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This mural is a large image of the Green Oaks prairie printed on a wall at the top of the stairs on the third floor of Alumni Hall. One image of this mural is zoomed out, and one image is zoomed in to show the white text in the bottom left of the…

After explaining that prairie burning is originally a Native American practice, Professor Stuart Allison says that "we're maintaining that tradition of burning prairies, keeping them open. It's both an ecological and a cultural activity,."

Monument to Mary Ann "Mother" Bickerdyke (1817-1901) on the lawn of the Knox County Courthouse in Galesburg, Illinois to her service as a field nurse in the American Civil War.

The Mausoleum in Galesburg’s Hope Cemetery is a symbol of how class divides persist beyond death, despite the myth that we are all equal in death. The vault is a prominent building in the back of the cemetery that houses about 500 people’s corpses,…

A chair that President Abraham Lincoln sat in after the fifth Lincoln-Douglas debate in 1858. The chair now resides in the Alumni Room in Knox College's Old Main building.

Carved wood chair with slightly faded red velvet upholstery, located next to a brick fireplace.

A group of Knox students stands in the Green Oaks prairie in bright yellow fire protective shirts. They smile as they paint their faces with the ash of the prairie fire in stripes across their cheeks, nose, and forehead. Their facepaint mimics war…

Newer grave of Susan Richardson found in Hope Cemetery in Galesburg,IL.

A dark grey, well-polished, obelisk-shaped grave about 2-3 feet wide at its narrowest point and at least 5 feet tall. The name Gale is carved from the rock of the base. It is positioned in well-mowed grass at least 4 feet from all nearest graves