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Exhibits
- More Than A Game: A Community History of Baseball & Softball
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Past Exhibits
- 9/11: McLean County Responds
- Adlai! The Life and Times of Adlai E. Stevenson II
- A Matter of Life and Death
- A Passion For Detail: The Architectural Legacy of A.L. Pillsbury
- A Turbulent Time: Perspectives of the Vietnam War
- Beneath the Pattern
- Come & Get It! The Way We Ate 1830-2008
- Details of Architecture
- Fiesta! A Celebration of Mexican Popular Art
- Flaming Youth: The Flapper and the Roaring Twenties
- Freewheeling Into the 20th Century
- From Childhoods Past: 19th and 20th Century
- Gifts to the Prairie: The Work of Pioneer Nurserymen and the Art of the Prestele Family
- Growing Up in the Fifties
- Headlines & Footnotes: Hats & Shoes from the collection of the McLean County Historical Society
- Heads and Tales
- Heartland Home Front and America's Fight for Democracy: McLean County in WWII
- Journey Through the Great Depression
- Just Corn: The "Amaizing" Story
- Lincoln Slept Here? Connecting to Greatness
- Made in McLean County: A History of Manufacturing in McLean County
- Oddities! Or Not?
- Prairie Thunder: 80 Years of Railroad Photography
- Presence, Pride & Passion: A History of African Americans in McLean County
- Promenade Through the Park
- Rediscovery: The Art of Withers Library
- Rituals & Passages: 75 Years of the American Passion Play
- Route 66: Goin' Somewhere
- The Popular Paisley Pattern
- The McLean County Courthouse
- To Sustain the Union: Central Illinois in the Civil War
- Treasures from the Stevenson House
- Unconquerable: Photos and History of the Kickapoo Indians
- What's That Coming Down The Line... The Railroad in the American Mind
- With the Greatest of Ease.. Bloomington's Artists of the Trapeze
- Pedal Power
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Oral Histories
- Beth Echeverria
- Caribel Washington
- Claude Hursey
- Delores Campbell and Mary Trunnell
- Elidia Miller
- Ethel Murray
- Fernando Garza
- Howard and Elaine Bell
- Irene Barnes
- Jesus Villaneuva
- John Barrientes
- Josephine Samuels & Reginald Whittaker
- Kathyrn Dean
- Lucinda Posey
- Lucy Woosley
- Lue Anna Clark
- Manny and Margot Mendoza
- Manuel Cordero
- Merlin and Beulah Kennedy
- Oscar and Ruth Waddell
- Richard and Rose Bell
- Robert and Lillian Augusta Boykin
- Robert Gaston
- Roy and Delores Shavers
- Sarita Mendiola
- Sonny Garcia
- Vincenta "Esperanza" Cornejo
- Wilbur Barton
Videos
- History Makers Honoree Reveal 2023
- History Makers Honoree Reveal 2024
- Bloomington-Normal Innovation Alliance: Partnering for Our Digital Future
- Creating a Public Art Destination
- Creating a Sensory Garden with U of I Extension Brittnay Haag
- Elections with Robert Bradley
- Family Heirloom Recipes from the Illinois State Fair
- Growing up Gen X
- Lincoln in 1859: Testing the Waters and Advancing the Cause with Guy Fraker
- Lunch & Learn -- Arcadia: America's Playable Arcade Museum
- Lunch & Learn: Bloomington's Streetcar Era with Librarian Bill Kemp
- Lunch & Learn: Christmas Past and Present at Ewing Manor
- Lunch & Learn: Game Development with Ben Rosset and Jamie Mathy
- Lunch & Learn: Introducing the 2023 Evergreen Cemetery Walk
- Lunch & Learn: Old Homes & Historic Preservation with Dawn Peters
- Lunch & Learn: Oral Histories and the Bloomington-Normal Black History Project with Andrew Thomas
- Lunch & Learn: Organizing for policy change for a more just and regenerative food system
- Lunch & Learn: Preserving and Celebrating 100 Years with COUNTRY Financial
- Lunch & Learn: Quirky Sites in Illinois
- Lunch & Learn: Relocating the Nativity in Song and Celebration with Adriana Ponce
- Lunch and Learn: The Art of the Rug with Hossein Nateghpour
- Lunch & Learn: The Land of the Giants from Atlanta, Illinois with Bill Thomas
- Lunch & Learn: Understanding the Role of an End-of-Life Doula and the Power of Death Cafes
- Lunch & Learn: What's New at the Zoo with Jay Pratte
- Lunch & Learn: Why Care about Air - BNCARE
