From the 1880s through the 1960s, Chicagoans engaged in a passionate debate over how government should respond...
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How, if at all, did religious communities change their inherited traditions in the midst of new surroundings?...
How did the abolitionist movement evolve and respond to national events that shook the nation in the...
Introduction The Haymarket affair (also known as the Haymarket riot or Haymarket massacre) on Tuesday May 4,...
One of the leisure activities some Chicagoans could enjoy was a day at the ballpark. Originally published...
Prohibition evokes vivid images from fiction and history. Originally published by Newberry Digital Collections for the Classroom,...
How did the Great Migration of African-Americans in the twentieth century affect the development of jazz music...
Chicago’s “Eleanor Clubs” were designed to give young, working women affordable and congenial places to live. By...
How does Upton Sinclair’s representation of this community in The Jungle compare to the accounts of sociologists...
What were working conditions like in Chicago during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? What efforts...