Author and Legal Analyst, Dan Abrams, Discusses His Book, “Lincoln’s Last...
Springfield, February 12, 2019 - At the annual Abraham Lincoln Association annual banquet, ABC Legal Analyst, Dan Abrams talks about his...
Famed Pilot William Norwood on His Life, Achieving Your Dreams Through...
From Springfield: Illinois Channel Board Member, Katy Lawrence sits down with William Norwood, author of “Cleared for takeoff: A Pilot’s Story of Challenges and...
Author David McCullough on “1776”
From the Illinois Channel archives (Chicago, June, 2005) Author David McCullough talks to a Union League Club audience about his book, "1776." The book...
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,...
Authors of “Fixing Illinois” on How to Bring State Back to...
Former State Rep. Jim Nowlan and Former President of the Taxpayers Federation of Illinois Tom Johnson discuss their book "Fixing Illinois." The two explain...
Author of “Perverted Justice” on a Strange Tale of Justice Gone...
Pulitzer Prize winning author, Bill Crawford, takes his investigative skills into the nearly unbelievable story of how one man was released from prison for...
Billionaires, Politics and Dark Money
Have the Internet, social media, astro-turf groups, and big "behind the scenes billionaires" secretly changed the American political system? In...
Our Interview with the Biographer of Barack Obama, David Garrow on...
Springfield: Our interview with Pulitzer Prize winning Biographer, David Garrow, on his history of the life of Barack Obama before he became President. Garrow,...
Oral History: Recollections of the Blagojevich Years
From the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library: Historian Mark DePue opens the vault of some of the audio clips he's gathered over the last 12...
Former Gov Dan Walker Reflects on His Triumphs and Tragedies
From June, 2007: Our one-on-one with fmr Gov Dan Walker (D, 1973-1977) who at the time of this recording had just published his memoir "The...
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From the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library: We talk with historian and fmr military officer, Mark DePue on his work of conducting indepth oral history...