Rethinking the Gilded Age and Progressivisms: Race, Capitalism, Democracy 1870-1920

FAIN: ES-288065-22

Chicago History Museum (Chicago, IL 60614-6038)
Crystal Johnson (Project Director: February 2022 to March 2025)
Charles Tocci (Co Project Director: February 2022 to March 2025)
Robert Douglas Johnston (Co Project Director: August 2022 to March 2025)

A three-week, Level II residential Institute for 30 K-12 educators on the history and culture of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era in Chicago, Illinois.

In partnership with Loyola University Chicago (LUC) and the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), the Chicago History Museum (CHM) proposes to reprise and expand "Rethinking the Gilded Age and Progressivisms: Race, Capitalism, Democracy, 1877 to 1920" for a sixth year. The program’s core is a three-week summer institute in Chicago for 30 resident teachers across grades 6-12 from July 9-29, 2023, plus a new virtual conference in fall 2023. Participants will deepen their knowledge and understanding of this crucial period through readings, discussions, lectures, inquiries into primary sources, and exploration of landmark historical and cultural resources in Chicago. The institute creates an intellectual space where teachers may contemplate and debate how individuals and groups defined, reformed, and contributed to visions for American democracy during a period when radically different perspectives often dominated the public political and cultural discourse.