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Table of ContentsBy AuthorAlbergotti, Millennial Teeth............................................................................................................4

Argetsinger and Rossel, “Jeppe of the Hill” and Other Comedies by Ludvig Holberg .............. 11

Biggers, Reckoning at Eagle Creek: The Secret Legacy of Coal in the Heartland......................... 10

Ekberg, Colonial Ste. Genevieve: An Adventure on the Mississippi Frontier ................................10

Feigenbaum, Collaborative Imagination: Earning Activism through Literacy Education ............... 12

Jarrett, Zion ....................................................................................................................................5

Jensen, Reimagining Process: Online Writing Archives and the Future of Writing Studies .......... 13

Marszalek, Lincoln and the Military ................................................................................................3

Mohlenbrock, Flowering Plants: Asteraceae, Part 1 .................................................................... 11

NeCamp, Adult Literacy and American Identity: The Moonlight Schools and Americanization Programs ............................................................................................................. 12

Ott, Confederate Daughters: Coming of Age during the Civil War ..................................................3

Richards, The Marion Experiment: Long-Term Solitary Confinement and the Supermax Movement ......................................................................................................................7

Rippelmeyer, The Civilian Conservation Corps in Southern Illinois, 1933–1942 ............................8

Schroeder-Lein, Treasures of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library .......................................1

Scott, Risky Rhetoric: AIDS and the Cultural Practices of HIV Testing ......................................... 13

Severns and Lupton, Prairie Justice: A History of Illinois Courts under French, English, and American Law .............................................................................................................9

Steers, Lincoln’s Assassination ......................................................................................................2

Waugh, Lincoln and the War’s End .................................................................................................2

Zung, Buckminster Fuller: Anthology for the Millennium ................................................................6

By SubjectArchitecture ..................................................... 6

Chicago .......................................................... 15

Criminology ..................................................... 7

Illinois ..........................................1, 8–10, 14–15

Film ................................................................. 16

Lincoln/Civil War ......................................... 1–3

Literacy ........................................................... 12

Plant Biology ..................................................11

Poetry ...........................................................4–5

Rhetoric/Composition .................................. 13

Theater ......................................................11, 16

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AMERICAN HISTORY / ILLINOIS

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SeptemberPaper, 978-0-8093-3336-3, $22.50sp*

Cloth, 978-0-8093-3335-6, $39.50sp232 pages, 8¼ x 9¼ , 153 illustrations

Treasures of the Abraham Lincoln

Presidential LibraryEdited by Glenna R. Schroeder-Lein

Historic gems from one of America’s most renowned presidential librariesThe Abraham Lincoln Presidential Li-

brary in Springfield, Illinois, houses a

trove of invaluable historical resources

concerning all aspects of the Prairie

State’s past. In celebration of the Li-

brary’s 125th anniversary, Treasures

of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Li-

brary commemorates the institution’s

history as well as its contributions to

scholarship and education by highlight-

ing a selection of eighty-five treasures

from the varied collections of over

twelve million items.

After opening with a historical over-

view and extensive chronology of the Li-

brary, the volume organizes the treasures

by various topics, including the oldest

items, those that illustrate various loca-

tions, and materials relating to business,

the mid-nineteenth century and the Civil

War, ethnicity, World Wars I and II, art,

and unusual treasures. Featured pieces

include the Gettysburg Address, Abra-

ham and Mary Lincoln’s letters, Governor

Dan Walker’s boots, WPA publications, an

Adlai Stevenson I campaign hat, Dubin

Pullman car materials, Civil War newspa-

pers, the Mary Lincoln insanity verdict,

and Lincoln’s stovepipe hat. Each entry

includes a thorough description of the

item, one or more images, and a discus-

sion of its history and how the library

acquired it, if known. Although these

treasures only scrape the surface of the

vast holdings of the Abraham Lincoln

Presidential Library, together they epit-

omize the rich, varied, and sometimes

quirky resources available to both seri-

ous scholars and curious tourists alike at

this valuable cultural institution.

“More than just a glimpse of Illinois history, this is an extraordinary journey of images and essays.”

—Robert E. Hartley author of Battleground 1948: Truman, Stevenson, Douglas, and the Most Surprising Election in Illinois History

Boots worn by Illinois gubernatorial candidate Dan Walker on his

1971 walk through Illinois

Ring given by John Wilkes Booth to Isabel Sumner in 1864

Life mask and hand casts of Abraham Lincoln by Leonard W. Volk, 1860

Glenna R. Schroeder-Lein, a manuscript librarian at the Abraham Lin-coln Presidential Library, is the author of Lincoln and Medicine; The Encyclopedia of Civil War Medicine; and Confederate Hospitals on the Move: Samuel H. Stout and the Army of Tennessee.

* For an explanation of discount schedules, see inside back cover.

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Lincoln and the War’s EndJohn C. Waugh

Lincoln’s role in the final months of the Civil WarOn the night of his reelection on No-

vember 8, 1864, President Abraham

Lincoln called on the nation to “re-unite

in a common effort, to save our com-

mon country.” By April 9 of the follow-

ing year, the Union had achieved this

goal with the surrender of the Army of

Northern Virginia to General Ulysses

S. Grant at Appomattox Court House.

In this lively volume, John C. Waugh

chronicles in detail Lincoln’s role in the

final five months of the war, revealing

how Lincoln and Grant worked together

to bring the war to an end.

Beginning with Lincoln’s reelection,

Waugh highlights the key military and

political events of those tumultuous

months, including William T. Sherman’s

march through Georgia to the sea; the

disastrous Confederate defeat at Nash-

ville; the Union victory at Fort Fisher

that closed off the Confederacy’s last

open port to the sea; Sherman’s march

through the Carolinas and the burning

of Columbia; Lee’s surrender at Appo-

mattox; Lincoln’s final annual message

to Congress; the passage of the 13th

Amendment; the Second Inaugural;

and Lincoln’s final days and speeches in

Washington after the Confederate sur-

render. Throughout, Waugh enlivens his

narrative with illuminating quotes from

a wide variety of Civil War participants

and personalities.

