Dissent and Democracy in Modern American History
What forms has dissent taken in U.S. history? What is the role of dissent in a representative democracy?
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?
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?
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?
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?