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  • 19th Century, Collection Essays

Literature of the American Civil War

What literature was published and read during the Civil War? How did literature help make sense of the war and the profound changes it brought to the nation?
  • Hana Layson with Justine Murison
  • December 12, 2013
  • 19th Century, Collection Essays

Home Front: The Visual Culture of the Civil War North

How did images shape the meaning of the war for people at home and the meaning of the home during wartime?
  • Hana Layson with Daniel Greene
  • November 15, 2013
  • 20th Century, Collection Essays

The Jungle and the Community: Workers and Reformers in Turn-of-the-Century Chicago

Black-and-white photo of a dirt street with houses and shacks on one side. A young child, a toddler, and a teenager stand at the edge of the road.
What did it mean to live in the neighborhood of the Union Stock Yard around 1900? How does Upton Sinclair’s representation of this community in The Jungle compare to the accounts of sociologists and reformers?
  • Hana Layson with James R. Barrett
  • November 4, 2013
  • 16th Century, 17th Century, 18th Century, Collection Essays

The World of Don Quixote

How did Cervantes’ Don Quixote respond to the social conditions and literary traditions of early modern Spain?
  • Hana Layson and Glen Carman
  • October 23, 2013
  • 17th Century, 18th Century, 19th Century, 20th Century, Collection Essays

Mapping Chicago and the Midwest, 1688–1906

How do maps tell the early history of Chicago and the Midwest? How have maps been used by different empires and nations to secure control of the region?
  • Hana Layson and Diane Dillon
  • October 22, 2013
  • 16th Century, 17th Century, 18th Century, Collection Essays

Maps and the Beginnings of Colonial North America

What can maps tell us about how people from different times, places, and cultures make sense of their world? How did maps and mapmaking influence the development of colonial North America?
  • Neal Dugre
  • September 1, 2013
  • 19th Century, Collection Essays

Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn, and Race in Postbellum America

How did Twain’s Huckleberry Finn engage and challenge popular ideas about slavery and race in nineteenth-century America? Can a text be offensive and still be worth reading?
  • Alexandra Lindgren-Gibson with Lawrence Howe
  • August 20, 2013
  • Classroom Materials

Raising Support for World War I

  • Emily Weiss
  • June 28, 2013
  • 20th Century, Collection Essays

World War I in U.S. Popular Culture

How did popular publications in the United States respond to World War I? How did artists, writers, publishers, and advertisers work to promote the war effort? What criticisms of the war did dissenting artists make?
  • Hana Layson with Patricia Scanlan
  • June 27, 2013
  • 20th Century, Classroom Materials, Full Lesson Plan, Grades 8 and Up, Visual Literacy

Reading Visual Images: The First World War

  • Susan Binkis
  • June 13, 2013
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