Lincoln’s AssassinationEdward Steers, Jr.

A sure-footed analysis of the death of America’s sixteenth presidentOver time, the traditional story of the as-

sassination of President Abraham Lin-

coln has become littered with myths. In

this succinct volume, Edward Steers, Jr.,

sets the record straight, expertly ana-

lyzing the historical evidence to explain

Lincoln’s assassination. The decision

to kill President Lincoln, Steers shows,

was an afterthought. Booth’s original

plan involved capturing Lincoln, deliver-

ing him to the Confederate leadership in

Richmond, and using him as a bargain-

ing chip to exchange for southern sol-

diers in Union prison camps. Only after

Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of

Northern Virginia and Richmond fell to

Union forces did Booth change his plan

from capture to murder.

Steers discredits popular fictions

surrounding Lincoln’s death, revealing

Booth to be a rational person and im-

plicating Mary Surratt, Samuel Mudd,

and other conspirators whose guilt has

been questioned.

At the heart of Lincoln’s assassi-

nation, Steers reveals, lies the institu-

tion of slavery. Lincoln’s move toward

ending slavery and his unwillingness to

compromise on emancipation spurred

the white supremacist Booth and ulti-

mately resulted in the president’s death.

With concise chapters and inviting

prose, this volume will prove essential

for anyone seeking a straightforward,

authoritative analysis of one of the most

dramatic events in American history.

October $24.95tCloth, 978-0-8093-3349-3160 pages, 5 x 8, 12 illustrationsConcise Lincoln Library

October $24.95tCloth, 978-0-8093-3349-3160 pages, 5 x 8, 10 illustrationsConcise Lincoln Library

AMERICAN HISTORY / LINCOLN / CIVIL WAR

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John C. Waugh, a reporter at the Christian Science Monitor for many years, is the coeditor of How Historians Work and the author of eleven other books on the Civil War era, including The Class of 1846; Reelecting Lincoln; and Lincoln and McClellan.

Edward Steers, Jr., a scientist retired from the National Institutes of Health, is the author, editor, coauthor, or coeditor of thirteen books, including Blood on the Moon: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln; The Trial: The Assassination of President Lincoln and the Trial of the Conspirators; and Lincoln Legends: Myths, Hoaxes, and Confabulations Associated with Abraham Lincoln.

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AMERICAN HISTORY / LINCOLN / CIVIL WAR

November $24.95tCloth, 978-0-8093-3361-5

160 pages, 5 x 8, 10 illustrationsConcise Lincoln Library

Lincoln and the MilitaryJohn F. MarszalekLincoln’s military maturation

When Abraham Lincoln was elected

president of the United States in 1860,

he came into office with practically no

experience in military strategy and

tactics. Consequently, at the start of

the Civil War, he depended on lead-

ing military men like Winfield Scott,

George B. McClellan, and Henry W.

Halleck to teach him how to manage

warfare. As the war continued and

Lincoln matured as a military leader,

however, he no longer relied on the

advice of others and became the major

military mind of the war.

In this brief overview of Lincoln’s

military actions and relationships

during the war, John F. Marszalek

traces the sixteenth president’s evo-

lution from a nonmilitary politician

into the commander in chief who

won the Civil War, demonstrating why

Lincoln remains America’s greatest

military president. Tying the neces-

sity of emancipation to preservation

of the Union, Marszalek considers

the many presidential matters Lin-

coln had to face in order to manage

the war effectively and demonstrates

how Lincoln’s determination, humil-

ity, sense of humor, analytical ability,

and knack for quickly learning import-

ant information proved instrumental

in his military success.

Based primarily on Lincoln’s own

words, this succinct volume offers an

easily accessible window into a critical

period in the life of Abraham Lincoln

and the history of the nation.

Confederate Daughters Coming of Age during the Civil War

Victoria E. OttExamining Confederate identity through the lives of

young women from slaveholding families“Confederate Daughters retells the

familiar story of young southern

women in wartime while furthering

our understanding of the ways in

which these coming-of-age stories

contributed to Lost Cause ideology in

the New South. Ott’s postwar analy-

sis, in particular, provides an interest-

ing glimpse into the reconstruction of

the southern feminine ideal by women

who had been compelled to reconcile

antebellum visions of womanhood

with postwar reality.”—Journal of

Southern History

“This is a book that belongs in your

personal library.”—Civil War News

“Confederate Daughters is a useful,

revealing read for scholars interested

in the Civil War and Reconstruction

era, memory, Southern women and

families, and youth and childhood.”

—Journal of American History

“Confederate Daughters is a path-

breaking study, contributing to our un-

derstanding of Confederate nationalism

as well as our conception of the Civil

War as a coming-of-age experience.”

—Alabama Review

John F. Marszalek is the Giles Distinguished Professor Emeritus of His-tory at Mississippi State University, the executive director of the Ulysses S. Grant Association’s Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library at Mississippi State University, and the editor of the Papers of Ulysses S. Grant. He is the author or editor of fourteen books, including Sherman: A Soldier’s Passion for Order.

Victoria E. Ott is an associate professor of history at Birmingham-Southern College. She has written numerous articles for various encyclopedias and con-tributed to The Great War in the Heart of Dixie: Alabama during World War I.

August $22.50spPaper, 978-0-8093-3375-2

232 pages, 6 x 9, 12 illustrations

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POETRY

September $15.95tPaper, 978-0-8093-3353-088 pages, 6 x 9Crab Orchard Series in Poetry

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Millennial TeethPoems by Dan Albergotti

Contrasting faith and skepticism in a narrator’s journey through personal darkness

Both bleak and bewildering, Millennial

Teeth, the visceral new collection by

poet Dan Albergotti, maps a contra-

dictory journey filled with longing and

dread, cynicism and hope. A heady mix

of traditional forms and more experi-

mental verse, Albergotti’s volume lures

readers inexorably into the poet’s ob-

sessions with mystery, doubt, ephem-

erality, and silence.

