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Second Annual Illinois History Video Fair
Wednesday, November 30, 2005
9:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Carnegie Room, Lincoln Library
326 South Seventh Street
Springfield, Illinois
Featured programs:
(shown throughout the day)
Expo—Magic of the White City: The Chicago World's Fair of 1893
2005, Inecom Entertainment Company, Pittsburgh. 116 minutes.
Narrated by Gene Wilder. Produced by the Minutes of History Series, Expo—Magic of the White City explores the wonders of the Columbian Exposition, the 400th anniversary celebration of Columbus' discovery of America. Using hundreds of archival photographs, the producers explore the largest and most expensive party in the history of the world before the advent of the 20th century.
Artifacts &- Heavy Timber: The Reconstruction of Fort Massac
2004, WSIU-TV. Richard Kuenneke, producer. Using old photographs, film archives, maps, drawings, video excerpts, and interviews with architects, historians, and archaeologists, this one-hour documentary explores the $4.7 million, three-year rebuilding of the ancient military fort in Metropolis, Illinois, which was completed in 2003. Included in the film are the historical works of archaeologist Paul Maynard, whose 84-year-old findings provided a blueprint for the historically accurate replica.
Prairie Tides: The Building of the Illinois and Michigan Canal
2003. Canal Corridor Association.
Prairie Tides chronicles the Illinois and Michigan Canal and the "tides" of change across the Illinois prairie—from Native Americans, to French Explorers, to fur traders, to farmers and settlers, to those who built Chicago into a world-class city. It illuminates the story of the I&M canal as a catalyst for Illinois' transformation from a frontier state to a seat of commerce and industry.
The Sangamon River: A Sense of Place
2005, University of Illinois at Springfield. 56 minutes.
Charles Schweighauser, producer.
Documentary profiles the ecological, economic and cultural history of the Sangamon River, from its origin in Champaign County to its terminus near Beardstown. Includes interviews with the commercial fishermen, farmers, environmentalists, poets, and merchants who've made the river valley their home, livelihood, and muse.
The Macomb Story
Originally produced in 1984 for the Macomb Heritage Days, this 60-minute video has been digitally remastered and updated to tell the next chapter of Macomb's ongoing history. Produced by the University Television Office at Western Illinois University, "The Macomb Story" is an outstanding pictorial history with narration, a model, low-budget program that tells a remarkable story of growth and development in that part of the state called "Fogottonia."
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Wednesday, November 30, 2005
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9:30 a.m. 8:30 p.m.
Illinois History Video Fair
Carnegie Room, Lincoln Library
326 S. 7th Street Springfield, Illinois
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Thursday, December 1, 2005
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8 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Registration and book sales,
Visitors Center, Abraham Lincoln Home National Historic Site, 426 South Seventh Street, Springfield, Illinois.
9 a.m.
Session 1:
Frontier Life
Lincoln Home Visitors Center.
"Religion. Murder, and Politics: John Moredock and the American Conscience,"
David Brady, Prairie Archives, Springfield
"Twilight of the Wolf: Illinois Bounty Laws and the Extirpation of a Species,"
William Steinbacher-Kemp, McLean County Museum of History
"Archaeology at Miller Grove: The History of an African-American Community in Southern Illinois,"
Vickie Devenport, John A. Logan Community College
Chair: Curtis Mann, Lincoln Library
Commentator: Karl Moore, Illinois State Archives
Session 2:
Religious Education
Grace Lutheran Church.
"James Frazier Jacquess and Antebellum Education in Illinois,"
Pat Burnette, MacMurray College
"Early Years of the Religious of the Sacred Heart in Chicago and Lake Forest,"
Martha Curry, RSCJ, Chicago
Chair: Patricia Walton, Kline Creek Farm
Commentator: Richard Chrisman, Illinois Great Rivers Conference
9:30 a.m.
Session 3:
Western Abolitionists
Carnegie Room, Lincoln (Public) Library
"Owen Lovejoy's Political Disciples in Bureau County,"
William F. Moore, Lovejoy Society
Boycotting Slavery: Western Women Abolitionists and the Free Produce Movement,"
Stacey M. Robertson, Bradley University
Chair: Charlotte Renehan, Grayslake Historical Society
Commentator: Robert McColley, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
11 a.m.
Session 4.
Waterway to the World
Visitors Center, Lincoln Home National Historic Site.
"Chicago Maritime History. From its Discovery by Marquette and Joliette to becoming America's Busiest Seaport"
Ralph Frese, Chicago Maritime Society
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Thursday, December 1, 2005 (cont'd.)
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12 p.m.
Session 5.
Brown Bag Lunch
Carnegie Room, Lincoln (Public) Library.
"The Whizbangs of Oohs and Ahs: Illinois' History-making Salesmen"
Ronald Solberg, Downers Grove
1:15 p.m.
