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Methods in Written Arithmetic
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Self-education
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The Black Struggle for Public Schooling in Nineteenth-Century Illinois
In the pre-Civil War and Civil War periods the Illinois black code deprived blacks of suffrage and court rights, and the Illinois Free Schools Act kept most black children out of public schooling. But, as McCaul documents, they did not sit idly by. They applied the concepts of “bargaining power” (rewarding, punishing, and dialectical) and the American ideal of “community” to participate in winning two major victories during this era. By the use of dialectical power, exerted mainly via John Jones’ tract, The Black Laws of Illinois, they helped secure the repeal of the state’s black code; by means of punishing power, mainly through boycotts and ‘‘invasions,’’ they exerted p...
Corn Kings and One-Horse Thieves
"This popular general history of the middle third of Illinois is organized thematically and covers the Woodland period of prehistory until roughly 1960"--
