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Table of Contents By Author Albergotti, Millennial Teeth............................................................................................................ 4 Argetsinger and Rossel, “Jeppe of the Hill” and Other Comedies by Ludvig Holberg............... 11 Biggers, Reckoning at Eagle Creek: The Secret Legacy of Coal in the Heartland......................... 10 Ekberg, Colonial Ste. Genevieve: An Adventure on the Mississippi Frontier................................. 10 Feigenbaum, Collaborative Imagination: Earning Activism through Literacy Education................ 12 Jarrett, Zion..................................................................................................................................... 5 Jensen, Reimagining Process: Online Writing Archives and the Future of Writing Studies........... 13 Marszalek, Lincoln and the Military................................................................................................. 3 Mohlenbrock, Flowering Plants: Asteraceae, Part 1..................................................................... 11 NeCamp, Adult Literacy and American Identity: The Moonlight Schools and Americanization Programs.............................................................................................................. 12 Ott, Confederate Daughters: Coming of Age during the Civil War................................................... 3 Richards, The Marion Experiment: Long-Term Solitary Confinement and the Supermax Movement....................................................................................................................... 7 Rippelmeyer, The Civilian Conservation Corps in Southern Illinois, 1933–1942............................. 8 Schroeder-Lein, Treasures of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library........................................ 1 Scott, Risky Rhetoric: AIDS and the Cultural Practices of HIV Testing.......................................... 13 Severns and Lupton, Prairie Justice: A History of Illinois Courts under French, English, and American Law.............................................................................................................. 9 Steers, Lincoln’s Assassination....................................................................................................... 2 Waugh, Lincoln and the War’s End.................................................................................................. 2 Zung, Buckminster Fuller: Anthology for the Millennium................................................................. 6
By Subject Architecture...................................................... 6 Chicago........................................................... 15 Criminology...................................................... 7 Illinois........................................... 1, 8–10, 14–15 Film.................................................................. 16 Lincoln/Civil War.......................................... 1–3 Literacy............................................................ 12 Plant Biology...................................................11 Poetry............................................................ 4–5 Rhetoric/Composition................................... 13 Theater.......................................................11, 16 Go to www.siupress.com to sign up to receive our newsletter or notifications of new books or promotions in your subject areas of interest.
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AMERICAN HISTORY / ILLINOIS
Treasures of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Edited by Glenna R. Schroeder-Lein Historic gems from one of America’s most renowned presidential libraries The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Li-
War, ethnicity, World Wars I and II, art,
brary in Springfield, Illinois, houses a
and unusual treasures. Featured pieces
trove of invaluable historical resources
include the Gettysburg Address, Abra-
concerning all aspects of the Prairie
ham and Mary Lincoln’s letters, Governor
State’s past. In celebration of the Li-
Dan Walker’s boots, WPA publications, an
brary’s 125th anniversary, Treasures
Adlai Stevenson I campaign hat, Dubin
of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Li-
Pullman car materials, Civil War newspa-
brary commemorates the institution’s
pers, the Mary Lincoln insanity verdict,
history as well as its contributions to
and Lincoln’s stovepipe hat. Each entry
scholarship and education by highlight-
includes a thorough description of the
ing a selection of eighty-five treasures
item, one or more images, and a discus-
from the varied collections of over
sion of its history and how the library
twelve million items.
acquired it, if known. Although these
After opening with a historical over-
treasures only scrape the surface of the
view and extensive chronology of the Li-
vast holdings of the Abraham Lincoln
brary, the volume organizes the treasures
Presidential Library, together they epit-
by various topics, including the oldest
omize the rich, varied, and sometimes
items, those that illustrate various loca-
quirky resources available to both seri-
tions, and materials relating to business,
ous scholars and curious tourists alike at
the mid-nineteenth century and the Civil
this valuable cultural institution.
September Paper, 978-0-8093-3336-3, $22.50sp* Cloth, 978-0-8093-3335-6, $39.50sp 232 pages, 8¼ x 9¼ , 153 illustrations
“More than just a glimpse of Illinois history, this is an extraordinary journey of images and essays.” —Robert E. Hartley
Glenna R. Schroeder-Lein, a manuscript librarian at the Abraham Lin-
author of Battleground 1948: Truman, Stevenson, Douglas, and the Most Surprising Election in Illinois History
coln Presidential Library, 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.
Boots worn by Illinois gubernatorial candidate Dan Walker on his 1971 walk through Illinois
Ring given by John Wilkes Booth to Isabel Sumner in 1864
Life mask and hand casts of Abraham Lincoln by Leonard W. Volk, 1860
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AMERICAN HISTORY / LINCOLN / CIVIL WAR
Lincoln’s Assassination Edward Steers, Jr. A sure-footed analysis of the death of America’s sixteenth president Over time, the traditional story of the as-
Steers discredits popular fictions
sassination of President Abraham Lin-
surrounding Lincoln’s death, revealing
coln has become littered with myths. In
Booth to be a rational person and im-
this succinct volume, Edward Steers, Jr.,
plicating Mary Surratt, Samuel Mudd,
sets the record straight, expertly ana-
and other conspirators whose guilt has
lyzing the historical evidence to explain
been questioned.
Lincoln’s assassination. The decision
At the heart of Lincoln’s assassi-
to kill President Lincoln, Steers shows,
nation, Steers reveals, lies the institu-
was an afterthought. Booth’s original
tion of slavery. Lincoln’s move toward
plan involved capturing Lincoln, deliver-
ending slavery and his unwillingness to
ing him to the Confederate leadership in
compromise on emancipation spurred
Richmond, and using him as a bargain-
the white supremacist Booth and ulti-
ing chip to exchange for southern sol-
mately resulted in the president’s death.
diers in Union prison camps. Only after
With concise chapters and inviting
Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of
prose, this volume will prove essential
Northern Virginia and Richmond fell to
for anyone seeking a straightforward,
Union forces did Booth change his plan
authoritative analysis of one of the most
from capture to murder.
dramatic events in American history.
