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This study group will explore important evidence for the historical roots of extremism in our country today. We will discuss the world of the KKK as e ...  View More

Across North America, the name Humboldt graces towns, counties, bays, lakes, mountains, and parks, including Humboldt Park here in Chicago. In fact, a ...  View More

Today the United States and China are engaged in a broad-gauged and global competition for power. This competition is centered in Asia, particularly i ...  View More

From a Ukrainian perspective what is at stake in its current war with Russia is quite straightforward. For Russia, on the other hand, it is complicate ...  View More

Join us as we learn about the courageous archeologist who helped save Egypt’s ancient temples from destruction. Christiane Desroches-Noblecourt has be ...  View More

Presidential historian Douglas Brinkley’s Silent Spring Revolution (Harper Collins, 2022), opens with the “proto-environmentalists” Presidents Theodor ...  View More

Constitutional interpretation has evolved from a dry academic conversation to a controversy with real-life consequences. Is the Constitution a living ...  View More

Only four people served at the highest level in all of FDR's three-plus administrations from 1933 to 1945. These four, Harry Hopkins, Harold Ickes, Fr ...  View More

In the eight decades since the dawn of the Atomic Age, warfare has taken a new turn. Total wars like those fought in the first half of the 20th centur ...  View More

After World War II, Chicago started to decline like many other midwestern cities, but in 1955, Richard J. Daley was elected mayor and turned Chicago a ...  View More

One hundred twenty years ago on December 30, over 600 people died, mostly women and children, in a fire at the Iroquois Theater in Chicago. Twelve yea ...  View More