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As part of the Abraham Lincoln bicentennial in 2009 and in connection with WILL-TV’s documentary Lincoln: Prelude to the Presidency, we’ve created a series of segments exploring how Lincoln’s years workings as a traveling lawyer in central Illinois helped make him one of our nation’s greatest presidents. In tonight’s segment, we look at Lincoln’s opinions about women and how his years in Illinois affected his feelings about women’s rights and the role of women on the frontier.
Segment duration: 09:11
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Producer: Steve Drake and Alison Davis Wood
Editor: Steve Drake
This segment is filed in these categories: Gender • History • Illinois Culture/History
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What would it have been like to be a woman posing as a male soldier in the U.S. Civil War?
Segment duration: 07:51
Producer: Maeve Reilly
Chief Camera - Segment: Tim Hartin
This segment is filed in these categories: Gender • History • Illinois Culture/History
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Segment duration: 12:55
Producer: Tim Hartin
Editor: Tim Hartin
This segment is filed in these categories: Family history • Gender • Illinois Culture/History
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At the old Sangamon ordnance plant, now covered with weeds, host Alison Davis talks to Sherman resident Lola Marbold, who worked there during World War II.
She attended beauty school each day and then rode the Inter-urban to work the 4 to midnight shift at the plant. Assembling artillery shells was
dangerous work. But the pay was good and the ammunition needed for the war.
Segment duration: 09:10
Producer: Alison Davis
This segment is filed in these categories: Business • Gender • History • Illinois Culture/History • Military
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