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Kurz & Allison Chromolithograph, The Battle ...

The First Battle of Iron Ships Brilliantly Presented!

The Battle Between the Monitor and the Merrimac is among the most popular of the ... Read More

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William N. Still, Jr. Iron Afloat: ...

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Frank M. Bennett, The Monitor and ...

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H. W. Brands, American Patriarch: The ...

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Dr. Elizabeth, Varon, Longstreet: The Confederate ...

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Gordon S. Wood, The Radicalism of ...

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The First Battle Between “Iron” Ships ...

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Helser Groundbreaking

Alexander Hesler, Roosevelt University and Auditorium ...

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Abolitionist Broadside, Died, Near the South-Side ...

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Abolition Traitor Broadside

Abolition Broadside, An Abolition Traitor

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Civil War era Toy Drum with ...

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Lois Romano

An Inconvenient Widow

Airdate: 05/28/2026 @ 3:30 pm c

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Alphonso Iannelli Abraham Lincoln Bust

Iannelli Bust in Paris!

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 are thrilled to play a small role in this ... 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