Edward Steers, Jr., a scientist retired from the National Institutes of Health, October $24.95t Cloth, 978-0-8093-3349-3 160 pages, 5 x 8, 12 illustrations Concise Lincoln Library
is the author, editor, coauthor, or coeditor of thirteen books, including Blood on the Moon: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln; The Trial: The Assassination of President Lincoln and the Trial of the Conspirators; and Lincoln Legends: Myths, Hoaxes, and Confabulations Associated with Abraham Lincoln.
Lincoln and the War’s End John C. Waugh Lincoln’s role in the final months of the Civil War On the night of his reelection on No-
months, including William T. Sherman’s
vember 8, 1864, President Abraham
march through Georgia to the sea; the
Lincoln called on the nation to “re-unite
disastrous Confederate defeat at Nash-
in a common effort, to save our com-
ville; the Union victory at Fort Fisher
mon country.” By April 9 of the follow-
that closed off the Confederacy’s last
ing year, the Union had achieved this
open port to the sea; Sherman’s march
goal with the surrender of the Army of
through the Carolinas and the burning
Northern Virginia to General Ulysses
of Columbia; Lee’s surrender at Appo-
S. Grant at Appomattox Court House.
mattox; Lincoln’s final annual message
In this lively volume, John C. Waugh
to Congress; the passage of the 13th
chronicles in detail Lincoln’s role in the
Amendment; the Second Inaugural;
final five months of the war, revealing
and Lincoln’s final days and speeches in
how Lincoln and Grant worked together
Washington after the Confederate sur-
to bring the war to an end.
render. Throughout, Waugh enlivens his
Beginning with Lincoln’s reelection,
narrative with illuminating quotes from
Waugh highlights the key military and
a wide variety of Civil War participants
political events of those tumultuous
and personalities.
John C. Waugh, a reporter at the Christian Science Monitor for many years, October $24.95t Cloth, 978-0-8093-3349-3 160 pages, 5 x 8, 10 illustrations Concise Lincoln Library
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is the coeditor of How Historians Work and the author of eleven other books on the Civil War era, including The Class of 1846; Reelecting Lincoln; and Lincoln and McClellan.
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AMERICAN HISTORY / LINCOLN / CIVIL WAR
Lincoln and the Military John F. Marszalek Lincoln’s military maturation When Abraham Lincoln was elected
into the commander in chief who
president of the United States in 1860,
won the Civil War, demonstrating why
he came into office with practically no
Lincoln remains America’s greatest
experience in military strategy and
military president. Tying the neces-
tactics. Consequently, at the start of
sity of emancipation to preservation
the Civil War, he depended on lead-
of the Union, Marszalek considers
ing military men like Winfield Scott,
the many presidential matters Lin-
George B. McClellan, and Henry W.
coln had to face in order to manage
Halleck to teach him how to manage
the war effectively and demonstrates
warfare. As the war continued and
how Lincoln’s determination, humil-
Lincoln matured as a military leader,
ity, sense of humor, analytical ability,
however, he no longer relied on the
and knack for quickly learning import-
advice of others and became the major
ant information proved instrumental
military mind of the war.
in his military success.
In this brief overview of Lincoln’s
Based primarily on Lincoln’s own
military actions and relationships
words, this succinct volume offers an
during the war, John F. Marszalek
easily accessible window into a critical
traces the sixteenth president’s evo-
period in the life of Abraham Lincoln
lution from a nonmilitary politician
and the history of the nation.
John F. Marszalek is the Giles Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History at Mississippi State University, the executive director of the Ulysses S. Grant Association’s Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library at Mississippi State University, 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.
November $24.95t Cloth, 978-0-8093-3361-5 160 pages, 5 x 8, 10 illustrations Concise Lincoln Library
Confederate Daughters
Coming of Age during the Civil War
Victoria E. Ott Examining Confederate identity through the lives of young women from slaveholding families “Confederate Daughters retells the
“This is a book that belongs in your
familiar story of young southern
personal library.”—Civil War News
women in wartime while furthering our understanding of the ways in which these coming-of-age stories contributed to Lost Cause ideology in the New South. Ott’s postwar analysis, in particular, provides an interesting glimpse into the reconstruction of
“Confederate Daughters is a useful, revealing read for scholars interested in the Civil War and Reconstruction era, memory, Southern women and families, and youth and childhood.” —Journal of American History
the southern feminine ideal by women “Confederate Daughters is a pathwho had been compelled to reconcile breaking study, contributing to our unantebellum visions of womanhood
derstanding of Confederate nationalism
with postwar reality.”—Journal of
as well as our conception of the Civil
Southern History
War as a coming-of-age experience.” —Alabama Review
Victoria E. Ott is an associate professor of history at Birmingham-Southern College. She has written numerous articles for various encyclopedias and contributed to The Great War in the Heart of Dixie: Alabama during World War I.
