Sterling-Rock Falls Historical Society - Junior Historians, 2018 Sterling-Rock Falls Historical Society - Junior Historians, 2018 Elaine Evans / Thursday, July 26, 2018 0 3457 Article rating: 5.0 A team of six retired teachers have completed one week of a Junior Historians Camp through the Sterling-Rock Falls Historical Society and in partnership with the Sterling and Rock Falls Optimists Clubs. Our theme for the entire week was “Illinois’ Bicentennial.” Twenty-two students participated in the week’s activities in our new Lincoln Learning Center next door to our historical Lincoln-Manahan Home. Read more
Illinois Heritage, July - August 2018 Illinois Heritage, July - August 2018 Now available! Elaine Evans / Thursday, July 26, 2018 0 2731 Article rating: No rating David Joens serves as guest editor of this issue of Illinois Heritage. His gifts of enthusiasm, professionalism, and passion for the history of our Prairie State––and most especially his love of the architectural wonders of our Illinois statehouse––make him a splendid guide. To accomplish his task he has enlisted the help of John Lupton, director of the Illinois Supreme Court Historical Society; Mark Sorensen, past ISHS president and ex officio historian of the capitol; and illustrator William Crook Jr., who has shared one of his exquisite watercolor/pen and ink portraits of the statehouse for our cover. David also tells the story of a twelve-year collaboration between the ISHS and the Illinois House of Representatives to restore an amazing 19th-century montage that now hangs in the state capitol. The montage features individual photos of the entire 1879 House of Representatives. Thank you for reading Illinois Heritage. To receive your own copy of Illinois Heritage, please consider becoming an ISHS member. Your membership and gifts keep this organization vital and relevant. We cannot serve Illinois history without you. Click here for more details. Read more
A Bicentennial Commemorative of the Prairie State A Bicentennial Commemorative of the Prairie State Readings from the "Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society" Elaine Evans / Tuesday, July 17, 2018 0 3808 Article rating: 4.0 A Bicentennial Commemorative of the Prairie State: Readings from the "Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society" Edited by David W. Scott, with a foreword by Leah Joy Axelrod Culled from the Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society’s 110-year archive of scholarship, this volume of more than thirty articles illuminates the colorful episodes, meaningful events, and significant characters in the rich history of Illinois. Selected by committee and edited by David W. Scott, A Bicentennial Commemorative of the Prairie State celebrates the state’s two-hundred-year history with a broad scope of voices and perspective. Read more
New book offers firsthand depiction of growing up in a WWII defense housing project New book offers firsthand depiction of growing up in a WWII defense housing project Elaine Evans / Thursday, June 21, 2018 0 2749 Article rating: No rating I Grew Up in War Housing: The History of Defense Housing Projects in East Alton, Illinois 1941-1954, a new book by Philip David Walkington, offers a firsthand depiction of growing up in a WWII defense housing project during an unparalleled time in American history. Read more
2018 Hostick Scholars Announced Elaine Evans / Monday, June 4, 2018 0 3260 Article rating: No rating The 2018 King V. Hostick Scholarship recipients were announced in early June by the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum and the Illinois State Historical Society. This year’s scholarship winners come from across the nation, and represent the finest new scholarship in Prairie State history. Read more