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The Equestrian Statue of Major General ...

A Monumental Statue

The Equestrian Statue of Major General Joseph Hooker is the dedicatory volume for the statue ... Read More

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Homer Cummings & Carl McFarland, Federal ...

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David A. Powell: The Atlanta Campaign, ...

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Bruce Catton, The Centennial History of ...

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Richard F. Miller, Harvard’s Civil War, ...

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Carl Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie ...

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Edwin Stanton, Box of Cigars

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John C. Hallock, Two Battle Letters ...

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Abraham Lincoln, Note Signed, With Two ...

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1860 Campaign Ferrotype, Lincoln and Hamlin

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National Republican Chart, With Grace Bedell ...

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Kevin M. Levin

A Glorious Fate

Airdate: 09/29/2026 @ 3:30 pm c

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David A. Powell

The Atlanta Campaign: Volume 3

Airdate: 10/29/2026 @ 3:30 pm c

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Walter Stahr

William Howard Taft: A Great American Life

Airdate: 11/12/2026 @ 3:30 pm c

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Special Announcements

Alphonso Iannelli Abraham Lincoln Bust

Iannelli Bust in Paris!

UPDATE: The Iannelli Bust has been added to Google Maps! UPDATE: Our own Bjorn Skaptason visited the Iannelli bust in person. Watch him talk about it! UPDATE: The bust is completed and installed in Paris! Read about the unveiling ceremony. UPDATE:  Thanks to Judy Barclay and the Paris-Chicago Sister City Committee the Iannelli bust is being replicated. The replica travelling to Paris! We ... Read More

A Look at Lakeside Classics

Richard Robert Donnelley opened his Chicago printing company in 1864. In 1870, he changed the name to Lakeside Printing and Publishing Company. Rising from the ashes of the 1871 fire, by 1901 they moved into their own building. Located in today’s Printer’s Row neighborhood, the building is architect Howard Van Doren Shaw’s very first design of a commercial building. The ... Read More