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A Visit from Senator Kennedy

Published on: October 24, 2024

By Spenser Bailey. John F. Kennedy is immortalized in history as a young, dynamic president, cut down by an assassin’s bullet long before his time. His short yet eventful presidency, along with speculation on what he might have accomplished had he lived, has provided sufficient material for analysis, scholarship, and... Read More

Acquisition Spotlight: Gliessman Photographic Studio Records

Published on: October 24, 2024

By Spenser Bailey. From the mid-1940s to the early 21st century, the Gliessman Studio provided Champaign-Urbana and Central Illinois with advertising, photographic services, and video production. The studio, founded and operated by Perry Gliessman until his death in the 1960s, after which Bill Morrow took over for the next 40... Read More

New and Improved Voices of Illinois Oral History Portal!

Published on: June 25, 2024

By Spenser Bailey. In the spring and early summer of 2024, Archives Research Assistant Spenser Bailey created a new, Omeka-based Voices of Illinois oral history portal.* This process entailed making stylistic choices, developing search functions and organizational presentation for the interview collections, and transferring the existing 170 interviews over from... Read More

Exploring Football Materials at the Student Life and Culture Archives

Published on: May 17, 2024

By Katie Higley. With the recent Illini Spring Game and the NFL Draft, football is on the mind for many of us. If you’re missing football, especially your Fighting Illini, you should check out the many football-related collections at the Student Life and Culture Archives (SLC) in the Archives Research... Read More

University Archives: A Nikkeijin Illinois Content Provider

Published on: September 25, 2023

By Jason Finkelman. Upon Spurlock Museum’s invitation to curate an exhibition on the Japanese American experience, Jason Finkelman proposed telling the story through profiles of those who had been part of the University of Illinois as students, faculty, and staff. Seeking subjects who had been part of the institution before,... Read More

Author: Spenser Bailey

A Visit from Senator Kennedy

Acquisition Spotlight: Gliessman Photographic Studio Records

New and Improved Voices of Illinois Oral History Portal!

Exploring Football Materials at the Student Life and Culture Archives

University Archives: A Nikkeijin Illinois Content Provider

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