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In Their Letters, in Their Words:
Illinois Civil War Soldiers Write Home Edited by Mark Flotow Paper: 978-0-8093-3763-7 $26.50, 304 pages, 12 illus.
“Mark Flotow has assembled a brilliant collection of letter material, full of surprising, fascinating, and enlightening details that bring us closer to the men who took part in the war so long ago.” —John Zimm, editor of This Wicked Rebellion: Wisconsin Civil War Soldiers Write Home
Southern Illinois University at 150 Years Growth, Accomplishments, and Challenges
NEW from the Concise Lincoln Library
Cloth: 978-0-8093-3700-2 $24.95, 176 pages New in Paperback!
Lincoln in the Illinois Legislature
Lincoln and the Natural Environment
Ron J. Keller
James Tackach
“Without hesitation, and with over forty-six years in the Lincoln world, I would suggest that Keller’s book is truly essential to the understanding of Lincoln’s well-documented growth in the 1850s.”—Daniel R. Weinberg, president, Abraham Lincoln Book Shop, Inc.
“Impressively informative and exceptionally well organized and presented, Lincoln and the Natural Environment is a unique biographical study and essential addition to community and academic library Abraham Lincoln collections.”—James A. Cox, Editor-in-Chief, Midwest Book Review
Cloth: 978-0-8093-3698-2 $24.95, 160 pages, 8 illus.
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Edited by John S. Jackson, with a Foreword by Carlo Montemagno and Contributions by Steve Buhman and Vanessa A. Sneed Cloth: 978-0-8093-3704-0 $40, 384 pages, 306 illus.
“While earlier books on our history have focused on our first one hundred years, this book focuses especially on the most recent fifty years, from 1969 to 2019. These five decades have been significant not only for higher education but also for Illinois government and politics.”—Carlo Montemagno, former chancellor, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Kaskaskia:
The Lost Capital of Illinois David MacDonald and Raine Waters Paper: 978-0-8093-3731-6 $26.50, 226 pages, 99 illus. Shawnee Books
“This book draws together a visual and descriptive history of Kaskaskia, its homes, and the lives of its people—from mansions to cabins, from prominent statesmen to former slaves. Lost Kaskaskia lives again in photographs and text in this thoroughly researched study.”—Margaret Kimball Brown, author of History as They Lived It: A Social History of Prairie du Rocher, Illinois
Germans in Illinois Miranda E. Wilkerson and Heather Richmond Paper: 978-0-8093-3721-7 $24.50, 234 pages, 34 illus.
“Germans in Illinois is an impressive work of original and meticulous scholarship throughout.”—James A Cox, Midwest Book Review “Germans in Illinois will change how you think about immigrants and immigration in the Midwest.”—Joseph Salmons, author of A History of German: What the Past Reveals about Today’s Language See more books in the Concise Lincoln Library at www.conciselincolnlibrary.com. Phone orders and inquiries: 800-621-2736 • Online orders: www.siupress.com Also available at major retail, independent, and online bookstores.
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