| Name | Program Title |
|---|---|
| Sharon Z. Alter | Three Wartime First Ladies: Madison, Lincoln, and Wilson |
| Sharon Z. Alter | First Ladies as Activists and Leaders |
| Sharon Z. Alter | Mary Todd Lincoln and Varina Howell Davis: Civil War and Its Aftermath |
| Rita Arias Jirasek | Mexican Chicago - A Story in Pictures |
| Stephen T. Asma | Dinosaurs on the Ark: Understanding the Recent Clashes Between Science and Religion |
| Stephen T. Asma | Our Values After 9/11: An Ethical Exploration of the Contest Between Tribalism and Egalitarianism |
| Stephen T. Asma | Ancient Antidotes: Stoic and Buddhist Lessons for Our Economic Crisis |
| Penelope Bingham | Who Cooks? American Cookbooks and Changes in Gender Roles |
| Penelope Bingham | Whatever Happened to Tuna Noodle Casserole? |
| Penelope Bingham | Thanksgiving: The Great American Holiday |
| Jeffrey A. Bockman | A Gift that Money Can't Buy |
| Jeffrey A. Bockman | Extra! Extra! Read All About Your Ancestors! |
| Lee L. Brice | Alexander the Great, Then and Now. |
| Lee L. Brice | Bread and Circuses: Truth and Fiction in the Ancient Gladiator and Chariot Arena |
| Lee L. Brice | History & Film: Cinematic Window on the Ancient & Modern Worlds |
| Warren R. Brown | The History of Science, as Told by Mark Twain |
| Elizabeth "Ellie" Carlson | A Visit With Mrs. Potts |
| Elizabeth "Ellie" Carlson | Little Schoolhouse on the Prairie |
| Elizabeth "Ellie" Carlson | Regretting Mr. Wright: Mamah Tells Her Own Story |
| Timothy Connors | Stephen A. Douglas: The Little Giant |
| Simon Cordery | Crossroads of the Nation: The Hidden History of the Railroads of Illinois |
| Simon Cordery | Mother Jones and the Development of Unions in Illinois |
| Antonio Delgado | The Impact of the Mexican Revolution on the United States |
| Antonio Delgado | Lincoln and His Times: A Pan-American View |
| Antonio Delgado | Early Mexican Chicago: Missing Pages of History |
| Mark Dvorak | The People, Yes |
| Mark Dvorak | The American Folk Song |
| Mark Dvorak | Once I Had an Old Banjo |
| Brian (Fox) Ellis | Civil War Ghosts and Legends |
| Brian (Fox) Ellis | The Ghosts of Edgar Allan Poe |
| Brian (Fox) Ellis | The Role of Steamboatin' in the Union Victory! |
| Lewis Erenberg | Rumble in the Jungle: Muhammad Ali and George Foreman in Zaire |
| Lewis Erenberg | Swing Music and the Great Depression |
| Lewis Erenberg | The Greatest Fight of Our Generation: Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling |
| Charles F. Fanning | Dueling Ethnic Cultures: The Irish Contribution to Chicago’s Century of Progress World’s Fair 1933-34 |
| Charles F. Fanning | George McManus' Maggie and Jiggs: The Comics as Social History |
| Charles F. Fanning | The Art of Piano Improvisation, Chicago-style: Eleanor Kane Neary and Joe Sullivan |
| Edward F. Finch | Captain Terry - Civil War Naval Officer |
| Edward F. Finch | Running Silent, Running Deep: The American Submarine War Against Japan, 1941-1945 |
| Edward F. Finch | The Civil War at Sea |
| Erik Gellman | Charles White and the Laboring of the Chicago Black Renaissance |
| Erik Gellman | Race Tracks: Civil Rights and the Arena of Public Transit |
| Erik Gellman | The Panthers and Beyond: The Wider Vision of Black Power and Economic Justice in 1960s Chicago |
| Tony Gerard | Crossing Cultures - Jean Baptiste Le Kraskaskia |
| Tony Gerard | Removing the Cherokee - A Soldier's story |
| Tony Gerard | With Lewis and Clark - Jean Baptiste Le Junesse |
| Bucky Halker | Booth Shot Lincoln: Illinois Historical Folksongs of Death and Disaster |
| Bucky Halker | Folksongs of Illinois |
| Bucky Halker | This Land is Your Land: Woody Guthrie and the Great American Folksong |
| John E. Hallwas | Desperadoes: Notorious Outlaws of Early Illinois |
| John E. Hallwas | Small-Town Heritage: Life in Illinois Communities, 1870-1920 |
