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Robert Ingersoll lived in Peoria from 1857 to 1877. He was hailed as the greatest orator of his time, the latter half of the 19th century. While Inge...

Anti-Communist feelings reached a fever pitch in the United States following World War II. The big war was won, but the Cold War was on. Clay Risen, a...

World War II is a never-ending source of history. Decades after the conflict’s conclusion, research and examination continue as we seek to understand ...

Shannon Monaghan is a military historian whose last book, A Quiet Company of Dangerous Men, offered an account of select British special operations un...

World War II may have ended 80 years ago, but it’s still happening for Jenny Chan, a 2012 University of Illinois graduate. Chan is president and found...

Craig Pittman is one writer who doesn’t have to spend a lot of time digging up story ideas. As a 30-year veteran of the Tampa Bay Times and now a repo...

Rob Christensen’s new book, Southern News, Southern Politics (University of North Carolina Press), is more than the history of the newspaper, the News...

When Christy Mathewson burst upon the scene with the New York Giants in 1900, baseball had a less-than-perfect image. It was a rowdy game played by ro...

When Christy Mathewson burst upon the scene with the New York Giants in 1900, baseball had a less-than-perfect image. It was a rowdy game played by ro...

True crime accounts are all the rage these days. But Tom Chorneau didn’t want to just add another cold case to the national docket. Instead, the unsol...

How did you learn about the American West? Books came first. Reading material included notorious dime novels that made legends of Buffalo Bill and Jes...

Chrysler released a special edition of the Dodge Royal Lancer that Chrysler in 1955 called LaFemme. Marketed as “a car for the modern woman,” the mode...