History 219
Professor Edstrom
Course Readings
(All readings are on reserve at the Library
Circulation Desk, which is located on the first floor of the Academic Resource
Center (F
Building)). You can also find a list of additional
suggested readings online at http://www.harpercollege.edu/~jedstrom/suggestedreadings.htm.
Required texts:
Biles, Roger. Illinois: A History of the Land and Its People. DeKalb,
Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, c2005.
Buisseret, David.
Historic Illinois
From the Air. Chicago:
University
of Chicago Press, c1990.
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1
Session
2
Session
3
Session
4
Session
5
Session
6
Session
7
Session
8
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9
Session
10
Session
11
Session
12
Session
13
Session
14
Class Session 1:
Required readings:
Biles, Chapter 1.
Buisseret, pages 3-25.
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Class Session 2:
Required readings:
Biles, Chapter 2.
Buisseret, pages 28-49.
Recommended readings:
·
Chaput, Donald “Treason or Loyalty? Frontier French in the American
Revolution.” Journal of the Illinois
State Historical Society,
Vol. 71, no. 4 (November 1978):242-251.
·
Graebner, Norman A. “The Illinois
Country and the Treaty of Paris.” Illinois Historical Journal, Vol. 78, no.
1 (Spring 1985):2-16.
·
Horsman, Reginald “Thomas Jefferson and the Ordinance of
1784.” Illinois Historical Journal, Vol. 79, no.
2 (Summer 1986):99-112.
·
Davis, James E. “’New Aspects of Men and New Forms of
Society’: The Old Northwest,
1790-1820.” Journal of the Illinois
State Historical Society,
Vol. 69, no. 3 (August 1976):164-172.
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Class Session 3:
Required readings:
Biles, Chapter 3.
Buisseret, pages 50-77.
Recommended readings:
·
Edstrom, James A. “’With . . . Candour and Good Faith’: Nathaniel Pope and the Admission Enabling Act
of 1818.” Illinois Historical Journal, Vol. 88, no.
4 (Winter 1995):241-262.
·
Edmunds, R. David “The Illinois River
Potawatomi in the War of 1812.” Journal of the Illinois State
Historical Society, Vol. 62, no. 4 (Winter 1969):341-362.
·
Miller, Keith L. “Planning, Proper Hygiene, and a Doctor: The Good Health of the English
Settlement.” Journal of the Illinois
State Historical Society,
Vol. 71, no. 1 (February 1978):22-29.
·
Suppiger, Joseph E. “Amity to Enmity: Ninian Edwards and Jesse B. Thomas.” Journal
of the Illinois State Historical Society, Vol. 67,
no. 2 (April 1974):201-211.
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Class Session 4:
Required readings:
Biles, Chapter 4.
Buisseret, pages 80-101.
Recommended readings:
·
Elazar, Daniel J. “Gubernatorial Power and the Illinois and Michigan Canal:
A Study of Political Development in the Nineteenth Century.” Journal
of the Illinois State Historical Society, Vol. 58,
no. 4 (Winter 1965):396-423.
·
Sutton, Robert M. “Edward Coles and the Constitutional Crisis
in Illinois, 1822-1824.” Illinois Historical Journal, Vol. 82, no.
1 (Spring 1989):33-46.
·
Sutton, Robert M. “Illinois'
Year of Decision, 1837.” Journal of the Illinois State
Historical Society, Vol. 58, no. 1 (Spring 1965):34-53.
·
Maclear, Patrick E. “Speculation, Promotion, and the Panic of
1837 in Chicago.” Journal
of the Illinois State Historical Society, Vol. 62,
no. 2 (Summer 1969):135-146.
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Class Session 5:
Exam #1
Class Session 6:
Required readings:
Biles, Chapter 5.
Buisseret, pages 126-143.
Recommended readings:
·
Abott, Carl “’Necessary Adjuncts to Its Growth’: The Railroad Suburbs of Chicago, 1854-1875.” Journal
of the Illinois State Historical Society, Vol. 73,
no. 2 (Summer 1980):117-131.
·
Gliozzo, Charles A. “John Jones:
A Study of a Black Chicagoan.” Illinois Historical Journal, Vol. 80, no.
3 (Autumn 1987):177-188.
·
Pirtle, Carol “Andrew Borders v. William Hayes: Indentured Servitude and the Underground
Railroad in Illinois.” Illinois Historical Journal, Vol. 89, no.
3 (Autumn 1996):147-160.
·
Reed, Christopher R. “African American Life in Antebellum Chicago, 1833-1860.” Journal
of the Illinois State Historical Society, Vol. 94,
no. 4 (Winter 2001-2002):356-382.
