America’s Cold War involvement with Southeast Asia is often viewed through the prism of the Vietnam War. While few would deny the importance of this conflict, many other far less known and far more successful interactions occurred between American and ...
Local author, Marti Brown, assembled her father’s scrapbooks and over 300 letters sent to family members during World War II and compiled these artifacts into a book entitled From Cornfield to Battlefield: A Young Farmer’s Journey Through World War II. ...
The Illinois Digital Archives is a repository for the digital collections of the Illinois State Library as well as other libraries and cultural institutions in the State of Illinois. It contains historical photographs, slides, glass negatives, oral histories, manuscripts, letters, ...
Stop by the library to learn about Fold3, the library’s newest genealogy research database. Fold3 provides access to over 440 million historical U.S. military records beginning with the Revolutionary War. Users can also create a personal account and create memorial ...
Dennis Maher and Lars Jacobson, members of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, will present a program about the S.U.V.C.W. on Tuesday, September 17 from 7:00-8:00 p.m. in the Yusunas Meeting Room. Mr. Maher will provide a ...
Rockford Original Discovered in Archives! Veterans' Memorial Hall & Museum opened a scrapbook in their archives to unearth a Rockford first! On April 3, 1940, the women of Rockford founded W.A.S.P., the Women’s Ambulance Safety Patrol. Within months this effort swept ...
The Oral Histories of DeKalb podcast series will focus on interviewing older residents (ages 55+) about their personal stories and their connection to DeKalb and its history. The podcasts and the interview materials will become part of the DeKalb Public ...
The Oral Histories of DeKalb podcast series will focus on interviewing older residents (ages 55+) about their personal stories and their connection to DeKalb and its history. The podcasts and the interview materials will become part of the DeKalb Public ...
The Oral Histories of DeKalb podcast series will focus on interviewing older residents (ages 55+) about their personal stories and their connection to DeKalb and its history. The podcasts and the interview materials will become part of the DeKalb Public ...
The Oral Histories of DeKalb podcast series will focus on interviewing older residents (ages 55+) about their personal stories and their connection to DeKalb and its history. The podcasts and the interview materials will become part of the DeKalb Public ...
October 29, 2020
Have You Joined the Crafty Corner Yet?
October 28, 2020
Take a Virtual Look Inside the First Folio
October 27, 2020
Family Fun Science, Create a Winter Bird Feeder!
October 27, 2020
Veterans Day Quiz
