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A Woman's Story of Pioneer Illinois
So many pioneer stories were written at the request of a child or grandchild. What makes Christiana Tillson's humorous memoir different was her background. Tillson’s story records the reactions produced upon a refined New England woman by an environment at once predominantly southern and wholly frontier. Her youth in 1822 and her parting from all that she had known in the east were common of many later western migrants. But when she and her husband went out to try their fortunes, the "west" was what we today call the Midwest. It was still a wild, dangerous, and uncertain place to try to make a future. But the Tillson's did and Christiana left us a valuable account of their trials. For the first time, this long out-of-print volume is available as an affordable, well-formatted book for e-readers and smartphones. Be sure to LOOK INSIDE by clicking the cover above or download a sample.
We and Our Kinsfolk
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A Woman's Story of Pioneer Illinois
John Tillson married Christiana Holmes in 1822.
Brought to Bed
This classic work reveals how childbirth has changed from colonial times to the present, including a new preface that discusses writings on the subject over the past three decades.
Second to None: From the sixteenth century to 1865
"Here are women who are shapers of history, as well as its victims. In diaries, letters, speeches, songs, petitions, essays, photographs, and cartoons they describe, rejoice, exhort, complain, advertise, and joke, revealing women's role as community builders in every time and locale and registering their emergence into the public spheres of political, social, and economic life. The documents also demonstrate the value of gender analysis, for women's differences--in age, race, sexual orientation, class, geographical or ethnic origin, abilities or disabilities, and values--are shown to be as important as their commonalities."--Book cover.
44 Years in Darkness
In the later part of the nineteenth century, Rhoda Derry spent over forty years in the Adams County Poor Farm, curled in a fetal position in a box bed. She had clawed her own eyes out. She had beaten her front teeth in. Her legs had atrophied to the point where she could no longer stand on her own, or even sit in a wheelchair. She had been committed there by her own family when they could no longer care for her at home. She spent decades locked away from the world. Her crime? Falling in love. Rhoda suffered a mental breakdown after being “cursed” by the mother of the boy she was engaged to marry. Committed to the almshouse for violent insanity, she was eventually rescued by Dr. George A....
A History of the Ninth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, with the Regimental Roster
When the Civil War erupted in April 1861, many German immigrants in Illinois rushed to enlist in the Union Army. Volunteers from Illinois towns in St. Clair County--Belleville, Millstadt, Mascoutah, Lebanon, and others--marched to Springfield under the command of August Mersy, a veteran of the failed 1848 revolt in Baden, Germany. Marion Morrison notes that when the German immigrants reached Springfield, August Mersy was rejected as commander because of his limited facility with English. Replaced by Colonel Eleazer A. Paine, an Ohioan and West Point graduate, Lieutenant Colonel Mersy fell to second in command of the Ninth Illinois Infantry Volunteers. Within a few months, however, Paine rece...
History 31st Regiment Illinois Volunteers Organized by John A. Logan
The story of John A. Logan's famed 31st Regiment Illinois Volunteers, told by three veterans, follows the regiment from the battles of Belmont, Fort Donelson, Vicksburg, Kenesaw Mountain, and Atlanta through the March to the Sea and into North Carolina. "Few regiments," notes historian John Y. Simon in the foreword, "fought longer or more fiercely, suffered more casualties, or won more victories." Logan proved a valiant and valuable Union commander, yet when the Civil War first began, it was far from clear whether he would lead Union or Confederate troops. In dramatic fashion, however, he broke what Simon calls an "ominous silence ... interpreted by many as sympathy for the South." Speaking ...
Personal Memoirs of John H. Brinton
****This is the interactive CD-ROM version of a classic reference since 1916; previous print editions have been cited in ARBA, Winchell, Walford, and Chen. It doesn't require cutting-edge amounts of computer power (386 or higher, 4Mb RAM, Windows 3.1 or later), and it courteously offers an icon for "uninstall." Navigation is via the table of contents, Boolean searching, and hyperlinks; and MathCad software allows for on-screen problem solving. Coverage includes the essentials of engines, pumps, compressors, turbines, gears, strength of materials, mechanics, and heat; Handbook content is supplemented with material from both the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, 7th ed. and the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 5th ed. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