| John E. Hallwas | Work as a Struggle and as a Meaningful Experience in the Writings of Carl Sandburg and Studs Terkel |
| Mark D. Hanson | The Right to Fight as Equals: The 99th Pursuit Squadron and the Creation of the Tuskegee Airmen |
| Judith Heineman and Daniel Marcotte | Grimm's Grimmest: The Darker Side of Fairy Tales |
| Judith Heineman and Daniel Marcotte | Songs and Stories with Renaissance Lute |
| Judith Heineman and Daniel Marcotte | The Magic Carpet: Songs and Stories from Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt |
| Nancy L. Huse | Beatrix Potter: Peter Rabbit and the Landscapes of Home |
| Nancy L. Huse | Ida B. Wells: Our Fearless American Foremother (1862-1931) |
| Nancy L. Huse | Mary Harris "Mother" Jones: A Voice for Workers |
| Oba William King | Denmark Vesey - Freedom Fighter |
| Oba William King | I Love My People |
| Clarence Lang | Writing the Black Freedom Struggle in the Midwest |
| Sarah S. Marcus | Chicago From the Ground Up |
| Sarah S. Marcus | Chicago on Screen |
| Sarah S. Marcus | Heroes, Statesmen, Philanders, and Fools: The American Presidency as Seen on Screen |
| Norman Moline | Mobility and the Small Town 1900-1930 |
| Norman Moline | Evaluation of the Illinois Prairies 1815-1840 |
| Norman Moline | Renewals and Reinventions: River Towns on the Mississippi River |
| Denese M. Neu | Comparing Disasters: How September 11th Defined Our Expectations of the Affected |
| Denese M. Neu | The Great Black Migration and Cultural Exports to Illinois |
| Denese M. Neu | From Civil Rights to Housing Advocacy |
| Shanta Nurullah | From Anansi to Brer Rabbit - Trickster Tales from Africa and the Americas |
| Shanta Nurullah | Messages in the Music - Songs of Protest and Hope |
| Shanta Nurullah | Southside Artistry - The Black Arts Movement |
| Pangratios Papacosta | Scientists and Artists as Architects of Social Justice |
| Pangratios Papacosta | Einstein: His Science, Philosophy, and Humanity |
| Pangratios Papacosta | The History, Politics, and Impact of the Space Program |
| Glenna Schroeder-Lein | Disease, Wounds, Hospitals, and Hygiene: The Medical Side of the Civil War |
| Ronald Solberg | For America's Traveling Salesman It Has Been a Laughing Matter |
| Ronald Solberg | The Life and Times of America's Salesmen: 200 Years of Library of Congress Pictures and Prints |
| Ronald Solberg | The Whizbangs of Oohs and Ahs: Those Magnificent Traveling Salesmen of Illinois |
| Scott Stevens | American Indians in Chicago: Our Legacies, Our Communities |
| Scott Stevens | Colonial Illinois: European and Indigenous Encounters on the Prairies and Woodlands |
| Scott Stevens | Mohawk Iron Workers and the Twin Towers |
| Dennis A. Stroughmatt | Mardi Gras: The 300 Year Old French Creole Tradition |
| Dennis A. Stroughmatt | Mussels, Moonshine, and Music: Mississippi Valley Migrant Life in the Early Twentieth Century |
| Dennis A. Stroughmatt | Play that Hot Fiddle! Old Time Radio and the Life of Southern Illinois Swing Fiddle “Pappy” Wade Ray |
| Chris Vallillo | Abraham Lincoln in Song |
| Chris Vallillo | Songs of the Civil Rights Movement |
| Chris Vallillo | Stephen Foster and the Rise of American Music |
| Gregory Vogel | Cemetery Walk |
| Gregory Vogel | People and Environments, Past and Present |
| Gregory Vogel | The Archaeology of Disaster |
| Peter S. Wenz | Beyond Red and Blue |
| Peter S. Wenz | The Immigration Debate |
| Peter S. Wenz | The War on Terrorism |
| James Wolfinger | Double V: African Americans' Quest for Victory at Home and Abroad in World War II |
| James Wolfinger | Going to Chicago: African Americans and the Great Migration |
| James Wolfinger | The Freedom Rides at Fifty: Remembering an Early Challenge to Segregation |
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