Ada Palmer

In acclaimed sci-fi novels, Ada Palmer uses history to build a ‘deep and detailed world’ UChicago historian Ada Palmer stands with a cane on campus in front of Hull Gate Gate

In acclaimed sci-fi novels, Ada Palmer uses history to build a ‘deep and detailed world’

Books you should read this summer, according to UChicago faculty Summer reading

Books you should read this summer, according to UChicago faculty

UChicago announces 2021 winners of Quantrell and Graduate Teaching Awards A group of students learn outside on the UChicago campus

UChicago announces 2021 winners of Quantrell and Graduate Teaching Awards

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

Donning Renaissance costumes, students re-enact 1492 papal elections Papal election

Donning Renaissance costumes, students re-enact 1492 papal elections

Historian Ada Palmer traces censorship of radical ideas across centuries Thumbnail

Historian Ada Palmer traces censorship of radical ideas across centuries

Introduction, Censorship & Information Control During Information Revolutions Ada Palmer

Introduction, Censorship & Information Control During Information Revolutions

Can Science Justify Itself?

Can Science Justify Itself?


Harvard Magazine

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

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


Scientific American