August $22.50sp Paper, 978-0-8093-3375-2 232 pages, 6 x 9, 12 illustrations
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POETRY
Millennial Teeth Poems by Dan Albergotti Contrasting faith and skepticism in a narrator’s journey through personal darkness
September $15.95t Paper, 978-0-8093-3353-0 88 pages, 6 x 9 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry
Both bleak and bewildering, Millennial
heartbreaking apocalypses, both nat-
Teeth, the visceral new collection by
ural and man-made, that have plagued
poet Dan Albergotti, maps a contra-
the world since the first plane flew into
dictory journey filled with longing and
the World Trade Center. A reluctant
dread, cynicism and hope. A heady mix
witness to such events, the narrator
of traditional forms and more experi-
of these poems attempts to navigate
mental verse, Albergotti’s volume lures
his own personal crises, including the
readers inexorably into the poet’s ob-
mental illness and dementia of loved
sessions with mystery, doubt, ephem-
ones and the inability to connect with
erality, and silence.
others, from the darkness of a personal
The poetry in MillennialTeeth will feel
orbit far from the sun. As he vehe-
both refreshingly new and strangely famil-
mently rejects the notions of religious
iar to Albergotti’s audience. Some poems
succor, immortality, and the passive
pay direct tribute to such literary luminar-
acceptance of fate, he simultaneously
ies as Wallace Stevens and Philip Larkin,
yearns to be proven wrong. Yet despite
while others give nods to icons of pop cul-
his trials, Albergotti’s narrator main-
ture, from Radiohead to Roman Polanski.
tains a gallows humor and wry insight
The narrator muses on the resurrection
that balance his despair.
of Christina the Astonishing, the works
A riveting exploration of the all-
of Coleridge, and the mindless duties of
too-human struggle between faith and
minor players in Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
doubt, skepticism and obsession, Mil-
Yet these familiar faces are not our friends; they are juxtaposed with the
lennial Teeth has both heart and bite in plenty.
Dan Albergotti is a professor at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, South Carolina. The author of one book of poetry, The Boatloads, and two chapbooks, Charon’s Manifest and The Use of the World, he has also published his poetry in Cincinnati Review, Five Points, Southern Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and Pushcart Prize XXXIII, as well as other journals and anthologies. He has received fellowships and scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the South Carolina Arts Commission, the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.
Anecdote of the Plate
Invocation
for the young woman with the vanity license plate CARRION
I passed a car in Tennessee, expecting Goth kid with sulking stare, but what I got was more flower child, a college-aged girl with brilliant smile who was singing along to something (Widespread Panic? Phish? The Dead?) as if the music were distilled joy. She turned and waved as I passed. She wanted me to persevere, I guess, as I guess she’d tried to pledge herself. The Y had been taken when she applied, and so she’d settled for the I instead.
O lord of severed cord and flesh, lord of fever, sweat, dementia, and meat cleaver, lord of curtains set ablaze, of burning, lord of tumors, of remission, of returning, lord of time and time alone, lord of space and empty space, lord without body, without soul, lord without feet or face, lord of statistics, lord of bodies, lord of death, lord of breathless hope, lord of hopeless breath, O lord of every deafened ear, I know you’ll never hear in vacant air this prayer.
It took dominion in my head. She hadn’t been saying that she’d be dead someday, though she will, as will you and me and everything else in Tennessee.
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POETRY
Zion Poems by TJ Jarrett Remembering one family’s experience during the darkest years of the civil rights movement Zion, the latest collection of poems by
weigh long and heav y, and “every
TJ Jarrett, is the poignant study of the
heart has its solstice, and its ache is
resonating effects of the civil rights
unrelenting.”
movement on one family. Jarrett lov-
Yet much as every solstice has an
ingly explores the minutiae of mortal-
equinox, every time to kill has a time
ity and race across three generations
to forgive. Throughout the volume,
of “Dark Girls” who have come together
the author imagines opportunities for
one summer to grieve and to remem-
compassion on multiple levels, from
ber as one of them passes to the far-
sweeping pardons to the most intimate
ther shore—a place beyond retribution,
of mercies. Jarrett’s faceless narrator
where there is only forgiveness.
confesses the past through conversa-
The Mississippi of Jarrett’s collec
tion and exploration with notorious
tion is alive with fireflies and locusts
Mississippi governor Theodore Bilbo:
and murders of crows; yet for some, it
two minds, two hearts, two races at last
is a wasteland of unanswered prayers,
face to face.
burning evenings, and the shades
At once brutal and achingly tender,
of dead or disappeared loved ones.
Jarrett’s volume itself is a vibrant and
There, the dark nights of the soul
musical body, singing to all its parts. September $15.95t Paper, 978-0-8093-3356-1 88 pages, 6 x 9 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry
TJ Jarrett
is a senior editor of Tupelo Quarterly and a business intelligence consultant for HealthTrust in Brentwood, Tennessee. She is the author of one volume of poetry, Ain’t No Grave, and has published poems in a number of journals, including Poetry, Boston Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Ninth Letter, Third Coast, VQR, and West Branch.
At the Hospital As she lay dying, we were left alone together while she was swimming with the voices of the dead; I dared not listen because she was never talking to me. But then, she propped herself up on an elbow and said to me: I asked so much of her, so much of you and your mother and some would say too much. And I just can’t, I can’t yet say I am sorry for it. And she lay down again, drowning in that river.
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The Burgomaster Said I Could Do Whatever I Wanted to You Then added: I will turn my back and look away. But as you entered into the room, shuffling and jangling your chains and smelling of day after day after day of yourself, I thought of forgiveness. Which is to say: I thought of myself. I stood without a word to offer. Then I remembered fire, the fires we fled, the night after day after night in darkness, and the girl’s screams in her dying, the baby you left on the grass, crying and crying until it didn’t. Then the growling of the dogs. All the while, you were silent and watching me as you had always been. And as I turned to leave, I thought to myself: I can look away. I can choose to give you nothing. I can save myself, save myself.
