ILLINOIS HISTORY TEACHER Editor Keith A. Sculle Advisory Board, Volume 14:2 Harold Harrison (retired) Oregon High School Oregon, Illinois David A. Joens Illinois State Archives Springfield, 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 Elizabeth I. Smith Roger Taylor Director Robert J. Coomer Chief, Office of Constituent Services Evelyn R. Taylor

CONTENTS Introduction ..........................................1 Dan Monroe, Guest Editor Slavery in Illlinois: Culture versus Law .............................2-15 Dennis K. Boman Curriculum Materials Maria Schrup Peterson A Government For the People or an Egyptian Swindle? The 1862 Illinois Constitutional Convention.....................16-22 Matthew D. Norman Curriculum Materials Mindy Juriga A Shift in Politics: Macon County in the Civil War Era ..........23 - 35 Robert D. Sampson Curriculum Materials Thomas Best John A. Logan and the Personal Side of the Civil War...............36-47 Bruce Tap Curriculum Materials Rivanna Abel Bibliography........................48 Contributors' Biographies.................................Inside Back Cover