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20th Century, Collection Essays

The 1919 Race Riots

This map appeared in The Negro in Chicago and became the official map of the riots following the event. Note that the violence expanded over much of the city, although it was concentrated in the Black Belt.

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May 16, 2019

20th Century, Collection Essays

Experiencing the Great War, 1914-1918 and Beyond

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May 16, 2019

19th Century, 20th Century, Collection Essays

Abraham Lincoln’s Legacy in Music

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June 14, 2018

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

The American Gothic

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June 4, 2018

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

Searching for Ophelia in the Archive

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May 17, 2018

19th Century, 20th Century, Collection Essays

Exploring American Art at the Newberry

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May 11, 2018

20th Century, Collection Essays

Americans and the Holocaust

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May 10, 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.

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April 4, 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.

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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

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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.

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August 1, 2017

20th Century, Collection Essays

Modernism and Chicago

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May 16, 2017