History Fair Bibliographies
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The History Fair bibliographies are lists of publications owned by the Chicago History Museum. They are arranged alphabetically by subject, but you can search the list of titles for a specific term by using the FIND feature (CTRL + F) on your browser. The call numbers are unique to the Chicago History Museum. Many of the books are also available at the Chicago Public Library's Harold Washington Center or at one of the library's neighborhood branches.
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A
Acts/Laws
- Anti-Immigration Sentiment and Laws in Chicago
- Black Codes
- Did the Factory Act of 1893 Ensure Safe Working Conditions?
- Comparing Resistance to the Fugitive Slave Act and INS Policies "Obey a Higher Law"
- Off the Reservation Act and Urban Indian Population
- Packinghouses and Sherman Anti-Trust Act
- Stockyards, (Albert) Beveridge Act and Food Safety Laws: Public Rights to Safety and Corporate Responsibility
- Struggle for Fair Employment Practices Act
- Struggle to Create Child Labor Laws
- Temperance: Reform or Reaction?
- Workers' Rights Before and After the Wagner Act of 1935 (Also known as the National Labor Relations Act)
African Americans (see also: Civil Rights, Migration, Race, Riot)
- African American Community and the Communist Party in the Depression
- Louis Armstrong
- Black and White, Settlement Houses in the African American Community
- Black Codes
- Black Panthers
- Black Women and Suffrage
- Building of High-Story Public Housing
- Chicago and the Multi-Ethnic Frontier
- Chicago Defender
- Chicago Freedom Movement
- From the Party of Lincoln to the Party Of Roosevelt: How the African-American Community Switched Allegiances
- Great Migration(s) and Chicago's African American Community
- CIO Breaks the Barrier to Integrated Unions: "Negro and White, Unite and Fight!"
- Comparing Resistance to the Fugitive Slave Law and INS Policy "Obey a Higher Law"
- "Old Settlers" of Black Chicago: Frontiers of a Community
- Katherine Dunham Revolutionizes Dance
- Preservation vs. Urban Renewal
- Pullman Porters: The Embodiment of Civil and Economic Rights
- Segregation and White Flight in Neighborhoods
- Settlement of Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable
- Slave or Free? A New State Debates the Question
- Struggle for Fair Employment Practices Act
- Underground Railroad of Illinois As Escaped Slaves' Frontier
- Harold Washington and Council Wars
- Harold Washington and the Revolt Against the Democratic Machine
- Harold Washington, Chicago's First Black Mayor, Election 1983
- Wells-Barnett, Ida B.: Trailblazer for Racial Justice
- The Woodlawn Organization
Architecture
- Balloon Frame Houses: Frontier of Mass Housing
- Building of High-Story Public Housing
- Burnham Plan
- Preservation vs. Urban Renewal
- Skyscrapers
Arts
- Katherine Dunham Revolutionizes Dance
- Frontier of the Film Industry: Chicago
- Modernism in Art
- Harriet Monroe: Poetry Magazine
- WPA as a Frontier for Government Support for the Arts
Atomic Age
B
Bodies of Water: Lakes, Rivers and Canals
- Canal vs. Railroad:The Frontier Debate
- Chicago River Reversal 1900: Chicago vs St. Louis and Water Rights
- Encountering Transportation: The Canal and Lake
- Great Lakes, Mississippi River and the Significance of the Portage
- I & M (Illinois and Michigan) Canal
- Opening of Erie Canal and Native Americans
- Sanitary and Ship Canal
- The Strategic Importance of Chicago in the 19th Century
- Workers' Rights in the Building of the Illinois and Michigan Canal
Boosters
- Boosterism: Emigrant Manuals and Recruitment
- Boosterism: Travel Narratives and Early Accounts
- Role of Boosters in Chicago and Illinois 1800-1850
Building/Development Of Chicago
- Annexing the Frontier: The Great Annexation of Chicago in 1894
- Building a City From the Frontier: Chicago 1832-1870
- Burnham Plan
- Chicago and Multi-Ethnic Frontier
- Dreams of Empire: the French, British and Americans in Illinois Country
- Exploring Empire: America Meets the World in 1893
- From Rural to Urban Society: Exchanging and Changing Cultures
