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19th Century, Collection Essays

John C. Calhoun and American Disunion

Robert Elder, Valparaiso University
April 23, 2018

16th Century, 17th Century, 18th Century, 19th Century, Collection Essays

The European Discovery of Chocolate

Sarah Peters Kernan
April 13, 2018

20th Century, Collection Essays

The Golden Age of Chicago Baseball in an Era of Social Turmoil: Sport and Society 1901-19

Action photos and story about the 1906 White Sox World Series victory over the Cubs.

Robert Bionaz, Chicago State University
April 4, 2018

16th Century, 17th Century, Collection Essays

Magic and Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe

Michael R. Lynn
February 27, 2018

16th Century, 17th Century, 18th Century, 19th Century, Collection Essays

Crossing Borders Across Venetian, Habsburg and Ottoman Empires, 1500-1800

Edin Hajdarpasic, Loyola University
February 13, 2018

20th Century, Collection Essays

World War II and US Visual Culture

Image of a fighter pilot in the sky. Private companies sometimes sponsored artists to create vivid pictures of the military in action.

Mark B. Pohlad
August 1, 2017

16th Century, Collection Essays

The English Reformation: Tradition and Change

Ann Kuzdale
August 1, 2017

16th Century, 17th Century, 18th Century, 19th Century, 20th Century, Collection Essays

Thinking about World History: Historic Maps as Sources

Blue, green, and orange map, centering on a projection from of the globe oriented around the North Pole

Peter Nekola
August 1, 2017

19th Century, 20th Century, Collection Essays

The Colonization of the Black Hills in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, in Historic Maps and Documents

Map of western United States in various colors indicating a variety of resources and their locations.

Peter Nekola
August 1, 2017

20th Century, Collection Essays

Modernism and Chicago

Liesl Olson, The Newberry
May 16, 2017

15th Century, 16th Century, 17th Century, Collection Essays

The Medieval Spice Trade

Two pages from a book. Text on the left hand page. On the right hand page an image of a meal in a noble's house. Meals in noble households were an opportunity to display wealth and power through the number of servants, table decoration, and the food itself. Dishes served at a noble meal would be heavily spiced for taste and to exhibit wealth to guests.

Sarah Peters Kernan
March 28, 2017

15th Century, 16th Century, 17th Century, 18th Century, Collection Essays

Religious Change and the Ottoman Empire, 1450-1750

Edin Hajdarpasic, Loyola University
March 15, 2017