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Class Session 7:
Recommended
readings:
·
Kimball, Stanley B. “The Mormons in Illinois, 1838-1846: A Special Introduction.” Journal
of the Illinois State Historical Society, Vol. 64,
no. 1 (Spring 1971):5-21.
·
Lightner, David L. “Construction Labor on the Illinois Central Railroad.” Journal
of the Illinois State Historical Society, Vol. 66,
no. 3 (Autumn 1973):285-301.
·
McLear, Patrick E. “The Galena
and Chicago
Union Railroad: A Symbol of Chicago's Economic
Maturity.” Journal of the Illinois
State Historical Society,
Vol. 73, no. 1 (Spring 1980):17-26.
·
Schwartz, Thomas F. “’Illinois
& Her Politicians’: The Observations
of Hezekiah Morse Wead, Delegate to the 1847 Illinois Constitutional Convention.” Journal
of Illinois
History, Vol. 3, no. 1 (Spring 2000):31-50.
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Class Session 8:
Required readings:
Biles, Chapter 6.
Recommended readings:
- Davis,Rodney O.
“Private Albert Cashier as Regarded by His/Her Comrades.” Illinois Historical Journal, Vol. 82,
no. 2 (Summer 1989):108-112.
·
Johannsen, Robert W. “The Lincoln-Douglas Campaign of 1858: Background and Perspective.” Journal
of the Illinois State Historical Society, Vol. 73,
no. 4 (Winter 1980):242-262.
·
Merrill, James M. “Cairo,
Illinois: Strategic Civil War River Port.” Journal
of the Illinois State Historical Society, Vol. 76,
no. 4 (Winter 1983):242-256.
·
Bridges, Roger D. “Equality Deferred: Civil Rights for Illinois Blacks, 1865-1885.” Journal
of the Illinois State Historical Society, Vol. 74,
no. 2 (Summer 1981):82-108.
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Sampson, Robert “’Pretty Damned Warm Times’: The 1864 Charleston Riot and “The Inalienable Right of
Revolution”.” Illinois Historical Journal, Vol. 89, no.
2 (Summer 1996):99-116.
·
Satz, Ronald N. “The African Slave Trade and Lincoln's Campaign of 1858.” Journal
of the Illinois State Historical Society, Vol. 65,
no. 3 (Autumn 1972):269-279.
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Class Session 9:
Required readings:
Biles, Chapter 7 (pages 121-131).
Buisseret, pages 146-155.
Recommended readings:
·
Bales, Richard F. “Did the Cow Do It? A New Look at the Great Chicago Fire.” Illinois Historical Journal, Vol. 90, no.
1 (Spring 1997):2-24.
·
Borough, Reuben W. “The Chicago
I Remember.” Journal of the Illinois
State Historical Society,
Vol. 59, no. 2 (Summer 1966):117-130.
·
Davenport, F. Garvin
“The Sanitation Revolution in Illinois,
1870-1900.” Journal of the Illinois
State Historical Society,
Vol. 66, no. 3 (Autumn 1973):306-326.
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Class Session 10:
Exam #2
Class Session 11:
Required readings:
Biles, Chapter 7 (pages 132-147) and Chapter 8.
Buisseret, pages 156-165.
Recommended readings:
·
Chapin, John R. “The Infamous Pullman
Strike as Revealed by the Robert Todd Lincoln Collection.” Journal
of the Illinois State Historical Society, Vol. 74,
no. 3 (Autumn 1981):179-198.
·
Spector, Robert M. “Women Against the Law: Myra Bradwell’s Struggle for Admission to the
Illinois Bar.” Journal of the Illinois
State Historical Society,
Vol. 68, no. 3 (June 1975):228-242.
·
Wheeler, Adade Mitchell “Conflict in the Illinois Woman Suffrage Movement of
1913.” Journal of the Illinois
State Historical Society,
Vol. 76, no. 2 (Summer 1983):95-114.
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Class Session 12:
Required readings:
Biles, Chapter 9.
Buisseret, pages 169-173, 180-183.
Recommended readings:
·
Buenker, John D. “Dynamics of Chicago Ethnic Politics 1900-1930.” Journal
of the Illinois State Historical Society, Vol. 67,
no. 2 (April 1974):175-199.
·
Downey, Dennis B. “The Congress on Labor at the 1893 World’s
Columbian Exposition.” Journal of the Illinois State
Historical Society, Vol. 76, no. 2 (Summer 1983):131-138.
·
Lederer, Francis L. II “Competition for the World's Columbian
Exposition: The Chicago Campaign.” Journal
of the Illinois State Historical Society, Vol. 65,
no. 4 (Winter 1972):382-394.
