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History, State & Local



link to catalog page STRAW, High Mountains Rising

High Mountains Rising

Appalachia in Time and Place

Author: Edited by Richard A. Straw and H. Tyler Blethen
Pub Date: 2004

A collection of 14 original essays covering the major issues in Appalachian history and culture   learn more...

link to catalog page TISHLER, Midwestern Landscape Architecture Author: Edited by William H. Tishler
Pub Date: Cloth: ; Paper: 2004

Richly illustrated and readable, this is the first historical overview of landscape architecture in the Midwest   learn more...

link to catalog page CARROLL, Red Grange and the Rise of Modern Football Author: John M. Carroll
Pub Date: Cloth: 1999; Paper: 2004

To understand the forces that helped create the modern superstar athlete, begin with Red Grange   learn more...

link to catalog page MOORE, Carl B. Stokes and the Rise of Black Political Power Author: Leonard N. Moore
Pub Date: August 2003

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link to catalog page CHA-JUA, America's First Black Town

America's First Black Town

Brooklyn, Illinois, 1830-1915

Author: Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua
Pub Date: Cloth: ; Paper: 2002

The courageous story of the first all-Black free town in the United States   learn more...

link to catalog page HOWELL, Culture, Environment, and Conservation in the Appalachian South Author: Edited by Benita J. Howell
Pub Date: 2002

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link to catalog page QUAIFE, Chicago and the Old Northwest, 1673-1835 Author: Milo Milton Quaife
Pub Date: 2001

This grand study surveys the emergence of Chicago from the swamps of southern Lake Michigan to the expulsion of the last Indian settlements. Pioneering historian Quaife, the first to document Chicago’s founding by a black man, traces Chicago from an outpost on the frontier to being the crossroads of American commerce.   learn more...

link to catalog page LEWIS, An Early Encounter with Tomorrow

An Early Encounter with Tomorrow

Europeans, Chicago's Loop, and the World's Columbian Exposition

Author: Arnold Lewis
Pub Date: 2001

For the first time in sixty years, Chicago and the development of Chicago’s Loop at a crucial and formative stage, is examined in light of its appearance, pace, and economic drive in a shattering encounter between Old-World assumptions and New-World realities.   learn more...

link to catalog page JENSEN, Illinois

Illinois

A History

Author: Richard J. Jensen
Pub Date: 2001

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link to catalog page PORTERFIELD, Last Cavalier

Last Cavalier

The Life and Times of John A. Lomax, 1867-1948

Author: Nolan Porterfield
Pub Date: Cloth: ; Paper: 2001

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