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The Conference on Illinois History—now in its eighth year—is the state’s largest meeting devoted to the history of the Prairie State. More than two hundred fifty attended the 2005 conference, which featured traditional academic papers, local history studies, teacher workshops, and roundtable discussions.
Featured Speakers will discuss the subjects of their recent books:
ROBERT BRAY, R. Forrest Colwell Professor of American Literature in the English department at Illinois Wesleyan University, Peter Cartwright, Legendary Frontier Preacher
JAMES GREEN, Professor of History and Labor Studies, University of Massachusetts—Boston, Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing that Divided Gilded Age America
KERRY TRASK, a scholar of early-American history, is a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Manitowoc, Black Hawk: The Battle for the Heart of America
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