Ada Palmer

Summer reading

Books you should read this summer, according to UChicago faculty

A group of students learn outside on the UChicago campus

UChicago announces 2021 winners of Quantrell and Graduate Teaching Awards

Outdoor art class

From outdoor art to virtual worlds, a look at UChicago’s Autumn Quarter

Ada Palmer

What Historic Pandemics Could Teach Us About Coronavirus, with Ada Palmer (Ep. 48)

A historian explains what we can really learn about COVID-19 from the Black Death pandemic

Papal election

Donning Renaissance costumes, students re-enact 1492 papal elections

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Historian Ada Palmer traces censorship of radical ideas across centuries

Ada Palmer

Introduction, Censorship & Information Control During Information Revolutions

Can Science Justify Itself?


Harvard Magazine

A Utopia with Caveats: Why Peace on Earth Might Require Big Sacrifices


Scientific American

The rediscovery of this writer in the Renaissance opened the way to the modern world