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Goliath's Curse: The History and Future of Social Collapse 

In Goliath’s Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse (Alfred A. Knopf, 2025), Cambridge scholar Luke Kemp considers human societies before ...  View More

Location: Wieboldt Hall Location : 
  Wieboldt Hall.

Start date: 03/02/26

Days of the Week: Weekly - Mon .

Weekly - Mon 9:45 AM - 11:45 AM (3/2/2026-6/8/2026)

Available 2/2/2026 9:00 AM
 
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The Mayoralty of Richard M. Daley and Its Consequences for Chicago Today 

Richard M. Daley was a dynamic and very consequential mayor of Chicago. During his mayoralty, following in the legendary footsteps of his father, Rich ...  View More

Location: Wieboldt Hall Location : 
  Wieboldt Hall.

Start date: 03/03/26

Days of the Week: Weekly - Tue .

Weekly - Tue 9:45 AM - 11:45 AM (3/3/2026-6/2/2026)

Available 2/2/2026 9:00 AM
 
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The Power Broker 

 Robert Caro’s acclaimed biography, The Power Broker (Viking, 1974), chronicles the life and influence of Robert Moses, one of the most powerful figur ...  View More

Location: Wieboldt Hall Location : 
  Wieboldt Hall.

Start date: 03/03/26

Days of the Week: Weekly - Tue .

Weekly - Tue 9:45 AM - 11:45 AM (3/3/2026-6/2/2026)

Available 2/2/2026 9:00 AM
 
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The Black Count: The True Story of a Hero, a Man, and The French Revolution 

Tom Reiss's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo (Crown, 2012), will be ...  View More

Location: Wieboldt Hall Location : 
  Wieboldt Hall.

Start date: 03/03/26

Days of the Week: Weekly - Tue .

Weekly - Tue 1:15 PM - 3:15 PM (3/3/2026-6/2/2026)

Available 2/2/2026 9:00 AM
 
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Clarence Darrow: Attorney for the Damned 

Throughout his career, Clarence Darrow defended gangsters, psychopaths, crooked politicians, and greedy corporations. Often he didn’t take cases for t ...  View More

Location: Wieboldt Hall Location : 
  Wieboldt Hall.

Start date: 03/04/26

Days of the Week: Weekly - Wed .

Weekly - Wed 9:45 AM - 11:45 AM (3/4/2026-6/3/2026)

Available 2/2/2026 9:00 AM
 
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Different Paths 

By the year 1000, China was the most economically advanced and politically developed country in the world, while western Europe remained a fractured g ...  View More

Location: Wieboldt Hall Location : 
  Wieboldt Hall.

Start date: 03/04/26

Days of the Week: Weekly - Wed .

Weekly - Wed 9:45 AM - 11:45 AM (3/4/2026-6/3/2026)

Available 2/2/2026 9:00 AM
 
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The Rise and Fall of Clout and the Political Machine in Chicago 

What is the genesis of political patronage in Chicago? In the past, "the city that works" required "clout" for a person to make it big in Chicago, or ...  View More

Location: Wieboldt Hall Location : 
  Wieboldt Hall.

Start date: 03/04/26

Days of the Week: Weekly - Wed .

Weekly - Wed 9:45 AM - 11:45 AM (3/4/2026-6/3/2026)

Available 2/2/2026 9:00 AM
 
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America in Transition: From the Civil War to World War I 

In the aftermath of the Civil War, America grappled with the challenges of integrating 4 million freed slaves into American society, while contending ...  View More

Location: Wieboldt Hall Location : 
  Wieboldt Hall.

Start date: 03/04/26

Days of the Week: Weekly - Wed .

Weekly - Wed 1:15 PM - 3:15 PM (3/4/2026-6/3/2026)

Available 2/2/2026 9:00 AM
 
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We The People: A History of the US Constitution (Chicago Campus) 

We the People: A History of the US Constitution isn’t just another dry text on the American Constitution.  Best-selling author Jill Lepore, Harvard Pr ...  View More

Location: Wieboldt Hall Location : 
  Wieboldt Hall.

Start date: 03/04/26

Days of the Week: Weekly - Wed .

Weekly - Wed 1:15 PM - 3:15 PM (3/4/2026-6/3/2026)

Available 2/2/2026 9:00 AM
 
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Founding Fathers and Democracy 

On July 4, 2026, we will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the founding document of the United States. To recognize ...  View More

Location: Wieboldt Hall Location : 
  Wieboldt Hall.

Start date: 03/05/26

Days of the Week: Weekly - Thu .

Weekly - Thu 9:45 AM - 11:45 AM (3/5/2026-6/4/2026)

Available 2/2/2026 9:00 AM
 
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Sin In The Second City 

Step into the glittering, lawless, and intoxicating world of Chicago’s Levee District—where politics, pleasure, and power collided behind velvet curta ...  View More

Location: Wieboldt Hall Location : 
  Wieboldt Hall.

Start date: 03/05/26

Days of the Week: Weekly - Thu .

Weekly - Thu 1:15 PM - 3:15 PM (3/5/2026-6/4/2026)

Available 2/2/2026 9:00 AM
 
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The Fate of the Day: Rick Atkinson's Description of the American Revolution 

The second volume of historian Rick Atkinson's "Revolution Trilogy," The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777–17 ...  View More

Location: Wieboldt Hall Location : 
  Wieboldt Hall.

Start date: 03/05/26

Days of the Week: Weekly - Thu .

Weekly - Thu 1:15 PM - 3:15 PM (3/5/2026-6/4/2026)

Available 2/2/2026 9:00 AM
 
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