Digby-Junger, Richard. "The Gilded Age Journalist as Advocate: Henry Demarest Lloyd and 'Wealth Against Commonwealth.'" Ph.D. dissertation (Journalism), University of Wisconsin - Madison, 1989.  DAI, 51, no. 01A, (1989).  Lloyd not only was a reformer and political philosopher, but also an activist journalist who championed various reforms as his perceptions changed.  His attempt to fuse urban labor and socialistic elements with Populism was unsuccessful.

Formisano, Ronald P. and Shade, William P. "The Concept of Agrarian Radicalism." Mid-America 1970 52(1): 3-30.  Challenges validity of Frank L. Klement and Stanley L. Jones belief in a continuum of issues and leaders linking Jacksonian Democracy, the Copperheads, and the post-Civil War Greenback and Grange movements.  Demands for regulation of the railroads were largely nonpartisan.  The leading Democrats can best be described as "Bourbons" rather than as "agrarian radicals."  Few Copperheads became Grangers or Greenbackers.  Copperheads had been lawyer-politicians with little connection to the poor farmers.  The Greenback and Grange impulse was situated in northern Illinois, while Copperheadism was found largely in southern Illinois. America: History and Life, 10:2535

Lloyd, Caro A. Henry Demarest Lloyd, 1847‑1903. 2 vols. New York: Putnam, 1912.  

MacRae, Duncan, Jr. and James A. Meldrum. "Critical Elections in Illinois, 1888-1958." American Political Science Review. 54(3):669-83. September 1960.  

Masters, Edgar Lee. "John Peter Altgeld." American Mercury. 4(14):161-174. February 1925.  Occasional reference to Populists.  

Newcombe, Alfred W. "Alson J. Streeter: An Agrarian Liberal." Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society. 2 parts. 38:414-45. December 1945. 39:68‑95. March 1946.  Alliance President 1886, supported Cincinnati Conv., 1891.  

Paine, A.E. The Granger Movement in Illinois. 53 p. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1904. 

Patrick, Max L. "Agrarian Unrest in Illinois and the Rise of Populism." Master's thesis, Northern Illinois University, 1958. 46 pages. 

Ritter, Gretchen. Goldbugs and Greenbacks: The Antimonopoly Tradition and the Politics of Finance in America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Derived from the author's 1992 MIT Political Science Ph.D. dissertation, "Parties and the Politics of Money: The Antimonopoly Tradition and American Political Development, 1865-1896."  Various movements from the National Labor Union to the Populists were involved in the antimonopoly movement had an alternative political economy tradition rooted in the republican persuasion of Jeffersonians and Jacksonians.  They sought to preserve economic opportunity and political participation for all classes in all regions of the country.  Antimonopolists were particularly concerned with reforming the monetary and banking systems, in order to mitigate economic inequality and political corruption.  The author uses three case studies to consider the impact of geography - North Carolina, Illinois, and Massachusetts.  Antimonopolism was a strong, coherent tradition which offered an intellectually reasonable alternative to corporate liberalism.  They failed because of the combined constraints of the party system, the political culture, economic institutions, and poor strategic choices.  

Scott, Roy V. "Agricultural Organizations in Illinois, 1880-1896." Ph.D. dissertation, U of Illinois, 1957.  Dissertation Abstracts, 18:573-74.   

_____. "John Patterson Stelle: Agrarian Crusader from Southern Illinois." Illinois State Hisitorical Society Journal.  55(3):229-49.  Autumn 1962.  Lesser known, but important, militant Populist leader.   

_____.  The Agrarian Movement in Illinois, 1880-1896. 153 p. Illinois Studies in the Social Sciences, Vol. 52. Urbana: U of Illinois p, 1962.  A thorough study.   

_____. "The Rise of the Farmers' Mutual Benefit Association in Illinois, 1883-1891." Agricultural History. 32(1): 44-55. January 1958.  The FMBA began as a cooperative grain marketing group in southern Illinois in 1883.  It became most active in cooperative business enterprises, and by 1890 was engaged in most types of business. It was also of importance in providing a social outlet for farm families. The Association eventually merged with the Populist Party and lost its identity, both as an economic and as a social force. America: History and Life, 0:4931

Shipley, Max L. "The Populist Party in Illinois." Master's thesis, U of Illinois, 1927.  

Simons, George B. "David Ward Wood." In History of the Republican Party and Biographies of Its Supporters. 289 p. David Ward Wood, ed. Chicago: Lincoln Engraving and Publishing Company, 1895.   Wood was editor for Milton George's Western Rural, and was active in Farmers' Alliance affairs.  

Stewart, Charles L. Land Tenure in the United States with Special Reference to Illinois. 135 pp. University of Illinois Studies in the Social Sciences, Vol. 5, NO. 3. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1916.  

Wheeler, Joanne Elizabeth. "The Origins of Populism in the Political Structure of a Midwestern State: Partisan Preference in Illinois, 1876-1892." PhD dissertation, State U of New York, Buffalo, 1976. 368 pp.  DAI 1977 37(8):5311-5312-A.   

_____. "Populists and Other People: An Illinois Portrait." in An American Historian: Essays to Honor Selig Adler. Milton Pleseur, ed., pp. 125-39. Buffalo: State University of N.Y. 1980.  Characterizes Illinois Populist supporters using electoral, economic and biographical data of 1880s and 1890s.  Also examines their political beliefs in 1892. America: History and Life, 18A:5860

Wish, Harvey. "John Peter Altgeld and the Election of 1896." Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society. 30(3):353‑84. October 1937.  Contends Altgeld "engineered the popular movement of protest....from third party channels to the newly liberalized Democratic party." Excellent for Populist activities in support of Altgeld.

Witham, James W. Fifty Years on the Firing Line. 284 p. Chicago: Published by the author, 1924.   Remembrances of individuals active in Alliance affairs, and has sketches of Milton George and others.