Session 6.
Rhetoric and Railroads
Visitors Center, Lincoln Home National Historic Site.
"Contentious Exchange on Slavery in the U.S. Congress, Dec. 1859-Apr. 1860,"
Jane Anne Moore, Lovejoy Society
"The Underground Railroad South of Chicago,"
Larry McClellan, Chicago Heights
Chair: Christopher Young, MacMurray College
Commentator: Herbert Channick, Illinois State Historical Society
Session 7.
Digitizing History
Conference Room. Lincoln Home National Historic Site.
"Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project,"
Drew Vandercreek, Northern Illinois University
"IDA: Recovering Illinois' Past with the Illinois Digitization Project,"
Alyce Scott, Illinois State Library
Chair: Albert Adamson, Wheaton History Center
Session 8.
Temperance and Missions
Grace Lutheran Church.
"Temperance Town: The Role of the Churches in One Town's Fight Against Immorality, 1870-1900,"
Ray Cunningham, Homer
"Story of the Washington Street Mission: Everlasting at it since 1910,"
Thomas O. Kay, Wheaton College
"Evangelicals and the Anti-Mission Crisis: A Crisis of Religious Identity in the Central Mississippi Valley, 1820-1840,"
John Ayabe, St. Louis University
Chair: Elaine Evans, Illinois State Archives
Commentator: Janet Cornelius, Eastern Illinois University
Session 9.
Revolutions and Taxes
Carnegie Room, Lincoln (Public) Library.
"Henry T. Rainey and his Congressional Investigation Exposing the U.S. Role in the Panama Revolution,"
Robert Spellman, Southern Illinois University/Carbondale
"Illinois Congressional Delegation and the Abolition of the Poll Tax, 1943-1962,"
Phillip A. Grant, New York
Chair: Dennis Williams, Illinois State Historical Society
Commentator: D. Brad Hunt, Roosevelt University
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Thursday, December 1, 2005 (cont'd.)
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Session 10.
Religion and Education
Old State Capitol, House of Representatives.
"Religion, Education, and Public Schools: A Lesson Plan for the American History Teacher Collaboration,"
Donald Owen, American History Teachers' Collaborative Project Director
Katherine Barbour American History Teachers' Collaborative Coordinator
Chair: Robyn Williams, Harrisburg High School
Commentator: David W. Scott, Illinois State Historical Society
3:15 p.m.
Session 11.
The Legacy of George Rogers Clark
Grace Lutheran Church.
"The View from Here: The Story of the George Roger's Clark Statue in Quincy Illinois,"
Stephen Schneider, Deerfield
"Recreating George Rogers Clark's 1778 March Across Illinois,"
Garrick Williams, Bowman's Company, Springfield
"Kaskaskia and George Rogers Clark,"
John Newell, Springfield
Chair: Stuart Fliege, Illinois State Historical Society
Commentator: Rand Burnette, MacMurray College
Session 12.
The Literary Spirit
Carnegie Room, Lincoln (Public) Library.
"Prairie Light: The Spiritual Legacy of Frank Lloyd Wright and Ernest Hemingway in Oak Park,"
Redd Griffin, Ernest Hemingway Foundation
"The Lincoln Poems: Theory and Practice,"
Dan Guillory, Millikin University
Chair: Roland Cross, Vachel Lindsay Association, Brown, Hay and Stephens
Commentator: Catherine O'Connor, Illinois Historic Preservation Agency
"Medieval Modernist: Vachel Lindsay and Walled Towns,"
Larry Stevens, Vachel Lindsay Association
Session 13.
Borders and Generations
Panel: Mexico and Illinois: Immigrant History Across Borders and Generations
"Organizing for Fun: Recreation and Community Formation in Mexican South Chicago, 1919-1936,"
Michael D. Innis-Jimenez, History Department, William Patterson University
"From the Near West Side to 18th Street: Mexican Community Formation and Activism During Chicago's Civil Rights Era,"
Lilia Fernandez, University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign
Moderator: David Badillo, Bronx Institute, Lehman College of the City University of New York
Chair: Michael Batinski, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
5 p.m.
Holiday Tour of the Dana-Thomas House State Historic Site
6:30 p.m.
Illinois History Symposium Banquet
Illinois Governors Mansion Keynote Address: "The Miracle of Roosevelt Road,"
Father George Lane, Loyola University Press
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8 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Registration and book sales,
Visitors Center, Abraham Lincoln Home National Historic Site, 426 South Seventh Street, Springfield, Illinois.
9 a.m.
Session 14.
Facts and Factions
Grace Lutheran Church.
