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Larry P. and Donna J. Mahan’s 20 Day Trips in and around the Shawnee National Forest was named “Best Travel Guide of the Year” for 2013 by Booklist. See page 3 to read more about this guide to one of ’ hidden treasures.

Lincoln and Medicine by Glenna R. Schroeder-Lein was chosen as one of the thirteen “Best of the Best” University Press Books for Public and Secondary School Libraries by the American Library Association for 2013. See page 30 for more information on Lincoln and Medicine.

Southern Illinois University Press books have won many awards from the Illinois State Historical Society over the years. In 2014, Dennis Cremin’s book Grant Park: The Evolution of Chicago’s Front Yard was named their Book of the Year. Other books receiving awards in 2014 include Chicago’s Greatest Year, 1893: The White City and the Birth of a Modern Metropolis; The Gentleman From Illinois: Stories from Forty Years of Elective Public Service; A Decisive Decade: An Insider’s View of the Chicago Civil Rights Movement during the 1960s; Survived by One: The Life and Mind of a Family Mass Murderer; Battleground 1948: Truman, Stevenson, Douglas, and the Most Surprising Election in Illinois History. In 2013, seven SIUP books won awards including Giant in the Shadows: The Life of Robert T. Lincoln, by Jason Emerson, which received the Book of the Year award.

LP = Honorable Mention AWARDS KEY CE = Illinois State Historical Association Certificate of Excellence BY = Illinois State Historical Association SA = Illinois State Historical Association A = Other award Book of the Year Superior Achievement Award Select books in this catalog are also available as ebooks and may be purchased from the following websites: SIU Press (www.siupress.com), Barnes & Noble (www.barnesandnoble.com), Amazon (www.amazon.com), Google Play (https://play.google.com/store/books), and eBooks.com (www.ebooks.com) Regional/Illinois

Southern Illinois ...... 2–4 Chicago ...... 5–7 Illinois Politics ...... 8–9 Illinois General Interest . . . . 2, 10 Backlist ...... 11–20 Coming Soon ...... 17 Illinois Wines and Wineries: The Essential Guide Clara Orban

“If you’re looking for authentic, local Illinois wine, Illinois Wine and Wineries gives you all the information you need.” Mark Ganchiff, Publisher of the Midwest Wine Press Illinois wine is coming into its own. Long a state best known for other crops such as corn, there are now wineries in every corner of the Land of Lincoln. In fact, wine production has been a part of the agricultural landscape of Illinois for more than a century. This sophisticated yet practical guidebook will, for the first time, provide connoisseurs and casual enthusiasts alike all the information they need to explore and appreciate Illinois’ rich winemaking legacy. Orban, a certified sommelier, begins with the history of Illinois wine production and wineries. She then enlightens readers on such wine basics as the most common grapes grown in Illinois, optimal food and wine pairings, and the tenets of wine tasting. The fascinating science of wine also is discussed, including the particulars of Illinois soil and climate and their effects on the industry. The second part of the book is a guide to wineries in Illinois. For each win- ery, she offers a succinct history, information regarding the varieties of grapes used, hours of operation, location, and contact information. The wines and wineries are showcased in beautiful full-color photos throughout the book. Clara Orban, a certified sommelier and a professor of French at DePaul University, is the author of a number of books, the most recent of which is Wine Lessons: Ten Questions to Guide Your Appreciation of Wine. Paper, $22.95 • 978-0-8093-3344-8 6 × 9 • 216 pages • 148 illus.

America’s Deadliest Twister: The Tri-State Tornado of 1925 Geoff Partlow

“Six hundred ninety-five people died in this tornado—the worst ever to hit the . The communities of southern Illinois to this day have never fully recovered from this March 1925 shocker. So few people have any understanding of this event and its aftermath. . . . It needs to become a part of the history of southern Illinois.”—Jim Brigham, former president of the Southern Illinois University Foundation

The tri-state tornado of 1925 hugged the ground for 219 miles, generated wind speeds in excess of 300 miles per hour, and killed 695 people. Drawing on survivor interviews, public records, and newspaper archives, America’s Deadliest Twister offers a detailed account of the storm, but more important, it describes life in the region at that time as well as the tornado’s lasting cultural impact, especially on southern Illinois. Author Geoff Partlow follows the storm from town to town, introducing us to the people most affected by the tornado. Their narratives, along with the stories of the heroes who led recovery efforts in the years following, add a hometown perspective to the account of the storm itself. In the discussion of the aftermath of the tornado, Partlow examines the lasting social and economic scars on the area, but he also looks at some of the technological firsts associated with this devastating tragedy. Partlow shows how relief efforts in the region began to change the way Paper, $19.95 • 978-0-8093-3346-2 people throughout the nation thought about disaster relief, which led to the unified responses we are familiar with 6 × 9¼ • 160 pages • 48 illus. today. Shawnee Books Geoff Partlow is a historian specializing in stories about southern Illinois, his beloved Egypt. He is also an expert in nineteenth-century American glass and its industry and has performed many antique road shows, appraisals, and public lectures.

2 www.siupress.com • 1-800-621-2736 20 Day Trips in and around the Shawnee National Forest Larry P. and Donna J. Mahan

Chosen as the Best Travel Guide of the Year by Booklist One of the most scenic treasures in the Midwest, the Shawnee National Forest spans more than 279,000 acres deep in southern Illinois. The natural beauty, stunning vistas, and diverse flora and fauna of this picturesque region in- vite exploration by all who love nature. This guidebook highlights twenty exciting day or weekend trips within and near the Shawnee National Forest, making it easy to take advantage of the forest’s myriad opportunities for outdoor recreational activity. Intended for those without extensive hiking or camping experience, the guide provides all of the information nec- essary to safely and proficiently explore all the forest has to offer. Entertaining narratives describe each journey in vivid detail, offering advice on needed supplies, pointing out shortcuts, and spotlighting not-to-miss views. Entries also include thorough directions, GPS coordinates, trail difficulty ratings, landform descriptions, exact distances between points, and a list of available facilities at each location. From biking and bird watching to hiking, horseback riding, and rock climbing, the Shawnee National Forest is home to an abundance of possibilities for outdoor fun. With this practical guide in hand, adventure seekers and nature lovers alike can make the most of southern Illinois’ own natural treasure. Paper, $19.95 • 978-0-8093-3255-7 Larry P. Mahan, recently retired from the teaching profession with 50 years of service, is the author of In Search 6⅛ × 9¼ • 160 pages • 102 illus. A of Large Trees. His wife, Donna, a native of southern Illinois, has also retired from teaching in the Springfield area. Shawnee Books The State of Southern Illinois: An Illustrated History Herbert K. Russell “My most pleasurable research has involved problems that needed solving. I love solving old mysteries.”—Herbert K. Russell, via the Southern Illinoisan In The State of Southern Illinois: An Illustrated History, Herbert K. Russell offers fresh interpretations of a number of important aspects of Southern Illinois history. Focusing on the area known as “Egypt,” the region south of U.S. Route 50 from Salem to Cairo, he begins his book with the earliest geologic formations and follows Southern Illinois’ history into the twenty-first century. The volume is richly illustrated with maps and photographs, mostly in color, that highlight the informative and straightforward text. Perhaps most notable is the author’s use of dozens of heretofore neglected sources to dispel the myth that Southern Illinois is merely an extension of Dixie. He corrects the popular impressions that slavery was intro- duced by early settlers from the South and that a majority of Southern Illinoisans wished to secede. Further- more, he presents the first in-depth discussion of twelve pre–Civil War, free black communities in the region. He also identifies the roles coal mining, labor violence, gangsters, and the media played in establishing the area’s image. He concludes optimistically, unveiling a twenty-first-century Southern Illinois filled with myri- ad attractions and opportunities for citizens and tourists alike. The State of Southern Illinois is the most accurate all-encompassing volume of history on this unique area that Cloth, $39.95 • 978-0-8093-3056-0 often regards itself as a state within a state. It offers an entirely new perspective on race relations, provides SA insightful information on the cultural divide between north and south in Illinois, and pays tribute to an often 8½ × 11 • 232 pages • 262 illus. neglected and misunderstood region of this multidimensional state, all against a stunning visual backdrop. Shawnee Books Herbert K. Russell, formerly the Executive Director for College Relations at John A. Logan College, is a literary scholar and Southern Illinois historian who has been a college teacher, an editor, and a writer. He is the author of Edgar Lee Masters: A Biography and the editor of A Southern Illinois Album, Southern Illinois Coal: A Portfolio, and The Enduring River: Edgar Lee Masters’ Uncollected Spoon River Poems.

www.siupress.com • 1-800-621-2736 3 Reckoning at Eagle Creek: The Secret Legacy of Coal in the Heartland Jeff Biggers

Coming September 2014 “This is a world-shaking, belief-rattling, immensely important book. If you’re an American, it is almost a patriotic duty to read it.”—Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love

Set in the ruins of his family’s strip-mined homestead in the Shawnee National Forest in southern Illinois, award-winning journalist and historian Jeff Biggers delivers a deeply personal portrait of the overlooked human and environmental costs of our nation’s dirty energy policy. Beginning with the policies of Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson, chronicling the removal of Native Americans and the hidden story of legally sanctioned black slavery in the land of Lincoln, Reckoning at Eagle Creek vividly describes the mining wars for union recognition and workplace safety, and the devastating consequences of industrial strip-mining. Biggers exposes the fallacy of “clean coal” at the heart of our national debate over climate change and the crucial transition toward clean energy and shatters the marketing myth that southern Illinois represents the “Saudi Arabia of coal.” Jeff Biggers is the American Book Award–winning author of The United States of Appalachia, In the Sierra Madre, and State Out of the Union. His award-winning stories have appeared on National Public Radio and Public Paper, $19.50 • 978-0-8093-3386-8 Radio International, and in numerous magazines and newspapers, including the New York Times, Washington Post, 6 × 9 • 328 pages • 11 illus. the Nation, Atlantic Monthly, and Salon, among others. Shawnee Books

The Civilian Conservation Corps in Southern Illinois Kay Rippelmeyer

Coming March 2015 “As the Shawnee National Forest celebrates its 75th birthday, Ms. Rippelmeyer’s account of the CCC in southern Illinois and the establishment of the Shawnee National Forest is a timely contribution to understanding the history of the area at a time of one of America’s greatest national challenges.”—Robert Pasquill, author of The Civilian Conservation Corps in Alabama, 1933-1943: A Great and Lasting Good

Drawing on more than thirty years of meticulous research, Kay Rippelmeyer details the Depression-era histo- ry of the simultaneous creation of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and the Shawnee National Forest in southern Illinois. Through the stories of the men who worked in CCC camps devoted to soil and forest conservation projects, she offers a fascinating look into an era of utmost significance to the identity, citizens, wildlife, and natural landscape of the region. Detailing both the economic hardships and agricultural land abuse plaguing the region during the Depression, she reveals how the creation of the CCC under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt coincided with the regional campaign for a national forest and how locals first became aware of and involved with the program. An extensive camp compendium augments the volume, featuring numerous photographs, camp locations and dates of operation, work history, and company rosters. Cloth, $39.50 • 978-0-8093-3365-3 Kay Rippelmeyer, a southern Illinois native, is the author of and the Civilian Conser- 8 × 10 • 448 pages • 279 illus. vation Corps: A History in Words and Pictures. A program liaison for the Illinois Humanities Council, she Shawnee Books has researched southern Illinois history for more than thirty years and has lectured widely on the Civilian Conservation Corps and river work in the region.

