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Politics and Government

15th Century, 16th Century, 17th Century, 18th Century, 19th Century, Collection Essays

The Inquisition

Drawing of stage in a city square surrounded by a crowd. Members of the Inquisition are on the stage surrounded by victims they will punish, who sit in tiered seats around the edges of the stage. Members of the crowd carry pikes or spears.

Christopher Fletcher
June 14, 2018

19th Century, Collection Essays

John C. Calhoun and American Disunion

Robert Elder, Valparaiso University
April 23, 2018

16th Century, Collection Essays

The English Reformation: Tradition and Change

Ann Kuzdale
August 1, 2017

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

Religious Change and the Ottoman Empire, 1450-1750

Edin Hajdarpasic, Loyola University
March 15, 2017

19th Century, Collection Essays

The Anti-Slavery Movement in Chicago and Illinois

Speech given by John Hossack at his sentencing for violating the Fugitive Slave Law.

18th Century, 19th Century, Collection Essays

Living in British Colonial India, 1750–1850

Ruby Daily
October 29, 2015

20th Century, Collection Essays

The New Deal in Chicago and the Midwest

Black and white photo of six long, one-story, pre-fab buildings standing in a row in a clearing. A seventh building stands behind the row of buildings, its long end facing their short ends. Dirt roads surround the buildings on two sides, and there are trees behind them.

Ashley Johnson Bavery, Eastern Michigan University
September 14, 2014

20th Century, Collection Essays

Perspectives on the Mexican Revolution

The Chicago-based mapmaking and printing company Rand McNally published this representation of the Mexican Revolution in 1914.

Hana Layson with Christopher Boyer
February 21, 2014

20th Century, Classroom Materials, High School

Raising Support for World War I

Emily Weiss
June 28, 2013

20th Century, Collection Essays

World War I in U.S. Popular Culture

Hana Layson with Patricia Scanlan
June 27, 2013

19th Century, Collection Essays

Caste and Politics in the Struggle for Mexican Independence

Hana Layson and Charlotte Ross with Christopher Boyer
May 16, 2013

18th Century, 19th Century, Collection Essays

Representing the American Revolution, 1768–1893

Hana Layson with Eric Slauter
December 6, 2012