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McHistory is a co-production of WGLT and the McLean County Museum of History.
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McHistory is a co-production of WGLT and the McLean County Museum of History.
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We dip into a half century of diaries of life in McLean County by a carpenter and handyman who wrote fiction and poetry and a log of his daily rounds in…
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An early Bloomington settler and one time friend of Abe Lincoln was also a southern sympathizer. Sarah Withers wrote on May 4th 1861, "This day our nation…
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In this Black History Month edition of our Sound Ideas recurring series McHistory, you'll hear from a Spanish American War Soldier from Bloomington who…
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Lobbying days in Springfield happen every year in which interest groups throng to the state capitol to push for certain legislation. As part of GLT's…
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The hamlet of Danvers once hosted a sanatorium for those struggling with addiction to alcohol. As part of GLT's joint project with the McLean County…
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America's most successful woman playwright is all but unknown today.In this episode of McHistory we hear excerpts from a newspaper interview with this…
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Though a city in the free north, southern-state settled McLean County was not a welcome environment for members of the anti-slave movement.GLT's Mary…
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At the tail end of the Civil War, there was another battle stirring in the City of Bloomington: the war on dogs.With the threat of rabies creating panic,…
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Amidst the civil rights movement, one Bloomington clergyman traveled south of the Mason-Dixon line to register blacks to vote.The Rev. Ernest Norquist…
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In the era of Jim Crow laws, enforced racial segregation kept blacks and whites separate at restaurants, in bathrooms, and in education.While black…