Table of Contents
List of maps
Preface
1 The Indians and the French
2 British Colonial Rule and American Independence
3 From Territory to Statehood
4 Settling the Frontier
5 Slave State or Free?
6 Civil War
7 A Modernizing World
8 The Spirit of Reform
9 An Artistic Renaissance
10 World War I and the Red Scare
11 Prosperity and Depression
12 World War II
13 Postwar Boom and Suburban Growth
14 Turbulence and Change
15 An Uncertain Future
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliographical Essay
Index
Roger Biles, Professor of History at Illinois State University, is the author of five other books, including Richard J. Daley and Crusading Liberal.
Biles' first-rate primer on the state's history will be a useful
resource for anyone curious about a state whose residents have
played crucial roles in almost every major episode in the nation's
history.
*Chicago Tribune*
Lively and informative.... Biles clearly and cogently traces the
Prairie State's distinctive history, from its earliest geological
and Indian eras to the present.
*THe annals of iowa*
A scholarly and highly accessible survey text that balances the
rural and urban experience.
*Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society*
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