20+ hour, 31+ min ago   (35+ words) The List.co.uk Reformers and Radicals: A survey of the art and politics of 16th Century Europe Event data provided by DataThistle...

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20+ hour, 54+ min ago   (680+ words) (Left) This notebook was used in 1893 to record a trip to the World’s Fair, held in Chicago. (Right) The first page of the notebook. By Catherine Cooper, Orleans County Historian “Illuminating Orleans” – Volume 6, No. 25 A small, modest notebook with a…...

1+ day, 27+ min ago   (340+ words) As explained in the Administration's documentation, fountains and troughs (fules, longer and thinner hollowed-out trunks that water touches) and two troughs (containers for collecting water) were placed at the very source of the Lepešnica. Fountains are narrow, hollowed-out wooden pipes…...

1+ day, 46+ min ago   (367+ words) The Montgomery Historic Preservation Commission will host a free public presentation on the Underground Railroad and the anti-slavery movement in Kendall and Kane counties, the village said. The presentation, titled “Freedom’s Path: The Underground Railroad and the Anti-Slavery Movement in…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (1454+ words) By Jaycee Gudoy | Published 18 seconds ago Most people picture a history museum as a building full of things that happened generations before anyone alive today was born. A newer kind of museum has emerged over the past few decades, built…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (129+ words) The DeKalb County History Center recently was named a recipient of the Illinois Humanities 250th Gift. The $5,000 gift will support the history center’s “We the People of DeKalb County” exhibit and America250 programs. The “We the People of DeKalb County” exhibit runs…...