Contributors

Reg Ankrom of Jacksonville is the author of Stephen A. Douglas: The Political Apprenticeship and Stephen A. Douglas, Western Man. He is working on a third volume, Stephen A. Douglas and Union. Ankrom recently edited and contributed to Tales of John Wood and His Adams County, an anthology published by the Quincy and Adams County Historical Society to commemorate Adams County's Bicentennial year.Jenny Barker-Devine is a professor of history at Illinois College in Jacksonville. She is the author of On Behalf of the Family Farm: Iowa's Farm Women's Activism since 1945. She is also the vice president of the Illinois State Historical Society.James R Barrett is professor emeritus of history at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of The Irish Way: Becoming American in the Multi-Ethnic City (Penguin, 2012) and From the Bottom Up and Inside Out: Race, Class, and Identity in Working-Class History (Duke University Press, 2017) And the co-editor with Shel Stromquist of A David Montgomery Reader: Capitalism and Workers’ Resistance (University of Illinois Press, 2024). He coedits the book series The Working Class in American History for the University of Illinois Press.James M. Cornelius, who earned his PhD at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, was visiting assistant professor in the Illinois History and Lincoln Collections at the University of Illinois Library, Urbana, 2001–2005, and curator of the Lincoln Collection at the Presidential Library, Springfield, 2007–2018.Lincoln Dean Kershisnik Draper is a doctoral candidate in physics at the University of Utah and is a member of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory collaboration.Timothy Dean Draper is professor of history at Waubonsee Community College at Sugar Grove and is special projects editor for this journal.Wayne Duerkes is a professional historian and author with over thirty years of experience on Illinois history, with emphasis on the northern tier of the state and the Illinois Minnie Vautrin outside the recently constructed Ginling College in Nanking, circa 1923. Image courtesy of the Disciples of Christ Historical Society; Clyde Choate is awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor by President Harry S Truman at the White House. Photo courtesy of the National Archives (111-SC-210818); Jane Addams, founder of Chicago's Hull House, and internationally known social activist. Photograph courtesy of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum.