 | William A. Gordon - Education - 1995 - 308 pages
Tells the shocking story behind the cover-up of the May 4, 1970 slayings of four students at Kent State University. | |
 | James Gray - Illinois River (Ill.). - 1989 - 382 pages
From the arrival of Marquette and Jolliet in 1673 to the emergence of the prairie poets---Edgar Lee Masters, Carl Sandburg, and Vachel Lindsay---in the twentieth century, James ... | |
 | Roger D. Launius, John E. Hallwas - Religion - 1996 - 300 pages
Who were the Nauvoo Mormons? Were they Jacksonian Americans or did they embody some other weltanschaung? Why did this tiny Illinois town become such a protracted battleground ... | |
 | Francis Grierson - Biography & Autobiography - 1990 - 188 pages
Debora Greger is a stoic comedian in an age when even wit has its dark undertones. In this her fourth collection she finds Ovid in Provincetown, a right whale in Iowa, and ... | |
 | Douglas Bukowski - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 300 pages
There are politics, politicians, and scandals, but only in Chicago can any combination of these spark the kind of fireworks they do. And no other American city has had a mayor ... | |
 | Richard Jules Oestreicher - Business & Economics - 1989 - 298 pages
How did the interplay between class and ethnicity play out within the working class during the Gilded Age? Richard Jules Oestreicher illuminates the immigrant communities ... | |
 | Richard J. Jensen - History - 2001 - 212 pages
The epic struggle between traditional, agrarian society and modern industrial capitalism was played out on the national stage as the War between the States. The same struggle ... | |
 | Richard C. Wade - History - 1959 - 388 pages
When The Urban Frontier was first published it roused attention because it held that settlers made a concerted effort to bring established institutions and ways to their new ... | |
| |
