History 420 (G)
For all students in the course:
Books:
Biles, Roger. Illinois: A History of the Land and Its People. Dekalb: Northern Illinois University, 2005
Carrier, Lois. Illinois: Crossroads of a Continent. Urbana: University of Illinois, 1998.
Howard, Robert. Illinois: A History of the Prairie State. Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1972.
Hoffman, John. A Guide to the History of Illinois. New York: Greenwood Press, 1991.
Whitney, Ellen, et al, Illinois History: An Annotated Bibliography. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1995.
Sutton, Robert. The Prairie State: A Documentary History of Illinois, Colonial Years to 1860. Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1976
Sutton, Robert. The Prairie State: A Documentary History of Illinois, Civil War to the Present. Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1976
For Graduate Students:
Instructions for ERes Access:
To access ERes documents:
• Go to the WIU library homepage (www.wiu.edu/library)
• Pull down the Quick-links menu and click on ERes
• Click on view courses and documents
• You can pull up ERes pages by department name or instructors last name
• Course password is instructor's last name, all lower case followed by
the course number.
The password for the class is hall420
Illinois articles:
Lombardo, Robert. “Chicago’s Little Sicily” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 100 (Spring 2007): 41-56
Kohl, Rhonda. “The Hard Lessons of War: The Fifth Illinois Cavalry at Helena, Arkansas” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 99 (Fall-Winter 2006-2007): 185-210
Markwell, David. “A Turning Point: The Lasting Impact of the 1898 Virden Mine Riot” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 99 (Fall-Winter 2006-2007): 211-227
Scott, Cord. “Harley’s Wayward Cousins: A History of Chicago Motorcycle Makers” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 98 (Winter 2005-2006): 287-302
McNally, Paula. “Character Education in Rural Illinois: The One-Room Schools of Macoupin County, 1909-1947” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 96 (Winter 2003-2004): 347-367
Bell, Jonathan. “The Changing Dynamics of American Liberalism: Paul Douglas and the Elections of 1948” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 96 (Winter 2003-2004): 368-393
Lemelin, Bernard. “An Isolationist Newspaper in an Internationalist Era: The Chicago Tribune and U.S. Foreign Policy, 1945-1960 Journal of Illinois History 9 (Winter 2006): 234-264
Pomrenke, Jacob. “Bringing Home the Bacon: How the Chicago ‘Black Sox’ Got Back into Baseball and Gave Bragging Rights to One Illinois Town’s Team” Journal of Illinois History 9 (Winter 2006): 265-282
Stacy, Jason. “‘I do not think we can keep universities open with bayonets’: The May 1970 Riots at Southern Illinois University” Journal of Illinois History 9 (Winter 2006): 283-306
Sampson, Robert. “Incident at Grape Creek: The Illinois National Guard and the Use of Deadly Force in the 1894 Pullman Strike” Journal of Illinois History 9 (Spring 2006): 2-22
Criblez, Adam. “A ‘motley array’: Changing Perceptions of Chicago Taverns, 1833-1871” Journal of Illinois History 8 (Winter 2005): 262-280