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1999                   Inside the Civil War
              Abraham Lincoln                                        by Harry Hahn
              William Tecumseh Sherman                      by Theodore Kachel
              Louisa May Alcott                                      by Gayle Stahlhuth
              August Burleigh                                          by Hasan Davis
              Elisabeth Van Lew                                      by Annette Baldwin
              Sojourner Truth                                          by Alice McGill
 
2000             Jacksonville, Illinois, 1825 to 2000
              Harriet Tubman                                          by Shirley Pettit
              Dorothea Dix                                              by Harvey & Patsy Mack
              William Jennings Bryan                             by Theodore Kachel
              Jonathan Baldwin Turner                          by Karl Bockemeier
              Vachel Lindsey                                            by Bob Large
              Peter Cartwright                                        by Joel Catlin
 
2001              American Humor
              Will Rogers                                                  by Doug Watson
              H.L. Mencken                                              by Chuck Chalberg
              Mark Twain                                                 by Tom Gilding
              James Thurber                                            by Carrol Peterson
              Music by Ken Bradbury
              Music by Chris Vallillo
              Music by the Good Times Quartet
              Music by the Jane Hartman Jazz Trio
              Music by Anna Belle Blue
              Music by the Prairie Grass Ensemble
              Music by the Lee Pondell Trio
 
2002              The Jazz Age
              Henry Ford                                                  by Doug Mishler
              Edna Ferber                                                by Gayle Stahlhuth
              Harry Emerson Fosdick                              by Arnold Wettstein
              Bix Beiderbecke                                          by Frank Trompeter
              Harry Truman                                             by William Worley
              Coco Chanel                                                by Annette Baldwin
              Civilian Conservation Corps in Illinois      by Kay Rippelmeyer-Tippy
              Music by the Jane Hartman Trio
              Music from Showboat by Stephanie Smith-Jarrett
              Music by Ken Bradbury and David Zink
              Music by the Prairie Grass Ensemble
              Music by the Lee Pondell Trio
 
2003              American Women
              Lucy Parsons                                               by Alma Washington
              Susan B. Anthony                                       by Annette Baldwin
              Abigail Adams                                             by Rebecca Bloomfield
              The Grimke Sisters                                     by Tara McAndrew & Linda Schneider
              Ladybird Johnson                                       by Rebecca Bloomfield
              Josephine Baker                                         by Vernice Jackson
              Calamity Jane                                             by Leah Schwartz
              Music by Three is Company
              Music by the Jane Hartman Jazz Quartet
              Harp music by Betty Kay
              Music by the Upstart Quartet
              Music by the Good News Quartet
              Texas melodies by Stephanie Smith-Jarrett
              Music of Tin Pan Alley by Cat Catalani
 
2004              Westward Bound: the Lewis and Clark Expedition
              Meriwether Lewis’ mother                       by Dianne Moran
              Sacagawea                                                  by Dianne Moran
              Thomas Jefferson                                       by Patrick Lee
              William Clark                                              by Patrick Lee
              Andrew Jackson                                          by Ted Jackson
              Creole Music of Missouri                           by Dennis Stroughmatt
              Negro Spirituals                                          by Rita Warford

2005              Pioneering Educators in Central Illinois
              Julian Sturtevant                                        by John McCord
              Catharine Beecher                                     by Wendy McCarty
              Owen Lovejoy                                             by William F. Moore
              Harriet Beecher Stowe                              by Ruth Pangrace
              Jonathan Baldwin Turner                          by Karl Bockemeier
              Stephen Douglas                                        by Fred Krebs
              William Jennings Bryan                             by Fred Krebs
              Abraham Lincoln                                        by Fritz Klein
              Music by the Brad Floreth Quartet
              Music by Stephanie Smith-Wilkey
              Ring the Bell, a Play                                   by Ken Bradbury
              Music by the Crimson Strings
              Music by Ann Marie Stahel and Rudolf Zuiderveld
              Music by Ken Bradbury and David Zink
 
