History conference scheduled for October

SPRINGFIELD -- Diverse topics from presidential athleticism to French forts and Indian agents will be featured at the 11th annual Conference on Illinois History this fall.

The conference will be Oct. 1-2 at the Prairie Capital Convention Center and the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in downtown Springfield.

Registration is free.

There will be more than 30 sessions featuring scholarly papers, discussions and workshops.

Other topics include immigration, Sen. Everett McKinley Dirksen and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the careers of statesmen Donald Rumsfeld and George P. Schultz, race and labor, and Chicago women.

Speakers will be historians and writers James Ballowe on Oct. 1 and Myron Marty on Oct. 2.

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