History 219 Readings

History 219

Professor Edstrom

Fall 2007

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.

Class Session 1 (August 30):

Required readings:

Biles, Chapter 1.

Buisseret, pages 3-25.

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Class Session 2 (September 6):

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 (September 13):

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 (September 20):

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 (September 27):

Exam #1

Class Session 6 (October 4):

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 (October 11):

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 (October 18):

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.

· 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 (October 25):

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 (November 1):

Exam #2

Class Session 11 (November 8):

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 (November 15):

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 (November 29):

Required readings: