Special Collections Research Center
Spring/17
Pritzker professor Mindy Schwartz hopes that examining artifacts like a 19th-century surgical kit will help her students feel connected to medicine’s rich past.
Spring/Summer 2015
How the Chicago school of sociology changed the field.
Mar–Apr/15
A UChicago Library restoration project rescues a 500-year-old manuscript.
Fall 2014/Winter 2015
UChicago honors its Latin American research roots.
Nov–Dec/14
French illustrators of World War I depicted the arena, the enemy, and the home front with bravura.
Sept–Oct/14
Sung from street corners a century ago, Mexican folk ballads offered “a valuable index to popular thought,” wrote UChicago anthropologist Robert Redfield, whose work is part of a Special Collections exhibit on Mexico.
July–Aug/14
A literary mystery hidden inside a 150-year-old copy of Homer’s Odyssey finds an answer.
Sept–Oct/13
Keepers of University collections reveal the pieces closest to their hearts.