The groundbreaking book that first made Studs Terkel a household name.Division Street: America, Studs Terkel's first book of oral history, established his reputation as America's foremost oral historian and as "one of those rare thinkers who is actually willing to go out and talk to the incredible people of this country" (in the words of Tom Wolfe).Viewing the ...

Manufacturer: New Press
Written By: Studs Terkel

Williamson County in southern Illinois has been the scene of almost unparalleled violence, from the Bloody Vendetta between two families in the 1870s through the Herrin Massacre of 1922, Ku Klux Klan activities that ended in fatalities, and the gang war of the 1920s between the Charlie Birger and Shelton brothers gangs. Paul Angle was fascinated by this more-than-fifty-year history, and his ...

Manufacturer: University of Illinois Press
Written By: Paul M. Angle

The Chicago Roots of Your Family Tree For almost 175 years, a great metropolis on the shores of a freshwater sea has sent a siren call to immigrants internal and external, giving most Americans some kind of link to the City of Big Shoulders. Whether your people came west from New England in the early days of settlement, or north from Mississippi in the Great Migration; whether they ...

Manufacturer: Lake Claremont Press
Written By: Grace Dumelle

Exceptionally rare and valued by book collectors, Otto A. Rothert’s riveting saga of the outlaws and scoundrels of Cave-in-Rock chronicles the adventures of an audacious cast of river pirates and highwaymen who operated in and around the famous Ohio River cavern from 1795 through 1820 (adventures featured in Disney’s Davy Crockett and the film How the West Was Won). ...

Manufacturer: Southern Illinois University
Written By: Otto A. Rothert

Completely revised and updated, this book is a comprehensive guide to the vastly complex records for this major urban area. Thousands of immigrants around the world arriving in the U.S. found the rapidly growing Chicago city a new-found home. Chances are, you can find a branch of your family tree in the Chicago area. This friendly guide to the vital records of Chicago and Cook ...

Manufacturer: Ancestry.com
Written By: Loretto Dennis Szucs

Jane Adams focuses on the transformation of rural life in Union County, Illinois, as she explores the ways in which American farming has been experienced and understood in the twentieth century. Reconstructing the histories of seven farms, she places the details of daily life within the context of political and economic change. Adams identifies contradictions that, on a personal level, influenced ...

Manufacturer: University of North Carolina Press
Written By: Jane Adams

Merging narration with exhibit-quality photographs—weaving history, nostalgia, and even a touch of romance around good graphic evidence of what the canal has become today—Jim Redd takes us on a highly personal journey down the Illinois and Michigan Canal as it follows the Des Plaines and Illinois rivers from Chicago to La Salle.In order to understand the whole of what ...

Manufacturer: Southern Illinois University Press
Written By: Jim Redd

Witching for William unravels the fascinating story of William Corrie, the great-great-grandfather of author Evelyn Corrie Birkby. In 1822 William emigrated with his wife and ten children from Scotland to America, eventually settling in Lawrence County, Illinois. The reasons William left Scotland and sailed west to America, the challenges he and his large family endured, and the pleasures ...

Manufacturer: Honey Hill Books
Written By: Evelyn Corrie Birkby

Manufacturer: Naperville Sun
Written By: Genevieve Towsley

Manufacturer: Heritage Books
Written By: Helen Tregillis