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Title Illinois history : a reader / edited by Mark Hubbard
Published Urbana, Illinois : University of Illinois Press, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource
Series Common threads, an anthology from the University of Illinois Press
Common threads (University of Illinois (System). Press)
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; 1. The Fox Raid of 1752: Defensive Warfare and the Decline of the Illinois Tribe; 2. Great Britain and the Illinois Country in the Era of the American Revolution; 3. Edward Coles and the Constitutional Crisis in Illinois, 1822-1824; 4. Slavery, the "More Perfect Union," and the Prairie State; 5. "Pretty Damned Warm Times": The 1864 Charleston Riot and "the Inalienable Right of Revolution"; 6. "Honest Men and Law Abiding Citizens": The 1894 Railroad Strike in Decatur
7. The Alton School Case and African American Community Consciousness, 1897-19088. The Dry Machine: The Formation of the Anti-Saloon League of Illinois; 9. Chicago Working Women's Struggle for a Shorter Day, 1908-1911; 10. "I Too Serve America": African American Women War Workers in Chicago, 1940-1945; 11. From the Near West Side to 18th Street: Mexican Community Formation and Activism in Mid-Twentieth Century Chicago; 12. A Final Push for National Legislation: The Chicago Freedom Movement; 13. From Gang-Bangers to Urban Revolutionaries: The Young Lords of Chicago; 14. The Decline of Decatur
Summary A collection of articles from the Journal of the Illinois State History Society
Notes "A collection of articles from the Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society."
Description based on print version record
Subject HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
HISTORY -- General.
SUBJECT Illinois -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064301
Subject Illinois.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
Author Hubbard, Mark, editor
Illinois State Historical Society.
LC no. 2019717325
ISBN 9780252050688
0252050681