Chapters from
Illinois Vignettes
by John H. Keiser
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Part 1: People
3. How Egypt Got Its Name
4. Formula for Violence: Bleeding Egypt
5. "By Thy Rivers Gently Flowing, Illinois"
6. Prehistoric Man in Illinois
7. Prehistoric "New York City" Located in Illinois
8. Mr. Dickson's Bones
9. Illinois: The French Connection
10. French Settlement in the Illinois Country
11. The British Interlude: Revolutionary Outpost
12. "Labor" in Frontier Illinois
13. I Am An Illinoisian?
14. Immigrant's Voyage: Germany to Illinois, 1851
15. Diversity on the Prairie: Immigrants in Illinois
16. Communes: Old Hat in Illinois
17. Navuoo: Mormons and Icarians
18. Illinois: A Slave State?
19. Black Illinoisians: The Nineteeth Century
20. Springfield Race Riot, 1908
21. Black Chicago: Frustration and Achievement
22. The Illinois Central Railroad: How to Build a State
Part 2: Economy
3. The Steamboat Era in Illinois
4. Building the Illinois Central: A Pattern of Cooperation Between Government and Industry
5. Illinois Railroad Boom, 1865 to 1873
6. The electric Interurban in Illinois
18. Railroad Laborers on the I.C.
19. The Knights of Labor in Illinois
20. The Great Railroad Strike of 1877
Part 3: Government
1. Changing Times and Constitutions: 1818 and 1848
2. The Constitution of 1870
3. The Illinois Constitution of 1970
4. Black Hawk War
5. Elijah Lovejoy - the Politics of Assassination
6. Anti-war Sentiment in Illinois, 1861 to 1865
8. Illinois Fights the Civil War
9. Dance or Be Hanged - the Prager Case
10. The Internal Improvements Act of 1837
11. Public Schools in Illinois: the Early Years
Part 4: Culture
8. The Piasa Bird
19. Prohibition: An Illinois
Kulturkampf
20. Souther Illinois: Deals You Can't Refuse