Publications and white papers emanating from the Mythic Mississippi Project are available here.

Silverman, Helaine and Devin Hunter. “The Mythic Mississippi Project. Investigate, Interpret, Invest in Illinois”. Illinois Heritage, July-August 2022, pp. 34-39. CLICK HERE and CLICK HERE

We insert here a paper that is not a product of the Mythic Mississippi Project. It is co-authored by Dr. Silverman and her colleague, Dr. Andreas Pantazatos (University of Cambridge). The topic is mining heritage in County Durham, UK: “Memory, Pride and Politics on Parade: The Durham Miners’ Gala”, by Andreas Pantazatos and Helaine Silverman. IN: Heritage and Festivals in Europe, edited by U. Kockel, C. Clopot, B. Tjarve and M.N. Craith. Routledge, 2020. CLICK HERE  The Durham banners are referenced in Joann Condellone’s 2026 article, cited below. 

Silverman, Helaine. “Coal Mining and the University of Illinois”. Illinois Heritage, July-August 2023, pp. 16-18. CLICK HERE

Silverman, Helaine. “Remembering Pana’s African American Miners”. Illinois Heritage, November-December 2023, pp 36-39. CLICK HERE

Silverman, Helaine. “Always Alton. Branding History as a Tourism Attractor”. Illinois Heritage, January-February 2024, pp. 20-26. CLICK HERE 

Silverman, Helaine. “Memorializing and Commemorating the Cherry Mine Disaster of 1909.” Illinois Heritage, September-October 2024, pp. 21-27. CLICK HERE

Silverman, Helaine. “What Would Mother Jones Have Said? The Progressive Miners of America and Their Monument.”  in Combating Oppression with New Commemorations, edited by Christopher Fennell, pp. 144-162 (Routledge, 2025). CLICK HERE 

Silverman, Helaine. “Murder, Normalization and Pride: A Tale of Two Memorials in Southern Illinois’ Coal Country.” Illinois Heritage, September-October 2025, pp. 31-40. CLICK HERE 

Silverman, Helaine. “Mining Memory, Heritage and Identity in the Illinois Coalfield”. Cambridge Heritage Research Centre Bulletin, April 21, 2026, COVER STORY (pp. 1-5). CLICK HERE

Silverman, Helaine. “Mines, Memory and Community in Illinois”. TICCIH Bulletin, No. 112, 2006, pp. 33-35. CLICK HERE

Condellone, Joann. “The Banners of Mother Jones and the Union Miners Cemetery”. Friday’s Labor Folkore, June 26, 2026. CLICK HERE

Thomas, Scott A. and Helaine Silverman. Miners, Memory and Pride. A History of UMWA Local Union 1613. Occasional Papers of the Illinois Coal Museum at Gillespie, No. 1 , 2026. (available by request)

Silverman, Helaine. “The Different Fates of Stephen A. Douglas Imagery in Illinois and the Issue of Representation in Public Space”. Submitted. CLICK HERE

Silverman, Helaine. WHITE PAPER. “Discourses of Prejudice in the Early Twentieth Century Coal Mining Industry.” CLICK HERE