Comparing Portraits
Arts
The Clarke-Hanneford Family
Abraham Lincoln’s Legacy in Music
Exploring American Art at the Newberry
World War II and American Visual Culture
How did the popular media document the people and activities of the homefront and the battlefront?
Thinking about World History: Historic Maps as Sources
What can old maps teach us about world history? What sorts of evidence do they offer, and is displaying evidence the main purpose of these maps, or can they do other things?
Modernism and Chicago
Tudor Visual Culture
How does studying visual culture help us to understand history better?
Picturing the Century of Progress: The 1933-34 Chicago World’s Fair
How did the creators of the Century of Progress illustrate and enact the fair's theme of progress?
Art In Chicago 1900-1935
What groups, organizations, and individuals influenced the arts in Chicago in the early twentieth century?
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?
Reading Visual Images: The First World War
