History
An evening of book club gossip about Maude Hutchins, Muriel Beadle, and Hanna Holborn Gray.
Matinee idol and Oscar nominee Sessue Hayakawa is widely remembered as a UChicago alumnus. But was he? We tried to separate fact and myth in the storied actor’s biography.
Remembering Martin Luther’s far-reaching legacy half a millennium after the 95 Theses.
Mitsuye Yamada, AM’53, transformed her family’s internment experience into poetry.
11.08.2015
Historical postcards capture UChicago as it was and as it wanted to be seen.
As the historic document turns 800, David M. Rubenstein, JD’73, reflects on preserving a Magna Carta in the United States.
What we don’t talk about when we talk about climate change.
10.14.2015
From our print archive: Herman Kogan, AB’36, retells the story of the famous conflagration that destroyed roughly 3.3 square miles of the city and left more than 100,000 residents homeless.