|
|
|
Contributors
Daniel Stowell is the director and editor of The Papers of Abraham Lincoln. He received his Ph.D. in 1994 in history from the University of Florida. He is also the author of numerous books and articles including: Balancing Evils Judiciously: The Proslavery Writings of Zephaniah Kingsley, ed. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2000); In Tender Consideration: Women, Families, and the Law in Abraham Lincoln's Illinois, ed. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002). "Introduction," 1–13; "Femes UnCovert: Women's Encounters with the Law," 17–45; "Her Day in Court: The Legal Odyssey of Clarissa Wren," 204–27; with Susan Karuse and Kelley A. Boston, Now They Belong to the Ages: Abraham Lincoln and His Contemporaries in Oak Ridge Cemetery. (Springfield: Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, 2005); The Papers of Abraham Lincoln: Legal Documents and Cases, 4 vols., ed. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2008); and Samuel H. Treat: Prairie Justice (Springfield: Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, 2005).
|
|
Carl Adams earned a B.A. in Broadcast Journalism from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville in 1979. He served as a captain and training officer in both the Marines and the Army and included military history lessons in his military classes. Adams has worked on a case study for over twelve years on every aspect of Nance Legins-Costley case.
|
|
Gary C. Vitale has a graduate degree in literature from the University of Illinois—Springfield. He has taught speech, Shakespeare, English literature, humanities, and film courses at Springfield College in Illinois since 1974. He is the author of Letters to Mollie from Her Mormon Past: 1860 -1912 (Mill Creek Press, 2003), and he has presented several papers at ISHS Annual Symposia. His paper, "Zenas Hovey Gurley, Jr., and His Fight Against Polygamy and Mormon Zion," was presented at the 2005 Symposium, and it was also presented at the John Whitmer Historical Association Conference in Independence, Missouri. In 2007, it was published in The John Whitmer Historical Association Journal. Vitale is a member of the Advisory Board of the Illinois State Historical Society, and a member of the Sangamon County Historical Society.
|
|
Jason Emerson is an independent historian and freelance writer. His first book, The Madness of Mary Lincoln (Southern Illinois University Press, 2007), was named "Book of the Year" by the Illinois State Historical Society. He is currently writing a biography of Robert T. Lincoln.
|
|
Raymond Lohne was born in Frankfurt, Germany in 1956 and immigrated to the US in 1964. German-American subjects came natural to him and after earning his B.A. and M.A. in History he began researching the Germans of Chicago for his Ph.D. at the University of Illinois at Chicago, which he completed in July 2007. Since 2002 he has been an Adjunct Instructor in the Department of History, Humanities, and Social Sciences at Columbia College Chicago. He has published three books on the Germans of Chicago, and is currently preparing his dissertation, Founded at the Bier of Lincoln: A History of the Germania Club of Chicago 1865–1986 for publication.
|
|
Patricia B. Burnette received her Ph.D. from Indiana University in English and American Literature and Comparative Drama. She has taught at Carthage College and MacMurray College, Illinois College, and Lincoln Land Community College. She lives in Jacksonville, Illinois.
|
|
Darold Leigh Henson received his Ph.D. in 1982 in English Studies from Illinois State University. Since 1994 he has been a member of the Professional/Technological Writing Program of the Department of English at Missouri State University. He is the author of a book-length website called, Mr. Lincoln, Route 66, and Other Highlights of Lincoln, Illinois. The Illinois State Historical Society voted it Best Web Site in 2004.
|
|
William Ives was reared in Aledo, Illinois and educated in its schools. A graduate of Knox College and Harvard Law School, he practiced law in Chicago for nearly five decades after serving for two years as a U.S. Army counter Intelligence Officer in Germany. Ives was Chairman of the Illinois Fair Employment Practices Commission under Governor Richard B. Ogilvie and was three times a Presidential Elector. He has held other government and Republican Party positions and served as an officer and director of various non-profit and public service organizations. He and his wife, Virginia, live in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. His three children and seven grandchildren reside in Chicago's suburbs.
|
|
Dr. Wayne C. Temple is Chief Deputy Director of the Illinois State Archives and the author of more than eight books about Abraham Lincoln. He is currently on the Advisory Board for the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission.
Cover
|
|
Chicago photographer Alexander Hesler took at least three glass-plate photographs of Abraham Lincoln on Sunday, June 3, 1860, at the state capitol in Springfield, shortly after Lincoln received the Republican nomination for President. All three of the original images were destroyed in 1871 during the Great Chicago Fire. Fortuitously, Hesler had glass positives made of the images, which were saved from destruction by his successor George Ayres and eventually purchased by Springfield Lincoln collector King V. Hostick. Upon his death in 1993, Hostick bequeathed the two surviving glass-plate positive images to the Illinois State Historical Society.
|
|
| "This special double issue of The Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society was made possible by a generous gift from the Benjamin Shapell Family Manuscript Foundation." |
|
|
|
Content in the History Cooperative database is intended for personal, noncommercial use only. You may not reproduce, publish, distribute, transmit, participate in the transfer or sale of, modify, create derivative works from, display, or in any way exploit the History Cooperative database in whole or in part without the written permission of the copyright holder.
|