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Illinois History Teacher is dedicated to bringing high-quality scholarship on important subjects in our state's past into your classroom but, moreover, giving you, the teacher, assurance of meeting your teaching mission by pairing important history educators who draft Curriculum Materials with the work of Narrative authors.  Together, they  provide you with excellent discussions on aspects of Illinois history and dedicated student exercises. Availability and Access:

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An Index
1994-present The authors are listed below, giving the Narrative authors first and the Curriculum Authors next.

Volume 1 (1994)—Geography in Illinois History

Location By Michael D. Sublett and Frederick H. Walk

Place By Norman Moline and James Schebler

Human-Environment Interaction By Norma Lou Blake and Douglas R. Miller

Regions By Robert Ashley and William D. Walters, Jr.

Volume 2 (1995)—Conflict and Compromise in Illinois History Guest Editor: Roger B. Beck

Illinois Becomes a State: 1818 Compromise, Later Conflict By Catherine E. Breen, Gerald A. Danzer, and Janet A. Lueby

The Cumberland Road: Individual Rights and Civilization’s Advance By F. Delaine Donaldson with Charles Titus

Elijah Lovejoy and the Mormons: Minority Rights By Daniel L. Dickens and Robert H. Lombard

Multiculturalism in Chicago’s Lazar Averbuch Case, 1908 By Angelina Corsale and Mary Ann Johnson

Volume 3:1 (1996)—Taking A Stand in Illinois History Guest Editor: Roger B. Beck

Mary Livermore and the Illinois Women’s Suffrage Movement By Bruce D. Janu and Wendy Hamand Venet

Illinois Copperheads and the American Civil War By Delores Archimbault and Terry A. Barnhart

The Corn Belt Liberty League Takes a Stand Against Government By Michael Nave and Lynnita Sommer

Everett Dirksen and the 1964 Civil Rights Act By Stan Mendehall

Volume 3:2 (1996)—Aspects of the African-American Experience in Illinois History Guest Editor:  Charles Branham

The Illinois Black Codes By Roger D. Bridges and Harry Daley

African-American Politics and Community in Cairo and Vicinity, 1863-1900 By Janice Bell Ollarvia and Shirley J. Portwood

Chicago and the “Great Migration” By James Grossman and Jerryelyn Leonard Jones

Growing Up Black and Female, Black and Male in Chicago in Gwendolyn Brooks’s Maud Martha and Ron Fair’s Hog Butcher By Edna Capehart and Maria K. Mootry

Volume 4: 1 (1997)--Triumph and Tragedy

Ferdinand Ernst and the German Colony at Vandalia, Illinois By Paul E. Stroble and Beth Stroble

The Political Triumphs and Tragedies of the First Adlai E. Stevenson By Leonard Schlup and Bill Ulmer

Women Making A Difference: Ida Craddock, Adelaide Johnson, and Laura Dainty Pelham By Shirley J. Burton and Craig Pfannkuche

Tragedy in the Chicago Fire and Triumph in the Architectural Response By Jo Ann Rayfield and Peggy Scott

Volume 4: 2 (1997)—Illinois and the Civil War Guest Editor: Larry T. Balsamo

Illinois Ethnics in the Civil War By William L. Burton and Raymond Krey

Draftees and the Civil War By Thomas G. Conway and David Pasquini

Lincoln and the Springfield Newspapers during the Civil War By Patricia Ann Owens and Paula Seifert

Battlefield Medicine and Diet By Robert W. Sterling and Thomas Best

Civilians, Soldiers, and the Sack of Athens, Alabama By Theodore J. Karamanski and Howard J. Romanek

Volume 5: 1 (1998)--Migration in Illinois History: People, Culture, Ideas

Freedom's Early Ring: Ending Slavery in the Illinois Country: 1787-1818 By Stephen Middleton, Shayne Klein, and Fred Williams

