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19th Century, 20th Century, Collection Essays

Chicago Workers during the Long Gilded Age

What were working conditions like in Chicago during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? What efforts did workers make to change these conditions? How did industries—and the public—respond to their demands?

Hana Layson with Leon Fink
May 14, 2012

19th Century, 20th Century, Collection Essays

Chicago Defined: Space and Place, Homes and Journeys

How have writers and artists portrayed the city of Chicago? How did they respond to the city’s changing population and character during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries?

M. Brodie Austin with Bill Savage
May 14, 2012

17th Century, 18th Century, Collection Essays

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?

Hana Layson with Amelia Zurcher
May 14, 2012

19th Century, Collection Essays

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?

Diane Dillon and Hana Layson with Jim Montgomery
May 14, 2012

19th Century, 20th Century, Collection Essays

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?

Hana Layson with David Krugler
May 14, 2012