In The State of Southern Illinois: An Illustrated History, Herbert K. Russell offers fresh interpretations of a number of important aspects of Southern Illinois history. Focusing on the area known as
Life on the road?was anything but glamorous for Farm Security Administration photographers traveling through southern Illinois in the mid-1930s. Often their most promising subjects lived at the end of
"This pictorial record of the men who worked in the Illinois and Kentucky fluorspar fields from the 1890s to the 1990s shows early and later methods of extracting, hoisting, processing, and transporti
Explores the life and works of the American author best known for his "Spoon River Anthology," a book of 214 poems that influenced early-20th-century literature.
A classic story of a young man’s journey to adulthood, The Boy of Battle Ford covers Blackman’s years growing up in early post-settlement Illinois, where he gave in to temptations such as drinking, ga
Discusses how two brothers flew a Union flag from a tree atop a hill in Illinois, despite the threat of retribution from a Confederate-supporting group called the Knights of the Golden Circle. Reprint
The coal mining photographs of C. William Horrell, taken across the southern Illinois Coal Belt over a twenty-year period from 1966 to 1986, are extraordinary examples of documentary photography&mdash
