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A new form of Southern slavery led to Northern race riotsA tale of heroism in the fight against Illinois corruptionThe epic labor struggle in the ‘Decatur war zone’The Case of the Mad Gasser of MattoonThe Great CommunicatorThe famous architect who was never aloneThe forgotten Maxwell brothersFollowing in Lincoln’s stepsA portrait of the landscape in barnsAffair in a Chicago heat wave
Books | Wednesday, March 5,2008
The joy of writing
Channeling Virginia Woolf for seven enduring lessons
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Central Illinois has many writers’ groups
— I can easily name six in Springfield. Some have died: Women Writes
waxed awhile, and so did the Snotty L
Books | Wednesday, February 13,2008
School days
Memories of the Decatur area’s one-room schoolhouses
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White. Magee. Kirby. Miller. Renshaw. Columbia. Zion.
Fairview. Bethel. Flood. Pleasant Grove. Oreana. Progress. Hickory Point.
These are the names of 14 of the
Books | Thursday, February 7,2008
Monumental achievement
The Volkmanns tell the story of Springfield’s distinctive statues and monuments
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It’s hot off the press, published Feb. 4
— and hot off the keys, cameras, and many footsteps of our own Carl
(retired head of Lincoln Library) and R
Books | Thursday, February 7,2008
The great debate
New look at Lincoln-Douglas contest answers longstanding questions
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The Lincoln-Douglas Debates are like the Magna Carta
or the Gadsden Purchase: You kind of know that they’re important and
maybe even have a rough notion o
Books | Wednesday, January 16,2008
Not necessarily Anytown, Ill.
Homerville’s stories are unique, but the themes are universal
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So where’s Homerville? In Pike County, west of
Jacksonville, north of Pittsfield, and close enough to the Illinois River
that one character jumps in it to
Books | Wednesday, December 26,2007
Beyond the grave
Oak Ridge Cemetery’s dead come to life in new book
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As you walk through Oak Ridge Cemetery’s
beautiful 365 acres, it’s easy to forget that each tombstone
represents a life — a person with friend
Books | Wednesday, December 5,2007
The Austen industry
A wealth of books build on Pride and Prejudice author’s legacy
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You don’t read just anything when you’re
really sick. C.S. Lewis said that at his lowest all that would suffice
was The Wind in the Willows. I
Books | Wednesday, November 7,2007
Grave robbers and academics
Fascinating book recounts the struggle for rich cache of Indian artifacts
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The subtitle of David LaVere’s Looting Spiro Mounds is a
footnote to perhaps the greatest public grave robbery in history: Howard
Carter’s 1924 disc
Books | Wednesday, October 31,2007
Literary sleuthing
Clever story will leave you dizzy with literary references
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Recently, during my family excavations, I unearthed a
homemade booklet, “Books Read in 1900,” belonging to my
grandmother. She’d have been 30.
Books | Wednesday, October 24,2007
On reading well
Sara Nelson shares her love of books in a chatty, witty style
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I resisted opening this book, even though it was an
autographed gift from the author’s sister-in-law, a longtime
Springfieldian. I thought that it was ano
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