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University of Chicago Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections

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William H. Barton Collection of Lincolniana

This collection includes historical books and documents associated with Lincoln studies; a signed broadside copy of the Emancipation Proclamation; letters of Lincoln and other figures of the Civil War era; portraits, photographs, and paintings; and ephemeral and artifactual material related to Lincoln, his parentage, Lincoln sites, and the Civil War.

Earl J. Hamilton History of Economics Collection

Rare and scholarly titles, on such subjects as the economy of Spain,the life of John Law of Lauriston. and works on commerce and manufacturing in England, Italy, and the Mediterranean.

Censorship and Information Control

This document traces the history of attempts to control or silence information, from antiquity’s earliest written records to our new digital world. An examination of how censorship has worked, thrived, or failed in different times and places, it shows how real censorship movements tend to be very different from the centralized, methodical.

Closeted/Out in the Quadrangles

Historical view of LGBT faculty, student, and staff life at the University of Chicago.