Bibliography

Overviews/General County Histories

Hair, James T., A Gazetteer of Madison County, Illinois. Alton: James T. Hair, 1866.

History of Madison County, Illinois Illustrated. With Biographical Sketches of many Prominent Men and Pioneers. Edwardsville: W. R. Brink & Co., 1882.

Illustrated Encyclopedia and Atlas Map of Madison County, Ill. St. Louis: Brink, McCormick & Co., 1873.

Flagg, James S., editor. Our 150 Years, 1812-1962. East 10 Publishing, 1962.

Nore, Ellen. “Madison County (1812-2012).” Illinois Heritage 15, no. 6 (November 2012): 15-30.

W. T. Norton, ed., Centennial History of Madison County, Illinois, and Its People, 1812 to 1912. Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1912.

Abolitionism & Elijah Lovejoy

Blight, David W. “The Martyrdom of Elijah P. Lovejoy.” American History Illustrated 12, no. 7 (November 1977): 20-27.

Hoffman, Judy. “If I Fall, My Grave Shall Be Made in Alton”: Elijah Lovejoy, Martyr for Abolition.” Gateway 25, no. 4 (Spring 2005): 10-21.

Laughlin, Bonnie E. “Endangering the Peace of Society’: Abolitionist Agitation and Mob Reaction in St. Louis and Alton, 1836-1838.” Missouri Historical Review 95, no. 1 (October 2000): 1-22.

Merideth, Robert. “A Conservative Abolitionist at Alton: Edward Beecher’s Narrative.” Journal Of Presbyterian History 42, no. 1 (January 1964): 39-53.

Moore, William, and Jane Ann Moore. “Betsey Lovejoy: A Woman of influence on western Illinois history.” Illinois Heritage 10, no. 3 (May 2007): 20-22.

“On Holy Ground.” Journal Of Presbyterian History 92, no. 1 (Summer 2014): 43-48.

Rutenbeck, J. “Partisan press coverage of anti-abolitionist violence: a study of early nineteenth-century “viewsflow..” Journal Of Communication Inquiry 19, no. 1 (March 1995): 126.

African Americans in Madison County

Meier, August, and Elliott M. Rudwick. “Early Boycotts of Segregated Schools: The Alton, Illinois Case, 1897-1908.” Journal Of Negro Education 36, no. 4 (Fall 1967): 394-402.

Portwood, Shirley J. “The Alton School Case and African American Community Consciousness, 1897-1908.” Illinois Historical Journal 91, no. 1 (January 1998): 2-20.

Portwood, Shirley. “‘We Lift Our Voices in Thunder Tones’: African American Race Men and Race Women and Community Agency in Southern Illinois, 1895-1910.” Journal of Urban History 26, no. 6 (September 2000): 740–58.

Alton

Anderson, James W. “The Real Issue: An Analysis of the Final Lincoln-Douglas Debate.” Lincoln Herald 69, no. 1 (March 1967): 27-39.

Brinkman, Grover. “Unbelievable Image of Smallpox Island,” Council On America’s Military Past. Journal 19, no. 1 (January 1992): 101-104.

Cameron, Terri. “Alton’s POWs.” Illinois Heritage 10, no. 2 (March 2007): 8-11.

Cameron, Terri. “Capital Politics: How Springfield Got the Statehouse and Alton Got the Runaround.” Illinois Heritage 13, no. 4 (July 2010): 9-12.

Curran, Nathaniel B. “Levi Davis, Illinois’ Third Auditor.” Journal Of The Illinois State Historical Society 71, no. 1 (March 1978): 2-12.

Early, Joseph E. Jr. “The Pioneer School: Remembering John Mason Peck and Shurtleff College.” American Baptist Quarterly 22, no. 1 (March 2003): 52-59.

Fairbanks, Merwin G. “A History of Newspaper Journalism in Alton, Illinois, from 1836 to 1962, as Represented by the Alton ‘Evening Telegraph’ and Its Predecessors.” Dissertation Abstracts International, 1974.