The poetry in Millennial Teeth will feel

both refreshingly new and strangely famil-

iar to Albergotti’s audience. Some poems

pay direct tribute to such literary luminar-

ies as Wallace Stevens and Philip Larkin,

while others give nods to icons of pop cul-

ture, from Radiohead to Roman Polanski.

The narrator muses on the resurrection

of Christina the Astonishing, the works

of Coleridge, and the mindless duties of

minor players in Shakespeare’s Hamlet.

Yet these familiar faces are not our

friends; they are juxtaposed with the

heartbreaking apocalypses, both nat-

ural and man-made, that have plagued

the world since the first plane flew into

the World Trade Center. A reluctant

witness to such events, the narrator

of these poems attempts to navigate

his own personal crises, including the

mental illness and dementia of loved

ones and the inability to connect with

others, from the darkness of a personal

orbit far from the sun. As he vehe-

mently rejects the notions of religious

succor, immortality, and the passive

acceptance of fate, he simultaneously

yearns to be proven wrong. Yet despite

his trials, Albergotti’s narrator main-

tains a gallows humor and wry insight

that balance his despair.

A riveting exploration of the all-

too-human struggle between faith and

doubt, skepticism and obsession, Mil-

lennial Teeth has both heart and bite

in plenty.

Dan Albergotti is a professor at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, South Carolina. The author of one book of poetry, The Boatloads, and two chapbooks, Char on’s Manifest and The Use of the World, he has also published his poetry in Cincinnati Review, Five Points, Southern Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and Pushcart Prize XXXIII, as well as other journals and anthologies. He has received fel-lowships and scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the South Carolina Arts Commission, the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.

Anecdote of the Platefor the young woman with the vanity license plate CARRION

I passed a car in Tennessee,expecting Goth kid with sulking stare,but what I got was more flower child,a college-aged girl with brilliant smile

who was singing along to something(Widespread Panic? Phish? The Dead?)as if the music were distilled joy.She turned and waved as I passed.

She wanted me to persevere, I guess,as I guess she’d tried to pledge herself.The Y had been taken when she applied,and so she’d settled for the I instead.

It took dominion in my head.She hadn’t been saying that she’d be deadsomeday, though she will, as will you and meand everything else in Tennessee.

Invocation

O lordof severed cordand flesh, lord of fever,sweat, dementia, and meat cleaver,lord of curtains set ablaze, of burning,lord of tumors, of remission, of returning,lord of time and time alone, lord of space and empty space,lord without body, without soul, lord without feet or face,lord of statistics, lord of bodies, lord of death,lord of breathless hope, lord of hopeless breath,O lord of every deafened ear,I know you’ll never hearin vacant airthis prayer.

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POETRY

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At the Hospital

As she lay dying, we were left alone togetherwhile she was swimming with the voices of the dead;

I dared not listen because she was nevertalking to me. But then, she propped herself up

on an elbow and said to me: I asked so much of her,so much of you and your mother and some would say

too much. And I just can’t, I can’t yet say I am sorry for it.And she lay down again, drowning in that river.

The Burgomaster Said I Could Do Whatever I Wanted to You

Then added: I will turn my back and look away.But as you entered into the room, shuffling andjangling your chains and smelling of day after dayafter day of yourself, I thought of forgiveness.Which is to say: I thought of myself. I stoodwithout a word to offer. Then I remembered fire,the fires we fled, the night after day after nightin darkness, and the girl’s screams in her dying,the baby you left on the grass, crying and cryinguntil it didn’t. Then the growling of the dogs.All the while, you were silent and watching meas you had always been. And as I turned to leave,I thought to myself: I can look away. I can chooseto give you nothing. I can save myself, save myself.

September $15.95tPaper, 978-0-8093-3356-1

88 pages, 6 x 9Crab Orchard Series in Poetry

ZionPoems by TJ Jarrett

Remembering one family’s experience during the darkest years of the civil rights movement

Zion, the latest collection of poems by

TJ Jarrett, is the poignant study of the

resonating effects of the civil rights

movement on one family. Jarrett lov-

ingly explores the minutiae of mortal-

ity and race across three generations

of “Dark Girls” who have come together

one summer to grieve and to remem-

ber as one of them passes to the far-

ther shore—a place beyond retribution,

where there is only forgiveness.

The Mississippi of Jarrett’s collec-

tion is alive with fireflies and locusts

and murders of crows; yet for some, it

is a wasteland of unanswered prayers,

burning evenings, and the shades

of dead or disappeared loved ones.

There, the dark nights of the soul

weigh long and heavy, and “every

heart has its solstice, and its ache is

unrelenting.”

Yet much as every solstice has an

equinox, every time to kill has a time

to forgive. Throughout the volume,

the author imagines opportunities for

compassion on multiple levels, from

sweeping pardons to the most intimate

of mercies. Jarrett’s faceless narrator

confesses the past through conversa-

tion and exploration with notorious

Mississippi governor Theodore Bilbo:

two minds, two hearts, two races at last

face to face.

At once brutal and achingly tender,

Jarrett’s volume itself is a vibrant and

musical body, singing to all its parts.

TJ Jarrett is a senior editor of Tupelo Quarterly and a business intelligence consultant for HealthTrust in Brentwood, Tennessee. She is the author of one vol-ume of poetry, Ain’t No Grave, and has published poems in a number of journals, including Poetry, Boston Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Ninth Letter, Third Coast, VQR, and West Branch.

