Last Updated on October 11, 2020
These curated resource lists coincide with the order of the topic ideas listed in the Chicago Metro History Fair (formerly CMHEC) NHD 2017 theme-related topic ideas. The links lead to resources from the Primary Source Nexus and the Library of Congress (LOC.gov) unless otherwise noted. Note: U.S. historic newspaper coverage is from 1789-1922 unless otherwise noted.
Recognition of Jean Baptiste du Sable
Abolitionism in IL or Chicago (Skinner, Carpenter, Mary and John Jones)
- Millburn Illinois Congregation to Abraham Lincoln, Sunday, September 14, 1862 (Resolution recommending abolition)
- Illinois Citizens to Abraham Lincoln, 1862 (Petition recommending abolition of slavery)
- Illinois black laws historic newspaper coverage
- Today in History: Elijah Lovejoy
- Primary Source Spotlight: Abolition
- Featured Source: Abolition frowned down primary source analysis activities
- Featured Source: Tree of Liberty primary source analysis activities
The Trial of John Hossack
- John Hossack primary sources
- John Hossack trial historic newspaper coverage (hint: select articles with most words highlighted)
Carlos Montezuma
- Carlos Montezuma historic newspaper coverage
- Carlos Montezuma U.S. National Library of Medicine
- “Carlos Montezuma: Changing is Not Vanishing” University of Illinois documentary (YouTube)
Springfield Race Riots, 1908
- Springfield, Illinois, Race Riots, 1908
- William English Walling, a NAACP Founder
- Springfield riot historic newspaper coverage 1908-1910
- Today in History: Elijah Lovejoy
- The Springfield Race Riot of 1908 Illinois Periodicals Online
- Springfield Race Riot, 1908 BlackPast.org
East St. Louis Race Riot, 1917
- Silent protest parade in New York [City] against the East St. Louis riots, 1917
- The strike at East St. Louis–firing into the crowd
- The Silent Protest of 1917
- East St. Louis riot 1917 historic newspaper coverage
- The East St. Lous Riot PBS
- East. St. Lous Race Riot, 1917 BlackPast.org
Chicago Race Riots, 1919
- The Chicago Race Riots by Carl Sandburg (1919)
- Chicago race riots historic newspaper coverage
- Chicago Race Riot of 1919: The red summer in Chicago A Political Atlas of the African Diaspora, Northwestern University
- Chicago Race Riot, 1919 BlackPast.org
Commission on Race Relations: A Dream Deferred
- Chicago Commission on Race Relations historic newspaper coverage
- The Negro in Chicago; a Study of Race Relations and a Race Riot by Chicago Commission on Race Relations (1922) Internet Archive
Robert Abbott and the Great Migration
- Robert Abbott Chicago Defender historic newspaper coverage
- Chicago: Destination for the Great Migration
- Chicago Defender founder editor: Robert S. Abbott PBS
- Robert Sengstacke Abbott Mapping The Stacks: A Guide to Black Chicago’s Hidden Archives University of Chicago
- Abbott, Robert Sengstacke BlackPast.org
- Chicago Defender BlackPast.org
- The Chicago Defender’s Role in the Great Migration The Atlantic
Chicago Defender: Sengstacke Era and Civil, Political Rights
- Chicago Defender image set 1942
- John Herman Henry Sengstacke PBS
- The Lives They Lived: John H. Sengstacke; Citizen Sengstacke New York Times Jan 4, 1998
- Chicago Defender BlackPast.org
Coles and the Fight to Make Illinois a Free State
- Edward Coles primary sources
- Edward Coles historic newspaper coverage
- Edward Coles, Patrician Emancipator Illinois Periodicals Online
- “The free Negro in Illinois prior to the Civil War, 1818-1860” Internet Archive
- Lincoln-Douglas debates
Lincoln – No House Divided
- “Can we, as a nation, continue together permanently—forever—half slave, and half free?” Abraham Lincoln to George Robertson, August 15, 1855
- “Speech of Hon. Abraham Lincoln” from Chicago Press and Tribune in Lincoln scrapbook
- House Divided Speech speech text National Park Service
- Abraham Lincoln house divided 1858 historic newspaper coverage
- Abraham Lincoln, the U.S. Supreme Court & the Politics of Slavery streaming webcast
- The autobiography of Abraham Lincoln broadside
- Presidential Spotlight: Abraham Lincoln primary sources & learning resources
Mamie Till-Mobley
Ben Reitman: Taking a Stand for Outcasts
More NHD 2017 CMHEC topic ideas (Illinois / Chicago focus)
NHD 2017 topic ideas (U.S., European, & World History)
NHD 2017: Selecting a Topic for a History Project
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