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Upheaval in Alton

Elijah Lovejoy, martyr to freedom of the press

By Glenna R. Schroeder-Lein

Sep 23, 2021

The 1830s were a volatile decade in the United States. Andrew Jackson, president until 1837, encouraged more rights for working class white males at the expense of the elite...

First to Fall: Elijah Lovejoy and the Fight for a Free Press in the Age of Slavery (New York: Pegasus Press, 2021, $27.95).

The devil comes to Illinois

By Karen Ackerman Witter
Sep 16, 2021
How did these women get this way?

By Len Naumovich
Sep 2, 2021
Memories of a state government insider

By Karen Ackerman Witter
Jul 22, 2021
From Rochester to the world stage

By Cinda Ackerman Klickna
Jul 15, 2021
Punks on the prairie

By Rachel Otwell
Jul 8, 2021