SCHOLARLY ARTICLES
by Steve Chicoine

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free, honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth – Abraham Lincoln

Those, who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitational, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters – Frederick Douglass

 

African American History

AN EAGLE ON HIS BUTTON: THE STORY OF HENRY MACK
published in American Legacy: The Magazine of African-American
History & Culture, Spring 2004, pp. 47-54
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SAMUEL RANSOM: African American hero in First World War became
one of Minnesota’s earliest Civil Rights workers
submitted to Minnesota History Magazine
catalogued in the library of the Minnesota Historical Society
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ONE GLORIOUS SEASON: How Baseball helped to integrate Decatur, Illinois
Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, Volume 96, number 1,
Spring 2003, pp. 80-97
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Other Areas of History

THE GREAT GALLIA: Texas’s Melvin “Bert” Gallia and Ethnicity in Major League Baseball
The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, vol. 105, no. 4, April 2002, pp.
635-662
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THE FAILED EXPERIMENT: Native Americans in the U.S. Military
with Fort Snelling as the backdrop
submitted to Minnesota History Magazine
catalogued in the library of the Minnesota Historical Society
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Let Every Democrat Make Ready For The Battle: The Editorials of
Minnesota Civil War Hero William Colvill, Jr.
submitted to Minnesota History Magazine
catalogued in the library of the Minnesota Historical Society
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“… Willing Never to Go in Another Fight”: The Civil War
Correspondence of Rufus King Felder of Chappell Hill
The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Vol. 106, No. 4 (April 2003), pp.
574-597
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WISCONSIN RIVERWAYS – KEY TO THE CONTINENT IN THE TIME OF THE FRENCH
Submitted to Wisconsin Magazine of History
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MUSCULAR CHRISTIANITY, the YMCA and Basketball
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Arturo Gonzalez, Wolfman Jack and Early Rock & Roll
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THE FIFTH TEXAS INFANTRY AT SECOND MANASSAS
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