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What Does the Nation's Largest Prison Reveal About Society?
A Look at the Illinois State Penitentiary of the 1870s

written by Don Barbour
for grades 6-12

Campbell Soup:
Discrimination and the Committee on Fair Employment

written by Don Owen
for grades 6-12

Court Packing:
FDR vs. Checks and Balances

written by Greg Stock
for grades 9-12

Urbana's Curfew Laws
and Their Challenge in Court

written by Mark Foley
for grades 6-8

Chinese Immigration
and the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882

written by Don Barbour
for grades 6-8

The UIUC Student Strike
of 1970

written by Mark Foley
for grades 6-8

Web Resources for
Legal History
(Summer Institute 2006)