African American History

19th Century, 20th Century

Abraham Lincoln’s Legacy in Music

Thomas J. Kernan
June 14, 2018

18th Century, 19th Century, 20th Century

Anti-Statism in U.S. History

Hana Layson with James T. Sparrow
June 26, 2012

20th Century

Chicago and the Great Migration, 1915–1950

Hana Layson with Kenneth Warren
March 14, 2013

19th Century, 20th Century

Chicago Workers during the Long Gilded Age

Hana Layson with Leon Fink
May 14, 2012

19th Century, 20th Century

Faith in the City: Religion and Urban Life in Chicago, 1870-1920

Christopher D. Cantwell and Daniel Greene
September 14, 2012

20th Century

Flappers, G-men, and Prohibition’s Legacies

Rachel Bohlmann
July 19, 2017

19th Century

Home Front: The Visual Culture of the Civil War North

Hana Layson with Daniel Greene
November 15, 2013

19th Century, 20th Century

Jazz, Chicago, and the Great Migration

Dr. Karl E. H. Seigfried
July 19, 2017

19th Century

John C. Calhoun and American Disunion

Robert Elder, Valparaiso University
April 23, 2018

20th Century

Protected: Leisure and Entertainment in the Early Twentieth Century

Color photograph of "The Bobs" ride sign. "Bobs" is written in white in all capitals, which an oranage line curving up and down between each letter. The letters and line have lightbulbs in them to illuminate them at night.

Jo Ellen McKillop Dickie, Newberry Library
January 13, 2021