Nearly 40 Illinois State University students rolled up their sleeves on Friday, April 12, to give back to their campus and local community during the Center for Civic Engagement’s Bring it Back to Normal (BIBTN) service event.
The Milner Library Special Collections and Rare Books Room at Illinois State University is excited to announce the acquisition of Civil War documents written by Jesse Fell.
On this day, 150 years ago, one of Jesse Fell’s closest friends was shot while watching a play in Washington, D.C.
Professors Nerida Ellerton and Ken Clements have determined that a fragment in the archives in Houghton Library at Harvard University is in fact an 11th leaf from the oldest surviving manuscript written by the future president.
In a 1930 letter, President Herbert Hoover referred to the qualities of Abraham Lincoln’s leadership as “touchstones of democracy and of practical government.” In more recent correspondence, President Barack Obama called Lincoln the president “whose moral compass pointed firm and true.” The personally signed letters on White House stationery extolling America’s 16th president are part