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ARCHITECTURE

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January $29.50Paper, 978-0-8093-3317-2488 pages, 6 x 9, 118 illustrations

Buckminster FullerAnthology for the Millennium, Second Edition

Edited by Thomas T. K. ZungCelebrating the work of a great American architect, author, and inventor

Originally published as Buckminster

Fuller: Anthology for the New Millen-

nium, Thomas T. K. Zung has updated

this popular anthology of chapters from

Fuller’s many books, each chapter intro-

duced by notable people such as Arthur

C. Clarke, Steve Forbes, Valerie Harper,

Calvin Tomkins, and more. This revised

edition, which includes images omitted

from the first edition, reflects a culture

that has changed with time, much of

that change predicted by Fuller.

Praise for the previous edition:

“In order to acquaint a new

generation with Fuller, his former

architectural partner, Zung, gathers

selections [from Fuller’s writings] on

topics ranging from education and

environment to engineering and the

Lord’s Prayer. Admirers of Fuller—

such as actress Valerie Harper, author

Arthur C. Clarke, and entrepreneur

Steve Forbes—introduce each

selection. Zung’s anthology traces the

development of Fuller’s intellectual

life and provides an excellent

introduction for a new generation

to the life and work of this brilliant

thinker.”—Publishers Weekly

“Stimulating and provocative. . . . Like

a Francis Bacon charting the course

for future generations to pursue,

Fuller anticipates the need for the

‘comprehensive designer,’ who would

be a ‘synthesis of artist, inventor,

mechanic, objective economist,

and evolutionary strategist.’ Such

a [person], he says, would be an

initiator of design, able to anticipate

all of man’s needs and provide new

and advanced standards of living for a

steadily increasing percentage of the

world’s population.”—Chicago Tribune

Thomas T. K. Zung was a student of Buckminster Fuller and, with Fuller’s Synergetics, Inc., designed the elongated geodesic dome in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1968. He has worked on various geodesic domes, including the Jitterbug sculp-ture, Tensegrities, the Fly-Eye’s dome, and Fuller’s last invention, the Hang-It-All. Zung is the president of Buckminster Fuller, Sadao, and Zung and serves as a board member of the Buckminster Fuller Institute.

Buckminster Fuller Dymaxion car #4, re-created by Lord Norman Foster,

Foster and Partners, exhibited at the Lady Elena Foster Ivory Press Gallery,

Madrid, Spain and Marta Herford Museum, Germany. A timeless design from yesterday, catapulted to today.

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The Climatron at the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis, recently renovated

to replace the acrylic sections with glass panels. The geodesic dome was structurally able to accept the extra weight of glass, demonstrating the

dome’s flexibility and strength.

Astronaut Col. Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin unveiling the US postage stamp at Stanford University on the 50th anniversary of Fuller’s

geodesic dome patent.

“Zung’s anthology traces the development of Fuller’s intelletual life and provides an excellent introduction for a new generation to the life and work of this brilliant thinker.”

—Publisher’s Weekly

CRIMINOLOGY

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January $39.50spPaper 978-0-8093-3376-9

344 pages, 6 x 9, 4 illustrationsThe Elmer H. Johnson and Carol Holmes

Johnson Series in Criminology

The Marion ExperimentLong-Term Solitary Confinement

and the Supermax Movement

Edited by Stephen C. Richards Convicts and criminologists examine the detrimental

effects of long-term solitary confinementTaking readers into the darkness of sol-

itary confinement, this searing collec-

tion of convict experiences, academic

research, and policy recommendations

shines a light on the proliferation of

supermax prisons and the detrimental

effects of long-term high-security con-

finement on prisoners and their families.

Stephen C. Richards, an ex-convict

who served time in nine federal prisons

before earning his PhD in criminology,

argues the supermax prison era began

in 1983 at USP Marion in southern Illi-

nois, where the first “control units” were

built by the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

The Marion Experiment, written from a

convict criminology perspective, offers

an introduction to long-term solitary

confinement and supermax prisons,

followed by a series of first-person ac-

counts by prisoners—some of whom

are scholars—previously or currently

incarcerated in high-security facilities,

including some of the roughest prisons

in the western world.

Scholars also address the wide-

spread “Marionization” of solitary con-

finement, its impact on female, adole-

scent, and mentally ill prisoners and

families, and international perspectives

on imprisonment. As a bold step toward

rethinking supermax prisons, Richards

presents the most comprehensive view

of the topic to date to raise awareness of

the negative aspects of long-term solitary

confinement and the need to reevaluate

how prisoners are housed and treated.

Stephen C. Richards, a professor of criminal justice at the University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh and a Soros Senior Justice Fellow, is the author of numer-ous journal articles, chapters, and books, including Convict Criminology; Behind Bars: Surviving Prison; and Behind Bars: Rejoining Society after Prison.

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“The Marion Experiment provides . . . a unique glance inside extreme forms of punishment, and inside the minds of those most impacted by the punishment—the prisoners themselves.”

—Kristine M. Levan author of Prison Violence: Causes, Consequences and Solutions

Survived by One: The Life and Mind of a Family Mass MurdererRobert E. Hanlon, PhD, with Thomas V. OdleCloth, $29.95t978-0-8093-3262-5 224 pages, 6 x 9, 23 illustrationsThe Elmer H. Johnson and Carol Holmes Johnson Series in Criminology

Shattered Sense of Innocence: The 1955 Murders of Three Chicago ChildrenRichard C. Lindberg and Gloria Jean Sykes Cloth, $29.95 978-0-8093-2736-2 440 pages, 6 x 9, 50 illustrations The Elmer H. Johnson and Carol Holmes Johnson Series in Criminology

Also of Interest

ILLINOIS

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Giant City State Park and the Civilian Conservation Corps: A History in Words and PicturesKay RippelmeyerCloth, $34.95t, 978-0-8093-2921-2Paper $19.95t, 978-0-8093-2922-9 232 pages, 8 x 10, 191 illustrationsShawnee Books

The State of Southern Illinois: An Illustrated HistoryHerbert K. RussellCloth, $39.95t978-0-8093-3056-0232 pages, 81/2 x 11, 262 illustrations Shawnee Books

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March $39.50spCloth, 9780-8093-3365-3448 pages, 8 x 10, 279 illustrationsShawnee Books

Kay Rippelmeyer, a southern Illinois native, is a former lecturer, researcher, and academic advisor in the College of Liberal Arts at Southern Illinois University Carbondale and the author of Giant City State Park and the Civilian Conservation Corps: A History in Words and Pictures. A program liaison for the Illinois Human-ities Council, she has researched southern Illinois history for more than thirty years and has lectured widely on the Civilian Conservation Corps and river work in the region.

