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Light and shadow: A review of Pekin’s African-American history and historiography

As Pekin’s Bicentennial Year continues and we now find ourselves in Black History Month,...

Distillery workers, domestics, and war heroes: Pekin’s blacks in the Gilded Age

By Jared Olar Library assistant Last week in this column, we surveyed the African-American...

Tazewell County’s Spanish-American War volunteers didn’t lose a single man

By Jared Olar Library assistant Of all the many wars that the United States...

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