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ARCHITECTURE
Buckminster Fuller
Anthology for the Millennium, Second Edition
Edited by Thomas T. K. Zung Celebrating the work of a great American architect, author, and inventor Originally published as Buckminster
Arthur C. Clarke, and entrepreneur
Fuller: Anthology for the New Millen-
Steve Forbes—introduce each
nium, Thomas T. K. Zung has updated
selection. Zung’s anthology traces the
this popular anthology of chapters from
development of Fuller’s intellectual
Fuller’s many books, each chapter intro-
life and provides an excellent
duced by notable people such as Arthur
introduction for a new generation
C. Clarke, Steve Forbes, Valerie Harper,
to the life and work of this brilliant
Calvin Tomkins, and more. This revised
thinker.”—Publishers Weekly
edition, which includes images omitted
“Stimulating and provocative. . . . Like
from the first edition, reflects a culture that has changed with time, much of that change predicted by Fuller. Praise for the previous edition:
January $29.50 Paper, 978-0-8093-3317-2 488 pages, 6 x 9, 118 illustrations
“Zung’s anthology traces the development of Fuller’s intelletual life and provides an excellent introduction for a new generation to the life and work of this brilliant thinker.”
a Francis Bacon charting the course for future generations to pursue, Fuller anticipates the need for the ‘comprehensive designer,’ who would be a ‘synthesis of artist, inventor,
“In order to acquaint a new
mechanic, objective economist,
generation with Fuller, his former
and evolutionary strategist.’ Such
architectural partner, Zung, gathers
a [person], he says, would be an
selections [from Fuller’s writings] on
initiator of design, able to anticipate
topics ranging from education and
all of man’s needs and provide new
environment to engineering and the
and advanced standards of living for a
Lord’s Prayer. Admirers of Fuller—
steadily increasing percentage of the
such as actress Valerie Harper, author
world’s population.”—Chicago Tribune
Thomas T. K. Zung was a student of Buckminster Fuller and, with Fuller’s Synergetics, Inc., designed the elongated geodesic dome in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1968. He has worked on various geodesic domes, including the Jitterbug sculpture, Tensegrities, the Fly-Eye’s dome, and Fuller’s last invention, the Hang-It-All. Zung is the president of Buckminster Fuller, Sadao, and Zung and serves as a board member of the Buckminster Fuller Institute.
—Publisher’s Weekly
The Climatron at the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis, recently renovated to replace the acrylic sections with glass panels. The geodesic dome was structurally able to accept the extra weight of glass, demonstrating the dome’s flexibility and strength.
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Buckminster Fuller Dymaxion car #4, re-created by Lord Norman Foster, Foster and Partners, exhibited at the Lady Elena Foster Ivory Press Gallery, Madrid, Spain and Marta Herford Museum, Germany. A timeless design from yesterday, catapulted to today.
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Astronaut Col. Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin unveiling the US postage stamp at Stanford University on the 50th anniversary of Fuller’s geodesic dome patent.
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CRIMINOLOGY
The Marion Experiment Long-Term Solitary Confinement and the Supermax Movement
Edited by Stephen C. Richards Convicts and criminologists examine the detrimental effects of long-term solitary confinement Taking readers into the darkness of sol-
followed by a series of first-person ac-
itary confinement, this searing collec-
counts by prisoners—some of whom
tion of convict experiences, academic
are scholars—previously or currently
research, and policy recommendations
incarcerated in high-security facilities,
shines a light on the proliferation of
including some of the roughest prisons
supermax prisons and the detrimental
in the western world.
effects of long-term high-security con-
Scholars also address the wide-
finement on prisoners and their families.
spread “Marionization” of solitary con-
Stephen C. Richards, an ex-convict
finement, its impact on female, adole
who served time in nine federal prisons
scent, and mentally ill prisoners and
before earning his PhD in criminology,
families, and international perspectives
argues the supermax prison era began
on imprisonment. As a bold step toward
in 1983 at USP Marion in southern Illi-
rethinking supermax prisons, Richards
nois, where the first “control units” were
presents the most comprehensive view
built by the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
of the topic to date to raise awareness of
The Marion Experiment, written from a
the negative aspects of long-term solitary
convict criminology perspective, offers
confinement and the need to reevaluate
an introduction to long-term solitary
how prisoners are housed and treated.
confinement and supermax prisons,
Stephen C. Richards, a professor of criminal justice at the University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh and a Soros Senior Justice Fellow, is the author of numerous journal articles, chapters, and books, including Convict Criminology; Behind Bars: Surviving Prison; and Behind Bars: Rejoining Society after Prison.
January $39.50sp Paper 978-0-8093-3376-9 344 pages, 6 x 9, 4 illustrations The Elmer H. Johnson and Carol Holmes Johnson Series in Criminology
“The Marion Experiment provides . . . a unique glance inside extreme forms of punishment, and inside the minds of those most impacted by the punishment—the prisoners themselves.” —Kristine M. Levan author of Prison Violence: Causes, Consequences and Solutions
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Shattered Sense of Innocence: The 1955 Murders of Three Chicago Children
Survived by One: The Life and Mind of a Family Mass Murderer
Richard C. Lindberg and Gloria Jean Sykes
Robert E. Hanlon, PhD, with Thomas V. Odle
Cloth, $29.95 978-0-8093-2736-2 440 pages, 6 x 9, 50 illustrations The Elmer H. Johnson and Carol Holmes Johnson Series in Criminology
Cloth, $29.95t 978-0-8093-3262-5 224 pages, 6 x 9, 23 illustrations The Elmer H. Johnson and Carol Holmes Johnson Series in Criminology
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ILLINOIS
The Civilian Conservation Corps in Southern Illinois, 1933–1942 Kay Rippelmeyer How southern Illinois survived the Depression and established a national forest
March $39.50sp Cloth, 9780-8093-3365-3 448 pages, 8 x 10, 279 illustrations Shawnee Books
“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
Drawing on more than thirty years of
the creation of the CCC under President
meticulous research, Kay Rippelmeyer
Franklin Delano Roosevelt coincided with
details the Depression-era history of
the regional campaign for a national for-
the simultaneous creation of the Civil-
est and how locals first became aware of
ian Conservation Corps (CCC) and the
and involved with the program.