- Stephen Douglas' Role in Developing the Frontier
- Lakefront Plan
- Packinghouses and Sherman Anti-Trust Act
- Post-Fire Chicago As a New Frontier
- Charles H. Wacker Sells the Burnham Plan
- When Chicago Was the West
Businesses
- Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company: 100 Years of Publishing for Socialism
- Chicago Board of Trade: Exchanging Grains for Gold
- Department Stores: Palaces of Consumerism
- Invention of the Department Store Catalogue Houses
- Montgomery Ward and Company
- Organization of Union Stockyards
- Packinghouses and Sherman Anti-Trust Act
C
Children/Juveniles
- Child Labor
- Creation of the Juvenile Court and Children's Rights
- Hull House Reformers and Juveniles
- Florence Kelley as Pathfinder of Work Safety
- Origin of the Children's Bureau
- Struggle to Create Child Labor Laws
Civil Rights (see also Rights)
- ACLU and the Nazi March in Skokie
- Chicago Freedom Movement
- Chicago's Freedom Riders in North And South
- CIO: Historical Background, Formation, Organizing Activity
- What Did the 1885 Civil Rights Act of Illinois Accomplish? De Facto De Jure Discrimination
- Civil Rights in Accommodations
- Effect of Cumulative Voting on Minority Representation
- From Restrictive Covenants to Redlining: The 50 year Struggle for Open Housing
- Dorothy Gautreaux and Public Housing
- Elijah Lovejoy, Abolitionist
- The CIO Breaks the Barrier to Integrated Unions: "Negro and White, Unite and Fight"
- Race and Gender Issues in Chicago Newspapers 1905-1925
- Segregation and White Flight in Neighborhoods
- Slave or Free?: a New State Debates the Question
- The Civil Rights Movement Goes to School: Willis Wagons
Communication
Communism/Socialism
- African American Community and the Communist Party in the Depression and World War II
- Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company: 100 Years of Publishing for Socialism
- Palmer Raids 1918-1921
- Socialist Candidates in Chicago Municipal Elections 1870-1930
- Socialist Party in Chicago in Early 20th Century: Radicals or Reformers
- Soviet Revolution and Chicago Radicals
Crime
D
Dates
1812
1831-1832
1832-1870
1848
1850
1855
1870-19301870-1940
1877
1885
1886
- Haymarket Affair 1886
- Haymarket Affair 1886 and Its Effect on Radical, Reform, and Reactionary Politics
1893
1894
1903
1905
1905-1925
1911
1915
1917-1921
1918
1919
- Chicago Black Sox Scandal 1919
- Frontiers of Labor Organizing: The Stockyards Council of 1919
- Race Riots of 1919: The Development of the Right to Self-Defense Argument
1928-1965
1929
1935
1936-1939
1945
1966
1968
1969-1977
1978
1979
1981
1983
Disasters
E
Economics and Industry
- Advent of Electricity
- African American Community and the Communist Party in the Depression and World War II
- Anti-Tobacco Campaigns in the Early 20th Century
- Chicago Board of Trade: Exchanging Grains for Gold
- Closing of the Steel Mills
- Clothing Workers: A New Kind of Unionism
- Clothing Workers’ Strike of 1911
- Commodizing the Frontier: The Lumber Market of Chicago
- Creating Consumer Demand for Electricity
- Department Stores: Palaces of Consumerism
- Dreams of Empire: The French, British and Americans in Illinois Country
- Frontier of the Film Industry in Chicago
- Fur Trade: Chicago/Illinois's Place in Global Economy of the 18th Century
- Great Depression of 1929
- Gurdon S. Hubbard: Role in the Growth of Chicago
- Invention of the Department Store Catalogue Houses
- Montgomery Ward and Company
- Organization of Union Stockyards
- Packinghouses and Sherman Anti-Trust Act
- Silver vs. Gold Struggle: Encountering Populism
- Upton Sinclair and The Jungle
- South East Side: Frontier of Steel Industry
- The Strategic Importance of Chicago in the 19th Century
Education
- Chicago Public School Decentralization
- John Dewey
- Right to Compulsory Education: The Lives of Working Class and Minority Students
Electricity
Environment
- Development of the Forest Preserve System
- Hull House Reformers' Pioneering Role in Public Health and Environmental Issues
Ethnic Groups
Chinese
English
French
- Settlement of Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable
