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

This book is the first sustained modern investigation of Plato's theology. A central thesis of th...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

A collection of poems by Harriet Monroe, the visionary founding editor of Poetry magazine. While ...

During Ulysses S. Grant's rise to the pinnacle of military command, he had to work with, manage, ...

A chronological study of the Equal Rights Amendment fight and failure in the key state of Illinoi...

Called to Reckon offers a non-traditional history of Augustana College by centering the narrative...

Called to Reckon offers a non-traditional history of Augustana College by centering the narrative...

Lincoln and the American Founding

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...

In Beyond Mammoth Cave, James D. Borden and Roger W. Brucker provide gripping first-person accoun...

For decades Abraham and Mary Lincoln’s marriage has been characterized as discordant and tumultuo...

st1:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } In The State of Southern Illinois: An Illustrated History, Herbert ...

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...

Life on the road was anything but glamorous for Farm Security Administration photographers travel...

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...

In 1893, the 27.5 million visitors to the Chicago World’s Fair feasted their eyes on the impressi...

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

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

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...

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

Most Americans have considered, and still consider, Abraham Lincoln to be a heroic figure. From h...

One of Library Journal's Top 20 Best-Selling Language Titles of 2019

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

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

In this engrossing double volume, the work and thought of Nicolas Malebranche is examined through...

When Abraham Lincoln was elected president of the United States in 1860, he came into office with...

Both bleak and bewildering, Millennial Teeth, the visceral new collection by poet Dan Albergotti,...

Much has been written of the infantry and the cavalry during the Civil War, but little attention ...

Some 100,000 soldiers fought in the April 1862 battle of Shiloh, and nearly 20,000 men were kille...

'Winter Amnesties' is a book of origins and endings, griefs and reconciliations. Each poem addres...

This work is a sequel and tells John Logan's postwar story. It covers topics such as reconstructi...