- Making Insurance Interesting - Stories from State Farm with Corporate Archivist Buck Farley
- McLean County Holiday Stories
- Miller Park: An Evening of Stories with Bill Kemp
- Mourning in McLean
- No Crybabies Allowed: Book Reading and Signing with Terri Ryburn
- Opening Plenary: Leveraging Policy and Creating Cultural Districts to Drive Economic Success
- Dreams & Life on the Prairie- Latinos in McLean County 1880 to Today
- Pitfalls and Promise: Memorializing McLean County's Past
- Recent Immigration to McLean County: A Panel Discussion Hosted in Collaboration with ISU
- Seasonal Choral Music with the Illinois Wesleyan University Collegiate Choir
- Sembrando Raíces: Oral Histories of Latinos in Central Illinois
- Social Justice History Walking Tour
- Special Election Lunch & Learn with Dr. Andrew Hartman
- Tattooing Finds You: How Tattooists Navigate their World
- The Greening of the Prairie, Irish Immigration into the upper Midwest with Greg Koos
- The Night the Stars Fell
- The Pantagraph: Images to Inform and Inspire
- The Puerto Rico Town Experience in Achieving Cultural District Designation
- The Saints and the State: The Mormon Troubles in Illinois
- The Silent Killer: Dangers of Asbestos in the Workplace Panel Discussion
- Untold African American Stories: Springfield's Lincoln Colored Home
- Volunteers at the McLean County Museum of History
- We all Played Together: A Historical Account of African- American Musicians
- What Does Fido Know? Inside the Mind of the Dog
- Whiskey vs Lager Beer – Bejabers: The Irish, the bete noir of Lincoln’s Republican Party
- Sally Rudolph--2025 History Maker
- Fr. Doug Hennessy--2025 History Maker
- Rob Fazzini--2025 History Maker
- A Deadly Deception: The Asbestos Tragedy in McLean County
- Tree Sculptures at Evergreen Memorial Cemetery
- 100 Years of COUNTRY Financial: Making a Home in the Twin Cities with Bill Kemp
- A Black Woman’s Journey from Cotton Picking to College Professor
- All About Wind Turbines with Meghan Reha
- Ballists, Dead Beats, and Muffins: Inside Early Baseball in Illinois
- Gus and Edith Belt -- 2024 Evergreen Cemetery Walk
- Richard Blue performed by Gregory D. Hicks -- 2023 Evergreen Cemetery Walk
- Florence Risser Funk performed by Diane Walker -- 2020 Evergreen Cemetery Walk
- Helen Clark McCurdy performed by Kathleen Kirk -- 2022 Evergreen Cemetery Walk
- Unconquerable: The Kickapoo of Central Illinois
- Crafting History: Embroidering Festive Felt Ornaments
- Crafting History: Dyeing with Dinner Scraps
- Crafting History: Wonders of Weaving
- Lunch & Learn: Combating High Energy Costs with Energy Efficiency and Solar
- 5G High Speed and Antennas Everywhere
- Before Rivian: The Henney Kilowatt--Bloomington's Battery-powered 'Car of Tomorrow'
- Artists, Advocates, Acrobats, & More! Women Who Made McLean County History
- Lunch & Learn: Artists, Advocates, Acrobats, & More! Women Who Made McLean County History
- From McLean to Mobile: A History of the “The McLean County Regiment”
- University of Evansville Archaeology and Art History Alumni Lecture Series
- Lunch and Learn - Wastewater Today with Tim Ervin, Bloomington Normal Water Reclamation District
- AMM BB Award Edit
- Hilda & Sigmund Livingston -- 2021 Evergreen Cemetery Walk
- Jeanne and Charles Morris -- BNNAACP Youth Council Video
- Volunteers -- You Are Appreciated!
- History Maker Honoree Reveal 2022
- Black Leadership Symposium
- Lunch & Learn: The NAACP was relevant then, now and forever more!
- CICE Year in Review 2021
- Sunday Sauce: An Italian Staple
- Lunch & Learn: Being Innovative in Bloomington-Normal
- Lunch and Learn: Bloomington/Normal Labor Market During the Covid Era: Are we Different?
- Architect A. Richard Williams: Revisiting an International Style Master
- Buckle of the Corn Belt: An Illustrated Tour of McLean County & Everyone's Favorite Grain
- Charles “Old Hoss” Radbourn performed by Rhys Lovell
- BNBHP Presents: A Reunion: the Booker T. Washington Home
- City of Bloomington Honorary Street Sign Celebration
- Contested Civil Liberties in 19th Century McLean County, with Greg Koos
- Conversando Entre Nosotros: What’s in a Label?