·
Paddon, Anna R., and Turner,
Sally “African Americans and the World's
Columbian Exposition.” Illinois Historical Journal, Vol. 88, no.
1 (Spring 1995):19-36.
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Class Session 13:
Required readings:
Biles, Chapter 10, and Chapter 11 (pages 203-210).
Recommended readings:
- Asher, Robert
“Documents of the Race Riot at East St. Louis.” Journal
of the Illinois
State Historical
Society, Vol. 65, no. 3 (Autumn 1972):327-336.
·
Buenker, John D. “The Illinois
Legislature and Prohibition, 1907-1919.”
Journal of the Illinois State
Historical Society, Vol. 62, no. 4 (Winter 1969):363-384.
·
Grossman, James R. “Blowing the Trumpet: The Chicago
Defender and Black Migration During World War I.” Illinois Historical Journal, Vol. 78, no.
2 (Summer 1985):82-96.
·
McDonough, Daniel “Chicago
Press Treatment of the Gangster, 1924-1931.”
Illinois Historical Journal, Vol. 82, no. 1 (Spring 1989):17-32.
·
Pegram, Thomas R. “The Dry Machine: The Formation of the Anti-Saloon League of Illinois.” Illinois Historical Journal, Vol. 83, no.
3 (Autumn 1990):173-186.
·
Tap, Bruce “Suppression of Dissent: Academic Freedom at the University of Illinois
During the World War I Era.” Illinois Historical Journal, Vol. 85, no.
1 (Spring 1992):2-22.
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Class Session 14:
Required readings:
Biles, Chapter 11 (pages 211-228) and Chapter 12.
Recommended readings:
·
Jones, Gene Delon “The Origin of the Alliance Between the New Deal and the Chicago Machine.” Journal
of the Illinois State Historical Society, Vol. 67,
no. 3 (June 1974):253-274.
·
Kimble, Lionel, Jr. “I Too Serve America: African American Women War Workers in Chicago, 1940-1945.” Journal
of the Illinois State Historical Society, Vol. 93,
no. 4 (Winter 2000-2001):415-434.
·
Meier, August, and Rudwick,
Elliott M. “Negro Protest at the Chicago World's Fair,
1933-1934.” Journal of the Illinois
State Historical Society,
Vol. 59, no. 2 (Summer 1966):161-171.
·
Reed, Christopher Robert “Black Chicago
Political Realignment During the Depression and New Deal.” Illinois Historical Journal, Vol. 78, no.
4 (Winter 1985):242-256.
·
Schapsmeier, Edward L., and
Schapsmeier, Frederick H. “Paul H.
Douglas: From Pacifist to
Soldier-Statesman.” Journal of the Illinois
State Historical Society,
Vol. 67, no. 3 (June 1974):307-323.
·
Strickland, Arvah E. “The New Deal Comes to Illinois.”
Journal of the Illinois State
Historical Society, Vol. 63, no. 1 (Spring 1970):55-68.
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Class Session 15:
Required readings:
Biles, Chapter 13-15 and “Epilogue.”
Buisseret, pages 216-218
Recommended readings:
·
Biles, Roger “Race and Housing in Chicago.”
Journal of the Illinois State
Historical Society, Vol. 94, no. 1 (Spring 2001):31-38.
·
Cornelius, Janet “Popular Sovereignty and Constitutional
Change in the United States and Illinois
Constitutions.” Illinois Historical Journal, Vol. 80, no.
4 (Winter 1987):228-247.
·
“Illinois in 1899 Compared to Illinois in 1999.” Journal
of the Illinois State Historical Society, Vol. 92,
no. 4 (Winter 1999-2000):373-379.
·
Kennedy, Patrick D. “Reactions Against the Vietnam War and
Military-Related Targets on Campus: The University of Illinois as a Case Study,
1965-1972.” Illinois Historical Journal, Vol. 84, no.
2 (Summer 1991):101-118.
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Schapsmeier, Edward L., and
Schapsmeier, Frederick H. “Everett M. Dirksen of Pekin: Politician Par Excellence.” Journal
of the Illinois State Historical Society, Vol. 76,
no. 1 (Spring 1983):2-16.
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Seligman, Amanda Irene “’Apologies to Dracula, Werewolf, Frankenstein’: White Homeowners and Blockbusters in Postwar Chicago.” Journal
of the Illinois State Historical Society, Vol. 94,
no. 1 (Spring 2001):70-95.
·
Shaw, Ronald E. “A Final Push for National Legislation: The Chicago
Freedom Movement.” Journal of the Illinois
State Historical Society,
Vol. 94, no. 3 (Autumn 2001):304-332.
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