Shawnee National Forest in southern
Rippelmeyer mined CCC camp
Illinois. Through the stories of the men
records from the National Archives,
who worked in CCC camps devoted to
newspaper accounts and other corre-
soil and forest conservation projects,
spondence and conducted dozens of
she offers a fascinating look into an era
oral interviews with workers and their
of utmost significance to the citizens,
families to re-create life in the camps.
wildlife, natural landscapes, and iden-
An extensive camp compendium aug-
tity of the region.
ments the volume, featuring numerous
Rippelmeyer outlines the geologic
photographs, camp locations and dates
and geographic history of southern Illi-
of operation, work history, and company
nois, from Native American uses of the
rosters. Satisfying public curiosity and
land to the timber industry’s decimation
the need for factual information about
of the forest by the 1920s. Detailing
the camps in southern Illinois, this book
both the economic hardships and agri-
is an essential contribution to regional
cultural land abuse plaguing the region
history and a window to the national im-
during the Depression, she reveals how
pact of the CCC.
Kay Rippelmeyer, a southern Illinois native, is a former lecturer, researcher, and academic advisor in the College of Liberal Arts at Southern Illinois University Carbondale and the author of Giant City State Park and the Civilian Conservation Corps: A History in Words and Pictures. A program liaison for the Illinois Humanities Council, she 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.
author of The Civilian Conservation Corps in Alabama, 1933–1943, A Great and Lasting Good
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The State of Southern Illinois: An Illustrated History
Giant City State Park and the Civilian Conservation Corps: A History in Words and Pictures
Herbert K. Russell
Kay Rippelmeyer
Cloth, $39.95t 978-0-8093-3056-0 232 pages, 81/2 x 11, 262 illustrations Shawnee Books
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Prairie Justice
A History of Illinois Courts under French, English, and American Law
Roger L. Severns. Edited by John A. Lupton A concise legal histor y of Illinois
several rulings—including a reconstitu-
through the end of the nineteenth cen-
tion of the Supreme Court in 1824, slav-
tury, Prairie Justice covers the region’s
ery-related cases, and the impeachment
progression from French to British to
of a Supreme Court justice—to examine
early American legal systems, which
political movements in Illinois and their
culminated in a unique body of Illinois
impact on the local judiciary. Through
law that has influenced other jurisdic-
legal decisions, the Illinois judiciary be-
tions. Written by Roger L. Severns in
came an independent, co-equal branch
the 1950s and published in serial form
of state government. By the mid-nine-
in the 1960s, Prairie Justice is available
teenth century, Illinois had established
now for the first time as a book, thanks
itself as a leading judicial authority, in-
to the work of editor John A. Lupton,
fluencing not only the growing western
an Illinois and legal historian who also
frontier but also the industrialized and
contributed an introduction.
farming regions of the country. With a
Illinois’ legal development de
close eye for detail, Severns reviews the
mons trates the tension between two
status of the legal profession during the
completely different European legal
1850s by looking at new members of the
systems, between river communities
Court, the nostalgia of circuit riding, and
and prairie towns, and between agrar-
how a young lawyer named Abraham
ian and urban interests. Severns uses
Lincoln rose to prominence.
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Roger L. Severns (1906–61) earned degrees from Beloit College and Chicago Kent College of Law, and his Juris Doctor degree in 1938 from the University of Chicago Law School. Severns 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 of the Illinois Supreme Court Historic Preservation Commission in Springfield. Prior to that, he worked for the Lincoln Legal Papers and the Papers of Abraham Lincoln. He has degrees in history from Southern Illinois University Carbondale and the University of Illinois Springfield. He has published a number of articles and chapters about Illinois history and about Abraham Lincoln as an Illinois lawyer.
Also of Interest
Battleground 1948: Truman, Stevenson, Douglas, and the Most Surprising Election in Illinois History
The Heroic and the Notorious: U.S. Senators from Illinois
Robert E. Hartley
David Kenney and Robert E. Hartley
Cloth, $39.50sp 978-0-8093-3266-3 264 pages, 6 x 9, 14 illustrations
Paper, $29.50sp 978-0-8093-3108-6 320 pages, 6 x 9, 31 illustrations
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ILLINOIS
Reckoning at Eagle Creek
The Secret Legacy of Coal in the Heartland
Jeff Biggers Set in the ruins of his family’s strip-
land of Lincoln. It uncovers a century
mined homestead in the Shawnee
of regulatory negligence, vividly de-
National Forest in southern Illinois,
scribing the epic mining wars for union
Jeff Biggers takes us on a journey into
recognition and workplace safety and
the secret history of coal mining in
the devastating consequences of indus-
the American heartland and delivers a
trial strip-mining.
deeply personal portrait of the largely overlooked human and environmental costs of our nation’s dirty energy policy. Reckoning at Eagle Creek digs deep into the tangled roots of the coal
August $19.50sp Paper, 978-0-8093-3386-8 328 pages, 6 x 9, 11 illustrations
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“[An] enriching history . . . An import ant look at the staggering human and environmental costs of mining.” —Kirkus Reviews
industry beginning with the policies of
“This is a world-shaking, belief-
Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jack-
rattling, immensely important book.
