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Road Trip Through History: The Genoa National Fish Hatchery and the Black Hawk War
Here’s what I knew about the Black Hawk War at the beginning of our most recent travels along the Great River Road: it was a small scale war between Native American tribes and American settlers in the upper Midwest prior to the Civil War and Abraham Lincoln fought in it as a member of the…
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From The Archives: Lincoln’s Greatest Case–Sort of
One of the recurring themes this fall as we worked our way along the Great River Road, crossing the Mississippi back and forth between Iowa and Wisconsin was, in fact, the question of crossing the river. We think of “bridge-building” as a metaphor for bringing communities together, but the construction of real-life bridges was often…
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Road Trip Through History: Don’t Judge a Book By Its Cover, Or a Museum By Its Website
It probably comes as no surprise to those of you who have been hanging out here in the Margins for a while that I am a fan of local history museums. What a museum chooses to focus on can tell you how a community or a region defines itself. Even a museum that seems at…
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