The Civilian Conservation Corps in Southern Illinois, 1933–1942

Kay RippelmeyerHow southern Illinois survived the Depression

and established a national forestDrawing on more than thirty years of

meticulous research, Kay Rippelmeyer

details the Depression-era history of

the simultaneous creation of the Civil-

ian Conservation Corps (CCC) and the

Shawnee National Forest in southern

Illinois. Through the stories of the men

who worked in CCC camps devoted to

soil and forest conservation projects,

she offers a fascinating look into an era

of utmost significance to the citizens,

wildlife, natural landscapes, and iden-

tity of the region.

Rippelmeyer outlines the geologic

and geographic history of southern Illi-

nois, from Native American uses of the

land to the timber industry’s decimation

of the forest by the 1920s. Detailing

both the economic hardships and agri-

cultural land abuse plaguing the region

during the Depression, she reveals how

the creation of the CCC under President

Franklin Delano Roosevelt coincided with

the regional campaign for a national for-

est and how locals first became aware of

and involved with the program.

Rippelmeyer mined CCC camp

records from the National Archives,

newspaper accounts and other corre-

spondence and conducted dozens of

oral interviews with workers and their

families to re-create life in the camps.

An extensive camp compendium aug-

ments the volume, featuring numerous

photographs, camp locations and dates

of operation, work history, and company

rosters. Satisfying public curiosity and

the need for factual information about

the camps in southern Illinois, this book

is an essential contribution to regional

history and a window to the national im-

pact of the CCC.

Also of Interest

“As the Shawnee National Forest celebrates its 75th birthday, Ms. Rippelmeyer’s account of the CCC in Southern Illinois and the establishment of the Shawnee National Forest is  a timely contribution to understanding the history of the area at a time of one of America’s greatest national challenges.”

—Robert Pasquill author of The Civilian Conservation Corps in Alabama, 1933–1943, A Great and Lasting Good

ILLINOIS

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The Heroic and the Notorious: U.S. Senators from IllinoisDavid Kenney and Robert E. HartleyPaper, $29.50sp978-0-8093-3108-6 320 pages, 6 x 9, 31 illustrations

Battleground 1948: Truman, Stevenson, Douglas, and the Most Surprising Election in Illinois HistoryRobert E. HartleyCloth, $39.50sp978-0-8093-3266-3 264 pages, 6 x 9, 14 illustrations

February $34.50spCloth, 978-0-8093-3369-1

272 pages, 6 x 9, 24 illustrations

Roger L. Severns (1906–61) earned degrees from Beloit College and Chi-cago Kent College of Law, and his Juris Doctor degree in 1938 from the University of Chicago Law School. Severns taught law at Chicago Kent College of Law and practiced law at the firm of Isham, Lincoln, and Beale before leaving that firm to form Parkhill, Severns, and Stansell.

John A. Lupton is the executive director of the Illinois Supreme Court His-toric Preservation Commission in Springfield. Prior to that, he worked for the Lincoln Legal Papers and the Papers of Abraham Lincoln. He has degrees in his-tory from Southern Illinois University Carbondale and the University of Illinois Springfield. He has published a number of articles and chapters about Illinois history and about Abraham Lincoln as an Illinois lawyer.

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Prairie Justice A History of Illinois Courts under French,

English, and American Law

Roger L. Severns. Edited by John A. LuptonA concise legal history of Illinois

through the end of the nineteenth cen-

tury, Prairie Justice covers the region’s

progression from French to British to

early American legal systems, which

culminated in a unique body of Illinois

law that has influenced other jurisdic-

tions. Written by Roger L. Severns in

the 1950s and published in serial form

in the 1960s, Prairie Justice is available

now for the first time as a book, thanks

to the work of editor John A. Lupton,

an Illinois and legal historian who also

contributed an introduction.

Illinois’ legal development de-

mon strates the tension between two

completely different European legal

systems, between river communities

and prairie towns, and between agrar-

ian and urban interests. Severns uses

several rulings—including a reconstitu-

tion of the Supreme Court in 1824, slav-

ery-related cases, and the impeachment

of a Supreme Court justice—to examine

political movements in Illinois and their

impact on the local judiciary. Through

legal decisions, the Illinois judiciary be-

came an independent, co-equal branch

of state government. By the mid-nine-

teenth century, Illinois had established

itself as a leading judicial authority, in-

fluencing not only the growing western

frontier but also the industrialized and

farming regions of the country. With a

close eye for detail, Severns reviews the

status of the legal profession during the

1850s by looking at new members of the

Court, the nostalgia of circuit riding, and

how a young lawyer named Abraham

Lincoln rose to prominence.

Also of Interest

ILLINOIS

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August $32.50spPaper, 978-0-8093-3380-6542 pages, 6 x 9, 74 illustrationsShawnee Books

Colonial Ste. GenevieveAn Adventure on the Mississippi Frontier

Carl J. EkbergColonial Ste. Genevieve: An Adventure

on the Mississippi Frontier is a compre-

hensive, award-winning history of the

French colonial town of Ste. Genevieve,

from its founding in about 1750 to the

Louisiana Purchase. Ekberg covers all

aspects of the town during this period,

including politics, agriculture, family

life, and religion, and places Ste. Gen-

evieve within the context of the history

of the colonial Illinois Country.

