Research Articles in Illinois History, 2024–2025: A Bibliographic Overview

THIS BIBLIOGRAPHY IS A CONTINUATION of two previous special projects published in the Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society in volume 116, issue 1 and volume 117, issue 4 that gathered articles in Illinois history published from 2010 through the spring of 2024. The following bibliography gathers peer-reviewed journal articles in Illinois history and regional Indigenous history published between spring 2024 and spring 2025. This bibliography is intended to serve as a finding aid or supplement to digital databases and resources for those interested in Illinois and regional Indigenous history.Articles were identified for this bibliography using several strategies. I first identified keywords and subject headings, or uniform descriptors of a topic, related to Illinois and regional Indigenous history. This included topics like art, education, gender, sexuality, and immigration. I then used these keywords and subject headings to search through library catalogs and databases including ProQuest and EBSCOhost. Once I had exhausted these database searches, I scanned specific journals such as the Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society and the Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association to locate articles. I used filters to limit the search results by date, peer review status, language, and subject. After the search results were filtered, I reviewed article abstracts and subject headings to determine if they were relevant to this project.While many of the articles in this bibliography combine multiple topics, I attempted to categorize the articles by the topic that was most central to the research. I drew on the categorization schema used in the previous bibliographic overviews although, as noted in the previous bibliographies, there are limitations to these schemas.Several topics were combined due to a significant amount of overlap between those topics: Civil War and Abraham Lincoln; Chicagoland and Urban History; Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity; Labor, Industry, and Economics; and Law and Politics. Over the past year, there has continued to be a significant number of articles relating to the Civil War and Abraham Lincoln, with many articles discussing the two topics in context. Chicagloand and Urban History also continues to be a strong topic, with articles discussing activism, education, and archaeology. The Education section mostly compiles articles about higher education, but there are several articles related to K-12 education.The sections on Gender; Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity; Labor, Industry, and Economics; Law and Politics; and Religion contain a similar number of articles compared to last year. Articles in the Gender section discuss domesticity and diverse social and cultural understandings of gender. The Labor, Industry, and Economics section contains articles discussing labor activism in the state spanning over one hundred years. Law and Politics combines articles on a variety of topics from student suffrage to marriage laws.One section saw significant growth in the number of articles since last year: Indigenous Peoples. This may be due in part to more comprehensive search strategies that included using the Native Land Digital Map (https://native-land.ca) to identify specific territory, language, and treaty names for searching. The Environment and Ecology and Arts and Culture categories were omitted this year as articles that may have been included in these categories in the past more closely related to other sections. Esvelt, Terence. “The Stuart and Lincoln Law Partnership.” Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association 45, no. 1 (2024): 1–25.O'Brien, John A. “On Lincoln's ‘Instrumentality’ to End Slavery: Meditation on the Divine Will and the Emancipation Proclamation.” Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association 45, no. 1 (2024): 17–49.Phillips, Emir. “How Lincoln's Revolutionary Monetary Policies Tipped the Scales in the Civil War.” Cambridge Journal of Economics 48, no. 6 (2024): 1005–26.Provenzano, George. “Ruth Burns Stanton: House Servant to the Lincolns, Bradfords, and Semples.” Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association 45, no. 1 (2024): 50–70.Strozier, Charles B., and Wayne Soini. “Lincoln's ‘Angel Mother’ and His Surrogate Fathers.” Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association 45, no. 1 (2024): 1–16.Towne, Stephen E. “‘Soldiers Are Continually Advised by Letter to Desert’: Finding Democratic Voices in the 1863 Campaign to Discourage Civil War Soldiers.” Middle West Review 11, no. 1 (2024): 193–218.Garneau, Susan M. “Separating the Men from the Boys: The John Worthy School (1891–1916).” Journal of Urban History 50, no. 6 (2024): 1203–23.Gilbert-Levin, Erica. “Trumbull Talk: White Vernacular and the Politics of Persecution, 1953–1954.” Journal of Urban History 51, no. 3 (2024): 634–55.Graff, Rebecca S. “An Archaeology of Chicago Archaeology: Urban-Heritage Dissonances from DuSable to the Mecca Flats.” Historical Archaeology 58, no. 2 (2024): 212–36.Haupert, Michael. “A Club Fit to Represent this City.” Nine 33, no. 1 (2024): 86–103.Panfil, Meaghan J., Caitlin Kilcoyne, Julianne Heiple, Ira J. Blumen, Candice Schaper, and Michael P. McCartin. “UCAN Make a Difference: Over 40 Years of Flying High Above Chicago.” Air Medical Journal 43, no. 6 (2024): 488–92.Parfitt, Steven. “South Africa's Haymarket: The Knights of Labor and Political Violence in the United States and South Africa, 1886–1892.” Journal of Global History 19, no. 3 (2024): 370–91.Satter, Beryl. “‘The Right to Define the Question’: The Center for Urban Affairs and Neighborhood Activism in 1970s Chicago.” Journal of Urban History 50, no. 2 (2024): 369–401.Draper, Timothy Dean, and Emrys M. K. Draper. “The Journal in 1914—A Retrospective.” