Historical Essays: Eastern Illinois University Bulletin Special Number May 1962, by Coleman, Charles H. PhD
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Historical Essays: Eastern Illinois University Bulletin Special Number May 1962, by Coleman, Charles H. PhD. Eastern Illinois University: Charleston, Illinois, 1962. Edition: No edition stated. Softcover, 5.5 by 8.5 inches, 67 pages. Saddle stapled pamphlet in pictorial wraps.

Condition: Good. Cover is slightly discolored by age, and is torn and fixed with tape in lower right hand corner. Title page has former owner's name and the notation "Illinois History" in ink. All interior pages are very good.

Contents: Eastern Illinois University Bulletins were regularly published six times a year (January, April, July, September, October, and November). This number, dated May, 1962, is a special edition by the History Department, dedicated to Charles H. Coleman and containing reprints of five of his papers. The Foreward is by Kevin Guinagh, and the front matter also contains an additional congratulatory letter to the author on his retirement by Allan Nevins of the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino, California.

The essays reprinted are:

• The Half-Faced Camp in Indiana -- Fact or Myth? Questions whether Abraham Lincoln's father actually built a half-faced camp -- a cabin enclosed on three sides and open on the fourth -- upon arriving in Indiana from Kentucky in December 1816.
• Sarah Bush Lincoln, The Mother Who Survived Him. An essay on Lincoln's stepmother, who "nourished and sustained...understood and protected his determined groping for knowledge during eleven formative years: from his eleventh year until he reached manhood."
• The Matson Slave Case. The most dramatic and controlversial case in which Abraham Lincoln appeare as an attorney, Coles County Circuit Court, October 1847.
• The Use of the Term "Copperhead" During the Civil War. The expression as a term of opprobrium for Peace Democrats came into general use in the North during the fall and winter of 1862. A number of students of the period have endavored to locate the first use of the term.
• The Election of 1868, "Democratic Despondency: The Votes Are Cast." In some Democratic circles the failure to make a better showing in the "October States" created so much of a panic that a last minute change of candidates was at once proposed.