SIU Press at the Conference on Illinois History!

Welcome to our virtual book exhibit! On these pages you will find books of interest. You can view books by date, price, or alphabetically, but we want to draw your attention to the new, award winning, and upcoming books below. Don’t forget to use code CIH at checkout to save 30% on your entire order!

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New Releases:

• Lincoln and the American Founding by Lucas E. Morel
• Tales of Forgotten Chicago by Richard C. Lindberg
• Edith: The Rogue Rockefeller McCormick by Andrea Friederici Ross
• Poles in Illinois by John Radzilowski and Ann Hetzel Gunkel
• Fortune and Faith in Old Chicago: A Dual Biography of Mayor Augustus Garrett and Seminary Founder Eliza Clark Garrett by Charles H. Cosgrove
• Organizing Freedom: Black Emancipation Activism in the Civil War Midwest by Jennifer R. Harbour
• German Americans on the Middle Border: From Antislavery to Reconciliation, 1830–1877 by Zachary Stuart Garrison

Illinois State Historical Society Award Winners

• In Their Letters, in Their Words: Illinois Civil War Soldiers Write Home edited by Mark Flotow (Book of the Year Award Winner)
• The Ordeal of the Jungle: Race and the Chicago Federation of Labor, 1903–1922 by David Bates
• Kaskaskia: The Lost Capital of Illinois by David MacDonald and Raine Waters
• Germans in Illinois by Miranda E. Wilkerson and Heather Richmond

Highly Anticipated Preorders

• Women Making War: Female Confederate Prisoners and Union Military Justice by Thomas F. Curran
• The Loop: The ‘L’ Tracks that Shaped and Saved Chicago by Patrick T. Reardon
• Snake Road: A Field Guide to the Snakes of LaRue-Pine Hills by Joshua J. Vossler
• The Irish in Illinois by Mathieu W. Billings and Sean Farrell