World War II and American Visual Culture
How did the popular media document the people and activities of the homefront and the battlefront?
Arts
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?
Art of Conflict: Portraying American Indians, 1850–1900
How did U.S. and American Indian artists portray Indian peoples of the West in the late nineteenth century? What relationships exist between representations of American Indians in art and the histories of U.S. settlement?
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
Imagining the American West in the Late Nineteenth Century
How has the West been imagined as both America’s manifest destiny and a wild frontier? In what ways do American Indian art and literature challenge these popular narratives of the West?
Art and Exploration of the Poles
What are the connections between the exploration of the North and South Poles and their visual representation?
Art and Exploration in the American West and Mexico
What are the connections between exploring new territories and making visual representations of those territories? How do artists relate to the territory's indigenous people? In what ways do mapmakers and artists promote, protect, or displace the cultures and landscapes they portray?