- Dreams of Empire: The French, British and Americans in Illinois Country
- The French in Illinois: The Other Colony
- Metis of Chicago: Encountering Two Worlds
- Native Americans, the French and Yankees in Early Chicago: Rights in Conflict
Irish
MexicanNative Americans
- Black Hawk and Black Hawk War
- Chicago and the Multi-Ethnic Frontiers
- Indian Trails of Chicago
- Metis of Chicago: Encountering Two Worlds
- Native Americans, the French, and Yankees in Early Chicago: Rights in Conflict
- Nativists vs. Immigrants
- Off the Reservation Act and Urban Indian Population
- Opening of the Erie Canal and Native Americans
Puerto Rican
Expansion
- Annexing the Frontier: The Great Annexation of Chicago 1894
- Dreams of Empire: The French, British and Americans in Illinois Country
- Fur Trade: Chicago/Illinois' Place in Global Economy of 18th Century
F
Fires
- Iroquois Theater Fire 1903
- Our Lady of the Angels School Fire 1958
- Post-Fire Chicago As a New Frontier
Frontiers
- Annexing the Frontier: The Great Annexation of Chicago 1894
- Balloon Frame House: Frontiers of Mass Housing
- Building a City From the Frontier: Chicago 1832-1870
- Canal vs. Railroad:The Frontier Debate
- Chicago and the Multi-Ethnic Frontiers
- Stephen Douglas' Role in Developing the Frontier
- Frontiers of Decent Housing for the Poor: The Rosenwald Homes
- Frontiers of Labor Organizing: The Stockyards Council of 1919
- Hamilton, Alice and Hull House: Frontiers in Public Health
- Post-Fire Chicago As a New Frontier
- Elijah Lovejoy: Frontier Abolitionist
- South East Side: Frontier of Steel Industry
- Stockyards Assembly Lines: Frontiers of Mass Production
- Underground Railroad of Illinois As Escaped Slaves' Frontier
- Yankees of Chicago: The End of a Frontier
G
Gays/Lesbians
Gentrification
H
Haymarket
- Haymarket Affair 1886
- Haymarket Affair 1886 and Its Effect on Radical, Reform and Reactionary Politics
Health (see also: Labor, Recreation and Stockyards)
- Anti-Tobacco Campaigns in Early 20th Century
- Chicago Hearing Society
- Did the Factory Act of 1893 Ensure Safe Working Conditions?
- Don’t Wash Your Horse at the City Water Pump: Public Health in an Urbanizing Society
- Alice Hamilton and Hull House: Frontiers in Public Health
- Hull House Reformers' Pioneering Role In Public Health and Environmental Issues
- Influenza Epidemic of 1918
- Mary McDowell and Garbage
- Public Health in an Urbanizing Society: Don't Wash Your Horse at the City Water-Pump
- Upton Sinclair and the Jungle
- Temperance: Reform or Reaction?
- Unfinished Struggle for the Right to Health Care
Housing
- Balloon Frame House: Frontiers of Mass Housing
- Black and White, Settlement Houses in the African American Community
- Building of High-Rise Public Housing
- Chicago Freedom Movement
- Civil Rights in Accommodations
- Dorothy Gautreaux and Public Housing
- From Restrictive Covenants to Redlining: The 50 year struggle for Open Housing
- Frontiers of Decent Housing for the Poor: The Rosenwald Homes
- Idea of Public Housing
- Open Housing Struggle of 1966
- Preservation vs.Urban Renewal
- Segregation and White Flight in Neighborhoods
- Urban Renewal and Public Housing 1928-1965
Hull House
- Jane Addams and Hull House
- Alice Hamilton and Hull House: Frontiers of Public Health:
- Hull House Reformers and Immigrants' Rights
- Hull House Reformers and Juveniles
- Hull House Reformers and Women's Rights
- Hull House Reformers and Workers' Rights
- Hull House Reformers' Pioneering Role in Public Health and Environmental Issues
I
Immigrants (see also: Ethnic Groups)
- Anti-Immigration Sentiment and Laws in Chicago
- Boosterism: Emigrant Manuals and Recruitment
- Boosterism: Travel Narratives and Early Accounts
- Revolution in Europe: 1848
- Hull House Reformers and Immigrants' Rights
- Immigrants' Protective League
- Nationalism vs. Americanization of Chicago’s Catholic Churches
- Nativists vs. Immigrants in Chicago
- Labor Rights, Immigrants' Rights and Deportation of Refugio Martinez
Integration/Segregation
- CIO Breaks the Barrier to Integrated Unions: "Negro and White, Unite and Fight!"
