In a style reminiscent of the master storytellers of yore, Charless Caraway recounts the story of his life, as a man and a boy, on small farms in Saline and Jackson counties. siupress.com/9780809312986/… #Storytelling #LocalHistory #RuralLife #Memoir #MidwestStories #illinoishistory

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Winner, ISHS Best of Illinois History Award, 2019. In this riveting true story, Hager is plucked from his rural West Virginia home by an uncle in the 1960s and thrown into an underworld of money, cars, crime, and murder on the streets of Chicago Heights. siupress.com/9780809336722/…

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Agnes Burns Wieck was a crusading labor organizer, an activist known as "the Mother Jones of Illinois." This first book-length biography is a unique portrait of her energy and unremitting dedication to social justice. siupress.com/9780809316199/… #biography#illinoishistory #activism

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