Illinois, Land of Lincoln, Inland Empire
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Total Pages | : 35 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : Illinois |
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Total Pages | : 35 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : Illinois |
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Author | : Charles Titus |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2021-02-01 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 0252052587 |
Discovering Illinois through twenty of the state's most important places A one-of-a-kind travel guide, Exploring the Land of Lincoln invites road-trippers and history buffs to explore the Prairie State's most extraordinary historic sites. Charles Titus blends storytelling with in-depth research to highlight twenty must-see destinations selected for human drama, historical and cultural relevance, and their far-reaching impact on the state and nation. Maps, illustrations, and mileage tables encourage readers to create personal journeys of exploration to, and beyond, places like Cahokia, the Lincoln sites, Nauvoo, and Chicago's South Side Community Art Center. Detailed and user-friendly, Exploring the Land of Lincoln is the only handbook you need for the sights and stories behind the names on the map of Illinois.
Author | : Allan Carpenter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Illinois |
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A panoramic view of Illinois' past and present, its industry and natural resources, government, statehood, and other positive facets of this one-hundred-fifty-year-old State.
Author | : Frank Cicero Jr. |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018-03-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780252041679 |
In its early days, Illinois seemed destined to extend the American South. Its population of transplants lived an upland southern culture and in some cases owned slaves. Yet the nineteenth century and three constitutions recast Illinois as a crucible of northern strength and American progress. Frank Cicero Jr. provides an appealing new history of Illinois as expressed by the state's constitutions—and the lively conventions that led to each one. In Creating the Land of Lincoln, Cicero sheds light on the vital debates of delegates who, freed from electoral necessity, revealed the opinions, prejudices, sentiments, and dreams of Illinoisans at critical junctures in state history. Cicero simultaneously analyzes decisions large and small that fostered momentous social and political changes. The addition of northern land in the 1818 constitution, for instance, opened up the state to immigrant populations that reoriented Illinois to the north. Legislative abuses and rancor over free blacks influenced the 1848 document and the subsequent rise of a Republican Party that gave the nation Abraham Lincoln as its president. Cicero concludes with the 1870 constitution, revealing how its dialogues and resolutions set the state on the modern course that still endures today.
Author | : Mary Burtschi |
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Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : Illinois |
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Author | : Mark Q. Rhoads |
Publisher | : Jameson Books |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780915463954 |
This is a colorful history of the people involved for more than a century in the doings of the Illinois State Society in Washington, D.C., as well as a narrative history of politics in Illinois and America since the Society's founding in 1854.Known as Illinois'"103rd county," the Society -- Washington's oldest -- has served as a home away from home for Illinoisans of both political parties, and the nonpolitical, living and working there. The Society's many social and charitable activities have helped diminish the partisanship often prevalent in a political capital.For political history buffs, the narrative also details the major events in Springfield and Chicago -- from Lincoln and Douglas in the 1850s to Douglas, Dirksen and Daley during recent decades -- all within the context of America's national history.Heavily illustrated, with a thousand-name index, readers will also find included biographies of famous Illinoisans in the arts, science, literature, business and sports.
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Total Pages | : 23 |
Release | : 198? |
Genre | : Illinois |
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Author | : Tara McClellan McAndrew |
Publisher | : History Press (SC) |
Total Pages | : 126 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781596299320 |
Discover new stories about the famous characters of Springfield, Illinois, and why some of its lesser-known citizens deserve to be famous too. Learn about the first Lincoln museum and its controversial creator, the cholera epidemic that spared the town and the operators of Springfield's Underground Railroad. Unearth the mysteries of a local poet's wrenching death and "airship" sightings from the nineteenth century. From Springfield's fatal pole wars of 1844 to the invention of better dental forceps, local historian Tara McClellan McAndrew's research splices together the comic, the tragic and the completely unexpected in these chronicles from Lincoln's town.
Author | : Zen Studio Publishing |
Publisher | : Independently Published |
Total Pages | : 122 |
Release | : 2019-04-03 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9781092533119 |
Are you looking for a great gift to for someone to celebrate their love of the state of Illinois? Or better yet, a way for them to write their experiences, thoughts, and travel notes down from all of the places they've visited in the Land Of Lincoln state? This cute book with a cool look and a bold black background is a perfect blank, lined journal for your favorite person from or visiting Illinois, a man or woman. Details of this journal include: 6x9 inches, 120 pages, matte-finish cover and white paper. If you are looking for a different book, make sure to click on the author name for other awesome journal ideas.
Author | : Ron J. Keller |
Publisher | : SIU Press |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2019-04-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0809337010 |
In this indispensable account of Abraham Lincoln’s earliest political years, Ron J. Keller reassesses Lincoln’s arguably lackluster legislative record during four terms in the Illinois House of Representatives to reveal how the underpinnings of his temperament, leadership skills, and political acumen were bolstered on the statehouse floor. Due partly to Lincoln’s own reserve and partly to an unimpressive legislative tally, Lincoln’s time in the state legislature has been largely neglected by historians more drawn to other early hallmarks of his life, including his law career, his personal life, and his single term as a U.S. congressman in the 1840s. Of about sixteen hundred bills, resolutions, and petitions passed from 1834 to 1842, Lincoln introduced only about thirty of them. The issue he most ardently championed and shepherded through the legislature—the internal improvements system—left the state in debt for more than a generation. Despite that spotty record, Keller argues, it was during these early years that Lincoln displayed and honed the traits that would allow him to excel in politics and ultimately define his legacy: honesty, equality, empathy, and leadership. Keller reanimates Lincoln’s time in the Illinois legislature to reveal the formation of Lincoln’s strong character and political philosophy in those early years, which allowed him to rise to prominence as the Whig party’s floor leader regardless of setbacks and to build a framework for his future. Lincoln in the Illinois Legislature details Lincoln’s early political platform and the grassroots campaigning that put him in office. Drawing on legislative records, newspaper accounts, speeches, letters, and other sources, Keller describes Lincoln’s positions on key bills, highlights his colleagues’ perceptions of him, and depicts the relationships that grew out of his statehouse interactions. Keller’s research delves into Lincoln’s popularity as a citizen of New Salem, his political alliances and victories, his antislavery stirrings, and his personal joys and struggles as he sharpened his political shrewdness. Keller argues Lincoln’s definitive political philosophies—economic opportunity and the right to rise, democratic equality, and to a lesser extent his hatred of slavery—took root during his legislative tenure in Illinois. Situating Lincoln’s tenure and viewpoints within the context of national trends, Keller demonstrates that understanding Lincoln’s four terms as a state legislator is vital to understanding him as a whole.