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What events come to mind when you think about disasters that have shaped the growth of Chicago? In this study group, you will learn that 1919 was a dr ...  View More

In the wake of World War II, the myth developed that European Jews passively marched to their own slaughter. This disregards the fact that there was s ...  View More

Are leaders born or made? Where does ambition come from? How does adversity affect the growth of leadership? Do the times make the leader or do the le ...  View More

Seventy-five years ago, on June 6, 1944, the Allies undertook the campaign to liberate France. Ahead of them lay Hitler's Atlantic Wall, a formidable ...  View More

Opium – a blessing or a curse, or a little of both? It’s been with us since before the dawn of civilization, sometimes causing bliss, at other times c ...  View More

In the early 1960s, David Halberstam served as a correspondent for The New York Times covering the war in Vietnam and winning both a Pulitzer Prize an ...  View More

“New Gene Discovery Raises Hopes for Cancer Cure!” Another of the daily barrage of news headlines from scientific studies on every 24-hour media outle ...  View More

The collision of peoples and cultures –Native Americans, Europeans, and Africans – defines Latin America. This is the central theme of Marshall Eakin’ ...  View More

We live on the beautiful shores of Lake Michigan which connects to 20% of the world's fresh water supply. We enjoy the views, play on the beaches and ...  View More

Join us as we watch, and then discuss, Law Professor Douglas Linder’s twenty-four 30-minute lectures on important legal cases from around the world an ...  View More

President Eisenhower in September 1953 appointed Earl Warren, a three-term governor of California as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court. ...  View More

Three men, three countries, three cousins, two grandsons and one grandson-in-law of Queen Victoria. In the years leading up to World War I these men s ...  View More