James A. Edstrom

Technical Services Coordinator and Professor, Harper College Library

Professor, History Department, Business and Social Sciences Division

William Rainey Harper College

Office: F146, Academic Resources Center

1200 W. Algonquin Road

Palatine, IL 60067

Phone: (847) 925-6763

Fax: (847) 925-6037

E-mail: jedstrom@harpercollege.edu

Office Hours:  By appointment

Credentials

  • A.B., European History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1983
  • M.S., Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1984
  • M.A., U.S. History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1990

Publications

  • “In Memoriam:  Robert Mize Sutton, 1915-2005.”  Illinois Heritage, July-August 2005, 24.

 

  • “A Mighty Contest”:  The Jefferson-Lemen Compact Reevaluated,” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, 97, no. 3 (Autumn 2004):192-215.

 

  • Illinois history:  an overview.  6-disc DVD program produced with the Department of Instructional Technology, Harper College.  Palatine, Ill. : Harper College, 2004.

 

·         “Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas, and the Legend of the ‘Jefferson-Lemen Compact.’”  Address before the Freeport Lincoln & Douglas Society, 27 August 2004.

 

  • “The Jefferson-Lemen Compact:  A Reexamination.”  Paper read at the Illinois Historical Symposium, 5 December 2003.

 

  • "Newspapers in Frontier Illinois," Illinois History Teacher, 1999

 

  • “Librarians, Teachers, and Students:  A Symbiotic Relationship.”  PDK Newsletter.  Northwestern University School of Education and Social Policy, Spring 1997, 1, 4.
  • "'With . . . Candour and Good Faith:' Nathaniel Pope and the Admission Enabling Act of 1818," Illinois Historical Journal, 88 (Winter 1995):241-62.
  • "Selected List of Outstanding Newspapers," in Ellen Whitney, ed., Illinois History: An Annotated Bibliography. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1995.
  • "The Constitution of 1818:  A Biographical Profile." Illinois History. 47, no. 1 (Dec. 1993).
  • "Architects of the Prairie State: A Biographical Profile of the Constitutional Convention of 1818." Paper read at the Illinois Historical Symposium, 3 December 1993.
  • "The Place and Importance of Bibliographic Control Projects in Local History." Paper read at the Midwest Federation of Library Associations quadrennial meeting, 31 October 1991, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
  • "Evaluating Existing Microfilm Collections: A Cataloger's Perspective." Paper read at the U.S. Newspaper Program annual meeting, 3 April 1991, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
  • "The Illinois Statehood Movement in Congress, 1818." Paper read at the Illinois Historical Symposium, 30 November 1990, Springfield, Illinois.
  • "Congress and the Illinois Statehood Movement, 1818," M.A. thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, May, 1990.
  • "The Champaign County Historical Archives: Keeper of the Collective Memory." Illinois Libraries, 70, no. 7 (September 1988):524-27.
  • "'Sunday School' Ford." Champaign County Genealogical Society Quarterly, 9, no. 4 (March 1988):132-33.
  • Co-Editor, Behrens, Robert H. From Salt Fork to Chickamauga: Champaign County Soldiers in the Civil War. Urbana, Ill.: The Urbana Free Library, 1988.


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