“Ekberg’s work is among the current

best in a field usually labeled border-

lands history. . . . The analysis and narra-

tive in Colonial Ste. Genevieve disclose

a world that cannot be excluded from

any revised understanding of American

history.”—Journal of Southern History

“This is a good story well told. . . .

Ekberg vividly recaptures the experi-

ence of French life on the Mississippi.”

—American Historical Review

Carl J. Ekberg is an Illinois State University professor emeritus of history and a leading authority on the history of the French in colonial Illinois. He is the author of a number of books, including Stealing Indian Women: Native Slavery in the Illinois Country and French Roots in the Illinois Country: The Mississippi Frontier in Colonial Times.

August $19.50spPaper, 978-0-8093-3386-8328 pages, 6 x 9, 11 illustrations

NEW IN PAPER

Reckoning at Eagle CreekThe Secret Legacy of Coal in the Heartland

Jeff BiggersSet in the ruins of his family’s strip-

mined homestead in the Shawnee

National Forest in southern Illinois,

Jeff Biggers takes us on a journey into

the secret history of coal mining in

the American heartland and delivers a

deeply personal portrait of the largely

overlooked human and environmen-

tal costs of our nation’s dirty energy

policy. Reckoning at Eagle Creek digs

deep into the tangled roots of the coal

industry beginning with the policies of

Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jack-

son, chronicling the removal of Native

Americans and the hidden story of le-

gally sanctioned black slavery in the

land of Lincoln. It uncovers a century

of regulatory negligence, vividly de-

scribing the epic mining wars for union

recognition and workplace safety and

the devastating consequences of indus-

trial strip-mining.

“[An] enriching history . . . An import-

ant look at the staggering human and

environmental costs of mining.”

—Kirkus Reviews

“This is a world-shaking, belief-

rattling, immensely important book.

If you’re an American, it is almost a

patriotic duty to read it.”—Elizabeth

Gilbert author of Eat, Pray, Love

Jeff Biggers is the American Book Award–winning author of The United States of Appalachia and In the Sierra Madre. He has worked as a writer, radio correspon-dent, and educator across the United States, Europe, India, and Mexico. He regu-larly blogs for the Huffington Post and Grist. His award-winning stories have been heard on National Public Radio and Public Radio International, and seen in numer-ous magazines and newspapers, including the Washington Post, the Nation, the Atlantic Monthly, and Salon, among others. He lives in Iowa City, Iowa.

PLANT BIOLOGY

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April $65.00sCloth, 978-0-8093-3369-1

272 pages, 6 x 9, 24 illustrationsThe Illustrated Flora of Illinois

Southern Illinois University Press www.siupress.com

Flowering Plants Asteraceae, Part 1

Robert H. MohlenbrockAn indispensable guide for botanists

This, the first of three volumes on the

aster family planned for the Illustrated

Flora of Illinois series, recognizes 388

species in 119 genera as well as 20 hy-

brids and 73 lesser taxa. In Asteraceae,

Part 1, author Robert Mohlenbrock

presents new and historic information

in a clear and easy-to-read style. The

volume provides an easy-to-use key

to the genera and species and a com-

plete description and nomenclatural

and habitat notes for each plant, in-

cluding its usefulness, if applicable.

New nomenclatural combinations are

shown for several species. The precise

illustrations and detailed information

allow for the identification of some of

the most difficult-to-identify plants in

the state—goldenrods, asters, artemi-

sias, and fleabanes, among others. In-

cluded are 128 original illustrations by

Paul W. Nelson.

Robert H. Mohlenbrock taught botany at Southern Illinois University Carbondale for thirty-four years. Since his retirement in 1990, he has served as senior scientist for Biotic Consultants, teaching wetland identification classes around the country. Among his more than fifty books are Vascular Flora of Illinois and Field Guide to the U.S. National Forests.

November $30.00sPaper, 978-0-8093-3373-8

368 pages, 51/2 x 91/4, 1 illustrations

NEW IN PAPER

“Jeppe of the Hill” and Other Comedies by Ludvig Holberg

Translated by Gerald S. Argetsinger and Sven H. Rossel

These eight comedies comprise the most

extensive collection of Ludvig Holberg

plays ever offered in the English lan-

guage. The translators’ general introduc-

tions establish cultural contexts for the

comedies and break new ground in un-

derstanding the importance of Holberg’s

comic aesthetic. Argetsinger’s extensive

experience in theatre and Rossel’s pre-

eminence as a Scandinavian Studies

scholar assure that the translations are

not only accurate but stage-worthy.

The collection opens with The Po-

litical Tinker, the first Danish play to be

produced in the new Danish Theatre, and

ends with The Burial of Danish Comedy,

literally the funeral service for the bank-

rupt theatre. Three more of Holberg’s re-

nowned character comedies follow, Jean

de France, Jeppe of the Hill, and Erasmus

Montanus, along with his literary satire

Ulysses von Ithacia. The final two plays

demonstrate his ability to write shorter

comic works: The Christmas Party, a

scathing comedy of manners, and Per-

nille’s Brief Experience as a Lady, a situ-

ation comedy that satirizes the practice

of baby-switching.

Gerald S. Argetsinger, an American playwright, stage director, and the-atre academic, is the author of two scholarly volumes and many articles on Lud-vig Holberg. His latest book is the coedited Latter-Gay Saints: An Anthology of Gay Mormon Fiction.

Sven H. Rossel has published or coauthored nine books in the specific areas of Scandinavian balladry and modern Scandinavian literature in addition to numerous articles, reviews, and feature articles. For his many contributions to Danish studies, Rossel was awarded the distinguished Order of the Knighthood of Dannebrog in 1987.