son, chronicling the removal of Native
If you’re an American, it is almost a
Americans and the hidden story of le-
patriotic duty to read it.”—Elizabeth
gally sanctioned black slavery in the
Gilbert author of Eat, Pray, Love
Jeff Biggers is the American Book Award–winning author of The United States of Appalachia and In the Sierra Madre. He has worked as a writer, radio correspondent, and educator across the United States, Europe, India, and Mexico. He regularly blogs for the Huffington Post and Grist. His award-winning stories have been heard on National Public Radio and Public Radio International, and seen in numerous magazines and newspapers, including the Washington Post, the Nation, the Atlantic Monthly, and Salon, among others. He lives in Iowa City, Iowa.
Colonial Ste. Genevieve
An Adventure on the Mississippi Frontier
Carl J. Ekberg Colonial Ste. Genevieve: An Adventure
“Ekberg’s work is among the current
on the Mississippi Frontier is a compre-
best in a field usually labeled border-
hensive, award-winning history of the
lands history. . . . The analysis and narra-
French colonial town of Ste. Genevieve,
tive in Colonial Ste. Genevieve disclose
from its founding in about 1750 to the
a world that cannot be excluded from
Louisiana Purchase. Ekberg covers all
any revised understanding of American
aspects of the town during this period,
history.”—Journal of Southern History
including politics, agriculture, family
“This is a good story well told. . . .
life, and religion, and places Ste. Genevieve within the context of the history of the colonial Illinois Country.
Ekberg vividly recaptures the experience of French life on the Mississippi.” —American Historical Review
Carl J. Ekberg is an Illinois State University professor emeritus of history and a leading authority on the history of the French in colonial Illinois. He is the author of a number of books, including Stealing Indian Women: Native Slavery in the Illinois Country and French Roots in the Illinois Country: The Mississippi Frontier in Colonial Times.
August $32.50sp Paper, 978-0-8093-3380-6 542 pages, 6 x 9, 74 illustrations Shawnee Books
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PLANT BIOLOGY
Flowering Plants Asteraceae, Part 1
Robert H. Mohlenbrock An indispensable guide for botanists This, the first of three volumes on the
and habitat notes for each plant, in-
aster family planned for the Illustrated
cluding its usefulness, if applicable.
Flora of Illinois series, recognizes 388
New nomenclatural combinations are
species in 119 genera as well as 20 hy-
shown for several species. The precise
brids and 73 lesser taxa. In Asteraceae,
illustrations and detailed information
Part 1, author Robert Mohlenbrock
allow for the identification of some of
presents new and historic information
the most difficult-to-identify plants in
in a clear and easy-to-read style. The
the state—goldenrods, asters, artemi-
volume provides an easy-to-use key
sias, and fleabanes, among others. In-
to the genera and species and a com-
cluded are 128 original illustrations by
plete description and nomenclatural
Paul W. Nelson.
Robert H. Mohlenbrock
taught botany at Southern Illinois University Carbondale for thirty-four years. Since his retirement in 1990, he has served as senior scientist for Biotic Consultants, teaching wetland identification classes around the country. Among his more than fifty books are Vascular Flora of Illinois and Field Guide to the U.S. National Forests. April $65.00s Cloth, 978-0-8093-3369-1 272 pages, 6 x 9, 24 illustrations The Illustrated Flora of Illinois
THEATER
“Jeppe of the Hill” and Other Comedies by Ludvig Holberg Translated by Gerald S. Argetsinger and Sven H. Rossel These eight comedies comprise the most
produced in the new Danish Theatre, and
extensive collection of Ludvig Holberg
ends with The Burial of Danish Comedy,
plays ever offered in the English lan-
literally the funeral service for the bank-
guage. The translators’ general introduc-
rupt theatre. Three more of Holberg’s re-
tions establish cultural contexts for the
nowned character comedies follow, Jean
comedies and break new ground in un-
de France, Jeppe of the Hill, and Erasmus
derstanding the importance of Holberg’s
Montanus, along with his literary satire
comic aesthetic. Argetsinger’s extensive
Ulysses von Ithacia. The final two plays
experience in theatre and Rossel’s pre-
demonstrate his ability to write shorter
eminence as a Scandinavian Studies
comic works: The Christmas Party, a
scholar assure that the translations are
scathing comedy of manners, and Per-
not only accurate but stage-worthy.
nille’s Brief Experience as a Lady, a situ-
The collection opens with The Political Tinker, the first Danish play to be
ation comedy that satirizes the practice of baby-switching.
Gerald S. Argetsinger,
an American playwright, stage director, and theatre academic, is the author of two scholarly volumes and many articles on Ludvig Holberg. His latest book is the coedited Latter-Gay Saints: An Anthology of Gay Mormon Fiction. November $30.00s Paper, 978-0-8093-3373-8 368 pages, 51/2 x 91/4 , 1 illustrations
Sven H. Rossel has published or coauthored nine books in the specific areas of Scandinavian balladry and modern Scandinavian literature in addition to numerous articles, reviews, and feature articles. For his many contributions to Danish studies, Rossel was awarded the distinguished Order of the Knighthood of Dannebrog in 1987.
