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Immigration and Migration

19th Century, 20th Century, Collection Essays

Life, Labor, and Culture among Chicago’s Jewish Immigrant Garment Workers, 1880-1910

Cropped cover of a magazine in Yiddish. Blank except for the title at the top in bold lettering.

Dr. Ben Schacht
November 13, 2025

19th Century, 20th Century, Classroom Materials, Collection Essays

United States Expansion, Migrants, and Transportation Technologies, ca. 1810-1930

Colored map showing roads and bodies of water. Surrounded by a border of black-and-white photos advertising the local area, including photos of forests, lakes, Native people, moose and bear, and homes,

Gabrielle Guillerm, PhD
September 14, 2022

18th Century, 19th Century, 20th Century, Collection Essays

Maps as Heritage: Commemoration and Travel in American Cartography

Hand-drawn map, showing the country from Lake Superior and the Mississippi in the east to Pacific Ocean in the west and the Kansas River in the south to the northern boundary of the Louisiana Territory in the north. The map shows the locations of many Indigenous groups along with natural features like rivers, lakes, and mountain ranges.

Nicholas Kryczka, PhD
August 31, 2022

19th Century, Activities, Classroom Materials, Elementary School

Immigration and Universal Suffrage

Black and white image of diverse group of people joining Uncle Sam’s dinner table just four years after the close of the Civil War, a time when many Americans were trying to re-envision national identity.

Hilary Mac Austin and Kathleen Thompson
July 12, 2021

19th Century, Classroom Materials, Lesson Plans, Middle School

The Hull House Neighborhood

Detail of a map showing a set of Chicago blocks color coded by wage rate

Hilary Mac Austin and Kathleen Thompson
June 25, 2021

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

Sugar and Power in the Early Modern World

Etching of white men participating in the sugar refinement process, including chopping up sugar cane, melting it in vats, and removing finished sugar from drying containers.

Dr. Sarah Peters Kernan, Independent Scholar
March 18, 2021

19th Century, 20th Century, Collection Essays

Migration and the Midwest

Rachel Boyle, PhD
June 25, 2019

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

The European Discovery of Chocolate

Sarah Peters Kernan
April 13, 2018

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

Crossing Borders Across Venetian, Habsburg and Ottoman Empires, 1500-1800

Edin Hajdarpasic, Loyola University
February 13, 2018

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

The Medieval Spice Trade

Two pages from a book. Text on the left hand page. On the right hand page an image of a meal in a noble's house. Meals in noble households were an opportunity to display wealth and power through the number of servants, table decoration, and the food itself. Dishes served at a noble meal would be heavily spiced for taste and to exhibit wealth to guests.

Sarah Peters Kernan
March 28, 2017

17th Century, Collection Essays

Foods of the Columbian Exchange

Sarah Peters Kernan
March 14, 2017

19th Century, Collection Essays

Abolition and European Imperialism in East Africa, 1845-1893

Nathaniel Mathews, Binghamton University
January 26, 2017