"Following a young Frenchman in the mid-sixteenth century, Raphael Fontenot depicts the life of a religious refugee and his family as they flee persecution along with several hundred others—sailing to the New World. As native attacks on t...Continue reading

Published in Illinois Heritage 15, no. 6 (December 2012): 8-11. By the end of the Great War, four major powers—Germany, Russia, and the Empires of Austria-Hungary and Ottoman—were militarily and financially defeated, with the...Continue reading

Published in Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 103, no. 2 (Summer 2010): 165-179. “It killed more people in twenty-four weeks than AIDS has killed in twenty-four years, more in a year than the Black Death killed in a ce...Continue reading