Gathers together both written and sung love poetry from Africa. This book traces the development ...

Showing how and why Grant became such a successful general, Smith presents a reexamination of the...

Colonel Benjamin Stephenson and the History of Early Illinois details the life of Colonel Benjami...

Concerted government efforts to assist in the rehabilitation of wounded veterans started with the...

Echoes of Cabrini-Green: Letters to My Mother is a deeply personal memoir that explores the inter...

Looking at the U.S. Supreme Court under John Roberts, which assertively places itself into the na...

More than two dozen contributors examine how the social, economic, cultural, legislative, and pol...

In 1924, the murder trials of Beulah Annan and Belva Gaertner shocked the world, providing the re...

This real-life Little Women is the fascinating story of three of the six Fay sisters between 1850...

This real-life Little Women is the fascinating story of three of the six Fay sisters between 1850...

Looking at the U.S. Supreme Court under John Roberts, which assertively places itself into the na...

This volume chronicles the history of 280 steamboats built between 1810 and 1936 along a 60-mile ...

The Scenographic Model, third edition, builds upon the theories and exercises of noted scenograph...

In this essay collection, leading and emerging scholars provide in-depth analyses of unexamined a...

Students at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln annotated and wrote the introduction to the 1915 e...

A compelling true crime memoir about a high-profile criminal case in Chicagoland and Indonesia th...

Gettysburg is a paradox: Today it is beautiful, still, and filled with visitors, yet this nationa...

In this riveting true story of coming of age in the Chicago Mob, Charles ''Charley'' Hager is plu...

The story of a woman simultaneously sustained and stifled by her affair, this book invites reader...

Offers fresh interpretations of a number of important aspects of Southern Illinois history. Focus...

This book celebrates the 150th anniversary of the university's founding by exploring in depth its...

Paul Powell emerged from the hill country of southern Illinois to serve in state government from ...

General William Tecumseh Sherman has come down to us as the implacable destroyer of the Civil War...

Featured in this book are more than one hundred photographs from the collection of a quarter of a...

Many of the anecdotes she relates give fascinating glimpses into a very troubled period of Americ...

This groundbreaking biography of Loreta Janeta Velasquez delves into the life of one of America's...

'Civil twilight is the astronomical term for the minutes just before sunrise and just after sunse...

This unique volume combines urban history, biography, engineering, architecture, transportation, ...

The self-elegies included in this anthology mix autobiography and poetics, blending craft with ra...

'In these poems, we follow a speaker as she works through the loss of young love, the death of he...

Chicago's quirky patron saint. This thrilling story of a daughter of America's foremost industria...

'This collective biography illuminates how the lives and successes of fourteen African American p...

Not long after the city of Chicago was founded in the 1830s, land was set aside for a public park...

'Edward Bates (1793-1869), a founding father of Missouri and leader of the Missouri Whig Party, s...

Readers of Ulysses S. Grant: A Photographic History travel alongside Grant through the Civil War ...

The regiment that never ran To destroy Confederate infrastructure, avenge the horrors of slavery,...

'A comprehensive resource for all anglers living in or traveling to southern Illinois, Southern I...

Collecting fifty Abraham Lincoln stories - some familiar and beloved, some fresh and unexpected -...

Married to John A. Logan for thirty-one years, Mary Logan shared in her distinguished husband's c...

Early in the Civil War, two young brothers boldly flew the Union flag from a tree atop a hill bet...

Throughout Salt Moon, Noel Crook forges the kind of tragic vision Howard Nemerov described as the...

In these poems, five generations sing, save, scold, bury, and cook against the culture and histor...

Objects of Hunger explores in reflective, raw lyrics the dread and beauty of our inner worlds as ...

Running the gamut from traditional to radical forms, Timothy Liu's sixth collection of poems, 'Fo...

Recalls how the author and her siblings came of age on the family farm in the 1930s and 1940s. Th...

From his humble beginnings to his leadership of a divided nation during the Civil War to his earl...

Examines two of the most devastating coal mine disasters in United States history since 1928. Rob...

In this powerful poetry debut, Charif Shanahan explores what it means to be fully human in our wo...