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• African Americans -- Civil rights -- Illinois -- Grundy County -- History
• African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 19th century
• Illinois -- History -- 19th century

• Book for the People! To Be Read by All Voters, Black and White, with Thrilling Events of the Life of Norvel Blair, of Grundy County, State of Illinois (Joliet, IL: Joliet Daily Record, 1880), by Norvel Blair (HTML and TEI at UNC)

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• The Politics of Judicial Interpretation: The Federal Courts, Department of Justice, and Civil Rights, 1866-1876 (with a new introduction; New York: Fordham University Press, 2005), by Robert J. Kaczorowski (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)
• The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution, With Sketches of Several Distinguished Colored Persons; To Which Is Added a Brief Survey of the Condition And Prospects of Colored Americans (Boston: Robert F. Wallcut, 1855), by William C. Nell (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• A speech on "Equality before the law" (Printed at the Democrat Book and Job Printing House, 1866), by John Mercer Langston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Schwarzwälder Dorfgeschichten (F. Bassermann, 1855), by Berthold Auerbach (page images at HathiTrust)
• The black codes, 1865-1867 (1912), by Byne Frances Goodman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The patriot dead : oration ([Norfolk, Va.] : "Cailloux" Post, No. 7, G.A.R., Dept. of Virginia, [1873?], 1873), by John Mercer Langston and Randall K. Burkett (page images at HathiTrust)

• Intimidation and the number of white and colored voters in Louisiana in 1876, as shown by statistical data derived from Republican official reports (Picayune Office Job Print, 1877), by Stanford E. Chaillé (page images at HathiTrust)

• The legislation of 1865 concerning freedmen : a letter (Democratic-Conservative Executive Committee, 1875), by James Z. George, J.J. Halbert, and Democratic Party (Miss.). State Executive Committee (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Cotton Plantation South Since the Civil War (originally published 1998; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Charles S. Aiken (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• The Republican Party in Tennessee reorganized : to the Republicans of Tennessee and the United States : memorial, resolutions, and proceedings had at a convention held at the capitol, Nashville, February 16th, 1870 : together with the speeches of A.J. Fletcher and J.O. Shackelford. (The Party, 1870), by Tenn.) Republican Party (Tenn.). State Convention (1870 : Nashville, A. J. Fletcher, and J. O. Shackelford (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Republican Party in Tennessee reorganized : to the Republicans of Tennessee and the United States : memorial, resolutions, and proceedings had at a convention held at the capitol, Nashville, February 16th, 1870 : together with the speeches of A.J. Fletcher and J.O. Shackelford. (The Party, 1870), by Tenn.) Republican Party (Tenn.). State Convention (1870 : Nashville, A. J. Fletcher, and J. O. Shackelford (page images at HathiTrust)

• John Reynolds (1912), by Jessie McHarry (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Shall slavery spread? : Lincoln Douglas debate : centennial 1858-1958, Charleston, Illinois. (s.n., 1958), by Ill.) Lincoln-Douglas Debate Centennial Committee (Charleston (page images at HathiTrust)

• Falling in with Fortune; Or, The Experiences of a Young Secretary, by Horatio Alger and Edward Stratemeyer (Gutenberg ebook)
• Out for Business; or, Robert Frost's Strange Career, by Horatio Alger and Edward Stratemeyer (Gutenberg ebook)

• Life of the Rt. Rev. Wm. Quarter, D.D., first Catholic bishop of Chicago (Sadlier, 1850), by John E. McGirr and Lawrence J. Gutter Collection of Chicagoana (University of Illinois at Chicago) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catalogue. (Chicago, 1867), by Ill.) Baptist Union Theological Seminary (Chicago and Ill.) Baptist Theological Union (Chicago (page images at HathiTrust)

• Annals of the Chicago Woman's Club for the first forty years of its organization, 1876-1916 (Chicago Woman's Club, 1916), by Ill.) Chicago Woman's Club (Chicago, Henriette Greenbaum Frank, and Amalie Hofer Jerome (page images at HathiTrust)

• Maywood organized under Special Act of the Legislature of Illinois. (Republican Job Print. Co., 1869), by Illinois, Lawrence J. Gutter Collection of Chicagoana (University of Illinois at Chicago), and Maywood Company (page images at HathiTrust)

• Book for the People! To Be Read by All Voters, Black and White, with Thrilling Events of the Life of Norvel Blair, of Grundy County, State of Illinois (Joliet, IL: Joliet Daily Record, 1880), by Norvel Blair (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The rise and fall of Nauvoo (Deseret News, 1900), by B. H. Roberts (page images at HathiTrust)

• Manhood, Citizenship, and the National Guard: Illinois, 1870-1917 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1993), by Eleanor L. Hannah (PDF at Ohio State)

• A half century of Chicago building : a practical reference guide : all building laws and ordinances brought to date : historical, technical and statistical review of the construction and material development of America's inland metropolis ([s.n.], 1910), by Fred A. Britten and John H. Jones (page images at HathiTrust)

