Pub Date : 2023-04-01DOI: 10.5406/23283335.116.1.03
Sean Jacobson
IN LATE 2017, THE ILLINOIS HOLOCAUST MUSEUM AND EDUCATION CENTER (IHMEC) in Skokie, a northwest Chicago suburb, launched its “Take a Stand” Center, which featured a first-of-its-kind interactive hologram exhibit that allowed museum visitors to interact virtually with Holocaust survivors. The cutting-edge exhibit, co-sponsored with the University of Southern California (USC) Shoah Foundation, received much media fanfare, including interviews with survivors whose likenesses were featured. Aaron Elster, a survivor and active member of the museum's board of directors, became the poster child of the new center's opening. “I think the technology puts this museum on a totally different level,” said Elster in an interview standing in front of his holographic proxy. Elster argued that the ability for future generations to engage with survivors themselves once living memory of the Holocaust has died would prevent the reduction of the Holocaust to “a sentence or at best a paragraph in World War II history.”1 Incidentally, Elster died only six months after this interview, on Yom Hashoah or Holocaust Day of Remembrance. In his obituary, the Chicago Sun-Times highlighted the role of Elster's hologram in asserting the perpetual relevance of his testimony.2Elster's conscious involvement in his own preservation exemplified a larger pattern characterizing the Illinois Holocaust Museum's development. A site that receives its heaviest traffic from school groups across the Midwest, the IHMEC owes much of its present success to the passage of the 1990 Illinois Mandate for Holocaust Education, which came about through the active lobbying from area survivors like Erna Gans, the first president of the IHMEC's parent organization, the Holocaust Memorial Foundation of Illinois (HMFI). It was founded by a core community of Jewish survivors who committed themselves to educating non-Jews about the Shoah and its lessons. The HMFI began as a grassroots organization composed entirely of Holocaust survivors and their immediate family members. After the 1990 mandate's enactment, the local survivor leadership recognized their need to extend authority to outside professionals to build an infrastructure capable of sustaining their organization's mission for subsequent generations. The most obvious element of growth centered on the relocation from a storefront on Main Street in Skokie to a larger and more comprehensive museum and education center in that suburb, which opened in 2009. While the museum's move to a larger facility brought outside voices to the table of Holocaust memory and education, the survivor lay leadership ensured that both their own narrative authority and their continued presence in decision-making would be maintained in the transition process.When viewed from a broader perspective, Holocaust commemoration often involves mediation between the collective or professional narrative and that of the eyewitness. In many studies of memory theory, this phenomenon has ofte
20世纪90年代，随着基金会大楼的访问量越来越大，幸存者面临着双重挑战，一方面要承认需要引入外部专业帮助，另一方面要承认自己队伍中的死亡率。HMFI并不是同类组织中唯一面临扩张和专业化挑战的组织。在美国大屠杀博物馆不断发展的同时，非裔美国人博物馆也面临着调整专业基础设施的挑战，以便从边缘过渡到主流，同时又不失去与其成员的完整性。例如，底特律的国际非裔美国人博物馆(International african - american Museum)从历史上的黑人社区的一所房子搬到一个更大的博物馆时，面临着社区的愤怒和财政困境
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Pub Date : 2023-04-01DOI: 10.5406/23283335.116.1.01
Robert D. Sampson
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Pub Date : 2023-04-01DOI: 10.5406/23283335.116.1.06
Tristan M. K. Draper, T. Draper
{"title":"Research Articles in Illinois History, 2010–2022: A Bibliographic Overview","authors":"Tristan M. K. Draper, T. Draper","doi":"10.5406/23283335.116.1.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/23283335.116.1.06","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17416,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society (1998-)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77420317","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-04-01DOI: 10.5406/23283335.116.1.04
M. Flotow
{"title":"Early Civil War Camp Butler and William Tecumseh Sherman: Persistence of a False Narrative","authors":"M. Flotow","doi":"10.5406/23283335.116.1.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/23283335.116.1.04","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17416,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society (1998-)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90523430","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.5406/23283335.115.4.12
I. Rocksborough-Smith
{"title":"After Redlining: The Urban Reinvestment Movement in the Era of Financial Deregulation","authors":"I. Rocksborough-Smith","doi":"10.5406/23283335.115.4.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/23283335.115.4.12","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17416,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society (1998-)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75563684","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.5406/23283335.115.4.08
Sundiata A. Djata
{"title":"Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr.: Popular Black History in Postwar America","authors":"Sundiata A. Djata","doi":"10.5406/23283335.115.4.08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/23283335.115.4.08","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17416,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society (1998-)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77621693","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.5406/23283335.115.4.04
Jonathan W. White, Michael Dwight Sparks
{"title":"The Civil War Letters of Dr. Daniel Garrison Brinton, Surgeon in Charge at the US Army General Hospital in Quincy","authors":"Jonathan W. White, Michael Dwight Sparks","doi":"10.5406/23283335.115.4.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/23283335.115.4.04","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17416,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society (1998-)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78864546","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.5406/23283335.115.4.05
Wayne Duerkes
{"title":"Conrad Seabaugh & Company: An Inside Look at an Illinois Hinterland Merchant","authors":"Wayne Duerkes","doi":"10.5406/23283335.115.4.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/23283335.115.4.05","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17416,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society (1998-)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75036976","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.5406/23283335.115.4.09
R. Hughes
{"title":"Dangerous Ideas on Campus: Sex, Conspiracy, and Academic Freedom in the Age of JFK","authors":"R. Hughes","doi":"10.5406/23283335.115.4.09","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/23283335.115.4.09","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17416,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society (1998-)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81901032","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.5406/23283335.115.4.11
R. Lindberg
{"title":"Fortune and Faith in Old Chicago: A Dual Biography of Mayor Augustus Garrett and Seminary Founder Eliza Clark Garrett","authors":"R. Lindberg","doi":"10.5406/23283335.115.4.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/23283335.115.4.11","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17416,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society (1998-)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85018255","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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