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  • THE FEELING OF HISTORY
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    THE FEELING OF HISTORY
    CHARLES HIRSCHKIND
    In today’s world, the lines between Europe and the Middle East, between Christian Europeans and Muslim immigrants in their midst, seem to be hardening. Alarmist editorials compare the arrival of Muslim refugees with the “Muslim conquest of 711,” warning that Europe will be called on to defend its borders. Violence and paranoia are alive and well in Fortress Europe.   Against th...

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  • THE EXPERIMENTAL FIRE
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    THE EXPERIMENTAL FIRE
    JENNIFER M. RAMPLING
    A 400-year history of the development of alchemy in England that brings to light the evolution of the practice. In medieval and early modern Europe, the practice of alchemy promised extraordinary physical transformations. Who would not be amazed to see base metals turned into silver and gold, hard iron into soft water, and deadly poison into elixirs that could heal the human bo...

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  • THE WARDIAN CASE
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    THE WARDIAN CASE
    LUKE KEOGH
    The story of a nineteenth-century invention (essentially a tiny greenhouse) that allowed for the first time the movement of plants around the world, feeding new agricultural industries, the commercial nursery trade, botanic and private gardens, invasive species, imperialism, and more. Roses, jasmine, fuchsia, chrysanthemums, and rhododendrons bloom in gardens across the world, ...

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  • NADIA BOULANGER AND HER WORLD
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    NADIA BOULANGER AND HER WORLD
    JEANICE BROOKS
    Nadia Boulanger (1887–1979) was arguably one of the most iconic figures in twentieth-century music, and certainly among the most prominent musicians of her time. For many composers— especially Americans from Aaron Copland to Philip Glass—studying with Boulanger in Paris or Fontainebleau was a formative moment in a creative career. Composer, performer, conductor, impresario, and...

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  • CATACLYSMS
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    CATACLYSMS
    LAURENT TESTOT
    Humanity is by many measures the biggest success story in the animal kingdom; but what are the costs of this triumph? Over its three million years of existence, the human species has continuously modified nature and drained its resources. In Cataclysms, Laurent Testot provides the full tally, offering a comprehensive environmental history of humanity’s unmatched and perhaps irr...

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  • THE OPENING OF THE AMERICAN MIND
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    THE OPENING OF THE AMERICAN MIND
    THE POINT
    In a cultural landscape dominated by hot takes and petty polemics, The Point stands for something different. Informed by the conviction that humanistic thinking has relevance for everyday life, the magazine has long maintained a rare space for thoughtful dialogue between a wide range of political views, philosophical perspectives, and personal experiences: its contributors incl...

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  • LEAVE ME ALONE AND I'LL MAKE YOU RICH
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    LEAVE ME ALONE AND I'LL MAKE YOU RICH
    DEIRDRE NANSEN MCCLOSKEY / ART CARDEN
    The economist and historian Deirdre Nansen McCloskey has been best known recently for her Bourgeois Era trilogy, a vigorous defense, unrivaled in scope, of commercially tested betterment.  Its massive volumes, The Bourgeois Virtues, Bourgeois Dignity, and Bourgeois Equality, solve Adam Smith’s puzzle of the nature and causes of the wealth of nations, and of the moral sentiments...

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  • QUEER LEGACIES
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    QUEER LEGACIES
    JOHN D'EMILIO
    The variety of LGBTQ life in Chicago is too abundant and too diverse to be contained in a single place. But since 1981, the Gerber/Hart Library and Archives has striven to do just that, amassing a wealth of records related to the city’s gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer-identified people and organizations. In Queer Legacies, John D’Emilio—a pioneering scholar in th...

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  • FROM OLD REGIME TO INDUSTRIAL STATE
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    FROM OLD REGIME TO INDUSTRIAL STATE
    RICHARD H. TILLY / MICHAEL KOPSIDIS
    In From Old Regime to Industrial State, Richard H. Tilly and Michael Kopsidis question established thinking about Germany’s industrialization. While some hold that Germany experienced a sudden breakthrough to industrialization, the authors instead consider a long view, incorporating market demand, agricultural advances, and regional variations in industrial innovativeness, cust...

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  • THE CONSPIRACY TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO SEVEN
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    THE CONSPIRACY TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO SEVEN
    JOHN SCHULTZ
    In 1969, the Chicago Seven were charged with intent to "incite, organize, promote, and encourage" antiwar riots during the chaotic 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. The defendants included major figures of the antiwar and racial justice movements: Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin, the madcap founders of the Yippies; Tom Hayden and Rennie Davis, founders of Students f...