- Dorothy Gautreaux and Public Housing
- Segregation and White Flight in Neighborhoods
- The Woodlawn Organization
J
Journalism
- Claude A. Barnett
- Chicago Defender
- Cleaning Up Chicago: Muckraking During the Progressive Era
- Race and Gender Images in Chicago Newspapers 1905-1925
L
Labor
- Saul Alinsky
- CIO (Congress of Industrial Workers of the World) Breaks the Barrier to Integration: "Negros and Whites, Unite and Fight"
- CIO: Historical Background, Formation, Organizing Activity
- The CIO: A New Kind of Unionism
- Changing Attitudes Toward Unemployment 1870-1940s
- Child Labor
- Closing of the Steel Mills
- Clothing Worker's Strike 1911
- Clothing Workers: A New Kind of Unionism
- Corporate and Worker's Rights After the Pullman Strike: The Advent of Arbitration
- Did the Factory Act of 1893 Ensure Safe Working Conditions?
- Eight Hour Day
- Frontiers of Labor Organizing: The Stockyards Council of 1919
- John Fitzpatrick and the Chicago Labor Party: A Political Party for Workers' Needs?
- Margaret Haley: Pioneer of Professional Workers' Union
- Hull House Reformers and Workers' Rights
- Florence Kelley as Pathfinder for Workplace Safety
- Labor Rights, Immigrants' Rights and Deportation of Refugio Martinez
- Migratory Workers from Wobblies to Braceros
- Pullman Porters: The Embodiment of Civil and Economic Rights
- Soviet Revolution and Chicago Radicals
- Stockyards Assembly Lines: Frontiers of Mass Production
- WCFL Radio Station: Labor’s Voice
- Workers' Rights Before and After the Wagner Act of 1935 (Also known as the National Labor Relations Act)
- Workers' Rights in the Building of the Illinois and Michigan Canal
M
Migration
- Delta Migration and the Blues
- From Rural to Urban Society: Exchanging and Changing Cultures
- Great Migration(s) and Chicago's African American Community
- Migratory Workers from Wobblies to Braceros
- Redistricting of 1981
- Yankees of Chicago: The End of a Frontier
Music
N
New Deal
- New Deal Era: Crossroads of Radical, Reformers and Reactionaries
- New Deal Legislation and Its Effect on Chicago
- Resistance to New Deal Programs
O
Oral History
Organizations
ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union)
Black Panthers
Civic Federation
CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations)
- CIO Breaks the Barrier to Integrated Unions: "Negro and White, Unite and Fight!"
- CIO: Historical Background, Formation, Organizing Activity
- The CIO: A New Kind of Unionism
Chicago Board of Trade
Chicago Hearing Society
Chicago Labor Party
Chicago Women's Liberation Union
Children's Bureau
Communism/Socialism
- African-American Community and the Communist Party in the Depression and World War II
- Palmer Raids 1918-1921
Hull House
- Jane Addams and Hull House
- Alice Hamilton and Hull House: Frontiers of Public Health:
- Hull House Reformers and Immigrants' Rights
- Hull House Reformers and Juveniles
- Hull House Reformers and Women's Rights
- Hull House Reformers and Workers' Rigihts
Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) (Wobblies)
Immigrants' Protective League
Nazis
Socialist Party
- Socialist Candidates in Chicago Municipal Elections 1870-1930
- Socialist Party in Chicago in Early 20th Century: Radicals or Reformers?
Steel Councils
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
P
People
Addams, Jane
Alinsky, Saul
Armstrong, Louis
Barnett, Claude A.
Byrne, Jane
Burnham, Daniel H.
Black Hawk
Darrow, Clarence
Dawson, William L.
Dever, William E.
Dewey, John
Dillinger, John
Douglas, Stephen
du Sable, Jean Baptiste
Dunham, Katherine
Fitzpatrick, John
Gautreaux, Dorothy
Haley, Margaret
Hamilton Alice
Holmes, H.H.
- See Mudgett, Herman W.
Hubbard, Gurdon Saltonstall
Kelley, Florence
Lloyd, Henry Demarest
Lovejoy, Elijah
Martinez, Refugio
McDowell, Mary
Monroe, Harriet
Mudgett, Herman W.
Pullman, George M.
Reitman, Ben
Rosenwald, Julius
- Frontiers of Decent Housing for the Poor: Rosenwald Homes
- "We Give What We Can": The Chicago Philanthropy of Julius Rosenwald
Sinclair, Upton
Starr, Ellen Gates
Terkel, Studs
Thompson, "Big" Bill
Wacker, Charles H.
