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The Prairie State ; a documentary history of Illinois.
Author
"Sutton, Robert P."
Publisher
Grand Rapids : Eerdmans
Datec1976
ClassificationsMain Library Collection
Object numberF536 .P7
Description2 v. : ill. ; 23 cm. Blends interpretive essays with primary source documents (diaries, letters, travelogues, official documents and messages, newspaper reports, oral interviews) to provide a firsthand, widely varying, and distinctly human portrait of events and trends that shaped the lives of everyday Americans. Covers Father Marquette's accounts to pioneer life, to the Lincoln-Douglas debates, the "Gilded Age", the prohibition era, the Great Depression, and the period of 1951-1976 in Chicago.
Illinois -- History -- Sources.
Illinois -- History.
Illinois.
United States, Illinois -- History.