The Illinois State Historical Society

presents

"Knowledge on the Prairie:
The 27th Annual Illinois History Symposium"

February 15-17, 2007

Bone Student Center Illinois State University, Normal

Celebrating the 150th Anniversary of Illinois State University, the state's oldest public institution of higher learning

Symposium registrants will also be guests at ISU's Founders' Day Lecture featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning historian

David McCullough

For details visit the Illinois State Historical Society website at www.historyillinois.org or call 217-525-2781.

ILLINOIS STATE
UNIVERSITY

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The Search for Cantonment
Wilkinsonville
The Archaeology of an early 19th century military post on the lower Ohio River
Written and Produced by Richard Kuenneke, copyright 2006, clickonHISTORY.com

The Sangamon River: A Sense of Place
A documentary by Professor Charles Schweighauser, copyright 2006. Produced by UIS Office of Electronic Media, University of Illinois at Springfield.

Lincoln's Last Stop
Written and produced by Craig Lindvahl. Copyright 2006, Callan Films. Effingham.

Mother Jones, The Most Dangerous Woman in America
Written and produced by Rosemary Feurer and Laura Vazquez. 2006 Mother Jones Foundation.

Artifacts and Heavy Timber: The Reconstruction of Fort Massac
Produced by Richard Kuenneke, copyright 2004, WSIU-TV, Carbondale.

Chicago Stories: The Eastland Disaster
Produced by Harvey Moshman and Chuck Coppola. Copyright 2002. Network Chicago, WTTW11, Chicago.

Prairie Tides: Discover Illinois & Michigan Canal History
Prairie Tides Productions, Chicago. Copyright 2002. Canal Corridor Association, Lockport.

John Peter Altgeld: The Eagle Remembered
Directed by Jeffrey Chown, produced by Northern Illinois University Media Services. Copyright 2000. NIU, DeKalb.

Circle of Time: Elgin and the Watch Company
Written by David Briggs, produced by the Elgin Area Historical Society, copyright 2002.

Lincoln and the Black Hawk War
Directed by Jeffrey Chown, produced by Northern Illinois University Media Services. Copyright 2003. NIU, DeKalb.

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8-9:30 a.m.
Registration - Prairie Room, Bone Student Center

10 a.m.
Plenary Session
"The Founding of Illinois State Normal University: Normal School or State University?"
John B. Freed, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, History, Illinois State University

1 p.m.
David McCuIlough
ISU Founders' Day Lecture Braden Auditorium

8-9:30 a.m.
Registration - Ballroom, Bone Student Center

9:00 a.m.
Session I: 3 West Lounge, Bone Student Center
The Price of Freedom
"Chicago and the Underground Railroad,"
Larry McClellan, Pastor
1st Christian Church, Chicago Heights

"An Unwelcome Presence: African Americans in Antebellum Union County,"
Robert Spellman, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale

"Black and White: A History of the 1st Regiment Illinois Colored Volunteers,"
Carl Adams, Independent Researcher, North Pekin

Chair: Roger Bridges, Illinois State Historical Society
Commentator: Shirley Portwood, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville

Session II: Ballroom

Demonstration: History and Technology
"Using GIS Satellite Technology to Teach Illinois History,"
Jenni Dahl, John Taylor, and Students of Springfield High School

Moderator: Terri Cameron, Illinois State Historical Society

Session III: College of Business 132
Educating Women at ISU
"An Unusual Person': June Rose Colby and Literacy Instruction at Illinois State Normal University," Lori A. Ostergaard, Illinois State University

"The Impact of World Wars on the Experience of Women on the Campus at Illinois State Normal University,"
Jo Ann Rayfield, Illinois State University

"Sarah Raymond: A Case Study of a Female Education Leader Ahead of Her Time,"
Monica Cousins Noraian, Illinois State University

Chair: Sandra Harmon, Illinois State University
Commentator: Michael Batinski, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

Session IV: 3 East Lounge, Bone Student Center Priority:
Activists and Abolitionists
'"The Short Bobsleds' Approach to Owen Lovejoy and Archibald Williams,"
William Moore, Lovejoy Society

'"Are You Still Aliver?": Letters of Elizabeth Lovejoy,"
Jane Anne Moore, Lovejoy Society

"Reverend James Frazier Jaquess and Abraham Lincoln, 1862-1865,"
Patricia Bumette, MacMurray College

Chair: Roland Cross, Illinois State Historical Society
Commentator: Stacy Robertson, Bradley University

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11:00 a.m.

Session V:
PANEL: Analyzing the Big Picture through the Lens of Local History, Part I
Presenters: American History Teachers' Collaborative, Urbana
(Four concurrent sessions, four different rooms)

Part 1: College of Business 133. "Drop me a Line:
Connecting Primary Sources and Letter Writing to the Larger Historical Landscape,"
Chris Adrian, Jefferson Middle School, Champaign, Illinois

Part 2: College of Business 148. "Seeing the World Through New Eyes: A Look at How Film has, and Continues to, Affect our Vision of the World,"
Chuck Koflinski, Urbana Middle School

Part 3: College of Business 150. Lesson Study: What is History and How Do We Know It?"
Alexis Jones and Tiffany Clark, Urbana School District

Part 4: College of Business 149 "Campbell Soup: Discrimination and the Committee on Fair Employment,"
Donald Owen, Urbana School District

12:00 - Circus Room

Brown Bag Lunch Presentation
"Preservation Summer'' Robert Swenson, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

1:15 p.m.

