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Southern Illinois Coal
A Portfolio
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
The coal mining photographs of C. William Horrell, taken across the southern Illinois Coal Belt from 1966 to 1986, capture the varied phenomena of twentieth-century coal mining technology and show the strength, dignity, and enduring spirit of the men and women who work the southern Illinois coal mines.
Pembroke
A Rural, Black Community on the Illinois Dunes
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Pembroke explores the cultural, economic, legal, political, and environmental history of Pembroke, Illinois--one of the largest rural, black communities north of the Mason-Dixon Line and one of the poorest places in the nation.
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Rural Education in the Midwest to 1918
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Paul Theobald chronicles the history of the one-room country schools that were spread throughout the rural Midwest during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Focusing on the region’s educational history in light of the religious, economic, and political atmosphere, Theobald explores the tight connection between educational preferences and religious views, between the economics of the countryside and the educational experiences of children, and between the politics of local power and the educational prospects of the powerless.

Southern Illinois Coal
A Portfolio
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
The coal mining photographs of C. William Horrell, taken across the southern Illinois Coal Belt from 1966 to 1986, capture the varied phenomena of twentieth-century coal mining technology and show the strength, dignity, and enduring spirit of the men and women who work the southern Illinois coal mines.
Pembroke
A Rural, Black Community on the Illinois Dunes
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Pembroke explores the cultural, economic, legal, political, and environmental history of Pembroke, Illinois--one of the largest rural, black communities north of the Mason-Dixon Line and one of the poorest places in the nation.
Call School
Rural Education in the Midwest to 1918
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Paul Theobald chronicles the history of the one-room country schools that were spread throughout the rural Midwest during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Focusing on the region’s educational history in light of the religious, economic, and political atmosphere, Theobald explores the tight connection between educational preferences and religious views, between the economics of the countryside and the educational experiences of children, and between the politics of local power and the educational prospects of the powerless.