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Illinois Heritage Volume 11 Number 1
January - February 2008

Feature Articles:

bulletArchaeology on the English Prairie: Excavations begin at historic village of Wanborough (page 8)
bullet"Three hundred damn'd rogues: Revolution's boatmen got to the Mississippi before George Rogers Clark (page 10)
bullet"His countenance glowed with animation": Lincoln takes the moral high ground at the fifth Lincoln-Douglas debate (page 12)
bulletAbe in a new light: Rare Lincoln portraits to be displayed at Old State Capitol (page 16)
bulletYear-end report (page 18)
bulletFreedom stop: Downers Grove house recognized as refuge on the Underground Railroad (page 22)
bulletCome hell or high water, "We still make gas in Beardstown": How a handful of heroes saved a community from disaster during the flood of 1922 (page 23)
bulletPublic art and the spirit of the law: The Supreme Court murals of Albert H. Krehbiel (page 26)
bulletSculpting Lincoln, Part 8 (page 30)

Reviews:

bulletSucker's delight (page 32)
bulletA road for travelers, not for tourists (page 33)
bulletJust Wright (page 35)
bulletLate bloomers (page 36)

Departments:

bulletLetters (page 4)
bulletNews (page 5)
bulletMembership report (page 38)

On the Cover:

Albert Jasper Conant's portrait of Abraham Lincoln, from the Lovejoy Library at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. Conant's portrait will be on display, along with a portrait of Lincoln by Edward Dalton Marchant, at the Old State Capitol in Springfield beginning February 5.

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