The following sheet music is from the Foster Hall Reproductions: Songs, Compositions and Arrangements by Stephen Foster, created in 1933 privately by Josiah Kirby Lilly, founder of the Foster Hall Collection, which is now part of the Center for American Music at the University of Pittsburgh.
The Burlington Historical Society in La Grange, Illinois is devoted to preserving the legacy of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad. The following gallery of Zephyr images is a sampling of the society's collection.
Producer Laurie Kahn-Leavitt talks about the making of the film A Midwife's Tale, and Historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich discusses the importance of Martha Ballard's diary and what it reveals about 17th century America and women's roles at that time.