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LITERACY
Collaborative Imagination
Earning Activism through Literacy Education
Paul Feigenbaum
January $40.00s Paper, 978-0-8093-3378-3 240 pages, 6 x 9
In this important volume, Paul Feigen-
to, the structural inequalities of main-
baum explores how literacy education
stream civic institutions.
can facilitate activism in contemporary
Feigenbaum offers detailed analyses
contexts. By conceiving of education
of literacy programs including the Citizen-
as, in part, a process of understanding
ship Schools and Freedom Schools rooted
and grappling with adaptive and ac-
in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s
tivist rhetorics, Feigenbaum explains,
and 1960s; the Algebra Project, a current
educators can direct people’s imagina-
practical-literacy network; and the Imagi-
tions toward activism without running
nation Federation, a south Florida–based
up against the conceptual problems so
Earth-Literacy network. Considering both
many scholars associate with critical
the history and the future of community
pedagogy. Over time, this model of
literacy, Collaborative Imagination offers
education expands people’s imagina-
educators a powerful mechanism for pro-
tions about what it means to be a good
moting activism through their teaching
citizen, facilitates increased civic partic-
and scholarship, while providing prac-
ipation, and encourages collective de-
tical ideas for greater civic engagement
stabilization of, rather than adaptation
among students.
Paul Feigenbaum, an assistant professor of English at Florida International University, has published essays on literacy education and community literacy in several journals.
Adult Literacy and American Identity
The Moonlight Schools and Americanization Programs
Samantha NeCamp
October $40.00s Paper, 978-0-8093-3358-5 200 pages, 6 x 9
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The release of U.S. census data in 1910
Kentucky, focused on native-born non-
sparked rhetoric declaring the nation
literate adults, and the establishment
had a literacy crisis and proclaiming illit-
of the Americanization movement,
erate citizens a threat to democratic life.
dedicated to the education of recent
While newspaper editors, industrialists,
immigrants.
and officials in the federal government
NeCamp demonstrates how the
frequently placed the blame on newly
Moonlight Schools and the American-
arrived immigrants, a smaller but no
ization movement competed for public
less vocal group of rural educators and
attention, the interest of educators, and
clubwomen highlighted the significant
private and governmental funding, fu-
number of native-born illiterate adults
eling a vibrant public debate about the
in the Appalachian region.
definition of literacy. The very different
Author Samantha NeCamp looks at
pedagogical practices of the two move-
the educational response to these two
ments—and how these practices were
distinct literacy narratives—the found-
represented to the public—helped shape
ing of the Moonlight Schools in eastern
literacy education in the United States.
Samantha NeCamp
teaches English at Midway College in Kentucky. She has published articles in the Journal of Appalachian Studies, College Composition and Communication, and other journals.
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RHETORIC & COMPOSITION
Reimagining Process
Online Writing Archives and the Future of Writing Studies
Kyle Jensen For more than four decades, the domi-
and presents a sound, practical meth-
nant model for pedagogy and research
odology by which portfolios and online
in the field of composition has been a
writing archives—digital interfaces that
how-centered process approach to writ-
expose the marks of revision writers
ing instruction, which involves studying
make during composition—might be
the writing that students produce to ex-
employed to develop theories about
pose the various stages of their writing
what writing is: how it occurs, func-
process. By looking at notes, outlines,
tions, circulates, creates meaning,
and multiple drafts, often presented by
and forms its subjects. Offering online
students together in the form of a port-
writing archives as a way to envision
folio, instructors can identify unproduc-
a transdisciplinary approach to writing
tive habits that students may have and
studies, Reimagining Process does not
provide techniques that help them im-
abandon the prevailing concepts of pro-
prove their writing. In this groundbreak-
cess pedagogy but rather casts them in
ing volume, Kyle Jensen critiques tradi-
wider contexts to conceive new ways of
tional how-centered process instruction
teaching and studying writing.
Kyle Jensen, an assistant professor of English at the University of North Texas, has published essays in several edited collections, including Beyond Postprocess and Writing Posthumanism, Posthuman Writing, and in the journals JAC and Rhetoric Review.
January $35.00s Paper, 978-0-8093-3371-4 200 pages, 6 x 9, 5 illustrations
Risky Rhetoric
AIDS and the Cultural Practices of HIV Testing
J. Blake Scott Risky Rhetoric: AIDS and the Cultural
“This book has much to offer its reader,
Practices of HIV Testing is the first
both politically and academically.”
book-length study of the rhetoric in-
—Rhetoric and Public Affairs
herent in and surrounding HIV testing.
“In addition to a comprehensive history
In addition to providing a history of HIV testing in the United States from 1985 to the present, J. Blake Scott explains how faulty arguments about testing’s power and effects have promoted unresponsive and even dangerous testing practices for so-called normal subjects as well as those deemed risky. Risky Rhetoric offers strategies to policymakers, HIV educators and test counselors, and other rhetors for developing more responsive and egalitarian testing-related rhetorics and practices.
of HIV testing in the U.S., Scott provides an in-depth analysis of the politics and cultural practices of testing. . . . Clinicians, health-care practitioners, educators, policymakers, and communication scholars will benefit from the thorough review of HIV testing and suggested new directions of research.”—Choice “[This] book reminds us that rhetoric is an optimistic enterprise, hopeful about the potential for positive change. Risky Rhetoric reflects this faith in the transformative power of the strategic use of language.”—Rhetoric Society Quarterly November $35.00s Paper, 978-0-8093-2495-8 304 pages, 6 x 9, 12 illustrations
J. Blake Scott is a professor of English at the University of Central Florida. He is the coeditor of The Megarhetorics of Global Development.