THEATER

LITERACY

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October $40.00sPaper, 978-0-8093-3358-5200 pages, 6 x 9

January $40.00sPaper, 978-0-8093-3378-3240 pages, 6 x 9

Southern Illinois University Press www.siupress.com

Collaborative ImaginationEarning Activism through Literacy Education

Paul FeigenbaumIn this important volume, Paul Feigen-

baum explores how literacy education

can facilitate activism in contemporary

contexts. By conceiving of education

as, in part, a process of understanding

and grappling with adaptive and ac-

tivist rhetorics, Feigenbaum explains,

educators can direct people’s imagina-

tions toward activism without running

up against the conceptual problems so

many scholars associate with critical

pedagogy. Over time, this model of

education expands people’s imagina-

tions about what it means to be a good

citizen, facilitates increased civic partic-

ipation, and encourages collective de-

stabilization of, rather than adaptation

to, the structural inequalities of main-

stream civic institutions.

Feigenbaum offers detailed analyses

of literacy programs including the Citizen-

ship Schools and Freedom Schools rooted

in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s

and 1960s; the Algebra Project, a current

practical-literacy network; and the Imagi-

nation Federation, a south Florida–based

Earth-Literacy network. Considering both

the history and the future of community

literacy, Collaborative Imagination offers

educators a powerful mechanism for pro-

moting activism through their teaching

and scholarship, while providing prac-

tical ideas for greater civic engagement

among students.

Paul Feigenbaum, an assistant professor of English at Florida International University, has published essays on literacy education and community literacy in several journals.

Adult Literacy and American Identity

The Moonlight Schools and Americanization Programs

Samantha NeCampThe release of U.S. census data in 1910

sparked rhetoric declaring the nation

had a literacy crisis and proclaiming illit-

erate citizens a threat to democratic life.

While newspaper editors, industrialists,

and officials in the federal government

frequently placed the blame on newly

arrived immigrants, a smaller but no

less vocal group of rural educators and

clubwomen highlighted the significant

number of native-born illiterate adults

in the Appalachian region.

Author Samantha NeCamp looks at

the educational response to these two

distinct literacy narratives—the found-

ing of the Moonlight Schools in eastern

Kentucky, focused on native-born non-

literate adults, and the establishment

of the Americanization movement,

dedicated to the education of recent

immigrants.

NeCamp demonstrates how the

Moonlight Schools and the American-

ization movement competed for public

attention, the interest of educators, and

private and governmental funding, fu-

eling a vibrant public debate about the

definition of literacy. The very different

pedagogical practices of the two move-

ments—and how these practices were

represented to the public—helped shape

literacy education in the United States.

Samantha NeCamp teaches English at Midway College in Kentucky. She has published articles in the Journal of Appalachian Studies, College Composi-tion and Communication, and other journals.

RHETORIC & COMPOSITION

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November $35.00sPaper, 978-0-8093-2495-8

304 pages, 6 x 9, 12 illustrations

NEW IN PAPER

January $35.00sPaper, 978-0-8093-3371-4

200 pages, 6 x 9, 5 illustrations

Southern Illinois University Press www.siupress.com

Reimagining ProcessOnline Writing Archives and the

Future of Writing Studies

Kyle JensenFor more than four decades, the domi-

nant model for pedagogy and research

in the field of composition has been a

how-centered process approach to writ-

ing instruction, which involves studying

the writing that students produce to ex-

pose the various stages of their writing

process. By looking at notes, outlines,

and multiple drafts, often presented by

students together in the form of a port-

folio, instructors can identify unproduc-

tive habits that students may have and

provide techniques that help them im-

prove their writing. In this groundbreak-

ing volume, Kyle Jensen critiques tradi-

tional how-centered process instruction

and presents a sound, practical meth-

odology by which portfolios and online

writing archives—digital interfaces that

expose the marks of revision writers

make during composition—might be

employed to develop theories about

what writing is: how it occurs, func-

tions, circulates, creates meaning,

and forms its subjects. Offering online

writing archives as a way to envision

a transdisciplinary approach to writing

studies, Reimagining Process does not

abandon the prevailing concepts of pro-

cess pedagogy but rather casts them in

wider contexts to conceive new ways of

teaching and studying writing.

Risky RhetoricAIDS and the Cultural Practices of HIV Testing

J. Blake ScottRisky Rhetoric: AIDS and the Cultural

Practices of HIV Testing is the first

book-length study of the rhetoric in-

herent in and surrounding HIV testing.

In addition to providing a history of

HIV testing in the United States from

1985 to the present, J. Blake Scott ex-

plains how faulty arguments about

testing’s power and effects have pro-

moted unresponsive and even danger-

ous testing practices for so-called nor-

mal subjects as well as those deemed

risky. Risky Rhetoric offers strategies

to policymakers, HIV educators and

test counselors, and other rhetors

for developing more responsive and

egalitarian testing-related rhetorics

and practices.

“This book has much to offer its reader,

both politically and academically.”

—Rhetoric and Public Affairs

“In addition to a comprehensive history

of HIV testing in the U.S., Scott provides

an in-depth analysis of the politics and

cultural practices of testing. . . . Clini-

cians, health-care practitioners, educa-

tors, policymakers, and communication

scholars will benefit from the thorough

review of HIV testing and suggested

new directions of research.”—Choice

“[This] book reminds us that rhetoric is

an optimistic enterprise, hopeful about

the potential for positive change. Risky

Rhetoric reflects this faith in the trans-

formative power of the strategic use of

language.”—Rhetoric Society Quarterly

Kyle Jensen, an assistant professor of English at the University of North Texas, has published essays in several edited collections, including Beyond Post-process and Writing Posthumanism, Posthuman Writing, and in the journals JAC and Rhetoric Review.