Foreign Immigrants in Illinois, 1850 By Douglas K. Meyer and Robert Ashley

From Immigration to Integration: Jewish Life in Quincy in the Nineteenth Century By David A. Frolick and Howard Rubin

The People College: The Movement Behind the Morrill-Land Grant Act of 1850 By David R. Wrone, Frederick Drake, and Lynn R. Nelson

Volume 5: 2 (1998)--Illinois History Museums: Resources for Teaching Illinois History Guest Editor: Mary W. Turner

Teaching History with Material Culture By Janice Tauer Wass and Laura Crane Lewis

Teaching History with Family History By Kristen R. Anderson and Don Cavallini

Teaching History with Architecture By Paul Clifford Larson and Malcolm Moore

Teaching History with Textiles By Michelle Oberly

Teaching History with Photographs By Larry A. Viskochil and Rod Sellers

Volume 6: 1 (1999)---The Frontier in Illinois History

Understandings of Illinois History By James E. Davis, Vicki Harrison, and Helen S. Slaton

The Kickapoo Indians: Illinois' Early Pioneers By Joseph B. Herring and Delores F. Rauscher

Frontier Chicago By Perry Duis and Elizabeth H. Miller

Pin Oak Colony By J. Eric Robinson and Stan Mendenhall

Newspapers on the Illinois Frontier By James A. Edstrom and Matthew K. McClure

Volume 6: 2 (1999)--Selected Ethnic Groups in Illinois History

Bishop Hill, Sweden's Doorway into Illinois By Mark Wyman and April Martens

The Irish in Chicago By Michael F. Funchion and Margaret Bullers Funchion

Multicultural Difficulties in Chicago's Polish Catholic Community: Historical Perspectives By Joseph John Parot and Colleen McElroy

Chicago's Italians: Immigrants, Ethnics, Achievers, 1850-1985 By Dominic Candeloro and Louis J. Broccolo

The Bulgarians in Southwestern Illinois By David E. Cassens and David E. Goss

The Mexicans in Chicago By Louise A. N. Kerr and Bruce David Janu

Volume 6: 3 (1999)--Science, Technology, and Invention in Illinois History Guest Editor: Lawrence W. McBride

Teaching Science, Technology, and Invention in Illinois History: An Overview By Lawrence W. McBride

The Historical Development of Agriculture in Illinois By Pamela Riney-Kehrberg, Dayna Mergenthaler, and Melissa Beck

The Historical Development of Transportation in Illinois By Terri Ryburn-LaMonte, Stacey Pickett, Gerald A. Danzer, Lawrence W. McBride, and Mark Faherty

The Historical Development of Industry and Manufacturing in Illinois By Mark Matejka, Kelly Griffin, Gerald A. Danzer, and Lawrence W. McBride

The Historical Development of Science, Technology, and Invention in Illinois History By Michael K. Daugherty, Stacey Pickett, Monica Cousins Noraian, Gerald A. Danzer, and Lawrence W. McBride

Volume 7: 1 (2000)--Turning Points in Illinois History

The Changing Roles of Farm Women By Jane Adams and Marilyn Hughes

The Progressive Era in Illinois: 'Launching Pad' for 'New Women' By John D. Buenker and Tamerin Hayward

Turning Points in African American History in Bloomington-Normal, Illinois By Mildred Pratt and Peggy Scott

Harold Moser's Naperville By Michael H. Ebner and Brooke S. Ebner

Volume 7: 2 (2000)--History and Literature in Illinois Guest Editor: John E. Hallwas

The Chicago Renaissance in Poetry By Dan Guillory and Elizabeth H. Miller

The Chicago Novel, 1890-1915 By Robert Bray and Kathryn Pavlou

Pluck and Luck: Edna Ferber's Chicago By Babette Inglehart, William Paarlberg, and Janet Paarlberg

'Promised Land?' The Black Chicago Renaissance and After By James Hurt and Edna Capehart

Creative Non-Fiction: Three Narratives of the Prohibition Era By James Ballowe and GeorgeAnn Kislia Siwicke

