Illinois

“Ready to meet the rebels”: Illinois & the Response to Lincoln’s 1862 Call for Volunteers

by Devan Sommerville

Posted on October 14, 2026

“Only Patriots―or Traitors”: Douglas, Logan, and the Secession Crisis in Southern Illinois

by M. A. Kleen

Posted on March 9, 2026

“A Born Quartermaster”: Practical Heroism from Illinois’ “Hundred and Two Dozen”

by Devan Sommerville

Posted on January 15, 2026

Justice Deferred: Lincoln, Stanton, and the Fate of the Coles County Fifteen

by M. A. Kleen

Posted on January 14, 2026

Warm Times in Charleston: A Civil War Riot in Lincoln’s Backyard

by M. A. Kleen

Posted on November 24, 2025

The Making of a Riot: Political Violence in Civil War Illinois

by M. A. Kleen

Posted on September 12, 2025

Review: Lincoln the Citizen: February 12, 1809 to March 4, 1861

by Max Longley

Posted on July 24, 2025

Book Review: A Union Tested: The Civil War Letters of Cimbaline and Henry Fike

by ECWGuestReview

Posted on April 24, 2025

Book Review: Holding the Political Center in Illinois: Conservatism and Union on the Brink of the Civil War

by ECWGuestReview

Posted on January 23, 2025