Guest Post from Gioia Diliberto, author of Firebrands: The Untold Story of Four Women Who Made and Unmade Prohibition A radical social/political movement has taken
Does today’s political moment have you asking “How did we get here?” If so, we have a reading list that includes histories of American commerce
In today’s never-ending news cycle, it can be hard to stay grounded and make sense of the flood of information. So, we offer here a
Since the 1960s, American liberalism and the Democratic Party have been remade along professional class lines, widening liberalism’s impact but narrowing its social and political
Between the 1880s and the 1930s, New York City experienced explosive growth as nearly a million buildings, dozens of bridges and tunnels, hundreds of miles
Published this summer, The Politics of Utopia is a fascinating retelling of the first banking and financial collapse in eighteenth-century France. This week, we’re sharing
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The Journals Division of the University of Chicago Press publishes more than 90 journals covering subjects from the humanities to the life sciences and historical
Today, October 10 marks World Mental Health Day— a day for raising awareness of mental health issues and mobilizing efforts in support of mental well-being.
In The Lost Promise: American Universities in the 1960s, Ellen Schrecker illuminates how American universities’ explosive growth intersected with the turmoil of the 1960s, fomenting
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