Ward, Montgomery
Washington, Harold
- Harold Washington: 1983 Election, Chicago Elects First Black Mayor
- Harold Washington and “Council Wars”
- Harold Washington and the Revolt Against the Democratic Party Machine
Wells, Ida B.
Police
Politics
- Black Panthers
- Corruption and Reform in the Administration of "Big" Bill Thompson
- Dreams of Empire: The French, British and Americans in Illinois Country
- New Deal Legislation and Its Effect on Chicago
- Reformist Efforts of Mayor William E. Dever
- Redistricting of 1981
- Silver vs. Gold Struggle: Encountering Populism
- Socialist Party in Chicago in Early 20th Century: Radicals or Reformers
- Harold Washington, 1983 Election, Chicago Elects 1st Black Mayor
- Harold Washington and "Council Wars"
- Harold Washington and the Revolt Against the Democratic Party Machine
Poverty
- Frontiers of Decent Housing for the Poor: The Rosenwald Homes
- Students for a Democratic Society
- War On Poverty's Effect on Chicago
Progressive Era
Prohibition (see Temperance)
Pullman (see also: Haymarket Affair)
- George M. Pullman
- Pullman Cars
- Pullman Community: Issues of Urban Living, Centralization and Anti-Unionism
- Pullman Porters: The Embodiment of Civil and Economic Rights
R
Radicals, Reactionaries, Reformers, Revolution and Revolutionaries
- Jane Addams and Hull House
- Black Panthers
- Alice Hamilton and Hull House: Frontiers of Public Health:
- Hull House Reformers and Immigrants' Rights
- Hull House Reformers and Juveniles
- Hull House Reformers and Women's Rights
- Hull House Reformers and Workers' Rigihts
- Hull House Reformers' Pioneering Role in Public Health and Environmental Issues
- Henry Demarest Lloyd and Wealth Against Commonwealth: Encountering the Gilded Age
- Makings of a Revolution-1877
- New Deal Era: Crossroads of Radicals, Reformers and Reactionalists
- Reformist Efforts of Mayor William E. Dever
- Ben Reitman
- Resistance to New Deal Programs
- Revolution in Europe 1848
- Revolutionaries, Visionaries and Madmen: Bughouse Square and the Dill Pickle Club
- Socialist Party in Chicago in Early 20th Century: Radicals or Reformers?
- Soviet Revolution and Chicago Radicals
- Students for a Democratic Society
- Chicago Women's Liberation Union 1969-1977: Formation and Activities
Railroads
- Corporate and Workers' Rights After the Pullman Strike: The Advent of Arbitration
- How Railroads Revolutionized U.S. Society
- George M. Pullman
- Pullman Cars
- Pullman Porters: The Embodiment of Civil and Economic Rights
- Role of the Illinois Central Railroad in Chicago
- The Strategic Importance of Chicago in the 19th Century
- Underground Railroad of Illinois As Escaped Slaves' Frontier
Recreation
- Development of the Forest Preserve System
- Chicago Parks Movement: Frontiers in Recreation
- Playgrounds
Red Squad
Rights
- Birth Control
- Black Codes
- Black Women and Suffrage
- Chicago's Freedom Riders in North And South
- Chicago River Reversal 1900: Chicago vs. St Louis and Water Rights
- Chicago Women's Liberation Union 1969-1977: Formation and Activities
- Civil Rights in Accommodations
- Creation of the Juvenile Court and Children's Rights
- Defeat of the Equal Rights Amendment in 1979
- Did Household Appliances Liberate Women?
- Effect of Cumulative Voting on Minority Representation
- Exploring Equality: How the Struggle of Women's Rights Changed After Passage of the 19th Amendment
- From Restrictive Covenants to Redlining: The 50 year struggle for Open Housing
- Hull House Reformers and Immigrants' Rights
- Hull House Reformers and Juveniles
- Hull House Reformers and Women's Rights
- Hull House Reformers and Workers' Rights
- Is Suffrage a Reform or a Revolution?
