Southern Illinois University Press: 154 books
The Marion Experiment
Long-Term Solitary Confinement and the Supermax Movement
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2015
Taking readers into the darkness of solitary confinement, this searing collection of convict experiences, academic research, and policy recommendations shines a light on the proliferation of supermax (super-maximum-security) prisons and the detrimental effects of long-term high-security confinement...
Our Politics
Reflections on Political Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2019
Douglas Kane, an American politician and economist, offers readers a straightforward, personal account of what it is like to run for and hold public office—the demands, conflicts, temptations, and rewards created by political, economic, and social forces. Throughout the book, Kane references Illinois...
Fight Like a Tiger
Conway Barbour and the Challenges of the Black Middle Class in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2018
Focusing on the life of ambitious former slave Conway Barbour, Victoria L. Harrison argues that the idea of a black middle class traced its origins to the free black population of the mid-nineteenth century and developed alongside the idea of a white middle class. Although slavery and racism meant...
Abraham Lincoln
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2008
Long considered a classic, Benjamin P. Thomas's Abraham Lincoln: A Biography takes an incisive look at one of American history's greatest figures. Originally published in 1952 to wide acclaim, this eloquent account rises above previously romanticized depictions of the sixteenth president to reveal...
Grant at Vicksburg
The General and the Siege
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
On May 22, 1863, after two failed attempts to take the city of Vicksburg by assault, Major General Ulysses S. Grant declared in a letter to the commander of the Union fleet on the Mississippi River that “the nature of the ground about Vicksburg is such that it can only be taken by a siege.” The...
by Stanley Harrold
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
Winner, ISHS Best of Illinois History Award, 2019
Abraham Lincoln has often been called the “Great Emancipator.” But he was not among those Americans who, decades before the Civil War, favored immediate emancipation of all slaves inside the United States. Those who did were the abolitionists—the...
Prairie Defender
The Murder Trials of Abraham Lincoln
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
2018 FAPA President’s book award medalist in the non-fiction adult, biography, and political/current events categories
2018 ISHS Annual Award Winner for a Scholarly Publication
According to conventional wisdom, Abraham Lincoln spent most of his law career collecting debt and representing...
Immigrants in the Valley
Irish, Germans, and Americans in the Upper Mississippi Country, 1830-1860
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2016
Thousands of newcomers flocked into the Upper Mississippi country in the decades leading up to the Civil War. Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri, and Minnesota received immigrants from most areas of Europe, as well as Americans from the Upper South, New England, and the Middle Atlantic states. They...
John A. Logan
Stalwart Republican from Illinois
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2001
by Robert Coogan, Jane Donawerth, Molly J. Scanlon
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2018
What current theoretical frameworks inform academic and professional writing? What does research tell us about the effectiveness of academic and professional writing programs? What do we know about existing best practices? What are the current guidelines and procedures in evaluating a program’s...
Union Heartland
The Midwestern Home Front during the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
The Civil War has historically been viewed somewhat simplistically as a battle between the North and the South. Southern historians have broadened this viewpoint by revealing the “many Souths” that made up the Confederacy, but the “North” has remained largely undifferentiated as a geopolitical...
The Decision Was Always My Own
Ulysses S. Grant and the Vicksburg Campaign
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018
The Vicksburg Campaign, argues Timothy B. Smith, is the showcase of Ulysses S. Grant’s military genius. From October 1862 to July 1863, for nearly nine months, Grant tried repeatedly to capture the Confederate river city. He maneuvered and adapted numerous times, reacting to events and enemy movements...
Civil War Pharmacy
A History
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
When the Civil War began, the U.S. pharmaceutical industry was concentrated almost exclusively in Philadelphia and was dominated by just a few major firms; when the war ended, it was poised to expand nationwide. Civil War Pharmacy is the first book to delineate how the growing field of pharmacy gained...
A Decisive Decade
An Insider's View of the Chicago Civil Rights Movement during the 1960s
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2013
The deeply personal story of a historic time in Chicago, Robert B. McKersie’s A Decisive Decade follows the unfolding action of the Civil Rights Movement as it played out in the Windy City. McKersie’s participation as a white activist for black rights offers a unique, firsthand viewpoint on the...