Abraham Lincoln’s Legacy in Music
20th Century
The American Gothic
Searching for Ophelia in the Archive
What does the archive offer for the exploration of Shakespeare in the digital age?
Exploring American Art at the Newberry
Americans and the Holocaust
The Golden Age of Chicago Baseball in an Era of Social Turmoil: Sport and Society 1901-19
World War II and American Visual Culture
How did the popular media document the people and activities of the homefront and the battlefront?
Thinking about World History: Historic Maps as Sources
What can old maps teach us about world history? What sorts of evidence do they offer, and is displaying evidence the main purpose of these maps, or can they do other things?
The Colonization of the Black Hills in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, in Historic Maps and Documents
How can old maps help us understand the complexities of colonization in North America? What sorts of evidence do they offer? Does their distinct styling, framing, and content change how a particular landscape can be represented? Might these elements have in fact aided colonization in the Black Hills?
Flappers, G-men, and Prohibition’s Legacies
What caused Prohibition and passage of the Eighteenth Amendment?
Modernism and Chicago
Picturing the Century of Progress: The 1933-34 Chicago World’s Fair
How did the creators of the Century of Progress illustrate and enact the fair's theme of progress?