4 www.siupress.com • 1-800-621-2736 Grant Park: The Evolution of Chicago’s Front Yard Dennis H. Cremin “If there is one place to see the rich panoply of Chicago history unfold, I can think of no better spot than Chicago’s lakefront park. Dennis Cremin has crafted a rich chronicle of Grant Park that highlights its central place in the history of Chicago.” —Ann Keating, Toenniges Professor of History, North Central College

Long considered the showplace and cultural center of Chicago, Grant Park has been the site of tragedy and tension as well as success and joy. In addition to serving as the staging grounds for ’s funeral procession through the city, the park has been the setting for civil rights protests and the 1968 Democratic National Convention demonstrations. The faithful attended the open-air mass of Pope John Paul II in Grant Park, and fans gathered there to cheer for the Chicago Bulls after their championship wins. In 1836, only three years after Chicago was founded, Chicagoans set aside the first narrow shoreline as public ground and declared it “forever open, clear, and free.” Chicago historian and author Dennis H. Cremin reveals that despite such intent, the transformation of Grant Park to the spectacular park it is more than 175 years later was a gradual process, at first fraught with a lack of funding and organization, and later challenged by erosion, the railroads, auto- mobiles, and a continued battle between original intent and conceptions of progress. Throughout the book, Cremin shows that while Grant Park’s landscape and uses have changed throughout its rocky history, the public ground Cloth, $34.95 • 978-0-8093-3250-2 BY continues to serve “as a display case for the city and a calling card to visitors.” 6⅛ × 9¼ • 256 pages • 50 illus. Dennis H. Cremin, the coauthor of Chicago: A Pictorial Celebration, has extensive experience as a public historian, serving as director of research and public programs for the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s Gaylord Building Historic Site and as a State Scholar for the Illinois Humanities Council. He served on the Road Scholars Speakers Bureau, provided guided tours for the City of Chicago’s Office of Cultural Affairs, and worked as an archivist for the Grant Park Music Festival. He is an associate professor of history at Lewis University in Romeoville, Illinois. Chicago’s Greatest Year, 1893 The White City and the Birth of a Modern Metropolis Joseph Gustaitis “The year was a turning point in the city’s fortunes, and readers will find Gustaitis’s recounting enjoyable, whether one is from Chicago or not.”—Publishers Weekly In 1893 the 27.5 million visitors to the Chicago World’s Fair feasted their eyes on the impressive architecture of the White City, lit at night by thousands of electric lights. In addition to marveling at the revolutionary exhibits, most visitors discovered something else: beyond the fair’s 633 acres lay a modern metropolis that rivaled the world’s greatest cities. But even without the splendor of the fair, 1893 would still have been Chicago’s greatest year. An almost endless list of achievements took place in Chicago in 1893. Chicago’s most important skyscraper was com- pleted in 1893, and Frank Lloyd Wright opened his office in the same year. African American physician and Chicagoan Daniel Hale Williams performed one of the first known open-heart surgeries in 1893. Sears and Roebuck was incorpo- rated, and William Wrigley invented Juicy Fruit gum that year. The Field Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Museum of Science and Industry all started in 1893. The Cubs’ new ballpark opened in this year, and an Austro-Hun- garian immigrant began selling hot dogs outside the World’s Fair grounds. His wares became the famous “Chicago hot dog.” “Cities are not buildings; cities are people,” writes author Joseph Gustaitis. Throughout the book, he brings forgotten pioneers back to the forefront of Chicago’s history, connecting these important people of 1893 with their ef- Paper, $29.95 • 978-0-8093-3248-9 fects on the city and its institutions today. The facts in this history of a year range from funny to astounding, showcasing 6 × 9 • 360 pages • 90 illus. SA innovators, civic leaders, VIPs, and power brokers who made 1893 Chicago about so much more than the fair. Joseph Gustaitis is a freelance writer and editor living in Chicago. He is the author of many articles in the popular history field. After working as an editor at Collier’s Year Book, he became the humanities editor for Collier’s Encyclopedia. He has also worked in television and won an Emmy Award for writing for ABC-TV’s FYI program.

www.siupress.com • 1-800-621-2736 5 A Decisive Decade: An Insider’s View of the Chicago Civil Rights Movement during the 1960s Robert B. McKersie, Foreword by James R. Ralph Jr.

Fifty years after the March on Washington, Robert McKersie offers a rare glimpse inside the turbulent events of Chicago’s civil rights struggle. The deeply personal story of a historic time in Chicago, Robert B. McKersie’s A Decisive Decade follows the unfold- ing action of the Civil Rights Movement as it played out in the Windy City. McKersie’s participation as an activist for black rights offers an insider’s viewpoint on the debates, boycotts, marches, and negotiations that would change the face of race relations in Chicago and the United States at large. McKersie offers intimate observations on events as they developed during his participation in such historic occasions as the impassioned marches for open housing in Chicago; the campaign to end school segregation under Chicago schools superintendent Benjamin Willis; Operation Breadbasket’s push to develop economic opportunities for black citizens; and dialogs with corporations to provide more jobs for blacks in Chicago. In addition, McKersie provides up- close and personal descriptions of the iconic civil rights leaders who spearheaded some of the most formative battles of Chicago’s Civil Rights Movement, including Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Reverend Jesse Jackson, Timuel Black Jr., and W. Alvin Pitcher. Packed with historical detail and personal anecdotes of these history-making years, A Decisive Cloth, $29.95 • 978-0-8093-3244-1 Decade offers a never-before-seen perspective on one of our nation’s most tumultuous eras. SA 6 × 9 • 288 pages • 34 illus. Robert B. McKersie, the Society of Sloan Fellows Professor (emeritus) at the MIT Sloan School of Management, is the coauthor of A Behavioral Theory of Labor Negotiations and the award-winning The Transformation of American Industrial Relations.

The Mayors: The Chicago Political Tradition, Fourth Edition Edited by Paul M. Green and Melvin G. Holli

Surveying the power and politics of the Chicago mayoral tradition The Mayors: The Chicago Political Tradition gathers some of the finest minds in political thought to provide shrewd analysis of Chicago’s mayors and their administrations. Twenty-five years after its initial publication, this fourth edition continues to illuminate the careers of some of Chicago’s most respected, forceful, and even notorious may- ors, leaders whose lives were often as vibrant and eclectic as the city they served. In addition to chapters on the individual mayors, The Mayors offers an insightful overview of the Chicago mayoral tradition throughout the city’s history; rankings of the mayors by their leadership and political qualities; an appen- dix of Chicago’s mayors and their years of service; and additional updated materials. Chicago’s mayoral history is one of corruption and reform, scandal and ambition. This well-researched volume presents an intriguing and informative glimpse into the fascinating lives and legacies of Chicago’s most influential leaders. Paul M. Green is the Arthur Rubloff Professor of Policy Studies, chairman of the Department of Political Science and Public Administration, and director of the Institute for Politics at Roosevelt University. He is the author, coauthor, or editor of several books about Chicago and Illinois politics. Paper, $39.50 • 978-0-8093-3198-7 Melvin G. Holli, a professor emeritus of history at the University of Illinois at Chicago, is the author of numerous 6 × 9 • 368 pages • 33 illus. books, including The American Mayor: The Best and Worst Big-City Leaders and The Wizard of Washington: Emil Hurja, Franklin Roosevelt, and the Birth of Public Opinion Polling.

6 www.siupress.com • 1-800-621-2736 Knock at the Door of Opportunity Black Migration to Chicago, 1900–1919 Christopher Robert Reed

“[This] is a powerfully informative, richly textured study . . . grounded in meticu- lous research [and] written in a clear and dynamic fashion. This brilliant history [is] essential and rewarding reading for students, teachers, and the general popula- tion.”—Darlene Clark Hine, Board of Trustees Professor of African American studies and pro- fessor of history at Northwestern University, and coeditor of The Black Chicago Renaissance

Disputing the so-called ghetto studies that depicted the early part of the twentieth century as the nadir of African American society, this thoughtful volume by Christopher Robert Reed investigates black life in turn-of-the-century Chicago, revealing a vibrant community that grew and developed on Chicago’s south side in the early 1900s. Reed explores the impact of the fifty thousand black southerners who streamed into the city during the Great Migration of 1916–1918, effectively doubling Chicago’s African American population. Those already residing in Chicago’s black neighborhoods had a lot in common with those who migrated, Reed demonstrates, and the two groups became unified, building a broad community base able to face discrimination and prejudice while contributing to Chicago’s growth and development.

Cloth, $65 • 978-0-8093-3333-2 Christopher Robert Reed is a professor emeritus of history and a former director of the St. Clair Drake Center for 6⅛ × 9¼ • 408 pages • 34 illus. African and African American Studies at Roosevelt University in Chicago. He is the author of five books, includ- ing The Depression Comes to Chicago’s South Side: Protest and Politics, 1930–1933 and The Rise of Chicago’s Black Metropolis, 1920–1929.

The Poorhouse: Subsidized Housing in Chicago, Second Edition Devereux Bowly Jr.

“If Chicago were a jungle, along the lines of the urban cliché, this would make for a stellar field manual.”—Chicago Weekly Chicago seems an ideal environment for public housing because of the city’s relatively young age among major cities and well-deserved reputation for technology, innovation, and architecture. Yet The Poorhouse: Subsidized Housing in Chicago shows that the city’s experience on the whole has been a negative one, raising serious ques- tions about the nature of subsidized housing, whether we should have it and, if so, in what form. Bowly, a native of the city, provides a detailed examination of subsidized housing in the nation’s third-largest city. Now in its second edition, The Poorhouse looks at the history of public housing and subsidized housing in Chicago from 1895 to the present day. Five new chapters cover the decline and federal takeover of the Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) and its more recent “transformation,” which involved the demolition of the CHA family high-rise buildings and in some cases their replacement with low-rise mixed-income housing on the same sites. Devereux Bowly Jr. has published more than three dozen articles on Chicago history and architecture and has been actively involved with community and civic groups in Chicago, including the Hyde Park Historical Society. Paper, $29.95 • 978-0-8093-3052-2 CE 7½ × 10 • 288 pages • 172 illus.

www.siupress.com • 1-800-621-2736 7 The Gentleman from Illinois Stories from Forty Years of Elective Public Service Alan J. Dixon “Like Alan, The Gentleman from Illinois is entertaining, enlightening, and informative, and I highly recommend it.”—Sam Nunn, former U.S. senator from Georgia

In 1993 Alan J. Dixon’s political career came to an end with a defeat—the first one in his forty-three years of elected service. Beginning his legislative career in 1950 as a Democrat in the Illinois House of Representatives, Dixon also served in the Illinois State Senate, worked as state treasurer and secretary of state, and concluded his political career as a U.S. senator. With a degree of candor rarely found in political memoirs, Dixon pulls no punches when it comes to detailing the personalities of major political figures such as Mayor Richard J. Daley, Adlai Stevenson, Paul Simon, and presidents of the United States. The Gentleman from Illinois entertains as much as it informs, making it a necessary book for everyone interested in Illinois politics.

Cloth, $39.95 Alan J. Dixon served in the Illinois House of Representatives, Illinois State Senate, and U.S. Senate. He has also held the Illinois 978-0-8093-3260-1 SA state offices of treasurer and secretary of state and was a partner in the Bryan Cave law firm in St. Louis until 2012, at which 6 × 9 • 384 pages • 20 illus. time he became a senior counsel. The Essential Paul Simon: Timeless Lessons for Today’s Politics Edited by John S. Jackson, Foreword by David Yepsen “Had people done some of the things he suggested years ago, we wouldn’t be having a repeat of those discussions today.”—David Yepsen, director of the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute

Senator Paul Simon often used his prolific writings as tools to establish a straightforward dialogue with his constituents. In The Essential Paul Simon: Timeless Lessons for Today’s Politics, editor John S. Jackson carefully selects the best of Simon’s writings, which include newspaper columns, editorials, book chapters, and newsletters. Jackson provides an introduction to each chapter, setting Senator Simon’s work into the context of its time and emphasizing the connection to today’s continuing political ques- tions and conflicts. He also contributes an annotated bibliography covering all of Paul Simon’s twenty-two books. Years after their publication, Simon’s eloquent and energetic conversations continue to provide witty, informative guidance through the maze of American politics. John S. Jackson is an emeritus professor of political science at SIUC and is currently a visiting professor at the Paul Simon Public Cloth, $34.95 CE Policy Institute. He founded and is the editor of the Simon Review papers, and was a long-time friend and supporter of Paul Simon. 978-0-8093-3192-5 6 × 9 • 384 pages • 1 illus. Nobody Calls Just to Say Hello Reflections on Twenty-Two Years in the Illinois Senate Philip J. Rock, with Ed Wojcicki “Just when it is fashionable to bemoan the loss of bipartisanship in politics, along comes a book that waxes nostalgic for the days when legislators threw punches at each other.”—Illinois Times

A loyal partisan and highly principled public official, Democrat Philip J. Rock served twenty-two years in the Illinois Senate. Rock takes readers through his legislative successes, bipartisan efforts, and political defeats, and reveals his reverence for the in- stitutions of government and his reputation as a problem solver who, despite his ardent Democratic beliefs, disavowed political self-preservation to cross party lines and make government work for the people. Philip J. Rock served as Illinois senate president for fourteen years. He now practices law in Chicago. Ed Wojcicki teaches in the public administration program at the University of Illinois–Springfield. He is the author of A Crisis Cloth, $29.95 978-0-8093-3071-3 of Hope in the Modern World. 6 × 9 • 280 pages • 21 illus. 8 www.siupress.com • 1-800-621-2736 Battleground 1948: Truman, Stevenson, Douglas, and the Most Surprising Election in Illinois History Robert E. Hartley

