| Illinois Alive! The Heritage and Texture of a Pivotal State During the First Century of Statehood (1818-1918) is a regional digital library of archival resources. |
| The Illinois Alive! Collections |
Illinois in the Nineteenth Century
[an introduction]
Topics:
Agriculture
& business- Early
Illinois authors
- American
Civil War
- Early
Illinois women
- African
American experience
- Emigration,
immigration & ethnicity
Timeline of Illinois History, 1818-1918
| Administrative & Technical: |
Funding:
This project is funded by a National Leadership Grant from the Institute
of Museum and Library Services to Alliance
Library System (ALS).
Participants:
26 member libraries of ALS and the
Illinois State Historical Library are digitizing unique archival primary
resources highlighting the Illinois experience. Additional Grant
Personnel.
During the nineteenth century Illinois underwent an incredible transformation as it developed from a sparsely settled frontier region into a dynamic, prosperous, rural-urban state that exerted national leadership in a variety of fields.
Illinois originated in what scholar Van Wyck Brooks once called "the delirious half-century before the Civil War."
[read more in Illinois in the Nineteenth Century]