Farnsworth, Kenneth B., John A. Walthall. Bottled in Illinois: Embossed Bottles and Bottled Products of Early Illinois Merchants from Chicago to Cairo, 1840-1880. Illinois State Archeological Survey, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois. Studies in Archeology No. 6. 2011.

Frizzell, Robert W. “Reticent Germans: The East Frisians of Illinois.” Illinois Historical Journal 85, no. 3 (June 1992): 161-174.

Greene, William Robert. “Early Development of the Illinois State Penitentiary System.” Journal Of The Illinois State Historical Society 70, no. 3 (September 1977): 185-195.

Hadfield, Doris. “Piasa Land and the Tricentennial.” Daughters Of The American Revolution Magazine 107, no. 9 (September 1973): 860-864.

Hoffman, Judy. “‘If I Fall, My Grave Shall Be Made in Alton’: Elijah Lovejoy, Martyr for Abolition.” Gateway 25, no. 4 (Spring 2005): 10-21.

Laughlin, Bonnie E. “Endangering the Peace of Society’: Abolitionist Agitation and Mob Reaction in St. Louis and Alton, 1836-1838.” Missouri Historical Review 95, no. 1 (October 2000): 1-22.

McLear, Patrick E. “Logan U. Reavis: Nineteenth Century Urban Promoter.” Missouri Historical Review 66, no. 4 (July 1972): 567-588.

Meier, August, and Elliott M. Rudwick. “Early Boycotts of Segregated Schools: The Alton, Illinois Case, 1897-1908.” Journal Of Negro Education 36, no. 4 (Fall 1967): 394-402.

Merideth, Robert. “A Conservative Abolitionist at Alton: Edward Beecher’s Narrative.” Journal Of Presbyterian History 42, no. 1 (January 1964): 39-53.

Mitchell, Barbara J. “‘O Fairest Monticello’: Monticello Female Seminary.” Journal Of The Illinois State Historical Society 93, no. 3 (September 2000): 248-272.

“On Holy Ground.” Journal Of Presbyterian History 92, no. 1 (Summer2014 2014): 43-48.

Paquette, Jack K. The Glassmakers Revisited. Xlibris Corporation, 2010.

Perry, Lewis, and Matthew C . Sherman. “What Disturbed the Unitarian Church in This Very City?”: Alton, the Slavery Conflict, and Western Unitarianism.” Civil War History 54, no. 1 (March 2008): 5-34.

Portwood, Shirley J. “The Alton School Case and African American Community Consciousness, 1897-1908.” Illinois Historical Journal 91, no. 1 (January 1998): 2-20.

Rutenbeck, J. “Partisan press coverage of anti-abolitionist violence: a study of early nineteenth-century “viewsflow.” Journal Of Communication Inquiry 19, no. 1 (March 1995): 126.

Shallat, Todd. “Colossus Above St. Louis.” Illinois Heritage 8, no. 4 (May 2005): 10.

Stowell, Daniel W. “We Will Fight for Our Flag: The Civil War Letters of Thomas Barnett, Ninth Illinois Volunteer Infantry.” Journal Of Illinois History 3, no. 3 (September 2000): 201-222.

Atlases

Illinois State Archives. Federal Township Plats of Illinois (1804 – 1891). Website.

Illustrated Encyclopedia and Atlas Map of Madison County, Ill. St. Louis: Brink, McCormick & Co., 1873.

Map of Madison County, Illinois. Highland: Charles Meyer, surveyor, 1851.

Map of Madison County, Illinois. Buffalo: Holmes & Arnold, civil engineers & map publishers, 1861.

Campbell, R.A., Topographical & Sectional map of Madison, St. Clair, and Monroe Counties. Chicago: R.A. Campbell, 1870.

Warner & Beers, Atlas of Illinois, Counties of Madison, Bond & Clinton. Chicago: Warner & Beers, 1872.

Warner & Beers, Map of Madison County. Chicago: Union Atlas Co., 1876.

Map of Madison County, Ill. [Dundee, Illinois]: Rob’t Hagnauer, H. Riniker, and Geo. K. Dickson, 1892.

New Atlas of Madison County, State of Illinois. St. Louis: H. Riniker, Rob’t Hagnauer, and Geo. K. Dickson, 1892.