Exploring the corrupt and stormy Illinois political scene of the 1940s To this day, the election year of 1948 remains one of the most astonishing in U.S. political history. During this first general election after World War II, Americans looked to their governments for change. As the battle for the nation’s highest office came to a head in Illinois, the state was embroiled in its own partisan showdowns. In Battleground 1948, Robert E. Hartley offers the first comprehensive chronicle of this historic election year and its consequences, which still resonate today. Focusing on the races that ushered Adlai Stevenson, Paul Douglas, and Harry Truman into office, Battleground 1948 details the pivotal events that played out in the state of Illinois, from newspaper wars in Chicago to tragedy in a coal mine at Centralia. In addition to revealing the inner workings of the American election machine in 1948, Hartley probes the dark underbelly of Illinois politics in the 1930s and 1940s to set the stage, spotlight key party players, and expose the behind-the-scenes influences of media, money, corruption, and crime. In doing so, he draws powerful parallels between the politics of the past and those of the present. Above all, Battleground 1948 tells the story of grassroots change writ large on the American political landscape—change that helped a nation move past an era of conflict and depression, and forever transformed Illinois and the U.S. government. Cloth, $39.50 • 978-0-8093-3266-3 SA 6 × 9 • 264 pages • 14 illus. Robert E. Hartley is the author of a number of books for Southern Illinois University Press, including Paul Powell of Illinois: A Lifelong Democrat and Paul Simon: The Political Journey of an Illinois Original. He was a journalist for Lindsay-Schaub Newspapers in Illinois from 1962 to 1979 and served as executive editor of the Toledo Blade and as publisher of the Journal-American in Bellevue, Washington. He was associated with a Seattle public relations firm for twelve years

The Heroic and the Notorious: U.S. Senators from Illinois David Kenney and Robert E. Hartley

A view of Illinois history via portraits of all the state’s senators This sweeping survey constitutes the first comprehensive treatment of the men and women who have been cho- sen to represent Illinois in the U.S. Senate from 1818 to the present day. David Kenney and Robert E. Hartley underscore nearly two centuries of Illinois history with these biographical and political portraits, compiling an incomparably rich resource for students, scholars, teachers, journalists, historians, politicians, and any Illinoisan interested in the state’s senatorial heritage. Originally published as An Uncertain Tradition: U.S. Senators from Illinois, 1818–2003, this second edition brings readers up to date with new material on Richard Durbin, as well as completely new sections on , Roland Burris, and Mark Kirk. Kenney and Hartley offer incisive commentary on the quality of Senate service in each case, timeline graphs relating to the succession of each senator, the geographical distribution of senators within the state, and the variations in party voting for Senate candidates. Rigorously documented and supremely readable, this convenient reference volume is enhanced by portraits of many of the senators. David Kenney served in the cabinet of Illinois governor James Thompson and is a professor emeritus of political science at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. His books include A Political Passage: The Career of Stratton of Illinois and (with Robert E. Hartley) Death Underground: The Centralia and West Frankfort Mine Disasters (both Paper, $29.50 • 978-0-8093-3108-6 CE published by SIU Press). 6 × 9 • 320 pages • 31 illus. Robert E. Hartley is the author of a number of books for Southern Illinois University Press, including Paul Powell of Illinois: A Lifelong Democrat and Paul Simon: The Political Journey of an Illinois Original.

www.siupress.com • 1-800-621-2736 9 Prairie Justice: A History of Illinois Courts under French, English and American Law Roger L. Severns. Edited by John A. Lupton

Coming February 2015 “Prairie Justice . . . is a useful resource and a good read for anyone interested in early Illinois law and culture.”—Joseph A. Ranney, attorney and Marquette Law School adjunct professor

A concise legal history of Illinois through the end of the nineteenth century, Prairie Justice covers the region’s pro- gression from French to British to early American legal systems, which culminated in a unique body of Illinois law that has influenced other jurisdictions. Written by Roger L. Severns in the 1950s and published in serial form in the 1960s, Prairie Justice is available now for the first time as a book, thanks to the work of editor John A. Lupton, who also contributed an introduction. Severns uses several rulings to examine political movements in Illinois and their impact on the local judiciary. Through legal decisions, the Illinois judiciary became an independent, co-equal branch of state government. By the mid-nineteenth century, Illinois had established itself as a leading judicial authority, influencing not only the growing western frontier but also the industrialized and farming regions of the country. With a close eye for detail, Severns reviews the status of the legal profession during the 1850s by looking at new members of the Court, the Cloth, $34.50 • 978-0-8093-3369-1 nostalgia of circuit riding, and how a young lawyer named Abraham Lincoln rose to prominence. 6 × 9 • 272 pages • 24 illus. Roger L. Severns (1906–61) taught law at Chicago Kent College of Law and practiced law at the firm of Isham, Lincoln, and Beale before leaving that firm to form Parkhill, Severns, and Stansell. John A. Lupton is the executive director at the Illinois Supreme Court Historic Preservation Commission in Springfield. He has published a number of articles and chapters about Illinois history and about Abraham Lincoln as an Illinois lawyer. Survived by One: The Life and Mind of a Family Mass Murderer Robert E. Hanlon with Thomas V. Odle

A tragic story of abuse, abandonment, annihilation, and atonement On November 8, 1985, 18-year-old Tom Odle brutally murdered his parents and three siblings in the small south- ern Illinois town of Mount Vernon, sending shockwaves throughout the nation. The murder of the Odle family remains one of the most horrific family mass murders in U.S. history. Odle was sentenced to death and, after seventeen years on death row, expected a lethal injection to end his life. However, Illinois governor George Ryan’s moratorium on the death penalty in 2000, and later commutation of all death sentences in 2003, changed Odle’s sentence to natural life. Hanlon tells a gripping story of Odle’s life as an abused child, the life experiences that formed his personality, and his tragic homicidal escalation to mass murder, seamlessly weaving into the narrative Odle’s unadorned reflec- tions on his childhood, finding a new family on death row, and his belief in the powers of redemption. As our nation attempts to understand the continual mass murders occurring in the U.S., this book sheds some light on the psychological aspects of why and how such acts of extreme carnage may occur. Survived by One offers a never-been-told perspective from the mass murderer himself as he searches for the answers concurrently being asked by the nation and the world. Cloth, $29.95 • 978-0-8093-3262-5 Robert E. Hanlon is a clinical neuropsychologist with a specialization in the psychological assessment of violent SA criminal offenders. An associate professor of clinical psychiatry and clinical neurology at Northwestern University 6 × 9 • 224 pages • 23 illus. Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, he has evaluated hundreds of murder defendants and death row inmates. Johnson Series in Criminology Thomas V. Odle is an inmate at the Dixon Correctional Center, Illinois Department of Corrections, serving a life sentence for murder.

10 www.siupress.com • 1-800-621-2736 Legends and Lore History as They Lived It of Southern Illinois A Social History of 978-0-8093-2967-0 • 37 illus. Prairie du Rocher, Illinois It Happened in Margaret Kimball Brown Southern Illinois Paper, $24.50 • 978-0-8093-3340-0 978-0-8093-2968-7 • 43 illus. 6 × 9 • 376 pages • 38 illus. Both by John W. Allen Shawnee Books

Paper, $24.95 • 6 × 9 • 440 pages Since its settlement, the village of Prairie du Shawnee Classics Rocher has survived changes of government from French to British to Virginian to territorial In the 1950s and ’60s, John W. Allen told to the state of Illinois. Although these changes the people of southern Illinois about them- affected the villagers, they persisted in main- selves—about their region, its history, and taining the community and its values. Margaret Kimball Brown’s study looks at its folkways—in his series of newspaper the history of one of the oldest towns in the region utilizing extensive research articles, “It Happened in Southern Illinois.” in archives and public records to give historians, anthropologists, and general Each installment of the series depicted a readers a lively depiction of this small community and its people. single item of interest—a town, a building, “[History as They Lived It] brings together the fully ripened thoughts an enterprise, a person, an event, a custom. of a mature scholar at the very moment that students of the Illinois Originally published in the 1960s, these two Country need such a book.”—Carl J. Eckberg, author of Colonial Ste. books bring together a selection of these articles preserving a valuable body Genevieve: An Adventure in the Mississippi Valley of significant local history and cultural lore. “Allen has published a southern Illinois omnibus, a Jack Horner pie that can be cut into anywhere with a good chance of pulling out a plum.” —St. Louis Globe Democrat Foothold on a Growing Up in a Hillside Land Called Egypt Memories of a SA A Southern Illinois Southern Illinoisan Family Biography Charless Caraway, Cleo Caraway CE Foreword by Paper, $22.95 • 978-0-8093-2946-5 Paul Simon 8 × 8 • 160 pages • 52 illus. Paper, $19.95 • 978-0-8093-1298-6 Shawnee Books 8¼ × 8 • 120 pages • 43 illus. Shawnee Books A delightful follow-up to her father’s popular Foothold on a In a style reminiscent of the mas- Hillside: Memories of a Southern ter storytellers of yore, Charless Caraway recounts the story of his life, as a Illinoisan, Caraway’s book is a man and a boy, on small farms in Saline and Jackson counties, particularly pleasant change from the typical accounts of southern Illinois before, during, around Eldorado, Makanda, and Etherton Switch. He makes no bones about and after the Great Depression. Instead of hardscrabble grit, Growing Up in the hardships of those “old days,” first helping his father eke out a living from a Land Called Egypt offers a refreshingly different view of the period and is the land, then scrambling for a living as a sharecropper and fruit picker, as certain to be embraced by southern Illinois natives, as well as anyone inter- he scrimped and saved for the day when he and his young wife, Bessie Mae ested in the experiences of a rural family that thrived despite the difficult Rowan Caraway, could buy a piece of land of their own. times. The author’s lighthearted prose, self-deprecating humor, and genuine affection for her family make reading this book a rich and memorable ex- “This real story about real people captures the flavor as well as the facts perience. of life in Southern Illinois in the early days of the century.”—Ben Gelman

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“Ekberg’s work is among the current best in a field usually labeled Told from the point of view of a young borderlands history. . . . The analysis and narrative in Colonial Ste. boy, this account shows how a family Genevieve disclose a world that cannot be excluded from any revised “faced the 1930s head on and lived to understanding of American history.”—Journal of Southern History tell the story.” It is the tale of growing up in southern Illinois, specifically the Marion area, during the Great De- pression.

Always of Home All Anybody Ever A Southern Illinois Wanted Childhood of Me Was to Work Edgar Allen Imhoff The Memoirs of Paper, $19.95 • 978-0-8093-1854-4 Edith Bradley 5¼ × 9¼ • 184 pages SA Rendleman Shawnee Books Edited by Jane Adams Cloth, $29.95 • 978-0-8093-1931-2 Edgar Allen Imhoff renders a series of touching, Paper, $19.95 • 978-0-8093-2059-2 colorful vignettes about growing up in southern Il- 7 × 8 • 240 pages • 62 illus. linois during the Great Depression. He writes poi- gnantly of his family and their struggles (includ- Shawnee Books ing his father’s exhausting but successful effort at self-education) as he revisits his early childhood years in the country and his “Recalling the details of a long and well-remembered life, these eventual move to the town of Murphysboro, where he encountered school memoirs communicate a way of living far different from that lived bullies, outstanding teachers, first love, World War II, and adolescence. now. In the small and large details of daily life, this account reveals many of the changes that worked a revolution in farm life. It is told “Imhoff takes an imaginative approach to recording life near Mur- neither to celebrate the past—that life was far too difficult and love- physboro, Ill. Introducing vignettes of rural life with poems and less to wish to return to—nor to celebrate the present—there is too quips, [Always of Home] is a well-designed jewel that stresses values much heartache and loneliness for that. Rather, Edith seems moti- of lessons learned through careful listening.”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch vated by an urge to communicate across the generations, to break through the loneliness imposed by being formed in a different time, a time that those raised since World War II have difficulty imagining.” —Jane Adams, from the introduction

12 www.siupress.com • 1-800-621-2736 Giant City State Park and The Outlaws of the Civilian Conservation Cave-in-Rock Corps Otto A. Rothert A History in Words and Foreword by Robert A. Clark Pictures Paper, $19.95 • 978-0-8093-2034-9 Kay Rippelmeyer 6 × 9 • 370 pages • 7 illus. Cloth, $34.95 • 978-0-8093-2921-2 Shawnee Classics Paper, $19.95 • 978-0-8093-2922-9 8 × 10 • 232 pages • 191 illus. This riveting saga of the outlaws and scoun- Shawnee Books drels of Cave-in-Rock chronicles the adven- tures of an audacious cast of river pirates and highwaymen who operated in and around the Many recognize Giant City State Park as famous Ohio River cavern from 1795 through one of the premier recreation spots in 1820. Compellingly lively, The Outlaws of Cave-in-Rock is nonetheless the southern Illinois, with its unspoiled forests, glorious rock formations, and work of a scholar, a historian who documents his findings and leaves a de- famous sandstone lodge. But few know the park’s history or are aware of tailed bibliographical trail. Presenting many eyewitness accounts, Rothert the remarkable men who struggled to build it. Giant City State Park and the supplies the lore and legend of the colorful villains of Cave-in-Rock and pro- Civilian Conservation Corps: A History in Words and Pictures provides the vides both a fascinating narrative and a valuable regional history. first in-depth portrait of the park’s creation, drawing on rarely seen photos, local and national archival research, and interviews to present an intriguing chapter in Illinois history, honoring one of Illinois’ unforgettable places and the men who built it.

