Facing Freedom, Lincoln at 200, and GIS for History

2010
Matt Lauterbach (Interpretive Experiences Coordinator)

Facing Freedom spotlights eight moments in our nation’s past when Americans struggled over the meaning of freedom. The exhibition uses images, artifacts, media, and interactivity to explore familiar and not-so-familiar stories from United States history. From the Civil War to women’s suffrage and Japanese Internment to the founding of the United Farmworkers union, the exhibition examines some of the ways Americans have struggled to define the meaning of freedom.



2009
Matt Lauterbach (Research Assistant)

Lincoln at 200 is a collaborative project of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission, the Chicago History Museum, and the Newberry Library. The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War is a digital version of a temporary exhibition at Chicago History Museum (October 10, 2009 to April 4, 2010). Abraham Lincoln and the West, 1809–1860 is a Web-only exhibition.



2005
Matt Lauterbach (Research Assistant)

GIS for History gives history students and teachers the power of GIS to investigate critical moments in American history (for example, here's our Great Migration map). Each investigation provides an interactive GIS map for studying patterns in historical census data over a period of time, a collection of historical documents chosen to help put the data into historical context, and lesson plans created by teachers and university instructors.