Research Articles in Illinois History, 2010–2022

A Bibliographic Overview

Dados Bibliográficos

ID21737222
AutoresTristan M K Draper, Timothy Dean Draper
Ano2023
Volume116
Fascículo1
Páginas92-114
Data de publicação2023-04-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of the Illinois State Historical Society (1998-) (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1522-1067 • E-ISSN: 2328-3335
EditoraUniversity of Illinois Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.5406/23283335.116.1.06
OpenAlexW4385558690
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas246

IT HAS BEEN A NUMBER OF YEARS SINCE the Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society (JISHS) has indexed its articles for members of the Society. The following serves both as an index of published JISHS articles over the past dozen years as well as a compilation of articles on Illinois history and culture since 2010. This bibliography focuses on peer-reviewed journal articles, especially those concerned with American, Middle West, and Illinois history, and searches of specific journal contents, such as the American Historical Review, Journal of American History, Journal of American Ethnic History, Middle West Review, and so forth, as well as a more general investigation of other journals through the JSTOR platform. It is our hope that this bibliography will serve as a supplement to digital search engines for those interested in state and regional history topics.In order to determine relevant search terms, Library of Congress Subject Headings were found using the subject metadata from previously published JISHS articles and using the Library of Congress Subject Heading index. Some of the relevant subject headings include: “Illinois,” “Civil War,” “Chicago,” and so forth. Several searches were run using different combinations of subject headings and Boolean operators. The search results were refined using filters to limit the results to peer-reviewed journal articles that were published from 2010–2022 in English. Relevance was further established by reading the article abstracts and reviewing all subject headings listed for the article.Determining relevant historical categories in the bibliography was problematic and driven largely by the number of articles per topical area with additional attention paid to traditional areas of Illinois historical significance, such as Lincolnian studies. One anomaly in categorization relates to Civil War and military history; the sesquicentennial celebrations of the American Civil War resulted in numerous articles from 2010–2015, and the Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society alone dedicated five double issues during that period on the war. Chicago studies, of course, received considerable coverage, and it was a simple decision to expand that category to the suburbs and to include other state urban histories. Culture, arts, and education may perhaps be too unwieldy a category and might appear to be a miscellany, but it served to integrate several subfields, such as music, architecture, and painting, as well as more systemic studies dealing with public policy and educational planning. The immigration, race, and ethnicity category and the family, gender, and sexuality category are quite lengthy and perhaps would have been better served by dividing into several discrete categories; however, it was determined that researchers might best be served by integrating immigration with race and ethnicity, which also included articles concerned with civil rights, and to merge sex and gender studies, including LGBTQIA+ scholarship.We hope that readers will find this a helpful resource both for personal reading and scholarly research purposes, and that it will augment the already rich digital databases available to scholars of state history

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