Session VI: 3 East Lounge, Bone Student Center
PANEL: "Lincoln's Friends and the University,"
Panelists: Robert Eckley, President emeritus, Illinois Wesleyan University
Ms. Jeani Stark, Illinois State University
Mark Plummer, Professor emeritus history, Illinois State University

Moderator: Tim Townsend, Lincoln Home National Historic Site

Session VII: 3 West Lounge, Bone Student Center
PANEL. "The Great Books in Illinois History"
Panelists: William Craig Rice, President, Shimer College
Daniel Born, editor of The Common Review, quarterly magazine of the Great Books Foundation
Claire Pearson, Graham School of General Studies, University of Chicago

Moderator: Redd Griffin, Illinois State Historical Society, Triton College

Session VIII: Ballroom
PANEL: "Strategies and Outcomes: The Gubernatorial Election of 2006,"
Illinois Issues Panelists:
Mike Lawrence, Director of the Public Policy Institute, SlU-Carbondale
Chris Mooney University of Illinois at Springfield
Peggy Boyer Long, Illinois Issues
John Jackson, Professor emeritus, Department of Political Science, SlU-Carbondale

Moderator: Herbert Channick, Illinois State Historical Society

Session IX: College of Business 148
"Teaching Native American History Online"
Demonstration by:
Frederick Hoxie, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Michael Sherfy, Ohio State University, Newark

Moderator: Robert McColley University of Illinois, Urbana-Campaign

Session X: College of Business 132
PANEL: "Analyzing the Big Picture through the Lens of Local History, Part II"
"Chinese Immigration and the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882: Why Do Many Large America Cities Have a China Town?"
Don Barbour, Urbana Middle School

"Strike to Become More Human!"
Mark Foley, Urbana Middle School
American History Teachers' Collaborative
Urbana School District

Moderator: Robyn Williams, Harrisburg High School, Illinois State Llistorical Society

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3:15 p.m.

Session XI: 3 East Lounge, Bone Student Center Pioneering Education in Illinois
"Illinois State University in Springfield: Pioneering in Lutheran Education,"
Terri Cameron, Illinois State Historical Society

"Teacher, Lawyer, Congressman: The Career of John R. Eden, early ISU Trustee,"
Robert D. Sampson, University of Illinois

"It Started Before Dewey: Morgan Park Academy as Prep School for the University of Chicago,"
Barry Kritzberg, Morgan Park Academy

Chair: Patricia Walton, Illinois State Historical Society Kline Creek Prairie
Commentator: Wolf Fuhrig, Illinois College

Session XII: Old Main
Theology and the Classroom
"New Wine into Old Wine Skins: Transition and Conflict at Wheaton College in the 1860s,"
David E. Maas, Wheaton College

"Reconciling Adventist Theology with the Building of a College,"
Susan Palmer, Aurora University

"Lyceum on the Prairie: A Step Toward the Professionalism of Knowledge, or Humanistic Dead End?"
Stewart L. Winger, Illinois State University

Chair: Charlotte Renehan, Illinois State Historical Society

Commentator: Rand Burnette, MacMurray College

Session XIII: 3 West Lounge, Bone Student Center
PANEL: "The Civil Rights Struggle in Cairo, Illinois,"
Panelists:
Michael Seng, John Marshall Law School
Jake Blevans
Larry Ruemmler, Land of Lincoln, Mt. Vernon
Preston Ewing, Cairo

Moderator: Lawrence Hansen, Illinois State Historical Society

Session XIV: College of Business 148
PANEL: "Public School History Standards, Testing and Teachers""
Panelists
John Craig, Illinois State Board of Education
Roger LaRaus, National Lewis University

Robert Mintz, Illinois Council for the Social Studies
Robyn Williams, History Teacher, Harrisburg High School

Moderator: David W. Scott, Illinois State Historical Society

(All panelists are leaders in the Illinois Council for the Social Studies)

Session XV: College of Business 132
PANEL: "Analyzing the Big Picture through the Lens of Local History, Part III"
"Exploring the Past: Exposing Students to Different Times in History Through Reading and Writing," Mary Reger, Robeson Elementary School, Champaign

"Civil Liberty For All: To Be or Not to Be," Izona Burgess, Marianne Whitacre, Jennifer Varvel, Champaign Unit 4 Schools
American History Teachers' Collaborative
Urbana School District

Moderator: John Week, Illinois State Historical Society

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6:30 p.m.
Symposium Banquet

Keynote speaker
Douglas L. Wilson
Knox College

"President Lincoln's Hidden Asset"
Bone Student Center Banquet Hall

8:30-9:45 a.m.
Registration

10 a.m.

