Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko: Slavery and Race in the Atlantic World
How does Behn’s novel Oroonoko compare to other representations of race, slavery, and colonialism in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries?
Classroom Materials
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1893: Chicago and the World’s Columbian Exposition
What did visitors to the World’s Columbian Exposition experience? How did the Exposition’s White City compare to the actual city of Chicago?
Subversives in the City: Responses to Political Radicalism in Chicago
What is the history of political radicalism in Chicago from the 1880s through the 1950s? How did the government and the public respond to radical movements?