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Collection Essays

In-depth explorations of humanities topics accompanied by primary source sets and discussion questions

20th Century, Collection Essays

Decision 1920

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December 2, 2020

19th Century, 20th Century, Collection Essays

Riots and Protest: Chicago’s Legacy of Conflict

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December 2, 2020

18th Century, 19th Century, Collection Essays

Romantic Orientalism

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July 31, 2020

15th Century, 16th Century, 17th Century, 18th Century, Collection Essays

Renaissance Invention: Stradanus’s Nova Reperta

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June 3, 2020

15th Century, 16th Century, 17th Century, 18th Century, Collection Essays

The Making of the Bible, 400-1700

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May 27, 2020

19th Century, Collection Essays

Chicago after the Great Fire

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February 5, 2020

20th Century, Collection Essays

Women in the Workforce in the United States

Two-page spread entitled "Her Day Begins with a Frantic Race Against the Clock." Photos of Filling at a lunch counter, in a office with a man, walking on the sidewalk, in her bedroom, and reading in the bathroom (clockwise from top right).

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October 18, 2019

19th Century, 20th Century, Collection Essays

Migration and the Midwest

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June 25, 2019

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

Race, Respectability, and Resilience: African Americans in the Midwest

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May 31, 2019

20th Century, Collection Essays

The 1919 Race Riots

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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

18th Century, 19th Century, Collection Essays

Voltaire and the French Enlightenment

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November 9, 2018