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Illinois Wines and Wineries: The Essential Guide Clara Orban Paper, $22.95t 978-0-8093-3344-8 184 pages, 6 x 9, 145 illustrations
It’s Good to Be Black Ruby Berkley Goodwin Paper, $19.95t 978-0-8093-3122-2 280 pages, 5 x 8
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America’s Deadliest Twister: The Tri-State Tornado of 1925
20 Day Trips in and around the Shawnee National Forest Larry P. and Donna J. Mahan Paper, $19.95t 978-0-8093-3255-7 160 pages, 61/8 x 91/4, 102 illustrations Shawnee Books
Geoff Partlow Paper, $19.95t 978-0-8093-3346-2 160 pages, 6 x 9, 49 illustrations Shawnee Books
Death Underground: The Centralia and West Frankfort Mine Disasters
Cooking Plain, Illinois Country Style
Robert E. Hartley and David Kenney Paper, $22.95t 978-0-8093-2706-5 250 pages, 6 x 9, 30 illustrations
History as They Lived It: A Social History of Prairie du Rocher, Illinois
The Archaeology of Carrier Mills: 10,000 Years in the Saline Valley of Illinois
Margaret Kimball Brown, Foreword by Carl J. Ekberg Paper, $24.50sp 978-0-8093-3340-0 376 pages, 6 x 9, 38 illustrations Shawnee Books
Richard W. Jefferies Paper, $25.00s 978-0-8093-3305-9 182 pages, 8 x 10, 96 illustrations
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Helen Walker Linsenmeyer Paper, $19.95t 978-0-8093-3073-7 288 pages, 61/2 x 91/2
Land of Big Rivers: French and Indian Illinois, 1699–1778 M. J. Morgan Paper, $26.50sp 978-0-8093-2988-5 304 pages, 6 x 9, 16 illustrations Shawnee Books
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CHICAGO
Illino S t is His t a te oric a Boo So c ie t y l k of the Y Aw a ear r ( 2 01 d 4)
Grant Park: The Evolution of Chicago’s Front Yard Dennis H. Cremin Cloth, $34.95t 978-0-8093-3250-2 256 pages, 61/8 x 91/4 , 50 illustrations
The Poorhouse: Subsidized Housing in Chicago, 2nd Edition Devereux Bowly Jr. Paper, $29.95t 978-0-8093-3052-2
Chicago’s Greatest Year, 1893: The White City and the Birth of a Modern Metropolis
A Decisive Decade: An Insider’s View of the Chicago Civil Rights Movement during the 1960s
Joseph Gustaitis Paper, $29.95t 978-0-8093-3248-9 360 pages, 6 x 9, 90 illustrations
Robert B. McKersie, Foreword by James R. Ralph Jr. Cloth, $29.95t 978-0-8093-3244-1 288 pages, 6 x 9, 34 illustrations
Chicago: Metropolis of the Mid-Continent, 4th Edition
Knock at the Door of Opportunity: Black Migration to Chicago, 1900–1919
Irving Cutler Foreword by James F. Marran Paper, $24.95t 978-0-8093-2702-7
Christopher Robert Reed Cloth, $65.00s 978-0-8093-3333-2
288 pages, 71/2 x 10, 172 illustrations
464 pages, 7 x 91/2, 300 illustrations
408 pages, 61/8 x 91/4 , 34 illustrations
Chicago Death Trap: The Iroquois Theatre Fire of 1903
The Mayors: The Chicago Political Tradition, 4th Edition
Black Writing from Chicago: In the World, Not of It?
Nat Brandt. Introduction by Perry R. Duis and Cathlyn Schallhorn Paper, $19.95t 978-0-8093-2721-8 240 pages, 6 x 9, 48 illustrations
Edited by Paul M. Green and Melvin G. Holli Paper, $39.50sp 978-0-8093-3198-7 368 pages, 6 x 9, 33 illustrations
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Edited by Richard R. Guzman Foreword by Carolyn M. Rodgers Paper, $22.95t 978-0-8093-2704-1 360 pages, 6 x 9
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THEATER / FILM
Cuba Inside Out: Revolution and Contemporary Theatre Yael Prizant Paper, $40.00S 978-0-8093-3308-0 192 pages, 6 x 9, 22 illustrations Theater in the Americas
Dennis Dorn and Mark Shanda Paper, $59.95s 978-0-8093-3037-9 320 pages, 81/2 x 11, 449 illustrations
From Chariots of Fire to The King’s Speech: Writing Biopics and Docudramas
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Richard Barr: The Playwright’s Producer David A. Crespy Paper, $40.00s 978-0-8093-3140-6 312 pages, 6 x 9, 20 illustrations Theater in the Americas
Edited by Norma Bowles and Daniel-Raymond Nadon Paper, $35.00s 978-0-8093-3238-0 328 pages, 6 x 9, 1 illustrations Theater in the Americas
Drafting for the Theatre, 2nd Edition
Alan Rosenthal Paper, $33.00s 978-0-8093-3298-4 216 pages, 6 x 9
Staging Social Justice: Collaborating to Create Activist Theatre
Documentary Trial Plays in Contemporary American Theater
Marketing to Moviegoers: A Handbook of Strategies and Tactics, 3rd Edition
Jacqueline O’Connor Paper, $40.00s 978-0-8093-3236-6 248 pages, 6 x 9 Theater in the Americas
Robert Marich Paper, $34.95t 978-0-8093-3196-3 432 pages, 61/8 x 91/4 , 30 illustrations
Writing, Directing, and Producing Documentary Films and Videos, 4th Edition
Dark Directions: Romero, Craven, Carpenter, and the Modern Horror Film
Alan Rosenthal Paper, $35.00s 978-0-8093-2742-3 448 pages, 6 x 9, 17 illustrations
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Kendall R. Phillips Paper, $30.00s 978-0-8093-3095-9 232 pages, 6 x 9, 15 illustrations
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