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

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. “Murder, Normalization and Pride: A Tale of Two Memorials in Southern Illinois’ Coal Country.” Forthcoming in Illinois Heritage. CLICK HERE 

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

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