spark more attention to their region, midwestern historians will need to explain the Midwest’s crucial roles in the development of the entire country: it helped spark the American Revolution and stabilized the young American republic by strengthening its economy and endowing it with an agricultural heartland; it played a critical role in the Union victory in the Civil War; it extended the republican institutions created by the American founders, and then its settler populism made those institutions more democratic; it weakened and decentered the cultural dominance of the urban East; and its bustling land markets deepened Americans’ embrace of capitalist institutions and attitudes. In addition to outlining the centrality of the Midwest to crucial moments in American history, Jon K. Lauck resurrects the long-forgotten stories of the institutions founded by an earlier generation of midwestern historians, from state historical societies to the Mississippi Valley Historical Association. Their strong commitment to local and regional communities rooted their work in place and gave it an audience outside the academy. He also explores the works of these scholars, showing that they researched a broad range of themes and topics, often pioneering fields that remain vital today. The Lost Region demonstrates the importance of the Midwest, the depth of historical work once written about the region, the continuing insights that can be gleaned from this body of knowledge, and the lessons that can be learned from some of its prominent historians, all with the intent of once again finding the forgotten center of the nation and developing a robust historiography of the Midwest.

Author : Frank Morn
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9780761853008

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Forgotten Reformer by Frank Morn Pdf

Forgotten Reformer traces criminal justice practice and reform developments in late nineteenth-century America through the life and career of Robert McClaughry, a leading reformer. As a warden of one of America's toughest prisons, as a chief of police of Chicago, as a superintendent of two different reformatories, and as one of the first wardens of the federal prison system, McClaughry developed and led a reform movement that resonates today. As a founding member of the reformatory movement that sought to "save" young first offenders, McClaughry advocated new sentencing structures, probation, parole, and rehabilitative regimes within new institutions for young first offenders called reformatories. McClaughry then successfully got these reformatory ideals placed into adult prisons. In addition, McClaughry became American's main advocate for a criminal identification method called the Bertillon system. He set up the first identification bureaus at the Illinois State Penitentiary, the Chicago police department, and the federal prison at Leavenworth, Kansas and these became models for others across the country. Finally, as a founding member of the National Association of Chiefs of Police (today the International Association of Chiefs of Police) and the National Prison Assocation (today American Corrections Association), McClaughry sought to professionalize police and prison administrators.

Author : United States. Bureau of the Census
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : United States
ISBN : OSU:32437010554711

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Census Catalog and Guide by United States. Bureau of the Census Pdf

Includes subject area sections that describe all pertinent census data products available, i.e. "Business--trade and services", "Geography", "Transportation," etc.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1526 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Energy development
ISBN : LOC:00006181934

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Energy and water development appropriations for 1989 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1484 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Energy development
ISBN : SRLF:AA0002136885

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Energy and Water Development Appropriations for 1989: Testimony of members of Congress and other interested individuals and organizations by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development Pdf

Author : Dieter C. Ullrich,Berry Craig
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476630984

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General E.A. Paine in Western Kentucky by Dieter C. Ullrich,Berry Craig Pdf

When General E. A. Paine assumed command of the U.S. Army's District of Western Kentucky at Paducah in the summer of 1864, he faced a defiant populace, a thriving black market and undisciplined troops plagued by low morale. Guerrillas pillaged towns and murdered the vocal few that supported the Union. Paine's task was to enforce discipline and mollify the secessionist majority in a 2,300-square-mile district. In less than two months, he succeeded where others had failed. For secessionists, his tenure was a "reign of terror"--for the Unionist minority, a "happy and jubilant" time. An abolitionist, Paine encouraged the enlistment of black troops and fair wages for former slaves. Yet his principled views led to his downfall. Critics and enemies falsified reports, leading to his removal from command and a court-martial. He was exonerated on all but one minor charge yet historians have perpetuated the Paine-the-monster myth. This book tells the complete story.

Author : Barton, H. Arnold
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Immigrants
ISBN : 0809389509

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The Old Country and the New by Barton, H. Arnold Pdf

"In this collection are seventeen essays and seven editorials by Barton and published in leading journals between 1974 and 2005. The subjects include post-World War II Swedish immigration and remigration to Sweden. A full bibliography of Barton's publications on Swedish-American history and culture is included"--Provided by publisher