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Jolliet and Marquette
About the Book Often viewed in isolation, the Jolliet and Marquette expedition in fact took place against a sprawling backdrop that encompassed everything from ancient Native American cities to French colonial machinations. Mark Walczynski draws on a wealth of original research to place the explorers and their journey within seventeenth-century North America.
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Website feedback Contact us for website-related feedback. Featured Articles During Pres. Washington’s first term, an epidemic killed one tenth of all the inhabitants of Philadelphia, then the capital of the young United States. Now a popular state park, the unassuming geological feature along the Illinois River has served as the site of centuries of human habitation and discovery.
Marquette and Jolliet's Excellent Adventure
In 1673, a Jesuit missionary, a fur trader, and a small group of canoe men traveled two thousand miles from what is now upper Michigan down to Arkansas and back. Father Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet were the first people of European descent to explore the centrals parts the Mississippi in 1673.
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Marquette and Jolliet's Excellent Adventure
For 70 years, has been the leading magazine of U.S. history, politics, and culture. The magazine was forced to suspend print publication in 2013, but a group of volunteers saved the archives and relaunched it in digital form in 2017. Please consider a donation to help us keep this American treasure alive.
Upon Starved Rock
Now a popular state park, the unassuming geological feature along the Illinois River has served as the site of centuries of human habitation and discovery. When Jolliet and Marquette made their expedition of the Mississippi in 1673, it introduced 17th century Canadian and French authorities to the potential for trade, colonization, and religious conversion in the Illinois Country, and more specifically to the Upper Illinois Valley.
SOAPBOX: Conservation Police have unique skills, training
I would like to say a few words about an article that appeared in the Nov. 23 edition of The Times regarding the proposed layoffs scheduled for Illinois Conservation Police Officers. I’m speaking up on their behalf because active CPOs are prohibited from doing so themselves.The Conservation Police date back to 1885, making them the oldest statewide law enforcement agency.
SOAPBOX: Choice of religion is a good thing
This letter is written in response to Carlo Olivero’s “Make America Christian Again” letter Published Sept. 2 in The Times. To begin, the United States is not, and never has been, a Christian nation. It is a secular republic where everyone in the US can worship their god(s) in any fashion they choose. The U.S. Constitution reaffirms this claim and so do Founding Fathers, such as John Adams, who wrote the U.S. was "not in any sense founded on the Christian religion" (Treaty of Tripoli, 1796).
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