The Prairie State : a documentary history of Illinois
Blends interpretive essays with primary source documents (diaries, letters, travelogues, official documents and messages, newspaper reports, oral interviews) to provide a firsthand, widely varying, and distinctly human portrait of events and trends that shaped the lives of everyday Americans. Covers Father Marquette's accounts to pioneer life, to the Lincoln-Douglas debates, the "Gilded Age", the prohibition era, the Great Depression, and the period of 1951-1976 in Chicago
History
2 volumes : illustrations ; 23 cm
9780802816511, 9780802816528, 0802816517, 0802816525
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v. 1. Colonial years to 1860
v. 2. Civil War to the present
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