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Walter Stahr, William Howard Taft: A ...

Five Decades of Selfless Public Service

With William Howard Taft: A Great American Life, Walter Stahr brings us a carefully researched ... Read More

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Walter Stahr, Salmon P. Chase, 1st ...

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Walter Stahr, Seward: Lincoln’s Indispensable Man ...

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Raymond J. McKoski, David Davis, Abraham ...

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

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Peter W. Roper, Jedediah Hotchkiss, 1st ...

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Edwin Stanton, Box of Cigars

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John Wilkes Booth, Carte de Visite, ...

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Abraham Lincoln, Note Signed, With Two ...

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Lincoln Chicago Funeral, City Hall, Albumen ...

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(Chicago Fire) William Shaw, The Great ...

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James Lee McDonough

POSTPONED Grant: The Making of a Legendary Military Leader

Airdate: 11/19/2026 @ 3:30 pm c

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Gerald L. Maatman

Stonewall's Lieutenant

Airdate: 12/03/2026 @ 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