Session XVI: East Lounge, Bone Student Center
Lifting Souls, Moving Mountains, and WPA Libraries
"The American Windows of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception,"
Sister Susan Karina Dickey, Archivist, Springfield Diocese

"Houses to Go: Structural Moving, from Houses to Bridges to Depots,"
Lee Brooke, author and independent researcher, Oak Park
Marcy Kubat, author and independent researcher, River Forest

"WPA Libraries in Southernmost Illinois,"
Jennifer, SoutMussehnanhern Illinois University, Carbondale

Chair: Stuart Fliege, Illinois State Historical Society
Commentator: Catherine O'Connor, Illinois Historic Preservation Agency

Session XVII: 3 West Lounge, Bone Student Center
Frontier Boundaries
"Landscape Impact of an 1816 Illinois Indian Treaty,"
Michael D. Sublett, Illinois State University

"George Rogers Clark, the Treaty of Paris, and the Establishment of a Western Boundary at the Mississippi River,"
Steven Schneider, Independent Researcher, Deerfield

Chair: Bill Steinbacher-Kemp, McLean County Museum of History
Commentator: Robert Swenson, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

Session XVIII: Ballroom
PANEL: "Making the film, 'The Illiniwek"
Panelists: Dan Heckenberger, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
Jeff Specker, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
Moderator: Sandra Harmon, Illinois State University

Session XVIV: Founder's Room
Dreaming the Future
"The Great Transformation of Higher Education in the 1960s: Master Plans, Community Colleges, and Emerging Universities,"
David W. Scott, Illinois State Historical Society

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"The History of the University of Illinois,"
Winton Solberg, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Chair: Anne Marie Fuhrig, Illinois State Board of Education
Commentator: Andrew Hartman, Illinois State University

Session XX: Old Main
Demonstration: "Mark Twain's Mississippi River, 1830-1890,"
A multi-media digital presentation
by Drew VandeCreek, Northern Illinois University

12:00 - Circus Room
Brown Bag Lunch Presentation
Video Presentation: "Mother Jones, America's Most Dangerous Woman,"
Presenter: Rosemary Feurer

1 p.m.

Session XXI: 3 West Lounge, Bone Student Center
Prairie Demographics
"Trading Coveralls for Cannonballs: The Cause and Effect Cycle of Illinois Agriculture,"
Tiffany Taylor, Natchez National Historical Park, Mississippi

"Illinois in 1880: Defective, Dependent, and Delinquent Classes as Recorded on the Federal Census,"
Cherie L. Weible, University of Illinois

"Settlement Patterns, Church Adherence, and Illinois Regionalism: Implications for Attitudes Toward Knowledge,"
James G. Ward, Urbana Theological Seminary

Chair: Patricia Walton, Kline Creek Farm, Illinois State Historical Society
Commentator: Clifton Jones, Illinois State University

Session XXII: 3 East Lounge
Alternatives in Education
"The College in the Hills: A Failed Experiment in Democratic Education,"
Michael Batinski, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale

"Learning from Oral Interviews: Focus on the WWII Generation,"
Suzanne Broderick, Illinois State University

Chair: Alark Sorenson, Illinois State Archives
Commentator: Richard L. Hughes, Illinois State University

Session XXII: Founder's Room
Politics of Place
"The Appointment of Frank Knox of Illinois as Secretary of the Navy,"
Philip A. Grant, Jr.

"Illinois and the Gathering Storm, 1938-1941,"
Robert McColley, Professor emeritus, history, University of Illinois

"Don Rumsfeld's First Campaign, Seen as an Exercise in Newspaper Politics,"
Thomas B. Tittlewood, Retired professor of Journalism, University of Illinois

Chair: Lawrence Hansen, Illinois State Historical Society
Commentator: D. Bradford Hunt, Roosevelt University, Illinois State Hist. Society

Session XXIII: Old Main
Indigenous Illinois
"Beyond the Fairy Tales: Residual and Emergent Voices at a Fork in the Road of Illinois History,"
D. Anthony Tyeeme Clark, American Indian Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana

"Indians and Illinois Historians: Old Habits, New Opportunities,"
Michael Sherfy, Ohio State University, Newark

Chair: David Brady, Illinois State Historical Society
Commentator: R. David Edmunds, University of Texas, Dallas

3:15 p.m.

Session XXIV: Old Main
"Searching for Sparta: A 40-Year Retrospective on the film In the Heat of the Night,"
By James DuBose, Film historian

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Registration

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The 2007 Illinois History Symposium is free and open to the public. However, all participants (presenters, chairs, commentators, and guests) must register for the Symposium by February 9. A nominal donation of $15 per day, or $25 for the entire Symposium (excluding the banquet and brown bag lunches), is encouraged to support the Society.

A block of rooms for ISHS Symposium registrants and guests is reserved at the Doubletree Hotel, Bloomington, Illinois until January 24, 2007. Single and double room rates are $99, plus applicable taxes. For reservations call 309-664-6446 and identify yourself with thelllinois State Historical Society to be eligible for the group rate.

Registration for the banquet must be made and prepaid by February 9. No exceptions.
Mail registration to: Illinois State Historical Society
210 1/2 S. Sixth St., Suite 200, Springfield, IL 62701-1503
To register by phone and credit card call 217-525-2781.

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