Harry V. Jaffa’s Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates, first published in 1959, has long been regarded
This link, posted to one of the list-serves for the American Association of University Presses this afternoon, was just too amusing not not share here.
Earlier this month, tensions erupted in the western province of Xinjiang China between the Uighurs, a Turkish-speaking Muslim minority, and the Han Chinese. On July
The University of Chicago Press is pleased to announce that beginning this month, in partnership with BiblioVault, the digital repository run by Chicago Distribution Services
At the start of NPR’s Bastille Day-inspired story this morning about the music of the French Revolution, listeners were asked to “imagine it’s the year
Maverick gay icon of poetry Thom Gunn (1929—2004) and his body of work have long dared the British and American poetry establishments to either claim
We first saw the Oak Park Public Library’s book cart drill team at a local Fourth of July parade a few years back. It was
Today in Washington, confirmation hearings begin for Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama’s choice to replace David Souter on the Supreme Court. If confirmed, Sotomayor will be
In 1921 Ben Hecht began writing a column for the Chicago Daily News called “One Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago.” In it, Hecht famously