The story of President Abraham Lincoln’s funeral train will be the topic for the Vernon County Historical Society’s first ...
Though Joens explored many professions over the course of his career, his love for Illinois history has been at the heart of ...
What you should knowThe Eagles defeated the Washington Commanders, 55-23, in the NFC championship game to advance to Super ...
Fell, his early presidential sponsor, and of David Davis and Leonard Swett, who swung the delegates to him at the Chicago ... "Lincoln and the Preachers" (1948). During the period of 1849 to 1860 ...
Dick Durbin, D-Springfield, and Tammy Duckworth, D-Chicago ... Studies Center at Knox College before joining the UIS faculty in 2009. The symposium, also at the President Abraham Lincoln Hotel ...
Families with children, age 12 or younger, are invited to learn and create together at Naper Settlement’s new “Family STEM ...
Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the United States, will be eulogized at a state funeral Thursday at the National ...
Black History Month wasn’t always a monthlong celebration. In February 1926, historian and author Carter G. Woodson created ...