Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society

Volume 97, No. 3 Autumn 2004

Articles:

James Edstrom: "A Mighty Contest": The Jefferson-Lemen Compact Reevaluated

James Tackach: Why Jim Does Not Escape to Illinois in Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Cynthia Bruchman: "Two Coal Towns in 1900 Bureau County: Seatonville and Ladd

Book Reviews:

Donald, "We are Lincoln's Men": Abraham Lincoln and His Friends.

Farber, Lincoln's Constitution.

Fornieri, Abraham Lincoln's Political Faith.

Green, Freedom, Union, and Power: Lincoln and His Party During the Civil War.

Harris, Lincoln's Last Months.

Maihafer, War of Words: Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War Press.

Reviewed by Robert McColley

Thompson, Wetlands Drainage, River Modification, and Sectoral Conflict in the Lower Illinois Valley, 1890-1930.

Reviewed by Betsy Mendolsohn

Gary E. Moulton, ed. The Lewis and Clark Journals: An American Epic of Discovery.

Reviewed by Jim Price

Watts, An American Colony: Regionalism and the Roots of Midwestern Culture.

Reviewed by Michael Batinski

Genoways and Ireland, Museum Administration: An Introduction.

Reviewed by Dona Bachman

Karamanski, Schooner Passage: Sailing Ships and the Lake Michigan Frontier.

Walton and Grimm, Windjammers: Songs of the Great Lakes Sailors.

Reviewed by William S. Pretzer

Merriner, Grafters and Goo-Goos: Corruption and Reform in Chicago, 1833-2003.

Reviewed by Richard D. Lester

Loerzel, Alchemy of Bones: Chicago's Luetgert Murder Case of 1897.

Reviewed by Michael Stamm

Heaphy, The Negro Leagues, 1869-1960.

Skipper, Take Me Out to the Cubs Game: 35 Former Ballplayers Speak of Losing at Wrigley.

Reviewed by Kevin O'Connor

WSIU Public Television, The Legend of Charlie Birger.

Reviewed by David Cochran

Contributors:

James A. Edstrom is Associate Professor of Library Services and adjunct Associate Professor in the History and Political Science Department at William Rainey Harper College in Palatine, Illinois, where he teaches United States and Illinois history. He has earned master's degrees in library science and history from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and has written and lectured on Illinois's admission to the Union in 1818, the first state constitutional convention, and Illinois newspaper history. Professor Edstrom has been a professional librarian in La Salle, Urbana, and Springfield, Illinois. He is currently working on a book focusing on Illinois in 1818.

James Tackach, a professor of English at Roger Williams University, writes frequently about the literature of slavery. He is the author of Lincoln's Moral Vision: The Second In Inaugural Address and the editor of Slave Narratives and Early Black Reformers, which won a 2004 Carter G. Woodson Book Award. His articles have appeared in a variety of academic journals.

Cynthia Bruchman is a graduate student at Northern Illinois University. She received her Master of Arts degree from Illinois State University in May 2004. This article is an excerpt from her thesis. Bruchman is also a full-time English teacher at St. Bede Academy in Peru, Illinois. In addition, she instructs History classes at Illinois Valley Community College and English composition classes at Sauk Valley Community College. She is currently working on a second master's in English and hopes to begin research on her dissertation regarding Illinois child labor soon.

Cover:

The cover of this issue is the Coal Mine Shaft No. 4 in Seatonville in 1910. The mine was closed August 9, 1913. The photo is from the Bureau County Reunion, A Pictorial History of Bureau County, published by the Bureau County Republican, 1997. It is courtesy of the Bureau County Historical Society / Museum, Princeton, IL. It accompanies the article on the two coal towns in 1900 Bureau County: Seatonville and Ladd by Cynthia Bruchman.

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