"Census on the Prairie: A Comparison of the 1840 Federal and State Returns for Champaign County, Illinois,"
Cherie L. Weible, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign
"Why Many Dutch Reform and French Huguenot Immigrants Came to the South Suburbs and the Midwest During the 1800s and Beyond,"
William Paarlberg, Riverside, Illinois
"The First Invasion: Assimilation and Chicago's Foreign Language Press, 1880-1917,"
Richard Junger, Western Michigan University
Chair: Robert Cavanaugh, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library
Commentator: Robert Sampson, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Session 15:
Illinois History 101
Conference Center, Lincoln Home National Historic Site.
"History in the Community College Classroom,"
Panel Participants:
Moderator: Rich Kiefer, Waubonsee Community College
James Paul, Kankakee Community College
Richard Pate, Danville Area College
Tim Draper, Waubonsee Community College
Amy Godfrey, Waubonsee Community College
Chair: Mark Sorensen, Illinois State Historical Society
Session 16.
Preachers, Prophets, and Apostates
Carnegie Room, Lincoln (Public) Library.
"Strangers Along the Trail: Peoria's Shaker Apostates Enter the World,"
Patricia Goitein
"Abel Stevens, Peter Cartwright, and the 19th Century Methodist Narrative,"
Samuel L. Rogal
"Zenas Hovey Gurley, Jr., and his Fight Against Polygamy and Mormon Zion,"
Gary Vitale, Illinois Benedictine College
Chair: Nancy Chapin, Sangamon County Historical Society
Commentator: James Davis, Illinois College
12 p.m.
Session 17.
Brown Bag Lunch
Carnegie Room, Lincoln (Public) Library.
"Religion and the Labor Song in Illinois,"
Clark Halker, Illinois Humanities Council
1:15 p.m.
Session 18.
New Dimension for the Classroom
Conference Center, Lincoln Home National Historic Site.
"Tombstone Classroom: Teaching History in a Lost Cemetery,"
Cinda Klickna, Illinois Education Association
"Using Satellite Technology to Bring History Home,"
Jenni Dahl and Springfield High School Students
Chair: John Craig, Illinois State Board of Education
Commentator: Robyn Williams, Harrisburg High School
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Friday, December 2, 2005 (cont'd.)
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Session 19.
Laws and the Prophets
Carnegie Room, Lincoln (Public) Library.
"Separation of Church and State in Illinois,"
David W. Scott, Illinois State Historical Society
Chair: James Edstrom, Buffalo Grove
Commentator: Judge Thomas Appleton
3:15 p.m.
Session 20.
Reading History/Writing History
Conference Center, Lincoln Home National Historic Site.
"From Syllabus to Publication in Twelve Months,"
History Students from Southern Illinois University— Carbondale.
Chair: Michael Batinski, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
7:00 p.m.
Session 21.
Boots, Belles, and Battles
Illinois Military History Museum, Camp Lincoln.
"Camp Carrollton: A Glimpse of Daily Life of Union Soldiers in the Camp of Instruction,"
Daniel Sauerwein, Illinois College
"The Battle of Fort Donnelson: The Catapult to U.S. Grant's Rise to the U.S. Presidency,"
Susan Austin, Springfield
"Confederate Women at the Alton Military Prison,"
Thomas F. Curran, Cor Jesu Academy, St. Louis
Chair: Terri Cameron, Illinois State Historical Society
Commentator: John Alexander, Carlinville Civil War Round Table
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Saturday, December 3, 2005
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8 a.m.
Illinois History Symposium Breakfast
Maldaner's Restaurant
"Abraham Lincoln and the Mormons,"
Bryon Andreasen, Illinois Historic Preservation Agency
"Abraham Lincoln and Religion,"
Wayne Temple, Illinois State Archives
10:30 a.m.
Tour of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum
Illinois College, the oldest private school in the state, is co-sponsor of the twenty-sixth annual Illinois History Symposium, "Religion and Society," scheduled for December 1-3 in downtown Springfield.
Founded in 1828, Illinois College offered its first classes in 1829. Jacksonville's history is linked directly to the college, whose graduates include William Jennings Bryan and Illinois' Civil War Governor Richard Yates. Abraham Lincoln claimed to have learned English grammar secondhand from Illinois College professor Jonathan Baldwin Turner, whose students William and Lynn Greene shared their textbooks with the future president at New Salem.
"The college's focus on ante-bellum studies and particularly Illinois history make the collaboration especially attractive," said Jim Murphy, Illinois College's director of public relations. The college's connection to the Underground Railroad and abolitionism has been well documented. A plaque on the college lawn commemorates what may have been the first organized student campus protest in America—a rally to protest the murder of abolitionist editor Elijah Lovejoy, who was murdered in Alton in 1837.
"Our history is part of the fabric of our state's heritage," Murphy said. 'We look forward to sharing Illinois College's story with others who appreciate it."
The college recently was ranked by U.S. News and World Report as one of the best educational values in the nation. The Illinois State Historical Society is delighted to welcome Illinois College as a partner in the 2005 Illinois History Symposium.
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