Robert Morrissey, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (IMAGE)

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Robert Morrissey, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Illinois' colonial history is a distinctive one, says University of Illinois historian Robert Morrissey in a new book. The French who settled there found a mutual self-interest with the Illinois Indians, forming not only alliances but mixed-race communities. They often worked against the goals of the French empire.

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