Books

Partial list of books cited on this webpage, used for related research and/or background. Listed in order by author. Other sources, such as newspapers and historical archives listed here. This list is a work in progress:


"Bloody Williamson" by Paul M. Angle.

"Extremism" by J. M. Berger.

"War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race" by Edwin Black

"Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois and History of Champaign County" (1905 Volume 1 and Volume 2) edited by Newton Bateman.

"Women of the Klan: Racism and Gender in the 1920s" by Kathleen M. Blee.

"Hooded Americanism: The History of the Ku Klux Klan" by David M. Chalmers.

"A child's guide to American history" by Henry William Elson.

"History of the United States of America" by Henry William Elson

"Sweet Greeks: First-Generation Immigrant Confectioners in the Heartland" by Ann Flesor Beck.

"Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow" by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

"The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition" by Linda Gordon.

"Introduction to the Study of Sociology" by Edward Cary Hayes.

"Hot Type: 150 Years of the Best Local Stories from the News-Gazette" by Tom Kacich.

"Tales of Coles County" by Michael Kleen.

"Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism" by James W. Loewen

"The Guarded Gate: : Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America" by Daniel Okrent.

"The Black Stork: Eugenics and the Death of "Defective" Babies in American Medicine and Motion Pictures since 1915" by Martin S. Pernick

"White Robes, Silver Screens: Movies and the Making of the Ku Klux Klan" by Tom Rice.

"The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America" - by Richard Rothestein.

"The Dunning School: Historians, Race, and the Meaning of Reconstruction" edited by John David Smith.

"A Standard History of Champaign County Illinois, Volume 1" (1918 Volume 1 and Volume 2) edited by J. R. Stewart 

"White Terror: The Ku Klux Klan Conspiracy and Southern Reconstruction" by Allen W. Trelease.


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