Illinois high school students of the past decade have written much about history. This is a partial collection of what appeared in the magazine Illinois History. Northern Illinois University re-indexed it recently, and disrupted the web indexing system.
These below are selected because of the subject matter or location of the writers to Southern Illinois.
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/2002/ihy020229.html egypt
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/2002/ihy020227.html 1937 flood
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/2002/ihy020226.html cache
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/2002/ihy020235.html kaskaskia river
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/2002/ihy020456.html natl road
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/2002/ihy020446.html hamburg **
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/2002/ihy020452.html trail tears
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/2001/ihy010222.html capone prohibition
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/2001/ihy010238.html cave in rock mason
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/2001/ihy010228.html duel in ill territory
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/2001/ihy010230.html altgeld
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/2001/ihy010235.html herrin massacre
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/2001/ihy010442.html ICRR
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/2001/ihy010448.html cairo commerce
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/2001/ihy010456.html frank lloyd wright
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/2001/ihy010459.html st clair 1900
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/2001/ihy011201.html coverage cairo civil rights
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/2001/ihy011205.html malkovitch
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/2001/ihy011210.html 1925 tornado
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/2000/ihy000221.html father of no till farming
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/2000/ihy000228.html grange
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/2000/ihy000232.html john deere co
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/2000/ihy000234.html horseradish
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/2000/ihy000237.html tomatoes
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/2000/ihy000238.html apples
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/2000/ihy000240.html farming
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/2000/ihy000441.html montgomery ward
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/2000/ihy000447.html anna phoenix flour mills
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/2000/ihy000452.html sears
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/2000/ihy000458.html shoe manufacturing
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/2000/ihy001202.html geo rogers clark
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/2000/ihy001203.html pioneer jackson co
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/2000/ihy001205.html kaskaskia frontier town
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/2000/ihy001208.html illinois new frontier
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/2000/ihy001210.html shawneetown
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/2000/ihy001217.html french
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/2000/ihy001219.html vandalia capital
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/1999/ihy990221.html grant's success
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/1999/ihy990224.html trumbull
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/1999/ihy990225.html grant's beginnings
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/1999/ihy990227.html stephen douglas
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/1999/ihy990228.html grant by accident
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/1999/ihy990232.html lincoln douglas debates
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/1999/ihy990238.html grant: two images
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/1999/ihy990446.html custom house
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/1999/ihy990455.html williamson jail
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/1998/ihy980225.html lincoln at new salem
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/1998/ihy980230.html lincoln at new salem
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/1998/ihy980232.html lincoln douglas debates
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/1998/ihy980234.html lincoln new salem
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/1998/ihy980240.html lincoln: lawyer
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/1998/ihy980237.html lincoln illinois years
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/1998/ihy980238.html lincoln douglas rivalry
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/1998/ihy980441.html suffrage
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/1998/ihy980450.html lucy parsons
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/1998/ihy981202.html carbondale mixed cultures
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/1998/ihy981209.html attucks school carbondale
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/1998/ihy981211.html ewing school rural urban
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/1997/ihy970225.html lincoln changing views slavery
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/1997/ihy970228.html lincoln's colonization
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/1997/ihy970230.html lincoln changing views slavery
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/1997/ihy970231.html lincoln slavery
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/1997/ihy970234.html lincoln on govt
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/1997/ihy970236.html lincoln slavery
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/1997/ihy970446.html der lutheraner
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/1997/ihy970457.html james hall
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/1997/ihy970458.html dutchess: virginia marmaduke
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/1997/ihy971207.html steelworkers
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/1997/ihy971216.html migrant labor
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/1997/ihy971218.html umwa
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/1996/ihy960228.html underground rr belleville
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/1996/ihy960242.html mary logan
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/1996/ihy960248.html slavery s ill
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/1996/ihy960454.html river pirates
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/1996/ihy960456.html the milksick
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/1996/ihy960460.html hambletonian
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/1996/ihy960463.html saline towns
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/1996/ihy960472.html cairo before the war
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/1996/ihy961210.html university bookstore
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/1996/ihy961211.html goose hunting
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/1996/ihy961213.html white pie
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/1995/ihy950233.html flatboating abe
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/1995/ihy950232.html lincoln's jokes
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/1995/ihy950236.html jonesboro debate
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/1995/ihy950244.html honest abe
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/1995/ihy950247.html lincoln & ICRR
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/1995/ihy950248.html lincoln's duel
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/1994/ihy940225.html illinois & civil war
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/1994/ihy940233.html john a logan
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/1994/ihy940246.html civil war music
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/1994/ihy940240.html copperheads
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/1994/ihy940465.html dirksen civil rights
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/1994/ihy940469.html adlai stevenson
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/1994/ihy941211.html developing carbondale
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/1994/ihy941210.html cars in mt vernon
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/1994/ihy941220.html IC rail building
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/1993/ihy930221.html grant by john y simon
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/1993/ihy930351.html small town theater
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/1993/ihy930569b.html depression farm girl
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/1993/ihy930580b.html great depression
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/1993/ihy931208.html native american decline
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/1993/ihy931212.html intellectual
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/1993/ihy931220.html nathaniel pope
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/1993/ihy931224.html kaskaskia
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/1992/ihy921211.html pioneer women
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/1992/ihy921213.html mccormick harvesting
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/1992/ihy921205.html mccormick reaper
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/1992/ihy921214.html harvesting
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/1992/ihy921216.html grange halls
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/1992/ihy921207.html flower power