Barack Obama gets a challenger in the 2004 Illinois Senate race Episode 35: “Mr. Keyes Goes to Illinois” dropped last night. Subscribers to Current at the Longshore level and above have access to new episodes of this narrative history podcast. Here is a teaser:...
Matt Lakemacher is a longtime reader of The Way of Improvement Leads Home and a “graduate” of the Gilder-Lehrman Institute Princeton Seminar. He teaches history at Woodland Middle School in Gurnee, IL. Some of you may recall his dispatches from...
Jacob Lee is Assistant Professor of History at Penn State University. This interview is based on his new book, Masters of the Middle Waters: Indian Nations and Colonial Ambitions along the Mississippi (Belknap Press, 2019). JF: What led you to write Masters...
Scott Heerman is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Miami. This interview is based on his new book, The Alchemy of Slavery: Human Bondage and Emancipation in the Illinois Country, 1730-1865 ( University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018). JF: What led...
Robert Morrissey is Assistant Professor of History at University of Illinois. This interview is based on his new book, Empire by Collaboration: Indians, Colonists, and Governments in the Colonial Illinois Country (University of Pennsylvania Press, March 2015). JF: What led you to write Empire...
Did Adoniram Judson’s wife own a $1200 coat? Want to get some context for this post? Click here. Days like these are rough. I am trying to get in 3-5 hours a day on the ABS project, but some days my...
He is teaching Civil War history in a federal prison. As Michael Lynch reminds us at his blog Past in the Present, the corrupt former Illinois governor’s love of Civil War history is quite ironic when you consider that while […]
