Chicago: Crossroads of America - Softcover

Olivia Mahoney

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0913820245 ISBN 13: 9780913820247

Publisher: Chicago History Museum, 2006

Synopsis

An ancient crossroads of travel and trade, Chicago played a key role in the making of modern America. Chicago: Crossroads of America, focuses on that crossroads nature of Chicago and its national influence using the archives and artifacts from the collection of the Chicago History Museum. Chicago: Crossroads of America, the companion to the exhibition of the same name, easily stands alone as an informative, provocative, and engaging view of the history of Chicago. Author and exhibition curator, Olivia Mahoney, walks us through Chicago history with chapters named City on the Make - an examination of Chicago as a crossroads of economic and cultural exchange from prehistoric time to the present; City in Crisis which shows how conflicting social, economic and political forces converging at the crossroads can explode in violent disorder, disrupting and changing the city; Sweet Home Chicago an overview of how Chicago s communities unite and divide along the lines of race, ethnicity and class; , Second to None a presentation of Chicago s many innovations and their far-reaching impact; and My Kind of Town a discussion of Chicago as a cultural crossroads where generations of people have gathered to play and celebrate. Mahoney brings the city s history to life with a robust selection of vibrant and provocative stories that illustrate Chicago s crossroads nature and its national and international influence.

About this title

About the Author

Olivia Mahoney is responsible for collecting and interpreting materials related to Chicago and American history. In 2006, she served as the chief curator of the permanent exhibition, Chicago: Crossroads of America. Ms. Mahoney previously curated Go West! Chicago and American Expansion (1999), America s Reconstruction: People and Politics After the Civil War (1996), Douglas/Grand Boulevard: The Past and The Promise (1995), and A House Divided: America in the Age of Lincoln (1990). Ms. Mahoney was honored in 1997 with the American Association for State and Local History Merit Award for the exhibition, America s Reconstruction: People and Politics After the Civil War. She was also awarded the Illinois Humanities Council Lawrence V. Towner Award in 1992 for A House Divided: America in the Age of Lincoln. The exhibition s catalog, which she co-authored with Eric Foner, received the Gustavus Myers Award for outstanding book on the subject of human rights in the United States. Ms. Mahoney holds an MA in Museum Studies from the State University of New York and a BS in Education with an emphasis in American History from Northwestern University. She is a member of the American Association of Museums, serves on the Advisory Board of the Gettysburg National Battlefield Museum and Visitor Center, and as a consultant to the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.

Edition details

• Publisher: Chicago History Museum
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0913820245
• ISBN 13: 9780913820247
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Joan Sommers Design
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Rosemary K. Adams