A Southern A Knight of Another Sort Illinois Album Prohibition Days and Charlie Farm Security Birger Administration Second Edition Photographs, Gary DeNeal 1936–1943 Paper, $23.95 • 978-0-8093-2217-6 6 × 9 • 376 pages • 72 illus. Herbert K. Russell, Shawnee Classics Foreword by SA F. Jack Hurley “DeNeal’s research and recording, into Paper, $24.95 • 978-0-8093-1589-5 one book, of all of the data on Char- lie Birger and his contemporary cut- 10 × 8⅞ • 160 pages • 114 illus. throats is a masterpiece not only in crim- Shawnee Books inal history, but it is interestingly woven into a period of Illinois history that attracts ‘old-timers’ like me.” Featured in this book are more than one hundred photographs from the col- —Harold Hartley, author of Way Down in Egyptland lection of a quarter of a million taken by Farm Security Administration pho- tographers between 1935 and 1943. These pictures capture life during the “[A Knight of Another Sort] has the authenticity that comes from ex- Great Depression as viewed in the coal-mining towns, river communities, pert scholarship; the reading pleasure that comes from a fine writing and farming regions of southern Illinois—more than two dozen southern talent; and the insights and understanding that come from Gary’s Illinois county seats, hamlets, and landings. Together they comprise a pho- having grown up in ‘Charlie Birger country.’ For the first time, the tographic portrait of the determination, hard work, and capacity to find ways veil of dusty legend that has so long obscured the real personality has to celebrate life exemplified by the people of southern Illinois during one of been cleared away, and DeNeal has revealed the complex and trag- the most difficult periods of American history. ic lineaments of one of southern Illinois’ most fascinating heroes.” —Henry Dan Piper, coauthor of Land Between the Rivers

www.siupress.com • 1-800-621-2736 13 It’s Good to Be Black Death Underground Ruby Berkley Goodwin The Centralia and West Paper, $19.95 • 978-0-8093-3122-2 Frankfort Mine Disasters 5 × 8 • 280 pages Robert E. Hartley “Is it good to be black? To Ruby Berkley and David Kenney Goodwin it was. . . . The black she writes Paper, $22.95 • 978-0-8093-2706-5 about has nothing to do with skin color, but 6 × 9 • 250 pages • 30 illus. SA it does have a great deal to do with self-im- ages, values, spiritual strength, and most of “Illinois possesses a fascinating labor his- all, love. Unlike the contradicting definitions tory that offers historians an opportuni- of blackness we see reflected in today’s crime ty to explore the working lives of men and statistics, movies, television, newspapers, women in a variety of trades and industries political speeches, advertisements, and so- over the course of many decades. Robert ciological reports, Ruby Berkley Goodwin’s E. Hartley and David Kenney have made a definition of blackness is simple and to the point: black is good. It’s useful addition to that history in their collaborative monograph Death Good to Be Black is more than the story (history) of a black family liv- Underground: The Centralia and West Frankfort Mine Disasters. Hartley ing in Du Quoin, Illinois, during the early 1900s; it is a reaffirmation and Kenney present a detailed account of these two mine tragedies of for all of us who know in our hearts that there is still good in the world the mid-twentieth century when coal mining was still a major indus- and that some of that good is black.”—From the preface by Carmen try and trade for the state’s working class. The authors take the reader Kenya Wadley on a journey into the mines, the state bureaucracy of mine inspections and party politics, and into the lives of the miners and their families. This comprehensive history is both academically sound and inter- esting to read. The voices of the historical actors are present through- out the narrative, making this a work of history that could appeal to a popular audience as well as to students of Illinois and labor history.” —Journal of Illinois History

Southern Illinois The Archaeology of Coal Carrier Mills A Portfolio 10,000 Years in the Saline Valley of Illinois C. William Horrell Cloth, $29.95 Richard W. Jefferies 978-0-8093-1341-9 Paper, $25 • 978-0-8093-3305-9 11½ × 11 • 132 pages • 78 illus. 8 × 10 • 182 pages • 96 illus. Shawnee Books Archaeological sites throughout south- ern Illinois provide a chronicle of change, The coal mining photographs showing the varying ways people have of C. William Horrell, taken lived in that area over the past 10,000 across the southern Illinois years. One of the richest and most envi- Coal Belt over a twenty-year ronmentally diverse sites (low uplands, period from 1966 to 1986, are extraordinary examples of documentary lakes, swamps, the , the ) in southern Illinois is photography—so stark and striking that captions seem superfluous. Hor- approximately two miles south of Carrier Mills. This book focuses on the rell’s photographs capture the varied phenomena of twentieth-century coal results of a five-year archaeological investigation at three sites in a 143-acre mining technology, reveal the picturesque remnants of closed mines, and re- area known as the Carrier Mills Archaeo­logical District. flect the beauty of the commonplace—the clothes of the miners, their dinner pails, and their tools. His portraits of coal miners show the strength, dignity, and enduring spirit of the men and women who work the southern Illinois coal mines.

14 www.siupress.com • 1-800-621-2736 Chicago Death Trap Chicago The Iroquois Theatre Fire Metropolis of the of 1903 Mid-Continent Nat Brandt Fourth Edition Paper, $19.95 • 978-0-8093-2721-8 Irving Cutler 6 × 9 • 240 pages • 48 illus. CE Paper, $24.95 • 978-0-8093-2702-7 “Nat Brandt has unearthed a plethora of 7 × 9½ • 464 pages • 300 illus. SA interesting, off-beat, and unusual tales “Cutler gives us a popular survey of Chi- and facts that balance a methodical min- cago’s ‘physical and human processes ute-by-minute account of the most horrific and phenomena that make it work.’ Now building fire disaster in Chicago history. . . . in its fourth edition, [this book] offers a The depth of research Brandt brings to the detailed look at the city’s geography, in- topic is the best compilation of historical frastructure, history of immigration, and economy in an attempt to material dealing with the fire and its subsequent hearings that I have explain how ‘Chicago’s remarkable population growth was achieved ever read.”—Richard Lindberg, author of Return to the Scene of the in the last century and a half.’ Crime: A Guide to Infamous Places in Chicago “[The book] is lavishly illustrated with a large number of original and historical maps. This is a wonderful overview for anyone interested in the geography and development of Chicago.”—Chicago Tribune

Black Writing from Chicago Walter’s Perspective In the World, Not of It? A Memoir of Fifty Years in Edited by Chicago TV News Richard R. Guzman Walter Jacobson Paper, $22.95 • 978-0-8093-2704-1 Foreword by Bill Kurtis 6 × 9 • 360 pages Cloth, $24.95 • 978-0-8093-3112-3 “Richard Guzman’s new collection of Af- 6 × 9 • 216 pages • 28 illus. rican American writing from Chicago is a “Readers will love the sweep of this memoir, heady mix of old-school agitprop and lit- one written with a winning voice and per- erary wonderment, a testimony not only spective.”—Chicago Tribune to the multitude of great black writers who were born or passed through here but also “In this lively romp through Chicago pol- to the myriad forms literature may take. itics and the world of broadcast news, Ja- cobson provides key insights into the workings of the city and the “Guzman has approached his task like a curator. He’s chosen work high-stakes world of broadcast reporting. Told in the same lively, con- from such luminaries as Brooks and Richard Wright that identifies versational, and forthright tone he has used to report and comment their idiosyncratic styles, even if they’re not quintessential selections. on the news over several decades, Jacobson’s memoir makes for great Similarly, he’s included pieces that would otherwise now be inaccessi- reading for anyone interested in the news business or seeking more ble to contemporary readers.”—Time Out Chicago insight into how Chicago works.”—Jacqueline Taylor, dean of the College of Communications, DePaul University, and author of Wait- ing for the Call

www.siupress.com • 1-800-621-2736 15 From Slave to Crusade against Slavery State Legislator Edward Coles, John W. E. Thomas, Pioneer of Freedom Illinois’ First African Kurt E. Leichtle and American Lawmaker Bruce G. Carveth David A. Joens Cloth, $34.95 • 978-0-8093-3042-3 Cloth, $34.95 • 978-0-8093-3058-4 SA 6 × 9 • 280 pages • 9 illus. 6 × 9 • 288 pages • 22 illus. “In their well-crafted study,Crusade against “Beginning as a slave owned by a doctor’s Slavery: Edward Coles, Pioneer of Freedom, family in Alabama, John W. E. Thomas Kurt E. Leichtle and Bruce G. Carveth en- (1847–1899) became a wealthy and well- hance understanding of the Virginia-born known attorney committed to improving governor of Illinois who freed his slaves the lives of those in his community. He while ‘drifting down the Ohio River’ and played a key role in the passage of Illinois’ first civil rights act, yet his later helped them carve new lives on free soil.”—Virginia Magazine of legacy has been sadly neglected by history. From Slave to State Legis- History & Biography lator remedies this with a carefully researched, in-depth account ac- “A worthy contribution to the growing scholarship on Edward Coles.” cessible to scholars and lay readers alike.”—Journal of the Illinois State —Journal of Southern History Historical Society

Cooking Plain The Stars are Back Illinois Country Style The St. Louis Cardinals, the Boston Red Sox, and Player Helen Walker Linsenmeyer Unrest in 1946 Paper, $19.95 • 978-0-8093-3073-7 6½ × 9½ • 288 pages Jerome M. Mileur Cooking Plain, Illinois Country Style by Hel- Cloth, $34.95 • 978-0-8093-3271-7 en Walker Linsenmeyer presents a collection 6 × 9 • 328 pages • 37 illus. of family recipes created prior to 1900 and “Neither baseball nor America was the same perfected from generation to generation, mir- after 1946.”—Ronald Story, author of A Con- roring the delicious and distinctive kind of cise Historical Atlas of World War II cookery produced by the mix of people who settled the Illinois Country during this period. “In the first post–World War II season, The recipes specify the use of natural ingredi- with their greatest players Stan Musial and ents (including butter, lard, and suet) rather Ted Williams back, the St. Louis Cardinals and the Boston Red Sox than synthetic or ready-mixed foods, which were unavailable in the 1800s. squared off in a dramatic seven-game World’s Series. But the season Cooking at the time was pure and unadulterated, and portions were large. was more than a summer of great baseball; it portended changes to Strength-giving food was essential to health and endurance; thus fare was come as the modern era of major league baseball emerged. The Stars pure, hearty, flavorful, and wholesome. are Back tells this story in a compelling, artful, and insightful man- ner.”—Roger D. Launius, Smithsonian Institution, coauthor of Char- A working cookbook complete in its coverage of every area of food prepara- lie Finley: The Outrageous Story of Baseball’s Super Showman tion, Cooking Plain, Illinois Country Style will be used and treasured as much today as its recipes were by families of an earlier century.

16 www.siupress.com • 1-800-621-2736 We Are a College at War Land of Big Rivers Women Working for Victory French and Indian Illinois, in World War II 1699–1778 Mary Weaks-Baxter, M. J. Morgan Christine Bruun, Paper, $26.50 • 978-0-8093-2988-5 and Catherine Forslund 6 × 9 • 304 pages • 16 illus. Cloth, $29.95 • 978-0-8093-2992-2 Shawnee Books 6 × 9 • 256 pages • 20 illus. “In We Are a College at War, authors Mary “This study of riverine ecology focuses on Weaks-Baxter, Christine Bruun, and Cath- the eastern bank of the Mississippi River erine Forslund recount the activist experi- between its intersections with the Missouri ences of female students at Rockford Col- and Ohio rivers in the years after French lege during and after World War II. Based immigration began in 1699, but before on alumni letters and other archival material, the authors build a large numbers of US citizens began flooding into the area during the story of women’s lives at one midwestern women’s college. . . . [T]he early 19th century . A beautifully woven combination of information —Choice book is delightfully readable and written in a style that makes it ac- from several academic fields .” cessible to many. The suggested readings also provide interested read- Drawing on research from a variety of academic fields, such as archaeology, ers with valuable historical sources. Undoubtedly the book speaks history, botany, ecology, and physical science, M. J. Morgan explores the in- to the strong activist traditions of Rockford College, nurtured by its tersection of people and the environment in early eighteenth-century Illinois strong female presidents, faculty, and the memory of Jane Addams.” Country. Arguing against the traditional narrative that describes Illinois as —Journal of Illinois History an untouched wilderness until the influx of American settlers, Morgan illus- trates how the story began much earlier.

