Illinois History

Mark Hubbard is a professor of history at Eastern Illinois University and editor-in-chief of the Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society. He is the author of Illinois's War: The Civil War in Documents and Beyond Party: Cultures of Antipartisanship in Northern Politics before the Civil War.

"Mark Hubbard has succeeded in organizing a collection that is thematically coherent, informative, and interesting. Any scholar of Illinois history would profit from reading this fine work." --The Annals of Iowa"For those seeking glimpses of how our state came to be the way it is, this book of 304 pages is a useful beginning." --Springhouse

• TitleCopyrightContentsIntroduction1. The Fox Raid of 1752: Defensive Warfare and the Decline of the Illinois Indian Tribe Raymond2. Great Britain and the Illinois Country in the Era of the American Revolution Reginald Horsman3. Edward Coles and the Constitutional Crisis in Illinois, 1822–1824 Robert M. Sutton4. Slavery, the "More Perfect Union," and the Prairie State Paul Finkelman5. "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 Robert D. Sampson7. The Alton School Case and African American Community Consciousness, 1897–1908 Shirley8. The Dry Machine: The Formation of the Anti-Saloon League of Illinois Thomas E. Pegram9. Chicago Working Women's Struggle for a Shorter Day, 1908–1911 Suellen Hoy10. "I Too Serve America: African American Women War Workers in Chicago, 1940–1945 Lionel Kimble,11. From the Near West Side to 18th Street: Mexican Community Formation and Activism in Mid-Twentie12. A Final Push for National Legislation: The Chicago Freedom Movement Ronald E. Shaw13. From Gang-bangers to Urban Revolutionaries: The Young Lords of Chicago Judson Jeffries14. The Decline of Decatur Roger Biles