• Archaeology at the Whitley site : an early historic farmstead on the prairies of eastern Illinois (Illinois Transportation Archaeological Research Program, 1999), by Bonnie L. Gums, Neal H. Lopinot, and Lucretia S. Kelly (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Western rural rules of order and rallying song book : also a history of the Farmers Alliance movement, which began in 1880. (Western Rural, 1882), by Cook County Alliance of the State of Illinois (page images at HathiTrust)

• Report of the Chicago relief and aid society to the Common council of the city of Chicago (Horton & Leonard, printer, 1872), by Chicago Relief and Aid Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lost city! drama of the fire fiend! or Chicago, as it was, and as it is! and its glorious future! a vivid and truthful picture of all of interest connected with the destruction of Chicago and the terrible fires of the great North-west ... (Wells & company;, 1872), by Frank Luzerne and John G. Wells (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memories of the Chicago fire (Priv. print. by Mr. and Mrs. P. Blatchford for the Gunther fund of the Chicago historical society, 1921), by Mary Emily Blatchford and E. W. Blatchford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the Chicago Relief and Aid Society of disbursement of contributions for the sufferers by the Chicago fire. (Printed for the Chicago Relief and Aid Society, at the Riverside Press, 1874), by Chicago Relief and Aid Society (page images at HathiTrust)

• Manhood, Citizenship, and the National Guard: Illinois, 1870-1917 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1993), by Eleanor L. Hannah (PDF at Ohio State)

• From the Darkness Cometh the Light, or, Struggles for Freedom (St. Louis: J. T. Smith, ca. 1890), by Lucy A. Delaney
  • HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML, and Librivox audio

• Urban Revolt: Ethnic Politics in the Nineteenth-Century Chicago Labor Movement (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), by Eric L. Hirsch (HTML at UC Press)

• Surveying the library landscape : the inspection visits of the University of Illinois Library School (Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1996), by Thomas David Walker (page images at HathiTrust)

• Building Chicago: Suburban Developers and the Creation of a Divided Metropolis (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1988), by Ann Durkin Keating (PDF at Ohio State)

• Three years' imprisonment for religious belief, by the arbitrary will of a husband (Clarke, 1870), by E. P. W. Packard and Francis J. Gerty Collection (University of Illinois at Chicago. Library of the Health Sciences) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Marital Power Exemplified in Mrs. Packard's Trial, and Self-Defence from the Charge of Insanity, by E. P. W. Packard (Gutenberg ebook)

• Speech of Mr. Haines of Lake in the House of Representatives of Illinois, February 1872, on the military occupation of Chicago. (s.n., 1872), by Elijah M. Haines and Lawrence J. Gutter Collection of Chicagoana (University of Illinois at Chicago) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Manhood, Citizenship, and the National Guard: Illinois, 1870-1917 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1993), by Eleanor L. Hannah (PDF at Ohio State)

• Three years' imprisonment for religious belief, by the arbitrary will of a husband (Clarke, 1870), by E. P. W. Packard and Francis J. Gerty Collection (University of Illinois at Chicago. Library of the Health Sciences) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Marital Power Exemplified in Mrs. Packard's Trial, and Self-Defence from the Charge of Insanity, by E. P. W. Packard (Gutenberg ebook)

• The rise and fall of Nauvoo (Deseret News, 1900), by B. H. Roberts (page images at HathiTrust)
• The early history of Nauvoo : together with a sketch of the people who built this beautiful city and whose leaders suffered persecution and martyrdom for their religion's sake (Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints, 1925), by S. A. Burgess (page images at HathiTrust)

• Early industrialized pottery production in Illinois : archaeological investigations at White and Company's Gooselake Stoneware Manufactory and Tile Works, rural Grundy County, Illinois (Illinois State Museum Society, 1997), by Floyd R. Mansberger and Fever River Research (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Surveying the library landscape : the inspection visits of the University of Illinois Library School (Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1996), by Thomas David Walker (page images at HathiTrust)

• Early industrialized pottery production in Illinois : archaeological investigations at White and Company's Gooselake Stoneware Manufactory and Tile Works, rural Grundy County, Illinois (Illinois State Museum Society, 1997), by Floyd R. Mansberger and Fever River Research (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Building Chicago: Suburban Developers and the Creation of a Divided Metropolis (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1988), by Ann Durkin Keating (PDF at Ohio State)

• Festreden zum fünfzigjährigen Jubiläum der Freien Protestantischen St. Paulus Gemeinde in Belleville, Ill. (Belleviller Zeitung, 1889), by Wilhelm Weber (page images at HathiTrust)

• Annals of the Chicago Woman's Club for the first forty years of its organization, 1876-1916 (Chicago Woman's Club, 1916), by Ill.) Chicago Woman's Club (Chicago, Henriette Greenbaum Frank, and Amalie Hofer Jerome (page images at HathiTrust)

• Urban Revolt: Ethnic Politics in the Nineteenth-Century Chicago Labor Movement (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), by Eric L. Hirsch (HTML at UC Press)

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