- Labor Rights, Immigrants' Rights, Deportation of Refugio Martinez
- Municipal Housekeeping and Women in Politics
- Native Americans, the French and Yankees in Early Chicago: Rights in Conflict
- Nativists vs.Immigrants in Chicago
- CIO Breaks the Barrier to Integrated Unions: Negro and White, Unite and Fight
- Origin of the Children's Bureau
- Pullman Porters: The Embodiment of Civil and Economic Rights
- Race and Gender: Images in Chicago Newspapers 1905-1925
- Revolutionaries, Visionaries and Madmen: Bughouse Square and the Dil Pickle Club
- Right to Compulsary Education: The Lives of Working Class and Minority Students
- Segregation and White Flight in Neighborhoods
- Slave or Free?: a New State Debates the Question
- Struggle to Create Child Labor Laws
- Temperance: Reform or Reaction
- Chicago Police Dept.'s Red Squad Involvement in Social Protest: "They Have No Rights"
- Women's Sports and Title IX
- What Did the 1885 Civil Rights Act of Illinois Accomplish? De Facto to De Jure Discrimination
- Civil Rights Movement Goes to School: Willis Wagons
- Workers' Rights in the Building of the Illinois and Michigan Canal
- Workers' Rights Before and After the Wagner Act
Riots
- Race Riots of 1919 and the Development of the Right to Self Defense Argument
- Lager Beer Riots of 1855
Roads, Rails, and Indian Trails
- Expressways
- Indian Trails of Chicago
- The Introduction of the Automobile: Reforming the Roads
- Streetcars
S
Social Gospel Movement
Socialism/Communism
- African American Community and the Communist Party in the Depression and World War II
- Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company: 100 Years of Publishing for Socialism
- Palmer Raids 1918-1921
- Red Scare: Communicating Paranoia 1917-1921
- Socialist Candidates in Chicago Municipal Elections 1870
- Socialist Party in Chicago in Early 20th Century: Radicals or Reformers
- Soviet Revolution and Chicago Radicals
Sports
Stockyards
- Frontiers of Labor Organizing: The Stockyards Council of 1919
- Organization of Union Stockyards
- Upton Sinclair and The Jungle
- Stockyards Assembly Line: Frontiers of Mass Production
- Stockyards, Beveridge (Albert) Act and Food Safety Laws:Public Rights to Safety and Corporate Responsibility
Strikes
- Corporate and Workers" Rights After the Pullman Strike: The Advent of Arbitration
- Clothing Workers' Strike of 1911
Suffrage and Women's Rights
- Birth Control
- Black Women and Suffrage
- Chicago Women's Liberation Union: Formation and Activities
- Defeat of the Equal Rights Amendment in 1979
- Did Household Appliances Liberate Women?
- Exploring Equality: How the Struggle of Women's Rights Changed After Passage of the 19th Amendment
- Hull House Reformers and Women's Rights
- Is Suffrage a Reform or a Revolution?
- Race and Gender Images in Chicago Newspapers 1905-1925
- Municipal Housekeeping and Women in Politics
- Why Working Women Opposed Early 20th Century Equal Rights Amendment
T
Temperance
Tobacco
Transportation
- Canal vs. Railroad: The Frontier Debate
- Development of Public Transportation: Chicago Takes on Municipal Ownership
- Encountering Transportation: The Canal and Lake
- Expressways
- How Railroads Revolutionized U.S. Society
- Introduction of the Automobile: Reforming the Roads
- Pullman Cars
- Role of the Illinois Central Railroad in Chicago
- Sanitary and Ship Canals
- Streetcars
- Underground Railroad of Illinois as Escaped Slaves' Frontier
U
Urban Renewal
W
War and Anti-War
- Jane Addams and Her Work for World Peace
- African American Community and the Communist Party in the Depression and World War II
- Black Hawk War Era 1831-1832
- Chicago and World War II: 1945
- Chicagoans Join the Spanish Civil War 1936-1939
- Development of the Atomic Bomb
- Prosecution of Anti-War Proponents in World War I and Vietnam Conflict
- Vietnam Conflict (Migration, Anti-War, Vet Treatment)
- World War II and Home Front Issues
World's Columbian Exposition 1893
- Exploring Empire: America Meets the World in 1893
- Exploring Urban Space: How the World's Columbian Exposition Reordered Space in Chicago
- Herman W. Mudgett – Alias H.H. Holmes
World's Fairs
- African Americans at the World's Columbian Exposition (1893) and the Century of Progress (1933): Comparing Encounters
- Exploring Empire: America Meets the World in 1893
- Fight Against 1992 Chicago World's Fair
- Exploring Urban Space: How the World's Columbian Exposition Reordered Space in Chicago
- Herman W. Mudgett – Alias H.H. Holmes