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WELCOME!
EVENTS AND NEWS
PROJECT PUBLICATIONS
PROJECT FILMS
PROEJCT VIDEOS
PROJECT INTERVIEWS
ILLINOIS HERITAGE TOURS
Mythic Sampler
Always Alton Tour
French Illinois Tour
Coal Mining Is Labor History Tour
Faith and Freedom Tour
Native American Tour
Remarkable Route 4
THE RIVER
The Confluence (Alton)
LEWIS & CLARK AT THE CONFLUENCE
Mark Twain
Captain Luke Moore
Melvin Price Locks and Dam (Alton)
National Great Rivers Museum (Alton)
ALTON
COAL MINING IS LABOR HISTORY
COAL
Battle of Virden 1898
General Alexander Bradley
Dale Hawkins portraying General Bradley
John Alexander discusses Virden
Mother Jones
Loretta Williams as Mother Jones
Progressive Miners of America (PMA)
Women’s Auxiliary of PMA
Black miners
Joann Condellone’s retrospective on coal mining
Nelson Grman – audio interview
Cecil E. Roberts
COAL TOWNS IN CENTRAL IL.
Benld
Cardiff disappeared
Carlinville
Collinsville, IL
Gillespie
Hillsboro
Mt. Olive
Moweaqua
Pana
Panama, IL
Taylorville
Virden
COAL MINING MEMORIALS
Braidwood memorial
Centralia memorials
Cherry memorials
Glen Carbon memorial
Herrin memorials
Marissa memorial
Moweaqua memorial
Mt. Olive Union Miners Cemetery memorials
PANA memorial
Panama Union Cemetery memorial
Royalton memorial
Sesser memorial
Springfield coal miner statue
Taylorville memorials
Virden – battle memorial
West Frankfort memorial
Westville memorial
Zeigler memorial
COAL MINING MUSEUMS
COALFIELD REST AREA
COFFEEN (anticipating museum)
GILLESPIE Illinois Coal Museum
Marissa Museum
MT. OLIVE Mother Jones Museum
MOWEAQUA Coal Mine Museum
PANA History Museum
Panama museum
TAYLORVILLE Christian County Coal Mine Museum
GREAT WESTERN ILLINOIS EXPERIENCE
FORGOTTONIA
CANTON, IL
CARTHAGE, IL
COLCHESTER, IL
GALESBURG, IL
HAVANA, IL
Ipava, IL
LEWISTOWN, IL
LINCOLN’S NEW SALEM, IL
PETERSBURG, IL
MACOMB, IL
NAUVOO, IL (post Mormon period)
WARSAW, IL
MORMON QUARTET
Carthage and the Mormons
Nauvoo of the Mormons
Quincy and the Mormons
Warsaw and the Mormons
AFRICAN AMERICAN HERITAGE SITES IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS
Abolitionist Edward Coles
Springfield UGRR
1908 Race Riot Site
Central IL African American History Museum
Jacksonville
Godfrey and Rocky Fork
New Philadelphia
Otterville
Brooklyn
SPRINGFIELD
CHESTER
FRENCH ILLINOIS ↓
Cahokia (town not mounds)
Kaskaskia
Kaskaskia-Cahokia Trail
Fort Kaskaskia
Fort de Chartres
Prairie du Rocher
Pierre Menard Home
Garrison Hill Cemetery
NATIVE AMERICAN ILLINOIS
Bunker Hill
Cahokia Mounds WHS
Dickson Mounds
Edwards Trace
Emerald Mound
Kampsville
Piasa Bird
Potawatomi Marker
1814 Massacre Site
PRESERVING ILLINOIS HERITAGE
Historical Markers
Historical Archaeology
Historic Preservation
IL Heritage Agencies
LESSON PLANS
Ancient Cahokia and the Mississippian Culture
French Colonial IL
Coal and Labor in IL
Lincoln in Illinois
Springfield of the Madeirans
Madeiran Immigrants in Illinois and Urbanization
Underground Railroad in IL
New Philadelphia then and now
Mormon History in IL
German History IL
Statue Removal Controversy in Illinois
Historical Documents as Rhetorical Texts
Freedom Project
POWERPOINTS FOR LESSON PLANS
RESOURCES
IDEAS FOR DISCUSSION
Sites of Conscience
Lacy McDonald
labor struggle continues
labor music
UI News Bureau interview with Prof. Helaine Silverman
Quincy, city of refuge and more
Monuments and Controversy
Where is it now?
Cuba in Fulton County, IL
Mormontown
German Heritage Towns
Belleville (German)
Maeystown
Mascoutah
Experiences
Route 66
Stories
Ipava, IL
Camp Ellis is just outside
