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Pre-Statehood Era: 1700-1818

• Pre-Statehood Era- Government
• Pre-Statehood Era- Society and Culture
• Pre-Statehood Era- Business and Economy
• Pre-Statehood Era- Race Relations

Early Statehood: 1818-1861

• Early Statehood- Government
• Early Statehood- Society and Culture
• Early Statehood- Business and Economy
• Early Statehood- Race Relations

Civil War Era: 1861-1865

• Civil War- Government
• Civil War- Society and Culture
• Civil War- Business and Economy
• Civil War- Race Relations

Late 19th Century: 1866-1900

• Late 19th Century- Government
• Late 19th Century- Society and Culture
• Late 19th Century- Business and Economics
• Late 19th Century- Race Relations

Early 20th Century: 1900-1914

• Early 20th Century- Government
• Early 20th Century- Society and Culture
• Early 20th Century- Business and Economy
• Early 20th Century- Race Relations

World War I: 1914-1918

• World War I- Government
• World War I- Society and Culture
• World War I- Business and Economy
• World War I- Race Relations

Roaring Twenties: 1918-1929

• Roaring Twenties- Government
• Roaring Twenties- Society and Culture
• Roaring Twenties- Business and Economy

Great Depression: 1930-1941

• Great Depression- Government
• Great Depression- Society and Culture
• Great Depression- Business and Economy
• Great Depression- Race Relations

World War II: 1941-1945

• World War II- Government
• World War II- Society and Culture
• World War II- Business and Economy
• World War II- Race Relations

Cold War Era: 1946-1991

• Cold War Era- Government
• Cold War Era- Race Relations

Millennium: 1991-Present

• Millennium- Government
• Millennium- Race Relations

Lesson Plans

• Lesson Plans
• Discussion Questions
• Historic Literature
• Civilian Conservation Corps

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Links

Can't find what you're looking for here on Past Tracker? There are several other online resources that you can access to discover more about Illinois' history. Provided below are links to other sites that may help you in your search.

• A digital record of American history and creativity hosted by the Library of Congress.

• Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy hosted by Yale Law School.

• A resource database website containing links for external sites based off the history of newspapers, printing press, and the future of newspapers. 

• A free public gateway combining search, aggregation, and discovery services. They provide organized and thematic access to digitized and born-digital resources about Illinois, created by Illinois scholars, and from the digital collections of the University of Illinois Library.

• The IHPA serves the state of Illinois through overseeing 56 historic sites and providing resources, research and assistance to individuals and communities across the state.

• This blog by Jon Musgrave covers historic literature of Southern Illinois.

• Created by the IHPA, this website offers both fiction and non-fiction resources for teachers, including lesson plans.

• Contains primary sources, teaching packages, access to the Regional Depositories (IRAD), databases, and genealogical resources.

• The º£½Ç´óÉñ History Department would also like to thank the Illinois State Archives for giving us the permission to reproduce the documents contained in their publications, Windows to the Past: A Selection of Illinois County Records from 1818 to 1880, Hard Time in Illinois, 1930-1940: A Selection of Documents from the Illinois State Archives, The Illinois and Michigan Canal, 1827-1911: A Selection of Documents from the Illinois State Archives, Illinois at War, 1941-1945: A Selection of Documents from the Illinois State Archives, From the Ashes, 1872-1900: A Selection of Documents from the Proceedings Files of the Chicago City Council, and Early Chicago, 1833-1871: A Selection of City Council Proceedings Files from the Illinois State Archives.

• A digital collection focused on documents about the Gilded Age in Illinois and maintained by Northern Illinois University. 

• An archive of over 10 million free digital books and texts; contains many early twentieth century works on Illinois.

• A collection of letters and journals by Jesuit priests in the seventeenth century. The latter volumes contain information on Illinois.

• Links to select copies of the Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society from 1908 to 2006.

• Link to Western Illinois University's digitized laws of Illinois from prior to statehood to present.  Includes digitized law volumes.  

• The Library of Congress is the federal archive of the many important images and documents in American history. Their digital collections contain everything from newspapers to original photographs.

• - Part of the Library of Congress collection, this contains many informational and promotional posters created by the Work Projects Administration during the Great Depression, including Illinois projects.

• Lincoln/Net presents historical materials from Abraham Lincoln's Illinois years (1830-1861), including Lincoln's writings and speeches, as well as other materials illuminating antebellum Illinois. This is a project of Northern Illinois University.

Localities

• A web-based center for history starting at the local level, created and produced by º£½Ç´óÉñ students and faculty.

• A digital collection of primary documents pertaining to social history maintained by the University of Michigan.

• A research and teaching resource for students and educators about the New Deal.

• A collection of digitized documents about Illinois from the beginnings of white settlement to 1818.

• A digital newspaper collection managed by the Public Library of Quincy, Illinois.

• A history of jazz before 1930.

• A collection of digital archives and photos maintained by the partnership between Roselle History Museum and the Roselle Public Library. 

• This digital resource put out by the Smithsonian offers teaching packages and digital files for both children and adults.

• - A variety of lesson plans focusing on the more than 13 million photos in their collection. 

Teaching with Primary Sources at EIU

• This program from º£½Ç´óÉñ provides resources for teachers using primary sources in the classroom. This program will be ending September 30, 2017.

• Searchable collection from the University of Chicago, including the Enrico Fermi collection and other correspondence, maps, and resources.

• University of Houston’s online digital history textbook; contains many useful documents pertaining to Illinois and lesson plans/ideas for educators.

• Collections for the the history of University of Illinois-Springfield and Sangamon State University, as well as the Illinois Regional Archive Depository (IRAD) for Central Illinois.

• A collection of digitized documents, archives and information for Western Illinois University and the western IRAD location. Also contains information regarding their Mormon collections.