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St. Louis and Empire: 250 Years of Illinois has a long and proud history of attracting immigrant popula- Imperial Quest and Urban Crisis tions from around the globe. The Celebrating the Peoples of Illinois Henry W. Berger series seeks to educate and entertain readers with well-researched yet readable histories of ethnic groups residing in the state. Books in this Following Father Chiniquy: series will explore and celebrate the unique historical and cultural Immigration, Religious Schism, and contributions of these groups to Illinois. Social Change in Nineteenth-Century Illinois Each book will focus on a specific ethnic group and provide historical Caroline B. Brettell background about their homeland, the reasons for and timing of their migration, how they adapted to life in Illinois, and a description of Fall 2015 their presence in the state today. Each book in this series will contain A New Deal for Bronzeville: an annotated bibliography or bibliographic essay of available resourc- Housing, Employment, and Civil Rights es for further reading, as well as illustrations, such as photographs, maps, and sidebars, that will give readers unique insight into each in Black Chicago, 1935-1955 ethnic group’s history and culture. Lionel Kimble, Jr.

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Wings Over Illinois God Knows His Name: Kaskaskia under the French Regime Arthur E. Abney The True Story of John Doe No. 24 Natalia Maree Belting Cloth, $30 • 978-0-8093-2768-3 Dave Bakke Paper, $19.50 • 978-0-8093-2536-8 6 × 9 • 280 pages • 8 illus. Paper, $19.95 • 978-0-8093-2327-2 6¼ × 8 • 152 pages 6 × 9 • 180 pages • 16 illus.

The Boy of Battle Ford and the Man Prairie Albion: Beyond Mammoth Cave: The Longest Cave W. S. Blackman An English Settlement in Pioneer Illinois A Tale of Obsession in Roger W. Brucker and Richard A. Watson Paper, $18 • 978-0-8093-3128-4 Charles Boewe the World’s Longest Cave Paper, $24.95 • 978-0-8093-1322-8 ¼ 6 × 8½ • 164 pages • 6 illus. Paper, $23 • 978-0-8093-2283-1 James D. Borden and Roger W. Brucker 6 × 9 • 352 pages • 49 illus. 6 × 9 • 360 pages • 14 illus. Paper, $29.95 • 978-0-8093-2346-3 6 × 9 • 392 pages

The Conquest of The Illinois Stagecoach and Tavern Tales The Great Cyclone at St Louis Wheat Flour Messiah: George Rogers Clark of the Old Northwest and East St. Louis, May 27, 1896 Eric Jansson of Bishop Hill Paper, $19.50 • 978-0-8093-2378-4 Harry Ellsworth Cole Edited by Julian Curzon Paul Elmen 4¼ × 6½ • 224 pages • 1 illus. Paper, $22.95 • 978-0-8093-2125-4 Paper, $19.50 • 978-0-8093-2124-7 Paper, $27 • 978-0-8093-2118-6 6 × 9 • 384 pages • 31 illus. 5 × 7½ • 432 pages • 128 illus. 5½ × 8½ • 240 pages • 11 illus.

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Grafters and Goo Goos: The Man Who Emptied Death Row: Mr. Chairman: Making the Heartland Quilt: Corruption and Reform in Chicago Governor George Ryan and the Politics of Crime Power in Dan Rostenkowski’s America A Geographical History of Settlement and James L. Merriner James L. Merriner James L. Merriner Migration in Early Nineteenth-Century Illinois Paper, $19.95 • 978-0-8093-2874-1 Cloth, $29.95 • 978-0-8093-2865-9 Paper, $22.50 • 978-0-8093-2473-6 Douglas K. Meyer 6 × 9 • 344 pages • 18 illus. 6 × 9 • 224 pages • 19 illus. 5½ × 8¾ • 360 pages • 11 illus. Cloth, $50 • 978-0-8093-2289-3 6 × 9 • 360 pages • 67 illus.

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Tales and Songs of Southern Illinois Eight Months in Illinois Governor Richard Ogilvie: Escape Betwixt Two Suns: Charles Neely William Oliver In the Interest of the State A True Tale of the Underground Railroad in Illinois Paper, $19.95 • 978-0-8093-2183-4 Paper, $17.50 • 978-0-8093-2437-8 Taylor Pensoneau Carol Pirtle 6 × 9 • 296 pages • 10 illus. 5½ × 8 • 264 pages Paper: $19.95 • 978-0-8093-2907-6 Paper, $19.95 • 978-0-8093-2301-2 Cloth: $35 • 978-0-8093-2148-3 6 × 9 • 184 pages • 14 illus. 6 × 9 • 314 pages, 15 illus.

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Tell Us a Story: In Lincoln’s Shadow: Freedom’s Champion: A Woman’s Story of Pioneer Illinois An African American Family in the Heartland The 1908 Race Riot in Springfield, Illinois Elijah Lovejoy Christiana Holmes Tillson Shirley Motley Portwood Roberta Senechal de la Roche Paul Simon Edited by Milo M. Quaife Paper, $19.95 • 978-0-8093-2314-2 Paper, $22.50 • 978-0-8093-2909-0 Paper, $22.50 • 978-0-8093-1941-1 Paper, $19.50 • 978-0-8093-1981-7 6 × 9 • 272 pages • 24 illus. 6 × 9 • 264 pages • 22 illus 5½ × 8½ • 240 pages • 9 illus. 5½ × 8½ • 184 pages • 1 illus.

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Wetlands Drainage, River Modification, and The Maverick and the Machine: Labor, Loyalty, and Rebellion: The Chicago Diaries of Sectoral Conflict in the Lower Illinois Valley, Governor Dan Walker Tells His Story Southwestern Illinois Coal Miners and World War I John M. Wing 1865–1866 1890–1930 Dan Walker Carl R. Weinberg Robert Williams John Thompson Cloth, $29.95 • 978-0-8093-2756-0 Paper, $30 • 978-0-8093-2635-8 Cloth, $20 • 978-0-8093-2483-5 Cloth, $60 • 978-0-8093-2398-2 6 × 9 • 376 pages • 30 illus. 6 × 9 • 280 pages • 24 illus. 6 × 9 • 208 pages • 13 illus. 6 × 9 • 304 pages • 42 illus.

Books by Robert H. Mohlenbrock

• Acanthaceae to Myricaceae: Water Willows to Wax Myrtles • Flowering Plants: Lilies to Orchids • Flowering Plants: Willows to Mustards • Cyperaceae: Sedges • Flowering Plants: Magnolias to Pitcher Plants • Grasses: Bromus to Paspalum • Filicineae, Gymnospermae, and Other Monocots, Excluding • Flowering Plants: Nightshades to Mistletoe • Grasses: Panicum to Danthonia Cyperaceae: Ferns, Conifers, and Other Monocots, • Flowering Plants: Pokeweeds, Four-o’clocks, • Nelumbonaceae to Vitaceae: Water Lotuses to Excluding Sedges Carpetweeds, Cacti, Purslanes, Goosefoots, Grapes • Flowering Plants: Asteraceae, Part 1 (Spring 2015) Pigweeds, and Pinks • Sedges: Carex • Flowering Plants: Basswoods to Spurges • Flowering Plants: Smartweeds to Hazelnuts • Sedges: Cyperus to Scleria • Flowering Plants: Flowering Rush to Rushes (Robert H. Mohlenbrock and Paul M. Thomson Jr.) • Vascular Flora of Illinois

20 www.siupress.com • 1-800-621-2736 Lincoln/ Regional Civil War

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*SIU Press publishes Civil War books on a broad range of Civil War topics . We’ve highlighted titles of regional interest in this catalog . Books on other Civil War topics from SIU Press can be found on our website at www .siupress .com Union Heartland The Midwestern Home Front during the Civil War Edited by Ginette Aley and J. L. Anderson, Foreword by William C. Davis Bringing together an assortment of home front topics from a variety of fresh perspectives, this collection offers a view of the Civil War that is unabashedly midwestern. Historians have broadened the somewhat simplistic interpretation of the Civil War as a battle between the North and the South by revealing the “many Souths” that made up the Confederacy, but the “North” has remained largely undifferentiated as a geopolitical term. In this welcome collection, seven Civil War scholars offer a unique regional perspective on the Civil War by examining how a specific group of Northerners—Midwesterners, known as West- erners and Middle Westerners during the 1860s—experienced the war on the home front. From the exploitation of Confederate prisoners in Ohio to wartime college enrollment in Michigan, these essays reveal how Midwestern men, women, families, and communities became engaged in myriad war-related activities and support. Agriculture figures prominently in the collection, with several contributors exploring the agricultural power of the region and the impact of the war on farming, farm families, and farm women. Contributors also consider student debates and reactions to questions of patriotism, the effect of the war on military families’ relationships, women’s deference to male authority, and the treatment of political dissent and dissenters.

Cloth, $39.50 • 978-0-8093-3264-9 Ginette Aley is a Carey Fellow at Kansas State University and an adjunct professor at Washburn University. She has 6 × 9 • 224 pages • 14 illus. authored numerous chapter essays and articles on nineteenth-century rural life and westward migration, north and south of the Ohio River and west of the Mississippi River. J. L. Anderson, an associate professor of history at Mount Royal University in Calgary, Alberta, is the author of Industrializing the Corn Belt: Agriculture, Tech- nology, and Environment, 1945–1972.

The Prairie Boys Go to War: The Fifth Illinois Cavalry, 1861–1865 Rhonda M. Kohl “The Prairie Boys Go to War does in excellent fashion what so many Civil War regimental histories continue to do poorly.”—Civil War Books and Authors Cavalry units from Midwestern states remain largely absent from Civil War literature, and what little has been written largely overlooks the individual men who served. The Fifth Illinois Cavalry has thus remained obscure despite participating in some of the most important campaigns in Arkansas and Mississippi. In this pioneering examination of that understudied regiment, Rhonda M. Kohl offers the only modern, comprehensive analysis of a southern Illinois regiment during the Civil War and combines well-documented military history with a cultural analysis of the men who served in the Fifth Illinois. The regiment’s history unfolds around major events in the western theater from 1861 to September 1865, including campaigns at Helena, Vicksburg, Jackson, and Meridian, as well as numerous little-known skirmishes. Although they were led almost exclusively by Northern-born Republicans, the majority of the soldiers in the Fifth Illinois remained Democrats. As Kohl demonstrates, politics, economics, education, social values, and racism separated the line officers from the common soldiers, and the internal friction caused by these cultural disparities led to poor leadership, low morale, disciplinary problems, and rampant alcoholism. The narrative pulls the Fifth Illinois out of historical oblivion, elucidating the highs and lows of the soldiers’ service as well as their changing attitudes toward war goals, religion, liberty, commanding generals, Copperheads, and alcoholism. By reconstructing the cultural context of Fifth Illinois Cloth, $39.95 • 978-0-8093-3203-8 soldiers, Prairie Boys Go to War reveals how social and economic traditions can shape the wartime experience. 6 × 9 • 328 pages • 22 illus. Rhonda M. Kohl is a historian and writer in Jeffersonville, Indiana. Her articles have appeared in the Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, Arkansas Historical Quarterly, Civil War History, and Illinois Historical Journal.

22 www.siupress.com • 1-800-621-2736 Treasures of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Edited by Glenna R. Schroeder-Lein

“One of the greatest of all Lincoln collections at last has a guidebook worthy of its fascinating treasures. This lavishly illustrated, well-written treasury is the next best thing to visiting the library and museum itself. A must!”—Harold Holzer, chairman, Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Foundation

The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library in Springfield, Illinois, houses a trove of invaluable his- torical resources concerning all aspects of the Prairie State’s past. Treasures of the Abraham Lin- coln Presidential Library commemorates the institution’s 125-year history and its contributions to scholarship and education by highlighting a selection of eighty-five treasures from among more than twelve million items in the library’s collections. After opening with a historical overview and extensive chronology of the Library, the volume organizes the items by various topics. Each entry includes a thorough description of the item, one or more images, and a discussion of its history and how the library acquired it, if known. Featured items include the Everett copy of the , Abraham and Mary Lincoln’s letters, Governor Dan Walker’s boots, WPA publications, Civil War newspapers, the Mary Lincoln insanity verdict, and Lincoln’s stovepipe hat. Although these treasures only scrape the surface of the vast holdings of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library, together they epitomize the rich, varied, and sometimes quirky resources available to both serious scholars and Paper, 978-0-8093-3336-3, $22.50 curious tourists alike at this valuable cultural institution. Cloth, 978-0-8093-3335-6, $39.50 8¼ × 9¼ • 224 pages • 159 illustrations Glenna R. Schroeder-Lein, a manuscript librarian at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library in Springfield, Illinois, is the author of Lincoln and Medicine, The Encyclopedia of Civil War Medicine, and Confederate Hospitals on the Move: Samuel H. Stout and the Army of Tennessee. We Called Him Rabbi Abraham Lincoln and American Jewry, a Documentary History Edited by Gary Phillip Zola

“A rich, scholarly, instructive reminder that there’s always more to learn about Honest Abe.”—Kirkus Reviews “It is a great tribute to Gary Zola’s passion, research skills, and narrative talent that after thousands of books on Abraham Lincoln, he has produced a stunningly original work that throws new light not only on our sixteenth president and his relationship with the Jewish community but also on the broader story of the American experi- ence.”—Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln “Everyone interested in Lincoln and the Civil War, students, scholars, and lovers of history alike, owe Gary Zola a debt of thanks for compiling this fascinating book.”—Eric Foner, author of The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery Over the course of American history, Jews have held many American leaders in high esteem, but they maintain a unique emotional bond with Abraham Lincoln. American Jews have persistently viewed Lincoln as one of their own, casting him as a Jewish sojourner and, in certain respects, a Jewish role model. The first volume of documents to focus on the history of Lincoln’s image, influence, and reputation among American Jews, this pioneering com- pendium considers how Lincoln acquired his exceptional status and how, over the past century and a half, this Cloth, $49.50 • 978-0-8093-3292-2 fascinating relationship has evolved. 6⅛ × 9¼ • 480 pages • 59 illus. Gary Phillip Zola is the executive director of the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives and a professor of the American Jewish expe- rience at Hebrew Union College. His books include The Americanization of the Jewish Prayer Book and the Liturgical Development of Congregation Ahawath Chesed, New York City; and Isaac Harby of Charleston: Jewish Reformer and Liberal.

www.siupress.com • 1-800-621-2736 23 Abraham Lincoln, Philosopher Statesman Joseph R. Fornieri

“Put away the treacly little handbooks which promise to deliver Lincoln’s ‘leadership secrets’—here is the real stuff of Lincoln’s statesmanship.”—Allen Guelzo The political genius of Abraham Lincoln remains unequivocal. As a great leader, he saved the Union, presided over the end of slavery, and helped to pave the way for an interracial democracy. In his speeches and letters, he offered enduring wisdom about human equality, democracy, free labor, and free society. This rare combination of theory and practice in politics cemented Lincoln’s legacy as one of the most talented statesmen in American history. Providing an accessible framework for understanding Lincoln’s statesmanship, this thoughtful study examines Lincoln’s political intellect in terms of the traditional moral vision of statecraft as understood by the political philosophers Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas. The enduring wisdom and timeless teachings of these great thinkers, author Joseph R. Fornieri shows, can lead to a deeper appreciation of statesmanship and of its embodiment in Abraham Lincoln. Statesmanship, Fornieri posits, is a moral greatness that stems from six virtues: wisdom, prudence, duty, mag- nanimity, rhetoric, and patriotism. Drawing on insights from history, politics, and philosophy, Fornieri tackles the question of how Lincoln evidenced each of these virtues and reveals Lincoln to be a philosopher statesman in whom political thought and action were united. Lincoln’s character is best understood, he contends, in terms of Aquinas’s understanding of magnanimity or greatness of soul, the crowning virtue of statesmanship. True Cloth, $34.50 • 978-0-8093-3329-5 political greatness, as evidenced by Lincoln, involves both humility and sacrifice for the common good. 6 × 9 • 248 pages • 20 illus. Joseph R. Fornieri is a professor of political science at the Rochester Institute of Technology and the director of the Center for Statesmanship, Law, and Liberty. He is the author or editor of five books, including Abraham Lincoln’s Political Faith and, with Sara Vaughn Gabbard, Lincoln’s America, 1809–1865.

The Long Shadow of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address Jared Peatman “Its words are magnificent in their brevity and their meaning. Yet, until the appearance of Jared Peatman’s book, no one had shown as clearly as he does the long-term effect of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address on friend and foe alike. Must reading for all Americans.”—John F. Marszalek, executive director and managing editor, Ulysses S. Grant Association

When Abraham Lincoln gave his Gettysburg Address on November 19, 1863 at the dedication ceremony of the Sol- diers' National Cemetery, he intended it to be his most eloquent statement on the link between equality and democ- racy. However, unwilling to commit to equality at that time, the nation stood ill-prepared to accept his full message. In the ensuing century, groups wishing to advance a particular position hijacked Lincoln’s words for their own ends, obscuring his true purpose. In this incisive work, Jared Peatman considers Lincoln’s intentions at Gettysburg and how his speech was received, invoked, and interpreted over time, providing a timely and insightful analysis of one of America’s legendary orations. He examines immediate responses to the ceremony and chronicles the address’s use by proponents of various ideals, from reunification early in the twentieth century to American democracy and patriotism during the world wars and, finally, to Lincoln’s full intended message of equality during the Civil War centennial commemorations and the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Peatman also explores foreign invocations of the Gettysburg Address, highlights recent applications, and hints at ways the speech might be used in the future. Cloth, $34.50 • 978-0-8093-3310-3 By tracing the evolution of Lincoln’s brief words at a cemetery dedication into a revered American document, this 6 × 9 • 264 pages • 16 illus. revealing work provides fresh insight into the enduring legacy of Abraham Lincoln and his Gettysburg Address in American history and culture. Jared Peatman is a leadership development consultant and the director of curriculum for the Lincoln Leadership Institute at Gettysburg.

24 www.siupress.com • 1-800-621-2736 1863: Lincoln’s Pivotal Year Edited by Harold Holzer and Sara Vaughn Gabbard

The first in-depth examination of the Civil War’s most revolutionary year Only hours into the new year of 1863, Abraham Lincoln performed perhaps his most famous action as president by signing the Emancipation Proclamation. Rather than remaining the highlight of the coming months, however, this monumental act marked only the beginning of the most pivotal year of Lincoln’s presidency and the most revolution- ary twelve months of the entire Civil War. The ten essays in this book explore the year’s important events and developments, including the response to the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation; the battles of Gettysburg and Vicksburg, and other lesser-known con- frontations; the New York City draft riots; several constitutional issues involving the war powers of President Lincoln; and the Gettysburg Address and its continued impact on American thought. Other topics include the adaptation of photography for war coverage, the critical use of images, the military role of the navy, and Lincoln’s family life during this fiery trial. With an informative introduction by noted Lincoln scholar Harold Holzer and a chronology that places the high-pro- file events of 1863 in context with cultural and domestic policy advances of the day, this remarkable compendium opens a window into a year that proved decisive not only for the Civil War and Lincoln’s presidency but also for the Cloth, $32.95 • 978-0-8093-3246-5 entire course of American history. 6 × 9 • 216 pages • 28 illus. Harold Holzer is the author, coauthor, or editor of forty-two books on Lincoln and the Civil War. Among his many honors are a second-place Lincoln Prize for Lincoln at Cooper Union, numerous awards for history, research, and children’s literature, and the National Humanities Medal from the President of the United States. Sara Vaughn Gabbard is the executive director of Friends of the Lincoln Collection of Indiana. She is the editor of Lincoln Lore and a coeditor (with Harold Holzer) of Lincoln and Freedom: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Thirteenth Amendment and (with Joseph Fornieri) of Lincoln’s America, 1809–1865. Lincoln’s Ladder to the Presidency: The Eighth Judicial Circuit Guy C. Fraker, Foreword by Michael Burlingame “An effective lesson on the importance of political networking [and] an excellent primer for aspiring politicians.”—Jim Edgar, Illinois governor, 1991–1999 Throughout his twenty-three-year legal career, Abraham Lincoln spent nearly as much time on the road as an attorney for the Eighth Judicial Circuit as he did in his hometown of Springfield, Illinois. Yet most historians gloss over the time and instead have Lincoln emerge fully formed as a skillful politician in 1858. In this innovative volume, Guy C. Fraker provides the first-ever study of Lincoln’s professional and personal home away from home and demonstrates how the Eighth Judicial Circuit and its people propelled Lincoln to the presidency. Each spring and fall, Lincoln traveled to as many as fourteen county seats in the Eighth Judicial Circuit to appear in consecutive court sessions over a ten- to twelve-week period. Fraker describes the people and counties that Lincoln en- countered, discusses key cases Lincoln handled, and introduces the important friends he made, friends who eventually formed the team that executed Lincoln’s nomination strategy at the Chicago Republican Convention in 1860 and won him the presidential nomination. As Fraker shows, the Eighth Judicial Circuit provided the perfect setting for the growth and ascension of Lincoln. A complete portrait of the sixteenth president depends on a full understanding of his experience on the circuit, and Lin- coln’s Ladder to the Presidency provides that understanding, as well as a fresh perspective on the much-studied figure, Cloth, $34.95 • 978-0-8093-3201-4 thus deepening our understanding of the roots of his political influence and acumen. 6 × 9 • 352 pages • 34 illus. CE Guy C. Fraker, an attorney in Bloomington, Illinois, has written extensively and lectures frequently on the Eighth Circuit. He was a consultant on the award-win- ning PBS documentary Lincoln, Prelude to the Presidency and co-curated Prologue to the Presidency: Abraham Lincoln on the Illinois Eighth Judicial Circuit, a traveling exhibit also on permanent display at the , a state historic site in Bloomington. He served as an advisor to the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission. A graduate of the University of of Law, he is a past president of the McLean County Bar Association.

www.siupress.com • 1-800-621-2736 25 Reading with Lincoln Robert Bray

“In this subtle, insightful study, Robert Bray offers the first scholarly account of Lincoln’s reading. Bray has a keen literary sensibility and broad culture that enable him to shed bright light on the development of Lincoln’s taste and on the ways in which the books he read influenced his thinking and writing.” —Michael Burlingame, author of Abraham Lincoln: A Life

Through extensive reading and reflection, Abraham Lincoln fashioned a mind as powerfully intellectual and su- perlatively communicative as that of any other esteemed American political leader. Reading with Lincoln explains Lincoln’s inspiring rise to greatness by connecting the content of his reading to the story of his life. At the core of Lincoln’s success was his self-education, centered on his love of and appreciation for learning through books. This unique study delves into those books, pamphlets, poems, plays, and essays that influenced Lincoln’s thoughts and actions. From his early studies of grammar school handbooks and children’s classics to his interest in Shake- speare’s Macbeth and the Bible during his years, what Lincoln read helped to define who he was as a person and as a politician. Robert Bray is the Colwell Professor of English at Illinois Wesleyan University. He is the author or editor of numer- ous articles and books, including Rediscoveries: Literature and Place in Illinois. Cloth, $29.95 • 978-0-8093-2995-3 LP 6⅛ × 9¼ • 272 pages

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Lincoln’s Forgotten Friend, Leonard Swett Robert S. Eckley

“The story of this friendship belongs in every good collection of Lincolniana.”— Journal of Illinois History

In 1849, while traveling as an attorney on the Eighth Judicial Circuit in Illinois, Abraham Lincoln befriended Leon- ard Swett (1825–89), a fellow attorney sixteen years his junior. Despite this age difference, the two men built an enduring friendship that continued until Lincoln’s assassination in 1865. Until now, no historian has explored Swett’s life or his remarkable relationship with the sixteenth president. In this welcome volume, Robert S. Eckley provides the first biography of Swett, crafting an intimate portrait of his experiences as a loyal member of Lincoln’s inner circle. Eckley chronicles Swett’s early life and the part he played in Lincoln’s political campaigns, including his role as an essential member of the team behind Lincoln’s two nominations and elections for the presidency. Swett counseled Lincoln during the formation of his cabinet and served as an unofficial advisor and sounding board during Lincoln’s time in office. Throughout his life, Swett wrote a great deal on Lincoln. He planned to write a biography about him, but Swett’s death preempted the project. His eloquent and interesting writings about Lincoln are described and reproduced in this volume, some for the first time. With Lincoln’s Forgotten Friend, Eckley removes Swett from the shadows of history and sheds new light on Lincoln’s Cloth, $34.95 • 978-0-8093-3205-2 SA personal relationships and their valuable contributions to his career. 6 × 9 • 336 pages • 22 illus. The late Robert S. Eckley was the president of Illinois Wesleyan University from 1968 to 1986. He served as president of the Abraham Lincoln Association from 2002 to 2004 and was honored with their Logan Hay Medal in 2007. He published an article on Swett in the Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society.