- COVID-19 Past, Present, and Future: Lessons Learned
- Ecology Action Center Tree Corps
- Exploring a 700-year-old Native American Village in McLean County with Dr. Logan Miller
- Echoes of Purple and Gold with Jack Keefe
- Lincoln in Downtown Bloomington -- 360 degree video
- In the Spotlight: Antoinette Concello presented by Maureen Brunsdale
- Lunch & Learn: A Fair to Remember - The History of McLean County Fairs
- Lunch & Learn: Math is your Friend!
- Sunday Sauce: An Italian Staple
- America Meets East Asia: Mayonnaise in the Sushi
- Garam Masala Box: Indian American Cooking
- John Wesley Powell: Bloomington-Normal to the Arid Lands with Bill Kemp
- Beekeeping for Fun and Nature
- Exhibit Opening - More Than a Game: A Community History of Baseball & Softball
- History Makers Honoree Reveal 2026
- Camille and Art Taylor -- 2026 History Makers
- Feli Sebastian -- 2026 History Maker
- John McIntyre -- 2026 History Maker
- Melinda Fischer -- 2026 History Maker
- Willard Johnson's WWII Message Home Sponsored by Pepsi
- Lunch & Learn: Lincoln and Ann Rutledge with Guy Fraker
- Lunch & Learn: The Wizard of Oz in Illinois and Beyond
- Bienvenidos al Museo de Historia del Condado de McLean
- McLean County Friends: Quakers in 19th Century McLean County
- Hot Dog! It Could be Wurst: German Cookery
- Abraham Lincoln and the Heritage of Illinois State University
- Soul, Greens, and Savory Things: Local African American Food Traditions
- Pitfalls and Promise (II): Public Art for McLean County Today
- Urban Transit: Moving in the City
- The Skinny on the Scanties: A History of Women's Underwear
- Carrying The Colors: The Life and Legacy of Medal of Honor Recipient Andrew Jackson Smith
- Brahm's Use of Motive to Unify his Three Intermezzi, Opus 117
- Kaffe, Knäckebröd, & Coal: Swedish-Americans in Central Illinois
- Assessing the First 100 Days of the Biden Presidency
- Ça va, Cassava? The Roots of Congolese Cooking
- Johnny Cakes to Paddy Cakes: Irish Cookery
Websites
- 100 Years Ago in the Pantagraph
- 1876 Map of McLean County
- 1886 Map Of McLean County, Ill.
- 1930-1939
- 1940 Aerial Imagery
- 1940-1945
- 1946-1949
- 1950-1954
- 1955-1959
- 360 degree video tour -- Lincoln in Downtown Bloomington
- A History of Founders Grove in Maps
- Adlai Today
- Architecture of McLean County
- Black History Resource List
- Bloomington-Normal Black History Project
- Bloomington-Normal Black History Project Photos
- Bloomington, Illinois 1838
- Carius Menu Collection
- Construyendo un Hogar
- Digital Exhibits
- Downtown Bloomington Architectural Tour
- Empire Township Museum (LeRoy)
- Evergreen Cemetery Walk Character Map
- Facebook Group: Bloomington / Normal Remember When...
- Facebook Group: Brick Back Bloomington (BBB)
- Facebook Group: Historic Stevensonville Neighborhood
- Facebook Group: You know you grew up in or around Bloomington-Normal when you remember....
- Google Cultural Institute
- HistoryPin
- IDNR Historic Preservation -- McLean County
- Illinois Digital Archive Photographs -- search "Women"
- Instagram #AnimalsOfMcHistory
- Instagram #McBlackHistory
- Instagram #McHERstory
- Internet Archive
- Lexington Genealogical and Historical Society
- Looking for Lincoln in Bloomington-Normal
- McLean County Genealogical Society
- McLean County History by Bicycle
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- Native American Collection
- Old House Society
- Online Object Database
- Pantagraph Negatives Collection Overview
- PFOP: Curriculum for Teachers
- Pieces from our Past
- Post Amerikan
- Public Life in McLean County
- QR Code Smart Phone Tour of Downtown Bloomington
- Randolph Township Maps 1856-1914
- Search our Library Catalog
- Social Justice Walking Tour
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- WGLT American Archive of Public Broadcasting
- Women Called to Action
- Work in McLean County
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