Race, Respectability, and Resilience: African Americans in the Midwest
Chicago and the Midwest
The 1919 Race Riots
The Golden Age of Chicago Baseball in an Era of Social Turmoil: Sport and Society 1901-19
Modernism and Chicago
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?
The Anti-Slavery Movement in Chicago and Illinois
What motivated the actions of abolitionists in Illinois? How did abolitionists attempt to transform public opinion on the issue of slavery? How did the abolitionist movement evolve and respond to national events that shook the nation in the 1850s?
The New Deal in Chicago and the Midwest
The Jungle and the Community: Workers and Reformers in Turn-of-the-Century Chicago
What did it mean to live in the neighborhood of the Union Stock Yard around 1900? How does Upton Sinclair’s representation of this community in The Jungle compare to the accounts of sociologists and reformers?
Mapping Chicago and the Midwest, 1688–1906
How do maps tell the early history of Chicago and the Midwest? How have maps been used by different empires and nations to secure control of the region?
Faith in the City: Religion and Urban Life in Chicago, 1870-1920
In 1870, three-quarters of the United States lived in rural areas; by 1920, over half the nation lived in cities. How, if at all, did religious communities change their inherited traditions in the midst of new surroundings?
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?