Volume 8: 1 (2001)--Science, Technology, and Invention

The Impact of John Deere's Plow By Hiram M. Drache and Thomas Best

Octave Chanute, the Chicago Connection, and the Birth of Aviation By Roger D. Launius and Don Cavallini

Chicago Public Transportation Policy, 1900-1940s By Paul Barrett and Howard J. Romanek

Penicillin: Medicine's Wartime Wonder Drug and Its Production at Peoria, Illinois By John S. Haller, Jr. and Barbara Mason

Volume 8: 2 (2001)--Abraham Lincoln and Illinois History

Abraham Lincoln, Philosopher By Allen C. Guelzo and Barry L. Witten

The Lincoln-Douglas Debates By Douglas L. Wilson and Lynn R. Nelson

Thomas Nast's Rare Lincoln Political Caricatures By Gary L. Bunker and Craig L. Pfannkuche

The 1864 Election in Illinois By William E. Gienapp and Frederick D. Drake

Volume 9: 1 (2002)--Reform, Reaction, and Revolution in Illinois History

Cultural Conflicts: The French and the Anglo-Americans in Pre-statehood Illinois By B. Pierre Lebeau and Tonia Faloon

John Peter Altgeld and the Haymarket Riots Pardon By Leonard Schlup and Delores F. Rauscher

Public Transportation and the Failure of Municipal Socialism in Chicago, 1905-1907 By  Richard Allen Morton and Jason P. Klein

Illinois Constitution-Making in the Spirit of the Sixties, 1969-1970 By Janet Cornelius and Malcolm Moore

Volume 9: 2 (2002)--Illinois in America's Half-Century Guest Editor: Bruce E. Field

Chicagoans and World War II By Perry R. Duis and Brian Booth

Looking Back on the Vietnam War By David Denton and Lisa Bopp

The Chicago Catholic Archdiocese's Response to the Cold War, 1946-1958 By Steve Rosswurm and Pierre Thorsen

No Longer Business as Usual': Illinois Students and Corporate Globalization B by James D. Schmidt and Erika Schlichter

Volume 10: 1 (2003)--The Individual in Illinois History

Stephen A. Douglas and the Northern Democratic Origins of the Kansas- Nebraska Act By Graham A. Peck and Bill Ulmer

Eva C. Monroe: Social Welfare Reformer and Advocate for Children By Wanda A. Hendricks and Elaine F. S. Qadeem

Hull House and the Immigrants By Melvin G. Holli and Bruce D. Janu

James H. Magee: Triumph over Adversity By Roger D. Bridges and Gloria F. Pate-Hayes

Volume 10: 2 (2003)--Women and Illinois History Guest Editor: Virginia R. Boynton

Sauk and Mesquakie Women in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth Century Northern Illinois By Linda Clemmons and Tonia Faloon

African-American Women's Clubs in Chicago, 1890 to 1920 By Anne Meis Knupfer and Elizabeth H. Miller

Female Office Workers in Chicago By Lisa M. Fine and Delores F. Rauscher

Mexicanas in Chicago By Gabriela F. Arredondo and Rita Arias Jirasek

Volume 10: 3 (2003)--The Lewis and Clark Expedition

Background and Significance of the Lewis and Clark Expedition By Jeffrey P. Brown and Linda J. McMullen

Charting Terrae Incognitae: Lewis and Clark and the Mapping of the West By John Logan Allen and Fred Willman

Lewis and Clark in the Illinois Country By Robert E. Hartley and Stan Mendenhall

A Geographer Looks at Lewis and Clark's Route and Its Later Impacts By William D. Walters, Jr. and Fred H. Walk

Volume 11: 1 (2004)--Exploration, Encounter, and Exchange Guest Editor: Michael Wiant

Exploring Seventeenth-Century Illinois By Michael Wiant, Duane Esarey, and Monica Cousins Noraian

Illinois as a French Colony By Duane Esarey and Bonnie Laughlin

Illinois Indians in the Illinois Country By Robert E. Warren and Joyce A. Williams

