Will Best
- Jan 12
- 2 min
Digital Exhibit: The Chapin-McNeil Family Letters
By E. Elizabeth Watkins, Sean Blocher-McTigue, William Givens, and Connor Monson Life on the homestead wasn’t easy for early members of...
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Will Best
- Jan 6
- 5 min
The Celebrations and Stories Behind our Italian Creche
Figure 1: Creche on Display at the News-Gazette circa 1990 Nativity scenes or Creches are common in the Midwest, especially at Christmas...
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Connor Monson
- Nov 10, 2023
- 19 min
The Mandeville Flag: A Search For the Story Of A Fallen Union Soldier
By Rachel Johnston and Connor Monson “It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these...
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Will Best
- Nov 4, 2023
- 15 min
Myra, IL Part I: The Silver Family and Their Tragedies
By Will Best Research by Aaron Khan and Philo Wang Figure 1: Myra Station Facing the Northwest Courtesy of Jim Prather Mira, Illinois,...
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Aaron Kahn and Maggie Weimer
- Jul 29, 2023
- 15 min
Sol B. Cohen: Composer, Soldier, Translator
By Aaron Khan and Maggie Weimer, Edited by Connor Monson and Rick Partin “I left Europe with very fair technical equipment, a large...
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