Sixteenth-century Italian artist Jacopo Bassano created paintings of herdsmen and animals moving through dark and muddy landscapes. He also was an active participant in shaping
Though it was once home to the world’s largest landfill, today Staten Island boasts thousands of acres of parklands, dozens of public-private conservation arrangements, and
Fitting in and standing out in high school is an eternal rite of passage for youth. Increasingly, these struggles to establish and maintain hierarchies are
In this exhilarating and mind-bending book, renowned scientist and author Paul Davies offers readers a glimpse of how quantum physics has led to a quantum
The University of Chicago Press invites everyone to celebrate Pride with a reading list of recent and forthcoming books from Chicago and our client publishers
In Empire’s Companion: Virgilian Epics from Colonial Iberoamerica, Erika Valdivieso offers a study of how Latin poetry shaped colonial aspirations in sixteenth- to eighteenth-century South
Despite epidemic levels of overdoses in the United States, by 2020, only twenty percent of Americans suffering from opioid use disorder (OUD) received medication-assisted treatment
The US government spends hundreds of millions of dollars every year to promote and facilitate contraception. Whereas other wealthy countries support broader fertility interventions under
The Smithsonian American Art Museum has awarded the 2025 Charles C. Eldredge Prize to Faye Raquel Gleisser, author of Risk Work: Making Art and Guerilla
July 4, 2026, will mark the semiquincentennial—or 250th anniversary of the founding—of the United States. It is a time of celebration, but also, nationally and
