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UChicago Library becomes home to 2,700 vintage photographs by Vivian Maier

Face-off between militia and veteran

Mapping Chicago’s 1919 race riots

Ostrich egg

Hidden treasures: The amazing artifacts inside UChicago’s library

Augie March rehearsal

Staging the unstageable: Alum gives Saul Bellow novel its theatrical debut

Bob Connors

‘Great Books’ courses inspire student to collect, donate hundreds of rare editions

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Historian Ada Palmer traces censorship of radical ideas across centuries

George Stigler

Archives of two giants of economics donated to UChicago Library

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UChicago Library receives medals and papers of Nobel-winning physicist James Cronin

Hundreds of new Vivian Maier prints donated to U. of C.


Maier street scene

University of Chicago Library receives gift of vintage Vivian Maier prints