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Cullom Davis

Born: 1935 in Aurora, Illinois
Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: Davis lives in Springfield, Illinois.

Biography: Cullom Davis is a Princeton graduate and received his doctorate in American history from the University of Illinois. He founded the nationally recognized Oral History Office at Sangamon State University - the predecessor to the University of Illinois Springfield. A founding faculty member at the university, he helped establish the MA program in public history as well. In addition to publishing numerous articles, Davis is the author of many books.


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Primary Audience(s): Adult readers

Cullom Davis on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=cullom+davis


Selected Titles

  Memorial days :
ISBN: 096582960X OCLC: 37454426

Memorial Health System, Springfield, Ill. : 1997.

Oral history :
ISBN: 0838902308 OCLC: 2874708

American Library Association, Chicago : 1977.

This instructional and operating manual also functions as a workbook with various illustrations and exercises.

  The law practice of Abraham Lincoln :
ISBN: 0252025660 OCLC: 49261012

University of Illinois Press, Champaign, IL : ©2000.

First publication of the Lincoln Legal Papers to document the law practice of Abraham Lincoln from 1836 to 1861. Includes documents for more than 5,600 cases and legal matters in which Lincoln participated. Users may search for cases by case name, participant, date, court, legal action, subject; or documents by document type, date, author or signer. Allows researchers to study Lincoln's development as a lawyer, trace the formation of the court system in the Midwest, research legal history and the development of law, and discover antebellum social history through court records.

The Public and the private Lincoln :
ISBN: 0809309211 OCLC: 4775807

Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale : ©1979.

 

 

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