Illinois Indians and French Colonists: Cultural Collaboration and Change By Robert E. Warren and Sara L. Werckle

Volume 11: 2 (2004)--Maps from Illinois History Guest Editor: Gerald A. Danzer

Thirty-Nine (39) historical maps with Curriculum Materials

Volume 12: 1 (2005)--Rights and Responsibilities in Illinois History

Edward Coles, Patrician Emancipator By Dan Monroe and David E. Goss

Copperheads and Pike County in the Civil War By Walter S. Waggoner and Thomas Best

School Segregation in Southern Illinois: The Alton School Case, 1897-1908 By Shirley J. Portwood and Erika Schlichter

Proving Guilt: Illinois Anti-Conspiracy Laws of the Nineteenth Century By Mitchell Newton-Matza and Don Cavallini

Volume 12: 2 (2005)--The French in Illinois, Pre-statehood to the Twentieth Century Guest Editor: B. Pierre Lebeau

Colonial Illinois: The Last Colony By Carl J. Ekberg and Melissa Schmitt-Crafton

French Colonial Survivors in the Illinois Country By Margaret Kimball Brown and Rachel Steibel

French Women and Family Life in Post-Colonial Illinois By Erin I. Bishop and Lynnea Magnuson

French Canadians in the Kankakee Valley By Caroline B. Bretell and Melissa Craig

Volume 13: 1 (2006)—Taking a Stand in Illinois History

Planting the Prairies: John Kennicott and Horticultural Advocacy in    Nineneteenth-Century Illinois By Cheryl-Lyon Jenness and James J. Schebler

Public Health: Danville Women Take a Stand, 1890-1920s By Janet Duitsman Cornelius and Kritin Camp

Carl Sandburg, Poet with an Attitude By Dan Guillory and Rosemary Laughlin

Paul H. Douglas, Champion of the People By Roger H. Biles and Harold Harrison

Volume 13: 2 (2006)—Labor in Illinois History

Miners of the Prairie: The Days of Shaft Mining in Northern Illinois By Richard P. Joyce and Evelyn R. Holt Otten

Remember Virden! The Coal Mine Wars of 1898-1900 By  Rosemary Feurer, Michael K. Daugherty and Jenny L. Daugherty

When Worlds Collide: The 1894 Pullman Strike in Decatur By Robert D. Sampson and Malcom W. Moore, Jr.

Meatpacking in Illinois History By Wilson J. Warren and Victoria E. Hollister

Volume 14: 1 (2007)—Communications in Illinois History Guest Editor: John Nerone

Illinois: The Cradle of Public Broadcasting By Jerry M. Landay and Sara L. Werckle

The Johnson Publishing Company By William E. Berry and Elizabeth H. Miller

Working-Class Periodicals in Chicago By Jon Bekken and Howard J. Romanek

Elijah Lovejoy, Antislavery, and Freedom of the Press By John Nerone and Barry L. Whitten

Volume 14: 2 (2007)—Politics in Illinois History Guest Editor: Dan Monroe

Slavery in Illinois: Culture versus Law By  Dennis K. Boman and Maria Schrup Peterson

A Government for the People or an Egyptian Swindle? The 1862 Illinois Constitutional Convention By Matthew D. Norman and Mindy Juriga

A Shift in Politics: Macon County in the Civil War By Robert D. Sampson and Thomas Best

John A. Logan and the Personal Side of the Civil War By Bruce Tap and Rivanna Abel

Volume 15: 1 (2008)--Railroads in Illinois History Guest Editor: H. Roger Grant

The Iron Horse Comes to Illinois By H. Roger Grant and Bruce David Janu

Railroad and Community Life By H. Roger Grant and Jamie Lynn Kassner

Chicago: America’s Railroad Mecca By H. Roger Grant and Thomas Best

Still Hauling: Today’s Railroads in Illinois By H. Roger Grant and Mary Ann Hanlin