J. Blake Scott is a professor of English at the University of Central Florida.

He is the coeditor of The Megarhetorics of Global Development.

ILLINOIS

Illinois Wines and Wineries: The Essential GuideClara OrbanPaper, $22.95t

978-0-8093-3344-8

184 pages, 6 x 9, 145 illustrations

America’s Deadliest Twister: The Tri-State Tornado of 1925Geoff PartlowPaper, $19.95t

978-0-8093-3346-2

160 pages, 6 x 9, 49 illustrations

Shawnee Books

20 Day Trips in and around the Shawnee National ForestLarry P. and Donna J. MahanPaper, $19.95t

978-0-8093-3255-7

160 pages, 61/8 x 91/4,

102 illustrations

Shawnee Books

It’s Good to Be BlackRuby Berkley GoodwinPaper, $19.95t

978-0-8093-3122-2

280 pages, 5 x 8

History as They Lived It: A Social History of Prairie du Rocher, IllinoisMargaret Kimball Brown, Foreword by Carl J. EkbergPaper, $24.50sp

978-0-8093-3340-0

376 pages, 6 x 9, 38 illustrations

Shawnee Books

Death Underground: The Centralia and West Frankfort Mine DisastersRobert E. Hartley and David KenneyPaper, $22.95t

978-0-8093-2706-5

250 pages, 6 x 9, 30 illustrations

The Archaeology of Carrier Mills: 10,000 Years in the Saline Valley of IllinoisRichard W. JefferiesPaper, $25.00s

978-0-8093-3305-9

182 pages, 8 x 10, 96 illustrations

Cooking Plain, Illinois Country StyleHelen Walker LinsenmeyerPaper, $19.95t

978-0-8093-3073-7

288 pages, 61/2 x 91/2

Land of Big Rivers: French and Indian Illinois, 1699–1778M. J. MorganPaper, $26.50sp

978-0-8093-2988-5

304 pages, 6 x 9, 16 illustrations

Shawnee Books

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CHICAGO

Grant Park: The Evolution of Chicago’s Front YardDennis H. CreminCloth, $34.95t

978-0-8093-3250-2

256 pages, 61/8 x 91/4,

50 illustrations

Chicago’s Greatest Year, 1893: The White City and the Birth of a Modern MetropolisJoseph GustaitisPaper, $29.95t

978-0-8093-3248-9

360 pages, 6 x 9, 90 illustrations

A Decisive Decade: An Insider’s View of the Chicago Civil Rights Movement during the 1960sRobert B. McKersie, Foreword by James R. Ralph Jr.Cloth, $29.95t978-0-8093-3244-1 288 pages, 6 x 9, 34 illustrations

The Poorhouse: Subsidized Housing in Chicago, 2nd EditionDevereux Bowly Jr.Paper, $29.95t

978-0-8093-3052-2

288 pages, 71/2 x 10,

172 illustrations

Chicago Death Trap: The Iroquois Theatre Fire of 1903Nat Brandt. Introduction by Perry R. Duis and Cathlyn SchallhornPaper, $19.95t

978-0-8093-2721-8

240 pages, 6 x 9, 48 illustrations

Chicago: Metropolis of the Mid-Continent, 4th EditionIrving CutlerForeword by James F. MarranPaper, $24.95t

978-0-8093-2702-7

464 pages, 7 x 91/2, 300 illustrations

The Mayors: The Chicago Political Tradition, 4th EditionEdited by Paul M. Green and Melvin G. HolliPaper, $39.50sp

978-0-8093-3198-7

368 pages, 6 x 9, 33 illustrations

Knock at the Door of Opportunity: Black Migration to Chicago, 1900–1919 Christopher Robert ReedCloth, $65.00s

978-0-8093-3333-2

408 pages, 61/8 x 91/4,

34 illustrations

Black Writing from Chicago: In the World, Not of It?Edited by Richard R. GuzmanForeword by Carolyn M. RodgersPaper, $22.95t

978-0-8093-2704-1

360 pages, 6 x 9

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THEATER / FILM

Cuba Inside Out: Revolution and Contemporary TheatreYael PrizantPaper, $40.00S

978-0-8093-3308-0

192 pages, 6 x 9, 22 illustrations

Theater in the Americas

Staging Social Justice: Collaborating to Create Activist TheatreEdited by Norma Bowles and Daniel-Raymond NadonPaper, $35.00s

978-0-8093-3238-0

328 pages, 6 x 9, 1 illustrations

Theater in the Americas

Richard Barr: The Playwright’s ProducerDavid A. CrespyPaper, $40.00s

978-0-8093-3140-6

312 pages, 6 x 9, 20 illustrations

Theater in the Americas

Drafting for the Theatre, 2nd EditionDennis Dorn and Mark ShandaPaper, $59.95s

978-0-8093-3037-9

320 pages, 81/2 x 11, 449

illustrations

From Chariots of Fire to The King’s Speech: Writing Biopics and DocudramasAlan RosenthalPaper, $33.00s

978-0-8093-3298-4

216 pages, 6 x 9

Documentary Trial Plays in Contemporary American TheaterJacqueline O’ConnorPaper, $40.00s

978-0-8093-3236-6

248 pages, 6 x 9

Theater in the Americas

Writing, Directing, and Producing Documentary Films and Videos, 4th EditionAlan RosenthalPaper, $35.00s

978-0-8093-2742-3

448 pages, 6 x 9, 17 illustrations

Marketing to Moviegoers: A Handbook of Strategies and Tactics, 3rd EditionRobert MarichPaper, $34.95t

978-0-8093-3196-3

432 pages, 61/8 x 91/4, 30

illustrations

Dark Directions: Romero, Craven, Carpenter, and the Modern Horror FilmKendall R. PhillipsPaper, $30.00s

978-0-8093-3095-9

232 pages, 6 x 9, 15 illustrations

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