Wars and Violence

18th Century, 19th Century

Representing the American Revolution, 1768–1893

Hana Layson with Eric Slauter
December 6, 2012

16th Century, 17th Century, 18th Century, 19th Century

Shakespeare’s Romans: Politics and Ethics in Julius Caesar and Coriolanus

Hana Layson with Amelia Zurcher
October 17, 2012

17th Century, 18th Century, 19th Century

Shakespeare’s The Tempest and Utopias of the European Renaissance

Hana Layson with Kasey Evans
May 14, 2012

19th Century

Slavery, Civil War, and the “New Birth of Freedom”

Rachel Rooney with Thomas Holt
May 14, 2012

18th Century

Subject to Citizen, Kingdom to Nation: Changing Notions of Identity in the Age of the French Revolution

Hana Layson and Jessica Grzegorski with Valentina Tikoff
February 26, 2013

19th Century, 20th Century

Subversives in the City: Responses to Political Radicalism in Chicago

Hana Layson with David Krugler
May 14, 2012

20th Century

The 1919 Race Riots

Megan Geigner, Ph.D., Northwestern University
May 16, 2019

19th Century

The Anti-Slavery Movement in Chicago and Illinois

Cristen Chapman, National Society of Daughters of the American Revolution–Chicago Chapter 2015 Newberry Teacher Fellow
December 31, 2015

19th Century, 20th Century

The Colonization of the Black Hills in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, in Historic Maps and Documents

Peter Nekola
August 1, 2017

13th Century, 17th Century, 19th Century

The Crusades: Motivations, Administration, and Cultural Influence

Rachel Rooney with Andrew Miller
June 25, 2012