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 117, no. 3 (2024): 75–92.Hermanowicz, Joseph C. “An Epistemology of Empathy and Modern Methods of Social Research: Intimations of the Mind and Early Chicago Sociology.” Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 60, no. 4 (2024): 1–19.Medema, Steven G. “Identifying a ‘Chicago School’ of Economics: On the Origins, Diffusion, and Evolving Meanings of a Famous Name Brand.” Journal of the History of Economic Thought 46, no. 2 (2024): 169–200.Nutt, Haley J. “Paul Price and American Percussion Practices During the ‘Golden Age’ of Higher Education.” Journal of Historical Research in Music Education 46, no. 1 (2024): 22–42.Smith, Matthew. “Psychiatric Epidemiology and the Chicago School of Sociology.” History of Psychiatry 35, no. 1 (2024): 11–29.Smoot, Pamela A. “Alvin H. Caldwell and the Madame C. J. Walker Grade School: The Success of African American Children in a One-Room Schoolhouse, Joppa, Illinois, 1919–1955.” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 117, no. 4 (2024): 11–55.Wilson, Asif. “Returning to the Source: Black Teachers Centering Justice with Black Students in Chicago Public Schools.” Urban Review 56, no. 3 (2024): 495–515.Harris, John M. “Emily Blackwell's Medical School Betrayal: ‘Duplicity and Double Dealing Somewhere.’” Journal of Medical Biography 32, no. 1 (2024): 125–31.Kleber, Michaela. “‘No Cause for Distrust’: Gender Plurality in Illinois-French First Contacts.” Journal of American History 111, no. 2 (2024): 241–66.Kuźma-Markowska, Sylwia. “Americanization Through Innovation: Polish American Women, Domestic Appliances, and the Household Revolution Debate, 1900–40.” Technology and Culture 66, no. 1 (2025): 161–84.Maxwell, Fiona. “‘Expression Is Power’: Gender, Residual Culture and Political Aspiration at the Cumnock School of Oratory, 1870–1900.” Gender & History, ahead of print, April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12786.Dinces, Sean, and Christopher Lamberti. “The ‘Spirit of Revolt’: A Reappraisal of Black Veterans in Chicago's Red Summer.” Journal of Urban History, ahead of print, November 20, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1177/00961442241291048.Koos, Greg. “‘Along the Great Throughfares’: Irish Rural Settlement in the Upper Mississippi Valley, 1830–1860.” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 117, no. 4 (2024): 85–112.Stuart, Paul H. “‘Racing’ Community Practice in the Progressive Era: Ida B. Wells-Barnett in Progressive Era Chicago.” Journal of Community Practice 32, no. 4 (2024): 396–416.Ballew, Zada. “‘The Indian Side of the Question’: Settling the Story of Potawatomi Removal in the Twentieth-Century Midwest.” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 23, no. 2 (2024): 170–89.Emerson, Thomas E., Kristin M. Hedman, and Matthew A. Fort. “Cultural and Chronological Variation in Woodland and Mississippian Mortuary Practices on the Edge of Greater Cahokia.” Southeastern Archaeology 43, no. 3 (2024): 145–64.Faragher, John. “Indians and Empires in the Early Midwest.” Middle West Review 10, no. 2 (2024): 59–68.Kiel, Doug. “Indigenous Agency and Resilience in the Midwest: Reclaiming the Narrative.” Middle West Review 10, no. 2 (2024): 99–111.Noe, Sarah J., Gregory D. Wilson, Amber VanDerwarker, Richard J. George, and Douglas J. Kennet. “Deer, Drought, and Warfare: Managing Risk in the Central Illinois River Valley (CIRV) from the Eleventh through Fourteenth Centuries.” Quaternary International 689–690 (2024): 106–19.Warren, Stephen. “Red Codes and Removal: Racial Exclusion and Indigenous Persistence in the Midwest.” American Indian Quarterly 48, no. 2 (2024): 165–94.Biles, Roger, and Mark Rose. “‘Oil Can Eddie’ and the Battle for the Steelworkers’ Union.” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 117, no. 3 (2024): 11–42.Cornelius, James M. “Production and Labor at the Gallatin County Salines, 1803–1850.” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 117, no. 2 (2024): 74–104.Feurer, Rosemary. “Contesting ‘the Insatiable Maw of Capital’: Mine Workers’ Struggles in the Civil War Era.” Civil War History 70, no. 3 (2024): 17–42.Wood, Gregory. “The 1937 Sit-Down Strike at Fansteel Metallurgical Corporation and Conservative Backlash Politics during the New Deal Era.” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 117, no. 2 (2024): 11–44.Cain, Timothy Reese. “‘Isn't It Terrible That All These Students Are Voting?’: Student Suffrage in College Towns.” History of Education Quarterly 64, no. 3 (2024): 319–45.Esvelt, Terence. “The Extraordinary 1838 Stuart-Douglas Congressional Race.” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 117, no. 3 (2024): 43–74.Kisiel, Caroline M. “On the Brink of Slavery and Freedom: Two Hundred Years After the 1823–1824 Illinois Constitutional Convention Controversy.” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 117, no. 4 (2024): 56–84.Ceci, Lucia. “The International Eucharistic Congress in Chicago (1926): Perceptions from the Vatican and Italian Catholics.” Catholic Historical Review 110, no. 4 (2024): 752–76.Hummel, Daniel G. “One Hundred Years of Secularization and Pluralization in the Midwest.” Middle West Review 10, no. 2 (2024): 85–91.Petit, Jeanne. “National Ambitions, Local Realities: Catholic Laywomen and the East St. Louis National Catholic Community House.” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 117, no. 2 (2024): 45–73.