*Western Illinois Museum Press Release The Western Illinois Museum is pleased to welcome the Cuba High School’s History Club to its indoor, Our Front Porch. Members of the club will share their insights on the history of Forgottonia that they learned through conducting oral histories with members of their community. Students and Joe Brewer, Cuba …
Forgottonia History Club: Meeting #2 & #3
The purpose of this post is to provide a space for announcements, guidelines, and other information pertaining to the Forgottonia History Club hosted by Cuba High School. This post will reference our next two meetings on Wednesday 9/7/22 and Wednesday 9/14/22. MEETING OUTLINE Examine old Cuba Yearbooks Choose one Yearbook from Cuba High School's past. …
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Forgottonia History Club: 8/31/22 Meeting #1
The purpose of this post is to provide a space for announcements, guidelines, and other information pertaining to the Forgottonia History Club hosted by Cuba High School. MEETING OUTLINE Welcome & Introduction: What is FORGOTTONIA?Mr. Brewer: Forgottonia Project Sue Scott: Western Illinois MuseumKathy Nichols: WIU Archives John Hallwas: & Western IL History AuthorRegina Holland: National …
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S4 – Blog 03: CHS Student Blogs about Camp Ellis
This semester, our IL History students visited the Easley Pioneer Museum in Ipava, IL; home to the largest collection of artifacts on the WW2 museum Camp Ellis. Students had the opportunity to speak with museum workers Marion Cornelius and Julie Terstriep and develop their own blog posts. Check out two of these posts below, as well …
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Dime Novel Desperados – A Local History Podcast Book Review
The Forgottonia Project is pleased to announce our local history podcast book review series. Our first book study will feature an analysis of Dr. John Hallwas’s 2011 book “Dime Novel Desperados: The Notorious Maxwell Brothers.” Dr. Hallwas visited our class at Cuba High School to discuss his book Dime Novel Desperados ABOUT THE BOOK Dime …
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S4 – Blog 02: The Legacy of Dickson Mounds (Student Post Edition)
Pleased to share this blog post from Cuba High School student contributors Gavin Johnson and Lexi Leonard. This post was part of a unit of research students did about Indigenous Americans in Illinois (See links below). Introduction The Dickson Mounds Museum, located near Lewistown, IL, harbor a collection of Indian burial mounds that were discovered …
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S4 – Blog 01: Cahokia Mounds…What Happened? by Audrey Cozart
Please enjoy this blog post contribution from Cuba High School student Audrey Cozart. Audrey's post is in partnership with our previous podcast episode featuring Cahokia Mound's archaeologist, Bill Iseminger (You can listen to that episode by clicking here). If you have any questions or comments let us know on our webpage or our Facebook page. …
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