This first comprehensive account of the Illinois village of Kaskaskia covers more than two hundred years in the vast and compelling history of the state. David MacDonald and Raine Waters explore Illin
"This pictorial record of the men who worked in the Illinois and Kentucky fluorspar fields from the 1890s to the 1990s shows early and later methods of extracting, hoisting, processing, and transporti
Although the northern Illinois chapters of the story of Susan ?Sukey” Richardson’s escape from slavery on the Underground Railroad are documented, the part played by southern Illinois in that historic
From All Anybody Ever Wanted of Me Was to Work... "Starting around 1950, people stopped raising chickens, milking cows, and raising hogs. They just buy it at the store, ready to eat. A lot buy a steer
John A. Logan, called "Black Jack" by the men he led in Civil War battles from the Henry-Donelson campaign through Vicksburg, Chattanooga, and on to Atlanta, was one of the Union Army's most colorful
Hastings experienced the rural and small town side of an event that touched all who weathered itthe economic crash of 1929 and its 10-year aftermath.The author grew up in Marion, Illinois, enter
Poetry. "Sometimes questions are answers and answers are questions in these dialogic verses. Death, love, history, sorrow, language, joy and prayer are subjects masterfully interwoven in John High's b
