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Abram Hunsaker is the first documented settler in what is now Union County, Illinois. His arrival in 1803 along with his nephew George Woolf, helped pave the way for settlement in western Southern Illinois. 

ISHS Meeting of the Board of Directors and Advisory Board will be held on Tuesday, December 3, 2019.

Time: 3:45 p.m. or immediately after the conclusion of the Illinois History Symposium

Location:
University of Illinois Springfield
Student Union, 3rd Floor
2251 Richard Wright Drive
Springfield, IL (Map)

There was only one thing luring American war planners to invade the tiny island of Iwo Jima in February 1945. The island of black volcanic sand was little more than a dot in the midst of the vast Pacific Ocean, but it was only 763 miles from Tokyo, and thus was an ideal spot to land crippled B-29s returning from the Japanese mainland on their way to Tinian Island. 

Join ALPLM manuscripts curator Christopher Schnell to explore and discuss changing attitudes about love, romance, dating, and relationships using textual material from the 19th and 20th centuries. 

Prominent abolitionist Frederick Douglass gave a series of speeches in Illinois in the aftermath of President Lincoln’s assassination that ask timely questions about the direction the Nation will take into the Reconstruction Period. Many of those questions remain relevant decades later in a compelling presentation and discussion with historical reenactor Bob Davis.