Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum to Showcase the Historic Cubs-Cardinals Baseball...
SPRINGFIELD – Blue vs. red, bear vs. bird, north vs. south – the competition between the Chicago Cubs and St. Louis Cardinals has divided...
From 2005: Bob Michel Talks of his Career in Congress, Governing,...
On February 17, 2017, former Rep Bob Michel (R) passed away at the age of 93. Mr Michel was a leader of the Republicans...
Gen John Borling, on Life Lessons Learned from Being a POW...
From the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library: General John Borling, who spent 6 1/2 years as a Prisoner of War in North Vietnam, was imprisoned...
Brooks Simpson: Ulysses S Grant’s Triumph Over Adversity
From Springfield: We go one on one with Brooks Simpson, author of "Ulysses S Grant, Triumph Over Adversity: 1822-1865" the first volume of a...
Lincoln Presidential Library expands collection related to Illinois poets with papers...
SPRINGFIELD – The Edgar Lee Masters Home and Museum has given the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum a trove of documents, manuscripts and...
A Tour of Abraham Lincoln’s New Salem, where He Lived in...
From the Illinois Channel archives, We take a tour of New Salem Illinois, the reconstructed town of the 1830s, where Abraham Lincoln spent 7...
Giant City State Park
From Southern Illinois: While many think of Illinois as flat farmland, we travel to the hilly, rocky and forested landscape of Southern Illinois. Here,...
Illinois’ Connection to the Founding of Farm Aid
On the 30th Anniversary of Farm Aid, Speaker Joe Alexander tells the story of how Farm Aid began in Illinois, with a series of...
History on Trial: The Alton School Cases
The Alton School Cases were a series of seven circuit court trials and five Illinois Supreme Court appeals from 1897 to 1908, in which...
Lincoln Biographer Michael Burlingame on Lincoln’s Legacy
On the 150th anniversary of Lincoln's assassination, we speak One-on-One with Historian Michael Burlingame, author of "Lincoln: A Life." Mr Burlingame discusses why Lincoln matters,...
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Historian Mark DePue: Preserving Illinois’ Oral History
From the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library: We talk with historian and fmr military officer, Mark DePue on his work of conducting indepth oral history...