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Sports Car VS Horse

Charting the evolution of U.S. energy since 1800—from horsepower to renewables

Dec 16, 2020
Police Protest

Why current protests are about more than George Floyd’s death

Jun 10, 2020
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UChicago historian Alice Goff receives 2020 Berlin Prize

May 19, 2020
Paul Emmert, View of a Smallpox Hospital, Waikiki (1853)

Why quarantines are so difficult to implement: Lessons from the 1800s

Mar 24, 2020
Aerial view of early Hyde Park-Kenwood overlooking Jackson Park

Book traces history of UChicago's neighborhoods back to their garden roots

Feb 10, 2020
Vlad the Impaler

History course on Dracula goes beyond the story of a bloodthirsty killer

Nov 15, 2019
John Hope Franklin

UChicago honors historian John Hope Franklin with new lecture series

Sep 30, 2019
Face-off between militia and veteran

Mapping Chicago’s 1919 race riots

Jul 22, 2019
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‘We believe in freedom; we will not rest’

Jan 21, 2019

Vietnam and the Rise of the White Power Movement with Kathleen Belew (Ep. 13)

Jan 7, 2019
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