Conference on Illinois History

A selection of titles on display at the 2024 Conference on Illinois History.

Black Americans in Mourning

Leonne M. Hudson

The Lead Mine Men

Thomas B. Mack

Watchman, Tell Us

Wayne T. Pitard

Lincoln's Campaign Biographies

Thomas A. Horrocks

Puerto Ricans in Illinois

Maura I. Toro-Morn, Ivis Garcia

Mennonites of Southern Illinois

Jane Flynn, Herbert K. Russell, Liz Liz Wells

They Both Reached for the Gun

Charles H. Cosgrove

Wear Some Armor in Your Hair

Brian Mullgardt

Pulling off the Sheets

Darrel Dexter, John A. Beadles

Sudden Deaths in St. Louis

Sarah E. Lirley

Engineering Victory

Justin S. Solonick

The Dark Days of Abraham Lincoln's Widow, as Revealed by Her Own Letters

Myra Helmer Pritchard, Jason Emerson

Lincoln's Ladder to the Presidency

Guy C. Fraker, Michael Burlingame

Onward to Chicago

Larry A. McClellan

Son of Southern Illinois

Carl Walworth, Glenn Poshard

The New Star Chamber and Other Essays

Edgar Lee Masters, Jason Stacy, Brandon Adams, Scott Both, Joseph Davis, Shawn Emily, Jessica Guldner, Amy Kapp, Joseph King, Andrew Niederhauser, Abbigayle Schaefer, Elizabeth Schroader, Andrew Shepherd, Nicholas Swain, Lucas Turnbull

Grant Park

Dennis H Cremin

Without Concealment, Without Compromise

Jill L. Newmark

Abraham Lincoln and the Bible

Gordon Leidner

Union Heartland

Ginette Aley, Joseph L. Anderson, Brett Barker, William C. Davis, Nicole Etcheson, Michael P. Gray, R. Douglas Hurt, Julie A. Mujic

Lincoln Looks West

Richard W. Etulain, Michael S. Green, Robert W. Johannsen, Deren Earl Kellogg, Mark E. Neely, David A. Nichols, Earl S. Pomeroy, Larry Schweikart, Vincent G. Tegeder, Paul M. Zall

Lincoln and Race

Richard Striner

Mary Lincoln Demystified

Donna D. McCreary

Lincoln and Reconstruction

John C Rodrigue

Avenues of Transformation

James Edstrom

Latinos in Chicago

Wilfredo Cruz

From Slave to State Legislator

David A Joens

America’s Hardscrabble General

Jack Hurst

Illinois Trails & Traces

Gary Marx, Daniel Overturf, Dick Durbin

Dawn's Light Woman & Nicolas Franchomme

Carl J. Ekberg, Sharon K. Person

Lincoln the Inventor

Jason Emerson

Reading With Lincoln

Robert Bray

A Brick and a Bible

Melissa Ford

Engaging Museums

Lauren Obermark

Forgetting and the Forgotten

Michael C. Batinski

Lincoln's New Salem

Benjamin P. Thomas, Ralph G. Newman, Kenneth J. Winkle

Edith

Andrea Friederici Ross

Lincoln and Native Americans

Michael S. Green

A Backyard Prairie

Fred Delcomyn, James L. Ellis

The Bonds of War

Diana L. Dretske

The Irish in Illinois

Mathieu W. Billings, Sean Farrell

The Prairie Boys Go to War

Rhonda M. Kohl

The Loop

Patrick T. Reardon

Women Making War

Thomas F. Curran

Lincoln and the Immigrant

Jason H. Silverman

Tales of Forgotten Chicago

Richard C Lindberg

Lincoln and the Election of 1860

Michael S. Green

Organizing Freedom

Jennifer R Harbour

Fortune and Faith in Old Chicago

Charles H. Cosgrove

Poles in Illinois

John Radzilowski, Ann Hetzel Gunkel

Lincoln and Emancipation

Edna Greene Medford

In Their Letters, in Their Words

Mark Flotow

Lincoln's Sense of Humor

Richard Carwardine

Kaskaskia

David MacDonald, Raine Waters

Germans in Illinois

Miranda E. Wilkerson, Heather Richmond

Abraham Lincoln and Horace Greeley

Gregory A. Borchard

Lincoln in the Illinois Legislature

Ron J. Keller

The Chicago River

Libby Hill

Looking for Lincoln in Illinois

Erika Holst

Looking for Lincoln in Illinois

Guy C. Fraker

Lincoln in Indiana

Brian R. Dirck

The Dealmakers of Downstate Illinois

Robert E Hartley

Lives of Fort de Chartres

David MacDonald

Looking for Lincoln in Illinois

Bryon C. Andreasen, Guy C. Fraker

The Wreck of the "America" in Southern Illinois

Mark J. Wagner

Looking for Lincoln in Illinois

Bryon C. Andreasen, Guy C. Fraker

Treasures of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library

Glenna R. Schroeder-Lein

Battleground 1948

Robert E Hartley

Lincoln and Medicine

Glenna R. Schroeder-Lein

Abraham and Mary Lincoln

Kenneth J. Winkle

Lincoln and the Civil War

Michael Burlingame

The Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant

John Y Simon, Bruce Catton, John F. Marszalek, Frank J. Williams, Pamela K. Sanfilippo