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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
1Southern Illinois University Press www.siupress.com
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
NEW IN PAPER
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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
Southern Illinois University Press www.siupress.com
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
10 Southern Illinois University Press www.siupress.com
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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