A Visit from Senator Kennedy

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Kennedy spoke passionately, accentuating his words with hand gestures.
By Spenser Bailey. John F. Kennedy is immortalized in history as a young, dynamic president, cut down by an assassin’s bullet long before his time.  His short yet eventful presidency, along with speculation on what he might have accomplished had he lived, has provided sufficient material for analysis, scholarship, and... Read More

New and Improved Voices of Illinois Oral History Portal!

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By Spenser Bailey. In the spring and early summer of 2024, Archives Research Assistant Spenser Bailey created a new, Omeka-based Voices of Illinois oral history portal.*  This process entailed making stylistic choices, developing search functions and organizational presentation for the interview collections, and transferring the existing 170 interviews over from... Read More