2006              Movers and Shakers in Illinois
              John Wesley Powell                                   by Bill Steinbacher-Kemp
              Jane Addams                                              by Annette Baldwin
              Philip Bliss                                                   by John McCord
              Mother Jones                                              by Betsey Means
              Ernest Hemingway                                     by Redd Griffin
              Frank Lloyd Wright                                    by Lyman Shepard
              Vachel Lindsey                                            by Bob Large
              Carl Sandburg                                             by Barry Cloyd
              Music by the New Goat Ensemble
              Music by the Lee Pondell Klezmer Band
              Banjo music by Mark Dvorak
              Abraham Lincoln Songs by Chris Vallillo
              Music by Diana Dietz
              Music by the Prairie Grass Ensemble
              Music by Ken Bradbury
 
2007           Voices for Freedom and Justice
              Sojourner Truth                                          by Annette Jefferson
              Henry Clay                                                  by George McGee
              John Ross                                                    by Michael Hughes
              Frederick Douglass                                     by Charles Everett Pace
              Patrick Henry                                              by John Chalberg
              Bert Williams                                              by Ann Ommen
              William Lloyd Garrison                              by Michael Hughes
              Paul Robeson                                              by Joel Tinsley
              William Wilberforce                                   by John McCord
              Theodore Roosevelt                                   by John Chalberg
              Music by Stephanie and John Wilkey
              Music by Angela Sanders
              Music by Nathan Carls
              Music by the Capital Chamber Singers
 
2008              The Age of Lincoln
              Lincoln Tales                                               by Brian “Fox” Ellis
              Peter Cartwright                                        by Joel Catlin
              Walt Whitman’s Lincoln                            by Brian “Fox” Ellis
              General “Stonewall” Jackson                    by John McCord
              Gustav Koerner                                           by Wolf Fuhrig
              Stephen Foster                                           by Chris Vallilo
              Colonel John J. Hardin                               by Ron Tendick
              Lincoln and Illinois College                        by Loreli Steuer
              The Lincolns                                                by R.F. and Dorothy McClerren        
              Church hymns by Stephanie & John Wilkey
              Folk songs by Clark Halker
              Music by the Pondell Trio
              Negro spirituals by Joel Tinsley
              Civil War songs by Ken Bradbury
 
2009              Pioneers of Science and Invention
              John James Audubon                                 by Brian “Fox” Ellis
              Isaac Newton                                              by John McCord
              George Washington Carver                       by Paxton Williams
              Charles Darwin                                           by Brian “Fox” Ellis
              Alexander Graham Bell                             by Michael Hughes
              Thomas Edison                                           by Hank Fincken
              Story of the Transcontinental Railroad    by Amy Lowe
              Music by the Brad Floreth Band
              Music by Joel Tinsley
              Music by Lee Murdock
              Music by Ken Bradbury
 
2010               American Originals
              Johnny Appleseed                                      by Hank Fincken
              W.C. Fields                                                  by Hank Fincken
              Edgar Allan Poe                                          by Brian “Fox” Ellis
              Walt Whitman                                            by Brian “Fox” Ellis
              Daniel Boone                                              by Patrick Lee
              Thomas Jefferson                                       by Patrick Lee
              Charles Fuller                                              by John McCord
              Mother Jones                                              by Nancy Huse
              Music by the Rob Killam Trio
              The Carter Family                                       by Stephanie and John Wilkey
              Music by Joel Tinsley Hall
              Music by the Pondell Trio
              Music by the Jane Hartman Jazz Trio
              Music by Ken Bradbury
 
2011               Heroes of the Civil War
              Mathias Stritt                                             by Brian “Fox” Ellis
              Drummer Boy of Shiloh                             by Barry Cloyd
              Henry Detweiler                                         by Brian “Fox” Ellis
              General Ulysses S. Grant                           by George Dauler
              Abraham and Mary Lincoln                       by Michael Krebs and Debra Ann Miller
              Sojourner Truth                                          by Annette Jefferson
              General Robert E. Lee                                by Richard Crozier
              Music by Ben Bedford
              Music by the T-Tones
              Music by Stephanie and John Wilkey
              Music by Joel Tinsley Hall
 
