History

WSIU's Jennifer Fuller talks with Jenny Pape about her new project and compilation album.

Project is part of ongoing historic renovation

WSIU's Jennifer Fuller talks with Historian James Edstrom about his new book, "Avenues of Transformation: Illinois' Path from Territory to State"

Inspired by the sacrifice of thousands of soldiers, Abraham Lincoln delivered a speech for the ages

This weekend the Fort Massac Encampment returns drawing thousands of people to Metropolis. The held their education day on Friday welcoming more than 3,500 students from Illinois, Missouri and Kentucky.

This isn't the first time Missouri has banned abortions. Residents may have heard ghoulish tales of “Doc Annie” Smith, a physician who looms large in Missouri’s mythology for performing illegal abortions in the early 1900s. Today, the truth about her work has largely disappeared.

This month marks the 100th anniversary of one of the deadliest labor disputes in the country. Striking coal miners in the town of Herrin clashed with men brought in to operate a local mine. Nearly two dozen people died, but no one was convicted.

Woodlawn Cemetery in Carbondale is where one of the country’s first Memorial Day Celebrations took place in 1868.Carbondale still holds their annual Memorial Day Service at the same Cemetery.

The Illinois department of Natural Resources approved five grants for historic preservation projects totaling more than $117,000 through their State Historic Preservation Office.

SIU’s Anthropology Department and Center for Archaeological Investigations offers an experimental learning class each summer at Ft. Kaskaskia called Digging Illinois History.