History

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

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

Aerial view of early Hyde Park-Kenwood overlooking Jackson Park

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

Vlad the Impaler

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

John Hope Franklin

UChicago honors historian John Hope Franklin with new lecture series

Face-off between militia and veteran

Mapping Chicago’s 1919 race riots

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‘We believe in freedom; we will not rest’

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

In new book, UChicago historian examines rise of white power movement

UChicago scholar chairs jury for Pulitzer Prize for history

Moishe Postone

Moishe Postone, leading interpreter of Marx and scholar of European intellectual history, 1942-2018