2012               Women Who Made History
              Margaret Mitchell                                      by Debra Conner
              Violet Jessep, Titanic stewardess              by Leslie Goddard
              Harriet Tubman                                          by Kathryn Harris
              Mother Jones                                              by Karen Vuranch
              Belle Starr                                                   by Karen Vuranch
              Mary Walker, Civil War surgeon               by Debra Connor
              Ellen Hardin Walworth                              by Loretta Widdows
              Music by Ben Bedford
              Music by Sherry Mitchell
              Music by Terri Benz
 
2013                E Pluribus Unum
              Andrew Carnegie                                       by George Dauler
              Stephen Foster                                           by Chris Vallilo
              Thomas Edison                                           by Hank Fincken
              General Ulysses S. Grant                           by George Dauler
              Henry Ford                                                  by Hank Fincken
              Mary Todd Lincoln                                     by Pam Brown
              Abraham Lincoln                                        by Fritz Klein
              Music by Ben Bedford
              Music by Rob Killam’s Band
              Music by Sherri Mitchell
              Music by the MacMurray College Choir
              Music by Ken Bradbury
 
2014              Uniquely American
              Black Jack Logan                                         by Brian “Fox” Ellis
              Meriwether Lewis          
              Amelia Earhart
              Estee Lauder                                               by Leslie Goddard
              Adlai Stevenson                                          by Joe Bean
              Abraham and Mary Lincoln                       by Max and Donna Daniels
 
2015              All American Showcase
              Millikin University Guitar Ensemble
              Black Hawk                                                 by Brian “Fox” Ellis
              Historic Instruments of Illinois                  by Chris Vallillo
              Jackie Kennedy                                           by Leslie Goddard
              Chris Talley Trio Bluegrass
              Eleanor Roosevelt                                      by Leslie Goddard
              Edgar Allan Poe                                          by Brian “Fox” Ellis
              Mike Anderson Stories & Sounds
              Mary Anderson                                           by Sherri Mitchell
              Music by Stan & Judy
              Cyrus Thomas and the Mound Builders   by Robert Seufert
 
2017             America and the Great War
              Birth of the Modern                                   by Chris McDonald
              Sergeant York                                             by Justin Rexrode
              General Black Jack Pershing                      by Dane Coffman
              Ellen LaMotte                                             by Sherri Mitchell
              Songs of the Era                                         by Amy McDonald
              Jim Europe and the Hellfighters               by Kess Roberson
              Carl Sandburg                                             by Chris Vallillo
              Woodrow Wilson                                       by Judd Bankert
              Over There in Story and Song                   by Barry Cloyd
              From Ragtime to Jazz                                 by Paul Asaro
              Teddy Roosevelt                                         by Adam Lindquist

2018              Illinois' Bicentennial
               Inventing Statehood                                  by James Davis
               Martha Jane Tolten                                     by Mettazee Morris
               Illinois Music                                               by Chris Valillo
               Lincoln in early Illinois                              by Fritz Klein
                Noble Women of Illinois                          by Tom Emery
                Clarence Darrow & William J. Bryan      by Gary Anderson
                Burl Ives                                                       by Barry Cloyd
                The Chicago Jazz Babies Band
                 John Deere                                                 by Brian "Fox" Ellis
                 Jane Addams                                             by Sherri Mitchell

2019              One of a Kind
                 The Genius of Frank Lloyd Wright           by Timothy Totten
                 Walt Whitman: A Song of Myself             by Brian Ellis
                 Woody Guthrie: Dust Bowl Troubadour    by Barry Cloyd
                  My Jacksonville Friend: Stephen A. Douglas    by Reg Ankrom
                 D.R. Miller: Mr. Circus                                by Jay Jamison
                 Chaplin: The Silent Years & The Talkie Years    by Walter Metz
                  The Guitars of Illinois                                by Chris Vallillo
                  Georgia O'Keeffe: the Inspiration of Nature     by Leslie Goddard
                   The Music of Doris Day                            by Amy McDonald
                   Fats Waller                                                  by Paul Asaro
                   Clare Boothe Luce                                     by Sherri Mitchell
                   
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