ILLINOIS HISTORY TEACHER Editor Keith A. Sculle Advisory Board, Volume 12:1 Kay J. Carr Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Illinois Harry Daley Brookwood Junior High School Glenwood, Illinois Patricia Grimmer Carbondale Community High School Carbondale, Illinois Harold Harrison (retired) Oregon High School Oregon, Illinois Robert H. Lombard Western Illinois University Macomb, Illinois David Maurer (retired) Eastern Illinois University Charleston, Illinois Michael A. Solliday (retired) Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Illinois ILLINOIS HISTORIC PRESERVATION AGENCY Board of Trustees Julie Cellini, Chair Pamela A. Daniels J. Douglas Donenfeld Edward M. Genson Laurie Ann Hoffman Elizabeth I. Smith Roger Taylor Director Robert J. Coomer Chief, Office of Constituent Services Evelyn R. Taylor

CONTENTS Introduction .......................... .1 Keith A. Sculle, Editor Edward Coles, Patrician Emancipator ...................... .2 - 10 Dan Monroe Curriculum Materials David E. Goss Copperheads and Pike County in the Civil War ............ 11 - 22 Walter S. Waggoner Curriculum Materials Thomas Best School Segregation in Southern Illinois: The Alton School Case, 1897-1908 ..............23 - 32 Shirley J. Portwood Curriculum Materials Erika Schlichter Proving Guilt: Illinois Anti-Conspiracy Laws of the Nineteenth Century ................ 33 - 43 Mitchell Newton-Matza Curriculum Materials Don Cavallini Bibliography.......................... 44 Contributors' Biographies........................... Inside Back Cover