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African-American history museum opens with photo exhibitThe makeup of yesteryearThe Lincolns’ first home in IllinoisWhen Valentine’s Day gangsters cooled off in Springfield. Or not.Springfield’s riot in contextThe ‘Angry Atheist of Champaign’Civil War POW protests monument to a ‘monster’Pioneer life here was hard on women and animalsLegacyAn Illinois artist’s amazing life after death
History | Wednesday, October 22,2008
How Sangamon County pols went to the poles in 1844
Springfield Whigs planned to raise the biggest pole in the nation, but disaster struck
During modern elections, Democrats and Republicans show
their loyalty with lawn signs. In the 1800s, it was tree poles. They were
erected on main streets and lawns around the country during
History | Thursday, September 18,2008
A house full of heartache
Revisit Rochester history in weekend events
It was the early 1830s and Samuel Stevens was a young
businessman seizing opportunity in the Northwest Territory frontier.
He'd journeyed to what is now the Rochester area from Ne
History | Wednesday, August 20,2008
Springfield’s riot in context
There were riots in Ohio, Missouri, and Indiana, too
Last week marked the 100th anniversary of
Springfield's race riots. They left our city with a legacy we will
never outlive and perhaps never overcome.
As Springfieldians strug
History | Monday, August 4,2008
Pearson’s legacy
SIU’s med school is home to unusual collection of memorabilia
It's not unusual to find a skeleton in a
medical school, but you can't say the same about an intact
Depression-era drugstore, antique bloodletting apparatuses, or a
19th-cent
History | Wednesday, June 25,2008
Medicine woman
Granny Spears learned her healing ways from her hated captors
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Some of our earliest settlers’ stories are so
fantastic, they’re hard to believe. Take Mary Neely Spears, also
known as Granny Spears. At 19 she was
History | Wednesday, June 4,2008
“Hot air”
Remembering when “UFOs” were first spotted in the central Illinois
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Seven years before the Wright Brothers’ first
flight, Americans were boggled by strange objects in the sky. The phrase
“unidentified flying object&#
History | Wednesday, April 23,2008
The duelist
Future governor became famous for tangling with Jeff Davis
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To duel or not to duel — that was the question
Illinois congressman and Mexican War veteran William H. Bissell faced in
1850. He was challenged by Jeffers
History | Wednesday, April 2,2008
A conductor?
Lincoln neighbor likely active with Underground Railroad
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“Eleven run away slaves, belonging to citizens
of St. Louis, and for which a reward of $300 each, was offered, were
captured in this county ye
History | Wednesday, March 26,2008
Crafting her niche
Hettie Bunker Smith shaped medical history
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Tucked away in her farmhouse on Old Rochester Road in
the 1940s, using plaster of Paris, brushes, photos, and beeswax, Hettie
Bunker Smith shaped medical histor
History | Wednesday, October 3,2007
Bringing soccer to Springfield
A motley crew built the foundation for the sport’s local popularity
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The late 1960s and early ’70s were a time of
significant change for Springfield, as its institutions of higher education
— Sangamon State University
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