26 www.siupress.com • 1-800-621-2736 Giant in the Shadows: The Life of Robert T. Lincoln Jason Emerson

Winner of the Illinois State Historical Society Book of the Year Award Although he was Abraham and Mary Lincoln’s oldest and last surviving son, the details of Robert T. Lincoln’s life are misunderstood by some and unknown to many others. Nearly half a century after the last biography about Abraham Lincoln’s son was published, historian and author Jason Emerson illuminates the life of this remarkable man and his achievements in Giant in the Shadows: The Life of Robert T. Lincoln. Born in a boardinghouse but passing his last days at ease on a lavish country estate, Robert Lincoln played many roles during his lifetime. As a president’s son, a Union soldier, an ambassador to Great Britain, and a U.S. secretary of war, Lincoln was indisputably a titan of his age. Much like his father, he became one of the nation’s most respected and influential men, building a successful law practice in the city of Chicago, serving shrewdly as president of the Pullman Car Company, and at one time even being considered as a candidate for the U.S. presidency. Giant in the Shadows also reveals Robert T. Lincoln’s complex relationships with his famous parents and includes previously unpublished insights into their personalities. Meticulously researched, full of never-before-seen photographs and new insight into historical events, this work is the missing chapter of the story. Emerson’s riveting work is more than simply a biography; it is a tale of American achievement in the Gilded Age and the endurance of the Lincoln legacy. Cloth, $39.95 • 978-0-8093-3055-3 BY 6⅛ × 9¼ • 640 pages • 27 illus. Jason Emerson is a journalist and an independent historian who has been researching and writing about the Lin- coln family for nearly twenty years. He is a former National Park Service park ranger at the Lincoln Home National Historic Site, in Springfield, Illinois. His previous books include The Madness of Mary Lincoln (named Book of the Year by the Illinois State Historical Society), Lincoln the Inventor, and The Dark Days of Abraham Lincoln’s Widow, as Revealed by Her Own Letters. He lives near Syracuse, New York. The Madness of Mary Lincoln Jason Emerson

Winner of the Illinois State Historical Society Book of the Year Award “Jason Emerson’s The Madness of Mary Lincoln will become a classic of American history. It has everything—a compel- ling story; a fascinating cast of characters; the thrilling discovery of long-lost documents; shrewd analysis of the peo- ple, the period, and the sources; and it’s a pleasure to read. Here is a model of the historian’s art.” —American Spectator “Jason Emerson has written the definitive work on ’s mental health in general and her insanity problems in particular. Written with verve and complete understanding of the subject, The Madness of Mary Lincoln is a masterpiece.” —Wayne C. Temple, author of Abraham Lincoln: From Skeptic to Prophet “Jason Emerson is a very, very good writer and a superior historical detective. This is a most original book, taking new evidence to new heights of sophisticated analysis.” —Harold Holzer, author of The Lincoln Family Album In 2005, historian Jason Emerson discovered a steamer trunk formerly owned by ’s lawyer and stowed in an attic for forty years. The trunk contained a rare find: twenty-five letters pertaining to Mary Todd Lin- coln’s life and insanity case, letters assumed long destroyed by the Lincoln family. Mary wrote twenty of the letters herself, more than half from the insane asylum to which her son Robert had her committed, and many in the months and years after. The Madness of Mary Lincoln is the first examination of Mary Lincoln’s mental illness based on the lost letters, and the first new interpretation of the insanity case in twenty years. Paper, $19.95 • 978-0-8093-3010-2 BY Jason Emerson is a journalist and an independent historian who has been researching and writing about the Lincoln 6 × 9 • 272 pages • 17 illus. family for nearly twenty years. He is a former National Park Service park ranger at the Lincoln Home National Historic Site, in Springfield, Illinois. He is the author of several books, including Lincoln the Inventor, The Dark Days of Abraham Lincoln’s Widow, as Revealed by Her Own Letters, and Giant in the Shadows: The LIfe of Robert T. Lincoln. He lives near Syracuse, New York.

www.siupress.com • 1-800-621-2736 27 Abraham Lincoln Lincoln and the Civil War and Michael Burlingame Gregory A. Borchard Cloth, $19.95 • 978-0-8093-3053-9 Cloth, $19.95 • 978-0-8093-3045-4 5 × 8 • 176 pages 5 × 8 • 168 pages • 10 illus. Concise Lincoln Library Concise Lincoln Library “Masterful! Michael Burlingame offers a por- “In a fresh and insightful way, Borchard’s trait of Lincoln in the Civil War that is at once book offers a fine general introduction wide angle and zoom lens in scope. He por- of Lincoln and Greeley to novice read- trays the complex issues Lincoln faced and ers, while at the same time his rigorous allows us to go behind the scenes to grasp the research will be of compelling interest manifold dimensions of his leadership. Bur- to seasoned scholars. This book will en- lingame’s reputation for meticulous scholar- gage anyone interested in Civil War–era journalism and politics.” ship is presented here in an accessible study just in time for the ses- —Adam-Max Tuchinsky, author of Horace Greeley’s “New-York Tri- quicentennial remembrances of the Civil War.”—Ronald C. White Jr., bune”: Civil War-Era Socialism and the Crisis of Free Labor author of A. Lincoln: A Biography Gregory A. Borchard is an associate professor of mass communication and Michael Burlingame, holder of the Chancellor Naomi B. Lynn Distin- journalism in the Hank Greenspun School of Journalism and Media Studies guished Chair in Lincoln Studies at the University of Illinois Springfield, is at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He is the coauthor of Journalism in the author of The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln and Abraham Lincoln: A the Civil War Era and has published journal articles focusing on the nine- Life, which won the 2010 Lincoln Prize teenth-century press.

Lincoln and the Constitution Lincoln and the Brian R. Dirck Election of 1860 Cloth, $19.95 • 978-0-8093-3117-8 Michael S. Green 5 × 8 • 184 pages Cloth, $19.95 • 978-0-8093-3035-5 5 × 8 • 152 pages Concise Lincoln Library Concise Lincoln Library “Anyone who reads [this] accessible, viv- id, even entertaining book will understand This book reveals a new side of Abraham Lin- why Abraham Lincoln cannot be ignored coln—that of the astute political manipulator— in any account of the constitutional history and examines how Lincoln journeyed from Re- of the United States.”—Mark E. Neely, Mc- publican underdog to an improbable victor. Cabe-Grier Professor of the History of the Civil War Era at Penn State University “Michael S. Green provides the best available synthesis of Abraham Lincoln’s first presiden- “I am grateful to Brian Dirck for providing such an eloquent articula- tial campaign. In unusually clear and crisp prose, Green’s fast-paced tion of what I have long believed to be the path Lincoln (and the na- book captures the flavor and spirit of the moment and the man.” tion) would have taken, if only had abandoned his — plans for that terrible evening at Ford’s Theater.”—Civil War Monitor John David Smith, Charles H . Stone Distinguished Professor of American History, UNC-Charlotte Brian R. Dirck, a professor of history at Anderson University, is the author Michael S. Green, a professor of history at the College of Southern Nevada, of Lincoln the Lawyer, Lincoln Emancipated: The President and the Politics of is the author of seven books, including Politics and America in Crisis: The Race, and Lincoln and Davis: Imagining America, 1809–1865. Coming of the Civil War and Freedom, Union, and Power: Lincoln and His Party during the Civil War.

28 www.siupress.com • 1-800-621-2736 Lincoln and the Lincoln’s Campaign Union Governors Biographies William C. Harris Thomas A. Horrocks Cloth, $24.95 • 978-0-8093-3288-5 Cloth, $24.95 • 978-0-8093-3331-8 5 × 8 • 184 pages • 9 illus. 5 × 8 • 168 pages • 9 illus.

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“This book represents this generation’s most More than twenty biographies of Abraham Lin- thorough, important, and persuasive analysis coln were published for the 1860 and 1864 pres- of Lincoln’s political and personal relationship idential campaigns. In this unique study, Hor- with the governors of the loyal states during rocks examines the role these publications played the Civil War.”—Kenneth J. Winkle, author of in shaping an image of Lincoln that would reso- Abraham and Mary Lincoln and Lincoln’s Cita- nate with voters. He explores the image that was del: The Civil War in Washington D.C. crafted and promoted by these campaign biographies, how it changed over the course of four years, and the impact (so far as it can be determined) of William C. Harris, a professor emeritus of history at North Carolina State these publications on the outcome of the presidential elections. University, is the author or editor of eleven books. His most recent book, Lincoln and the Border States: Preserving the Union, won the prestigious Lin- Thomas A. Horrocks is the director of both Special Collections and the John coln Prize in 2012. Hay Library at Brown University. He is the author, editor, or coeditor of six books, including The Living Lincoln and President and the Crisis of National Leadership.

Lincoln and the Military Lincoln and Reconstruction John F. Marszalek John C. Rodrigue Cloth, $24.95 • 978-0-8093-3361-5 Cloth, $19.95 • 978-0-8093-3253-3 5 × 8 • 168 pages • 10 illus. 5 × 8 • 176 pages Concise Lincoln Library Concise Lincoln Library “John Marszalek’s briskly written survey of the Civil War illuminates and underscores the central, “Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction is generally even decisive, role that Lincoln played in crafting shunted off to a single chapter or less in broader Union strategy and managing his often uncoopera- histories of the period. John Rodrigue gives the tive generals. In particular, Marszalek shows clear- subject the full attention it deserves in this well- ly how a politically skilled Lincoln integrated his researched and carefully argued book.”—James anti-slavery policy with war planning.”—Craig L. Oakes, author of Freedom National: The Destruc- Symonds, author of Lincoln and his Admirals tion of Slavery in the United States “[This book] ably demonstrates how Lincoln’s thinking impacted military John C. Rodrigue is the Lawrence and Theresa Salameno Professor and a affairs great and small [and] is a fine précis of Lincoln’s interaction with his professor of history at Stonehill College in North Easton, Massachusetts. He military, demonstrating yet again that Father Abraham was himself one of is the author of several books, including Reconstruction in the Cane Fields: the Union’s most potent weapons of war.”—Dr. William C. Davis From Slavery to Free Labor in Louisiana’s Sugar Parishes, 1862–1880. John F. Marszalek is the Giles Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History, Mississippi State University; the executive director of the Ulysses S. Grant Association’s Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library at Mississippi State Uni- versity; and the editor of the Papers of Ulysses S. Grant. He is the author or editor of fourteen books, including Sherman: A Soldier’s Passion for Order.

www.siupress.com • 1-800-621-2736 29 Lincoln and Medicine Lincoln and the Glenna R. Schroeder-Lein U.S. Colored Troops Cloth, $19.95 • 978-0-8093-3194-9 John David Smith 5 × 8 • 152 pages • 5 illus. A Cloth, $24.95 • 978-0-8093-3290-8 5 × 8 • 168 pages Concise Lincoln Library Concise Lincoln Library Chosen as one of the thirteen “Best of the Best” University Press Books for “A fine, concise exploration of the formation, Public and Secondary School Libraries engagement, sacrifices, and contributions of by the American Library Association the USCT during the Civil War, rich with pri- Since his assassination in 1865, Lincoln has been mary source material and alive with the voices diagnosed with no fewer than seventeen con- of those who participated in this transforma- ditions by doctors, historians, and researchers, including congestive heart tive development in American history.”—Eliz- failure, epilepsy, Marfan syndrome, and mercury poisoning. This book offers abeth D. Leonard, author of Men of Color to Arms! Black Soldiers, In- objective scrutiny of the numerous speculations and medical mysteries that dian Wars, and the Quest for Equality continue to be associated with the president’s physical and mental health.

Glenna R. Schroeder-Lein is manuscripts librarian for the non-Lincoln John David Smith, the Charles H. Stone Distinguished Professor of Amer- manuscripts at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library in Springfield, Il- ican History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, is the author, linois. editor, or coeditor of twenty-four books.

Lincoln’s Assassination Lincoln and Race Edward Steers, Jr. Richard Striner Cloth, $24.95 • 978-0-8093-3349-3 Cloth, $19.95 • 978-0-8093-3077-5 5 × 8 • 176 pages • 11 illus. 5 × 8 • 120 pages • 4 illus.

