Chicago Study Groups by Subject >> History and Government
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Global empire building has a long history reaching back over two thousand years. Yet we take for granted our arrangement of two hundred nation states ...  View More

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

When asked why the colonists revolted, Bernard Bailyn—the noted historian of the American colonial and revolutionary periods—replied, “because they we ...  View More

In The Pursuit of Power: Europe 1815-1914 (Penguin Random House, 2016), renowned Cambridge professor and prolific author Richard Evans gives us a magn ...  View More

"A Republic if you can keep it," was Benjamin Franklin's reply when asked what type of government had been formed. To be sure, the skepticism he expre ...  View More

The American Revolution pitted the untrained, poorly equipped, rag-tag colonial militia against the mightiest fighting forces in the world at that tim ...  View More

The presidency of Donald Trump was controversial and considered by some to be inconsistent with the values of a democratic United States. We all lived ...  View More

In this study group, we will study the complicated history of Russia by focusing on the last Tsar, Nicholas II, and his family. The Romanovs ruled Rus ...  View More

This study group will examine the sweeping history of American foreign policy, divided into four distinct eras. Although the author asserts that a cou ...  View More