Author: C. A. ChurchPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages :
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Past and Present of the City of Rockford and Winnebago County, Illinois
Author: C. A. ChurchPast and Present of the City of Rockford and Winnebago County, Illinois
Author: Charles A. ChurchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rockford (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 924
Book Description
Past and Present of the City of Rockford and Winnebago County, Illinois
Author: Charles A. ChurchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rockford (Ill)
Languages : en
Pages : 82
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Past and Present of the City of Rockford and Winnebago County, Illinois
Author: Charles A. ChurchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rockford (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 840
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The Past and Present of Boone County, Illinois
Author: The Past and Present of Boone County, Illinois, Containing a History of the County its Cities, Towns, &c.
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385559138
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.
Polish Pioneers in Illinois 1818-1850
Author: James D. LodeskyPublisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 146282188X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description
This book attempts to discover the names of the first Polish settlers in Illinois, when they came to Illinois and their stories when possible. Some left complete stories about themselves while others only a very small amount. The time period starts in 1818, the year Illinois became a state and ends in 1850. I found much more information between 1818 and 1850 then I thought I would so I cut the book off at 1850. The Polish settlers are divided into five different categories. 1. Polish Political Exiles from Russia. 2. Polish emigrants from mainly German occupied Poland. 3. Polish Jews. 4. People of Polish descent, those persons with a Polish ancestor. 5. Emigrants from an undetermined county whose last names look Polish.
A List of the Genealogical Works in the Illinois State Historical Library, Springfield, Illinois
Author: Illinois State Historical LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Publication of the Illinois State Historical Library, Illinois State Historical Society
Author: Illinois State Historical LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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The Black Heavens
Author: Brian R. DirckPublisher: Southern Illinois University Press
ISBN: 0809337029
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
Winner, Lincoln Group of New York Award of Achievement 2019 From multiple personal tragedies to the terrible carnage of the Civil War, death might be alongside emancipation of the slaves and restoration of the Union as one of the great central truths of Abraham Lincoln’s life. Yet what little has been written specifically about Lincoln and death is insufficient, sentimentalized, or devoid of the rich historical literature about death and mourning during the nineteenth century. The Black Heavens: Abraham Lincoln and Death is the first in-depth account of how the sixteenth president responded to the riddles of mortality, undertook personal mourning, and coped with the extraordinary burden of sending hundreds of thousands of soldiers to be killed on battlefields. Going beyond the characterization of Lincoln as a melancholy, tragic figure, Brian R. Dirck investigates Lincoln’s frequent encounters with bereavement and sets his response to death and mourning within the social, cultural, and political context of his times. At a young age Lincoln saw the grim reality of lives cut short when he lost his mother and sister. Later, he was deeply affected by the deaths of two of his sons, three-year-old Eddy in 1850 and eleven-year-old Willie in 1862, as well as the combat deaths of close friends early in the war. Despite his own losses, Lincoln learned how to approach death in an emotionally detached manner, a survival skill he needed to cope with the reality of his presidency. Dirck shows how Lincoln gradually turned to his particular understanding of God’s will in his attempts to articulate the meaning of the atrocities of war to the American public, as showcased in his allusions to religious ideas in the Gettysburg Address and the Second Inaugural. Lincoln formed a unique approach to death: both intellectual and emotional, typical and yet atypical of his times. In showing how Lincoln understood and responded to death, both privately and publicly, Dirck paints a compelling portrait of a commander in chief who buried two sons and gave the orders that sent an unprecedented number of Americans to their deaths.