Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society

Volume 99, No. 3-4 Fall-Winter 2006-2007

Articles:

Rhonda M. Kohl: The Hard Lessons of War: The Fifth Illinois Cavalry at Helena, Arkansas (pp 185-210)

David Markwell: A Turning Point: The Lasting Impact of the 1898 Virden Mine Riot (pp 211-227)

Darold Leigh Henson: Social Consciousness in William Maxwell's Writings (pp 228-262)

Stephen Kerber: The Mississippi River Festival at Edwardsville, 1969-1980 (pp 263-285

Book Reviews:

Fortier, The Petite Michele Site: An Early Middle Woodland Occupation in the American Bottom.

                        Reviewed by Terry A. Barnhart

Yow, Recording Oral History: A Guide for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Second Edition.

                        Reviewed by Anne M. Valk

Mogren, Native Soil: A History of the DeKalb County Farm Bureau.

                        Reviewed by Debra A. Reid

Contributors:

Rhonda M. Kohl received her M.A. in American history and museum studies from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale in 1987. Her previous work has concentrated on various aspects of the Civil War in Arkansas, including health and medicine at Helena, and the Vicksburg campaign. This article is a small portion of the author's history of the Fifth Illinois Cavalry, expected in 2007. She is also working on a major manuscript focusing on Civil War diseases and medical treatments.

David Markwell received his B.A. and M.A. in history from the University of Illinois at Springfield in 2002 and 2004 respectively. He is currently in the Southern Illinois University Carbondale Ph.D. program. His area of concentration is labor and particularly the people of the Illinois coal communities. His thesis concerned the Illinois coal mine wars of the 1930s and the formation of the Progressive Miners of America. His dissertation is tentatively titled, "The Best Organized Labor State in America": The People of District 12 and the Illinois Perspective, 1898-1932. In his article, he examines the foundations of this perspective through the lasting impact of the 1898 Virden Mine Riot.

Darold Leigh Henson is a professor of English at Missouri State University. Like William Maxwell, he is a native of Lincoln, Illinois. In 1982 he earned a Ph.D. in English studies from Illinois State University. His first career was teaching English at Pekin Community High School (1964-1994).  He has published on the theory, practice, and pedagogy of technical communication; rhetoric and composition; and the pedagogy of American literature. His book-length, online community history of Lincoln, Illinois, received the "Best Web Site of the Year" award from the Illinois State Historical Society in 2004 (http://www.geocities.com/findinglincolnillinois). 

Stephen Kerber is an associate professor and serves as the University Archivist and Special Collections Librarian, Lovejoy Library, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. He received his Ph.D. in United States history from the University of Florida, Gainesville, and his M.S. in library and communication science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of a history of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and of a forthcoming book on the Mississippi River Festival.

Cover:

Trumpeter Doc Severinsen of NBC's "Tonight Show" appeared at the Mississippi River Festival as a soloist with the St. Louis Symphony for the third time on 15 July 1973. This view of the lawn audience for the Severinsen concert looks from the southeast to the northwest. The original image was created by the SIUE Photo Services unit and is preserved in the Louisa H. Bowen University Archives & Special Collections, Lovejoy Library, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.

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