Purchasing the American Dream

Whether Jillian Jevack (nee Hinegardner) knew it at the time, she was a true trailblazer in designing choice-based history. She crafted her MA Thesis in History at Ohio State (2006) as a choice-based text. With Purchasing the American Dream: Buying a Home in 1960 Chicago, we have, as far as I know, the very first scholarly work researched and presented as an interactive text history. The text explores the different realities for Black and White Americans searching to purchase a home in Chicago, 1960.

Preservation is always an issue and when the links to the original on the Ohio State University’s Humanities pages no longer functioned, Jillian was kind to provide the source code and images so that it can be hosted by Gaming the Past indefinitely.

(Note: if you come across any 404 errors for missing files, please send me an email so I can fix them)

https://gamingthepast.github.io/PurchasingAmericanDream/intro1.htm