Standard Atlas of Madison County, Illinois. Chicago: Geo. A. Ogle & Co., 1906.

Civil War

Brinkman, Grover. “Unbelievable Image of Smallpox Island,” Council On America’s Military Past. Journal 19, no. 1 (January 1992): 101-104.

Cameron, Terri. “Alton’s POWs.” Illinois Heritage 10, no. 2 (March 2007): 8-11.

Cozzens, Peter E. “‘My Poor Little Ninth’: The Ninth Illinois at Shiloh.” Illinois Historical Journal 83, no. 1 (January 1990): 31-44.

Stowell, Daniel W. “We Will Fight for Our Flag: The Civil War Letters of Thomas Barnett, Ninth Illinois Volunteer Infantry.” Journal Of Illinois History 3, no. 3 (September 2000): 201-222.

Coles, Edward

Sutton, Robert M. “Edward Coles and the Constitutional Crisis in Illinois, 1822-1824.” Illinois Historical Journal 82, no. 1 (January 1989): 33-46.

Early American Settlement

Branz, Nedra, and Barbara Lawrence. “A Prairie Farmer and Loco-Focos, Speculators, Nullifiers, etc.” Old Northwest 9, no. 4 (September 1983): 345-366.

Branz, Nedra, and Barbara Lawrence, eds. The Flagg Correspondence: Selected Letters, 1816 – 1854. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1986.

Curran, Nathaniel B. “Anna Durkee Tauzin Young, 1753-1839: Connecticut Lady, Illinois Pioneer.” Journal Of The Illinois State Historical Society 77, no. 2 (June 1984): 94-100.

Martin, Vance, and Mark Sorensen. “Rough and Ready in Illinois: Zachary Taylor’s daring and dubious exploits in the Prairie State.” Illinois Heritage 5, no. 4 (July 2002): 8-11.

Meyer, Douglas. Making the Heartland Quilt: A Geographical History of Settlement and Migration in Early-Nineteenth-Century Illinois. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2000.

Reynolds, John. My Own Times: Embracing Also the History of My Life. Belleville, IL: B. H. Perryman and H. L. Davison, 1855.

Reynolds, John. The Pioneer History of Illinois. Chicago: Fergus Printing Company, 1887.

Education

Early, Joseph E. Jr. “The Pioneer School: Remembering John Mason Peck and Shurtleff College.” American Baptist Quarterly 22, no. 1 (March 2003): 52-59.

Meier, August, and Elliott M. Rudwick. “Early Boycotts of Segregated Schools: The Alton, Illinois Case, 1897-1908.” Journal Of Negro Education 36, no. 4 (Fall 1967): 394-402.

Mitchell, Barbara J. “‘O Fairest Monticello’: Monticello Female Seminary.” Journal Of The Illinois State Historical Society 93, no. 3 (September 2000): 248-272.

Portwood, Shirley J. “The Alton School Case and African American Community Consciousness, 1897-1908.” Illinois Historical Journal 91, no. 1 (January 1998): 2-20.

Edwardsville

Branz, Nedra, and Barbara Lawrence. “A Prairie Farmer and Loco-Focos, Speculators, Nullifiers, etc.” Old Northwest 9, no. 4 (September 1983): 345-366.

Frishie, Theodore R. “Restoring ‘Elmhurst.'” Illinois Heritage 18, no. 1 (January 2015): 11-18.

Harding, Thomas S. “The Edwardsville Library of 1819: Its Founders, Catalog, Subsequent History, and Importance.” Journal Of Library History 18, no. 2 (April 1983): 212-214.

Jett, Cheryl Eichar. Edwardsville. Chicago: Arcadia, 2009

Kerber, Stephen. “From Aesthetic Integration to Applying Art: Arnold H. Maremont, the EPEC Seminar, and the Planning of SIU Edwardsville.” Journal Of The Illinois State Historical Society 97, no. 1 (March 2004): 41-65.

Kerber, Stephen. “The Mississippi River Festival at Edwardsville, 1969-1980.” Journal Of The Illinois State Historical Society 99, no. 3 (September 2006): 263-285.

