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ILLINOIS HISTORY TOURS
Mythic Sampler
Always Alton Tour
French Illinois Tour
Coal Mining Labor History Tour
Faith and Freedom Tour
Native American Tour
Remarkable Route 4
THE RIVER
Mark Twain
Captain Luke Moore
Melvin Price Locks and Dam (Alton)
National Great Rivers Museum (Alton)
The Confluence (Alton)
COAL MINING LABOR HISTORY
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 retrospective on coal mining
Nelson Grman – audio interview
Cecil E. Roberts
labor struggle continues
labor music
COAL TOWNS IN CENTRAL IL.
Coal
Benld
Cardiff disappeared
Carlinville
Gillespie
Hillsboro
Mt Olive
Moweaqua
Pana
Taylorville
Virden
COAL MINING MEMORIALS
Braidwood memorial
Centralia memorial
Cherry memorials
Herrin memorials
Marissa memorial
Moweaqua memorial
Mt. Olive Union Miners Cemetery memorials
Panama Union Cemetery
Sesser memorial
Springfield coal miner statue
Taylorville memorials
Virden – battle memorial
West Frankfort memorials
Zeigler memorial
COAL MINING MUSEUMS
COALFIELD REST AREA
COFFEEN (anticipating museum)
GILLESPIE Illinois Coal Museum
MT. OLIVE Mother Jones Museum
MOWEAQUA Coal Mine Museum
PANA History Museum
TAYLORVILLE Christian County Coal Mine Museum
GREAT WESTERN ILLINOIS EXPERIENCE
FORGOTTONIA
CANTON, IL
CARTHAGE, IL
COLCHESTER, IL
GALESBURG, IL
HAVANA, 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
ALTON
UGRR Alton
Af-Am Alton
Alton-Elijah Lovejoy
AFRICAN AMERICAN HERITAGE
Abolitionist Edward Coles
Godfrey
Belleville (AfAm)
New Philadelphia
Otterville
Freedom Project
Central IL African American History Museum
1908 Race Riot Site
UGRR Brooklyn
UGRR Jacksonville
UGRR Rocky Fork
UGRR New Philadelphia
UGRR Springfield
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
LEWIS & CLARK IN ILLINOIS
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
POWERPOINTS FOR LESSON PLANS
RESOURCES
IDEAS FOR DISCUSSION
Sites of Conscience
Lacy McDonald
UI News Bureau interviews Prof. Helaine Silverman
Native Legacy
West Frankfort
Quincy, city of refuge and more
Cuba in Fulton County, IL
Mormontown
German Heritage Towns
Belleville (German)
Maeystown
Mascoutah
Experiences
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS COAL AREA