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“Edward Steers has packaged his vast knowl- “With lawyerly precision, Richard Striner edge of the Lincoln assassination and its mines the speeches and writing of our six- perpetrators in this concise, fast-paced, and teenth president to make a compelling case penetrating narrative. If you can read only for a President Lincoln who, contrary to one book on the subject, this is the one to se- contemporary belief, had a long and abid- lect.”—James M. McPherson ing commitment not just to the end of slav- ery but also to equality before the law for “Steers is well known as one of America’s leading assassination schol- all men, whatever the color of their skin.” ars. In Lincoln’s Assassination Steers provides a concise summary of —Clay Risen, staff editor, New York Times his decades of research and writing about the death of the sixteenth president. This book is highly recommended. . . .”—Thomas R. Turn- Richard Striner is professor of history at Washington College in Chester- er, editor of The Lincoln Herald town, Maryland. An interdisciplinary scholar, he has written on political and intellectual history, economics, historic preservation, architecture, lit- Edward Steers, Jr., a scientist retired from the National Institutes of Health, erature, and film. is the author, editor, coauthor, or coeditor of thirteen books, including Blood on the Moon: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln; The Lincoln Assassina- tion Encyclopedia; and Lincoln Legends: Myths, Hoaxes, and Confabulations Associated with Abraham Lincoln.

30 www.siupress.com • 1-800-621-2736 Lincoln and Religion Lincoln and the War’s End Ferenc Morton Szasz John C. Waugh with Margaret Connell Szasz Cloth, $24.95 • 978-0-8093-3351-6 Cloth, $24.95 • 978-0-8093-3321-9 5 × 8 • 152 pages • 10 illus. 5 × 8 • 136 pages • 10 illus. Concise Lincoln Library Concise Lincoln Library “In a vivid recounting of the critical five months Tracing the evolution of his faith through between Lincoln’s reelection in November of Lincoln’s childhood, his move into law and 1864 and Lee’s surrender at Appomattox in April politics, the election of 1860, and the years of his of 1865, John C. Waugh combines a thoughtful presidency, Lincoln and Religion follows the subtle analysis of political activities with a vibrant, fast- shifts in Lincoln’s religious views by focusing paced narrative of the military campaigns to il- on both his connections to events, people, and luminate the almost breathtaking denouement cultural trends and his words on the topic . of the Civil War.”—Craig L. Symonds, author of Lincoln and his Admirals Ferenc Morton Szasz taught at the University of New Mexico for more than 40 years and is the author of many books, including The Day the Sun Rose “Bravo to master storyteller John Waugh for this fast-paced and enthralling Twice: The Story of the Trinity Site Nuclear Explosion, July 16, 1945; Religion account of the Civil War’s decisive final weeks!—Richard A. Baker, coauthor in the Modern American West; Abraham Lincoln and Robert Burns: Connect- of The American Senate: An Insider’s History ed Lives and Legends; and Atomic Comics: Cartoonists Confront the Nuclear World. John C. Waugh, a reporter at the Christian Science Monitor for many years, is the coeditor of How Historians Work and the author of eleven other books on Margaret Connell Szasz, a professor of history at the University of New the Civil War era, including The Class of 1846, Reelecting Lincoln, and Lincoln Mexico, is the author of several books. and McClellan.

Lincoln as Hero Abraham and Mary Lincoln Frank J. Williams Kenneth J. Winkle Cloth, $19.95 • 978-0-8093-3217-5 Cloth, $19.95 • 978-0-8093-3049-2 5 × 8 • 144 pages • 10 illus. 5 × 8 • 160 pages • 10 illus.

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Frank Williams reminds us of what a good “This deft biography of the Lincoln mar- political biography once was—concise, an- riage manages…to convey both the com- ecdotal, revealing, commanding, and rem- plexity and the importance of the relation- iniscent—minus the drawbacks of hagio­ ship between Abraham and Mary while graphy. Abraham Lincoln comes alive in recognizing the reality of discord and divi- this vivid introduction to the sixteenth sion between the two. Winkle . . . emphasiz- president’s legal mind and career, and re- es instead the strength of the ties between the minds readers of his flaws and achievements as a politician and couple and, in the end, the essential conventionality of their marriage wartime president. And, as always, Williams never stints on his in- . . . This is an excellent introduction to the Lincoln marriage.”—Journal sistence concerning the lessons Lincoln’s legacy offers us today.” of Illinois History —Catherine Clinton, Queen’s University Belfast Kenneth J. Winkle is the Thomas C. Sorensen Professor of American Histo- Frank J. Williams, retired chief justice of the Supreme Court of Rhode ry at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He is the author of The Politics of Island, is the founding chair of the Lincoln Forum and a board member of Community: Migration and Politics in Antebellum Ohio, The Young Eagle: The the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Foundation. He is the author or editor Rise of Abraham Lincoln, and The Oxford Atlas of the Civil War. of more than a dozen books, including Judging Lincoln, The Emancipation Proclamation: Three Views, and Lincoln Lessons: Reflections on America’s Greatest Leader.

www.siupress.com • 1-800-621-2736 31 Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address Lincoln and Darwin Echoes of the Bible and Book Shared Visions of Race, of Common Prayer Science, and Religion A. E. Elmore James Lander Cloth, $32.50 • 978-0-8093-2951-9 Cloth, $32.95 • 978-0-8093-2990-8 6 × 9 • 280 pages CE 6⅛ × 9¼ • 384 pages • 15 illus. “A superbly sympathetic discussion of the core “A . E . Elmore demonstrates Lincoln’s skill beliefs of two of the greatest minds of the nineteenth as a wordsmith and shows in intricate and century, linked in their fight against the twin persuasive detail how his language in the monsters of and religious bigotry. Gettysburg Address closely reflect both the King James Bible and the Book of Common In lucid prose and copious historical detail, Lander Prayer . Lincoln borrowed from these texts, uses Darwin to shed light on Lincoln and Lincoln to refracted the words through his own experi- shed light on Darwin. As Lander demonstrates, their ence and sense of rhythm, and produced the most elegant public ad- humanity and intelligence shine forth even more brightly when seen in juxtaposition. dress in American history . Elmore’s book should be essential reading A compelling book.”—Christoph Irmscher, author of The Poetics of Natural History for anyone interested in the language, ideas, and impact of Lincoln’s and Longfellow Redux statement ”—John. B . Boles, author of The South through Time: A His- tory of an American Region

The Lincoln Family Album The Insanity File Mark E. Neely Jr. The Case of Mary Todd Lincoln and Harold Holzer Mark E. Neely Jr. Paper, $24.95 • 978-0-8093-2713-3 and R. Gerald McMurtry 8½ × 11 • 192 pages • 161 illus. Paper, $20 • 978-0-8093-1895-7 The Lincoln Family Album offers a rare 6 × 9¼ • 224 pages • 25 illus. and revealing glimpse into the private “Neely and McMurtry had to acquaint life of Abraham Lincoln and the first themselves with the principals in the case, family. Showcasing original and previ- study the judicial procedures and medi- ously unpublished photographs collected cal practices prevailing in the 1870s, piece and preserved by Mary Lincoln and four together from here and there items of in- generations of descendants, the volume formation relating to the trial, and trace includes pictures displayed in a family historical controversies that have unfolded album when the Lincolns lived in the through the years. Their sensitive and thorough research has led them White House. Chronicled are the lives of the Lincolns’ three sons, including to the conclusion that Mrs. Lincoln was treated fairly, that human the tragic death of Willie in 1862, the rapid change of Tad during the war, considerations and civil justice did not work to Mrs. Lincoln’s disad- and Robert’s marriage, children, and political career. Soldiers and statesmen vantage.”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch of the Civil War, period figures such as Tom Thumb and Henry Ward Beech- er, and even the family dog also graced the album that became the nucleus of “A fair-minded, comprehensive account based on new documents. the Lincolns’ personal collection. Unlike their predecessors, Neely and McMurtry have placed Mary Lincoln’s trial within the legal, social, and medical context of the times. So viewed, what happened to Mary Lincoln was governed as much by procedures and collective attitudes as by personal motiva- tions.”—American Historical Review

32 www.siupress.com • 1-800-621-2736 The Dark Days of Abraham Chicago’s Irish Legion Lincoln’s Widow, The 90th Illinois Volunteers in as Revealed by the Civil War Her Own Letters James B. Swan Myra Helmer Pritchard Cloth, $32.95 • 978-0-8093-2890-1 Edited and annotated 6⅛ × 9¼ • 328 pages • 26 illus. by Jason Emerson “Not as famous as some other units, the Cloth, $19.95 • 978-0-8093-3012-6 Irish Legion saw hard action at Mission- 6 × 9 • 208 pages • 20 illus. ary Ridge and the Atlanta Campaign, and marched with General William T. Sherman “Jason Emerson’s tremendous patience and to the sea and the Carolinas. James B. Swan diligence in finding this manuscript and its clearly and crisply recounts their memora- lost Mary Lincoln letters, along with his judi- ble story, giving readers a fresh look at the cious contextual notes, provide a major new Civil War in the west and at the immigrant soldier experience.”—Les- story on the ever-changing bibliographic timeline for Mary Lincoln. Here, ley J. Gordon, author of General George E. Pickett in Life and Legend Myra and James Bradwell are exposed by Emerson as the interfering lawyers, publicity-seekers, and fair-weather friends to Mary Lincoln that their grand- “In content and presentation, Swan’s Chicago’s Irish Legion is a fine reg- daughter, in her long-hidden manuscript, could not see through. The pity is imental history of the 90th Illinois, a notable contribution to military that Mary’s mental instability was politicized in her own day, and her sorrow and ethnic Civil War literature.”—Civil War Books and Authors blamed on her son for more than a century.”—James M. Cornelius, Curator, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library & Museum

Abraham Lincoln and Abraham Lincoln Robert Burns A Biography Connected Lives and Legends Benjamin P. Thomas Ferenc Morton Szasz Foreword by Michael Burlingame Cloth, $27.95 • 978-0-8093-2855-0 Paper, $22.95 • 978-0-8093-2887-1 6 × 9 • 256 pages • 12 illus. 5½ × 8¼ • 576 pages • 33 illus. “Abraham Lincoln and Robert Burns is Long considered a classic, Benjamin P. Thom- comparative history at its best.”—Frank J. as’s Abraham Lincoln: A Biography takes an in- Williams, Chief Justice of the Rhode Island cisive look at one of American history’s greatest Supreme Court, author of Judging Lincoln figures. Originally published in 1952 to wide ac- claim, this eloquent account rises above previ- “The fruit of meticulous research on both ously romanticized depictions of the sixteenth sides of the Atlantic, this beautifully craft- president to reveal the real Lincoln: a complex, ed, sensitive analysis offers intriguing and shrewd, and dynamic individual whose exceptional life has long intrigued instructive insights into the numerous parallels and intersections be- the public. tween the life stories of two men who were to become the embodi- ment of their respective nations in all their contradictions.”—Marjory Harper, University of Aberdeen, author of Adventurers and Exiles: The Great Scottish Exodus

www.siupress.com • 1-800-621-2736 33 Lincoln’s New Salem The Mary Lincoln Enigma Benjamin P. Thomas Historians on America’s Most Paper, $14.95 • 978-0-8093-1389-1 Controversial First Lady 5 × 7½ • 188 pages Edited by Frank J. Williams Thomas tells the story of the village where and Michael Burkhimer Abraham Lincoln lived from 1831 to 1837. with an Epilogue by This three-part examination of the village of- Catherine Clinton ten referred to as Lincoln’s “Alma Mater” fea- Cloth, $32.95 • 978-0-8093-3124-6 tures the founding and early history of New 6 × 8 • 392 pages • 34 illus. Salem, Lincoln’s impact on the village and its “This provocative collection goes a long effects on him, and the story of the Lincoln leg- way toward demolishing the one-dimen- end and the reconstruction of the town. sional caricatures that have dogged Mary Lincoln over the last century and a half. Leaving no controversial subject unaddressed, each chapter brings original research together with the insights of a wide-ranging assort- ment of experts in history, law, psychiatry, fashion, and the arts, and confronts the enduring myths with hard realities. Sensitively written and multifaceted in focus, this volume eschews simplistic conclu- sions in favor of opening new questions and embracing conflicting answers about the precise dimensions of Lincoln’s life. A compelling and important book about an ‘enigmatic’ nineteenth-century wom- an.”—Amy Murrell Taylor, author of The Divided Family in Civil War America

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