Lossau, Carl S. “Leclaire, Illinois: A Model Industrial Village.” Gateway Heritage: The Magazine Of The Missouri Historical Society 8, no. 4 (Spring 1988): 20-31.

Nore, Ellen, and Dick Norrish. Edwardsville, Illinois: An Illustrated History. St. Louis: G. Bradley Publisher, 1996.

Government

Cameron, Terri. “Capital politics: How Springfield Got the Statehouse and Alton Got the Runaround.” Illinois Heritage 13, no. 4 (July 2010): 9-12.

Curran, Nathaniel B. “Levi Davis, Illinois’ Third Auditor.” Journal Of The Illinois State Historical Society 71, no. 1 (March 1978): 2-12.

Granite City

Cassens, David E. “The Bulgarian Colony of Southwestern Illinois, 1900-1920.” Illinois Historical Journal 84, no. 1 (1991): 15-24.

Cassens, David E. “The First Balkan War and Its Impact on the Bulgarians and Greeks of Southwestern Illinois.” East European Quarterly 19, no. 1 (Spring 1985): 69-74.

DeChenne, David. “A Progressive Era Mill Town ‘Where the Laboring Man [Was] King.’” Locus 4, no. 1 (1991): 1–21.

DeChenne, David. “Hungry Hollow: Bulgarian Immigrant Life in Granite City, Illinois, 1904-1921.” Gateway Heritage, Summer 1990, 52-61.

Hamel

Curran, Nathaniel B. “Anna Durkee Tauzin Young, 1753-1839: Connecticut Lady, Illinois Pioneer.” Journal Of The Illinois State Historical Society 77, no. 2 (June 1984): 94-100.

Immigration

Cassens, David E. “The Bulgarian Colony of Southwestern Illinois, 1900-1920.” Illinois Historical Journal 84, no. 1 (1991): 15-24.

Cassens, David E. “The First Balkan War and Its Impact on the Bulgarians and Greeks of Southwestern Illinois.” East European Quarterly 19, no. 1 (Spring 1985): 69-74.

DeChenne, David. “Hungry Hollow: Bulgarian Immigrant Life in Granite City, Illinois, 1904-1921.” Gateway Heritage, Summer 1990, 52-61.

Frizzell, Robert W. “Reticent Germans: The East Frisians of Illinois.” Illinois Historical Journal 85, no. 3 (June 1992): 161-174.

Law and the Courts

Hartley, Robert E. “Dick Mudge A Maverick Democrat’s Fights with Bossism, Crime, and Dishonesty.” Journal Of Illinois History 15, no. 3 (September 2012): 177-196.

Lincoln, Abraham, in Madison County

Anderson, James W. “The Real Issue: An Analysis of the Final Lincoln-Douglas Debate.” Lincoln Herald 69, no. 1 (March 1967): 27-39.

Livingston

Livingston Centennial Committee. History of Livingston, Illinois, 1905-2005. Wood River, IL: Wood River Printing, 2005.

Media, Newspapers, and Television

Mississippi River

Shallat, Todd. “Colossus Above St. Louis.” Illinois Heritage 8, no. 4 (May 2005): 10.

Mississippi River Festival

Kerber, Stephen. “The Mississippi River Festival at Edwardsville, 1969-1980.” Journal Of The Illinois State Historical Society 99, no. 3 (September 2006): 263-285.

Religion

“On Holy Ground.” Journal Of Presbyterian History 92, no. 1 (Summer 2014): 43-48.

Robert Prager Lynching in Collinsville (1918)

Hickey, Donald R. “The Prager Affair: A Study in Wartime Hysteria.” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 62, no. 2 (June 1969): 117–34.

Luebke, Frederick. Bonds of Loyalty: German-Americans and World War I. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1974.

Schwartz, E. A. “The Lynching of Robert Prager, the United Mine Workers, and the Problems of Patriotism in 1918.” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 95, no. 4 (Winter /2003 2002): 414–37.

Weinberg, Carl R. Labor, Loyalty, and Rebellion: Southwestern Illinois Coal Miners and World War I. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2005.

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

Meridian, Edward. SIUE the First Fifty Years: Transforming a Region. Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, 2007.