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.

A Divinity School historian’s study of medieval Europe becomes a wellspring of historical fiction.

From our print archive: Our atomic leadership may be only temporary.

How the University of Chicago, the great books craze, and a love of Goethe helped create the Aspen Institute. 

John Snyder traversed Ethiopia seeking inspiration for a screenplay. Instead he captured a landscape about to disappear.

Leon and Amy Kass develop an online curriculum that inspires insight into the national soul.

Jud Newborn, AM’77, PhD’94, brings Nazi resisters out of the past into the present.

Jud Newborn, AM’77, PhD’94, tells the story of Munich’s anti-Nazis.

Curator Bonnie Lilienfeld, AB’84, shares more stories behind the stuff in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.

Learning, or not, at the DuSable Museum’s Civil War reenactment.

Historian James Sparrow analyzes the evolution of “big government” from World War II to present-day America.