Wednesday, July 30, 2025
UIS Lincoln Studies director featured on HBO Max, Magnolia Network series ‘Back to the Frontier’
SPRINGFIELD – University of Illinois Springfield Center for Lincoln Studies Director Jacob Friefeld is featured as a historical expert on the new HBO Max and Magnolia Network series “Back to the Frontier,” which immerses three modern-day families in the rugged realities of 1880s life without modern conveniences.The show places the families in an environment without phones or electricity and challenges them to survive using 19th century methods. Friefeld appears on the program as a guide,
