Most Recent Articles from Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society

• Editor's Page, The 

  This summer issue of the Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society includes diverse topics on Illinois history ranging from the interplay of...

  07/01/09 · More from publication

• "Leaving No 'Unbridged Chasm'": The Office of the High School Visitor at the University of Illinois, 1896-1948 

  The University of Illinois, through its Office of the High School Visitor, played an integral role during the first half of the twentieth century...

  07/01/09 by Ryan, Ann Marie · More from publication

• 1947 Centralia Mine Disaster Anthony Fleege, The 

  The Centralia #5 Mine disaster of 1947 was the mine explosion that should have never happened. Not months, but years before the explosion both...

  07/01/09 by Fleege, Anthony · More from publication

• Illinois Place Name "Pimitéoui", The 

  Throughout the French era Lake Peoria was known by a Native American name written in the form Pimitéoui. This place name was first noted in...

  07/01/09 by McCafferty, Michael · More from publication

• Latinos and the New Immigrant Church 

  Latinos and the New Immigrant Church. By David A. Badillo. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. Pp. xxiii, 275. Notes, index. Cloth,...

  07/01/09 by Gleason, Philip · More from publication

• Cairo Project: A Report by the Students of the School of Journalism at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, The 

  The Cairo Project: A Report by the Students of the School of Journalism at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. (Southern Illinois University...

  07/01/09 by Brunner, Edward · More from publication

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