Review: An Important Story, Lost in the Details, Jolliet and Marquette: A New History of the 1673 Expedition, by Mark Walczynski
The expedition of discovery Louis Jolliet, a merchant-explorer, and Jacques Marquette, a Jesuit priest, undertook with five other men in 1673, was a pivotal moment in the history of North […]
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Review: When Illinois Base Ball (sic) Was for Fun, Ballists, Dead Beats, and Muffins: Inside Early Baseball in Illinois, by Robert D. Sampson
In the handful of years after the Civil War, Illinoisans went crazy for baseball, a game that was then spelled as two words “base ball.” By 1868, however, an editor of […]
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The Present Past – Groundbreaking Exhibit Brings Holocaust Survivors’ Stories to Life Every Day
It should first be said that the accounts that Holocaust survivors have of their time in the concentration camps, the ghettos and occupied countries, fighting for their lives and witnessing […]
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Focus On: The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center
Skokie, Illinois has a lot of things going for it – Old Orchard Mall, a beautiful piece of the lakeshore, and some fantastic theaters and performing arts venues. It was […]
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