Peoria Illinois Revisited

Author : Charles A. Bobbitt
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738507118
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Peoria, Illinois Revisited written by Charles A. Bobbitt and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This delightful follow-up to the first volume of Peoria: A Postcard History guides the reader through the development of Peoria to the twenty-first century. From the Illinois Riverfront to the streets of downtown, these postcards demonstrate the many changes that have taken place in this city throughout the years. The growth and expansion in Peoria have been phenomenal, and this volume allows us to follow the timeline of the city.

Author : Carley R. Robison
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738507620
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Galesburg Illinois in Vintage Postcards written by Carley R. Robison and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Galesburg, Illinois, is a town proud of its history and heritage. From its founding by courageous and determined pioneers in 1837 to the present day, it has been referred to in many ways--including "The Ideal City" and "The Buckle on the Corn Belt." Galesberg, Illinois in Vintage Postcards uses postcards as the lens to focus on the fascinating history of this Midwestern town. Throughout its history, the postcard has always been a popular means of communication. Looking back at them now, we are offered a unique insight into the places and times illustrated on the cards, and an intimate look at the people sending these cards to loved ones in faraway locations.

Author : Greg Wahl
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467101737
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Legendary Locals of Peoria written by Greg Wahl and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peoria harkens back to the 1670s glory days of the French voyageurs and became the now-familiar face of Americana--its townsfolk have touched every aspect of national and international life, often significantly. In comedy, Fibber McGee and Molly, Charles Correll, Richard Pryor, Sam Kinison, and even Bishop Sheen with his witty homilies have made Peoria the "Habitat of Humor." Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique jump-started the 1960s feminist movement, while Philip José Farmer's The Lovers rocked the 1950s sci-fi universe. Dr. C.T. Vivian, Dr. Romeo Garrett, and John Gwynn Jr. held the frontline against racism. Representing the best of society's core values, Barb and Dick Hammond founded Friends of the Children of Haiti, a medical organization tending to the year-round needs of the earth's poorest. And unheralded Bill Noel has shouldered the sorrows and burdens of others who have leaned on him for decades. When it comes to all the legendary locals, they play in Peoria . . . and the world.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 935 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of Peoria County, Illinois written by and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 935 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Johnson & Co
Publisher : Dalcassian Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 928 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of Peoria County, Illinois. Containing a history of the Northwest--history of Illinois--history of the county, its early settlement, growth, development, resources written by Johnson & Co and published by Dalcassian Publishing Company. This book was released on 1880-01-01 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Van Zanten
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226850811
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Marion Mahony Reconsidered written by David Van Zanten and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-07 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marion Mahony Griffin (1871–1961) was an American architect and artist, one of the first licensed female architects in the world, designer for Frank Lloyd Wright’s Chicago studio, and an original member of the Prairie School of architecture. Largely heralded for her exquisite presentation drawings for both Wright and her husband, Walter Burley Griffin, Mahony was an adventurous designer in her own right, whose independent and highly original work attracted attention at a moment when architectural drawing and graphic illustration were becoming integral to the design process. This book examines new research into Mahony’s life and paints a vivid portrait of a woman’s place among the lives and productions of some of our most noted American architects. The essays included take us on an ambitious journey from Mahony’s origins in the Chicago suburbs, through her years as Wright’s right-hand woman and her bohemian life with her husband in Australia—whose new capital city, Canberra, she helped to plan—up until her golden years in the middle of the twentieth century. Filled with richly detailed analyses of Mahony’s works and including and populated by an international cast of characters, Marion Mahony Reconsidered greatly expands our knowledge of this talented, complex, and enigmatic modern architect.

Author : United States. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Safe Streets Reconsidered written by United States. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Case studies: California, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania.

Author : James Montgomery Rice
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 926 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Peoria City and County, Illinois written by James Montgomery Rice and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 926 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stewart L. Winger
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 070062936X
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ex Parte Milligan Reconsidered written by Stewart L. Winger and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2020-04-16 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the very end of the Civil War, a military court convicted Lambdin P. Milligan and his coconspirators in Indiana of fomenting a general insurrection and sentenced them to hang. On appeal, in Ex parte Milligan the US Supreme Court sided with the conspirators, ruling that it was unconstitutional to try American citizens in military tribunals when civilian courts were open and functioning—as they were in Indiana. Far from being a relic of the Civil War, the landmark 1866 decision has surprising relevance in our day, as this volume makes clear. Cited in four Supreme Court decisions arising from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, Ex parte Milligan speaks to constitutional questions raised by the war on terror; but more than that, the authors of Ex parte Milligan Reconsidered contend, the case affords an opportunity to reevaluate the history of wartime civil liberties from the Civil War era to our own. After the Civil War, critics of Reconstruction pointed to Milligan as an example of the Republican Party’s abuse of federal power; even historians sympathetic to Lincoln have found it necessary to apologize for his administration’s record on civil liberties during the Civil War. However, the authors of this volume argue that this distorts the nineteenth-century understanding of the Bill of Rights, neglects international law entirely, and, equally striking, ignores the experience of African Americans. In reviving Milligan, the Supreme Court has implicitly cast Reconstruction as a “war on terror” in which terrorist insurgencies threatened and eventually halted the assertion of black freedom by the Republican Party, the Union Army, and African Americans themselves. Returning African Americans to the center of the story, and recognizing that Lincoln and Republicans were often forced to restrict white civil liberties in order to establish black civil rights and liberties, Ex parte Milligan Reconsidered suggests an entirely different account of wartime civil liberties, one with profound implications for US racial history and constitutional law in today’s war on terror.

Author : Harold Holzer
Publisher : Fordham University Press
ISBN 13 : 082324086X
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lincoln Revisited written by Harold Holzer and published by Fordham University Press. This book was released on 2009-08-25 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In February 2009, America celebrates the bicentennial of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, and the pace of new Lincoln books and articles has already quickened. From his cabinet’s politics to his own struggles with depression, Lincoln remains the most written-about story in our history. And each year historians find something new and important to say about the greatest of our Presidents. Lincoln Revisited is a masterly guidePub to what’s new and what’s noteworthy in this unfolding story—a brilliant gathering of fresh scholarship by the leading Lincoln historians of our time. Brought together by The Lincoln Forum, they tackle uncharted territory and emerging questions; they also take a new look at established debates—including those about their own landmark works. Here, these well-known historians revisit key chapters in Lincoln’s legacy—from Matthew Pinsker on Lincoln’s private life and Jean Baker on religion and the Lincoln marriage to Geoffrey Perret on Lincoln as leader and Frank J. Williams on Lincoln and civil liberties in wartime. The eighteen original essays explore every corner of Lincoln’s world—religion and politics, slavery and sovereignty, presidential leadership and the rule of law, the Second Inaugural Address and the assassination. In his 1947 classic, Lincoln Reconsidered, David Herbert Donald confronted the Lincoln myth. Today, the scholars in Lincoln Revisited give a new generation of students, scholars, and citizens the perspectives vital for understanding the constantly reinterpreted genius of Abraham Lincoln.