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  • THE LIMITS OF PARTY
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    THE LIMITS OF PARTY
    JAMES M. CURRY / FRANCES E. LEE
    To many observers, Congress has become a deeply partisan institution where ideologically-distinct political parties do little more than engage in legislative trench warfare. A zero-sum, winner-take-all approach to congressional politics has replaced the bipartisan comity of past eras. If the parties cannot get everything they want in national policymaking, then they prefer grid...

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  • AFTER REDLINING
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    AFTER REDLINING
    REBECCA K. MARCHIEL
    Focusing on Chicago's West Side, After Redlining illuminates how urban activists were able to change banks’ behavior to support investment in communities that they had once abandoned. American banks, to their eternal discredit, long played a key role in disenfranchising nonwhite urbanites and, through redlining, blighting the very city neighborhoods that needed the most investm...

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  • SHODDY
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    SHODDY
    HANNA ROSE SHELL
    The history of modern-day old clothes recycling begins with a thing called shoddy. Starting in the early 1800s, shoddy was the name given to a new material made from reclaimed wool, and to one of the earliest forms of industrial recycling. Old rags and leftover fabric clippings were ground to bits by a machine known as “the devil” and then re-used. Usually undisclosed, shoddy–a...

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  • WRITING FOR SOCIAL SCIENTISTS
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    WRITING FOR SOCIAL SCIENTISTS
    HOWARD S. BECKER
    For more than thirty years, Writing for Social Scientists has been a lifeboat for writers in all fields, from beginning students to published authors. It starts with a powerful reassurance: Academic writing is stressful, and even accomplished scholars like sociologist Howard S. Becker struggle with it. And it provides a clear solution: In order to learn how to write, take a dee...

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  • THE ANGEL IN THE MARKETPLACE
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    THE ANGEL IN THE MARKETPLACE
    ELLEN WAYLAND-SMITH
    The popular image of a midcentury adwoman is of a feisty girl beating men at their own game, a female Horatio Alger protagonist battling her way through the sexist workplace. But before the fictional rise of Peggy Olson or the real-life stories of Patricia Tierney and Jane Maas came Jean Wade Rindlaub: a female power broker who used her considerable success in the workplace to ...

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  • LOCALISM AND THE ANCIENT GREEK CITY-STATE
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    LOCALISM AND THE ANCIENT GREEK CITY-STATE
    HANS BECK
    Much like our own time, the ancient Greek world was constantly expanding and becoming more connected to global networks. The landscape was shaped by an ecology of city-states, local formations that were stitched into the wider Mediterranean world. While the local is often seen as less significant than the global stage of politics, religion, and culture, localism, argues histori...

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  • RACE TO THE BOTTOM
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    RACE TO THE BOTTOM
    LAFLEUR STEPHENS-DOUGAN
    African American voters are a key demographic to the modern Democratic base, and conventional wisdom has it that there is political cost to racialized “dog whistles,” especially for Democratic candidates. However, politicians from both parties and from all racial backgrounds continually appeal to negative racial attitudes for political gain.             Challenging what we thin...

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  • PICTURING POLITICAL POWER
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    PICTURING POLITICAL POWER
    ALLISON K. LANGE
    Lange's examination of the fights that led to the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 reveals the power of images to change history. For as long as women have battled for equitable political representation in America, those battles have been defined by images—whether illustrations, engravings, photographs, or colorful chromolithograph posters. Some of these picture...

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  • AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 WORDS
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    AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 WORDS
    PAUL ANTHONY JONES
    What makes a place so memorable that it survives forever in a word? In this captivating round-the-world tour, Paul Anthony Jones acts as your guide through the intriguing stories of how eighty places became immortalized in the English language. You’ll discover why the origins of turkeys, limericks, Brazil nuts, and Panama hats aren’t quite as straightforward as you might presum...

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  • DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA?
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    DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA?
    BENJAMIN I. PAGE / MARTIN GILENS
    America faces daunting problems—stagnant wages, high health care costs, neglected schools, deteriorating public services. How did we get here? Through decades of dysfunctional government. In Democracy in America? veteran political observers Benjamin I. Page and Martin Gilens marshal an unprecedented array of evidence to show that while other countries have responded to a rapidl...

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  • OLD THIESS, A LIVONIAN WEREWOLF
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    OLD THIESS, A LIVONIAN WEREWOLF
    CARLO GINZBURG / BRUCE LINCOLN
    In 1691, a Livonian peasant known as Old Thiess boldly announced before a district court that he was a werewolf. Yet far from being a diabolical monster, he insisted, he was one of the “hounds of God,” fierce guardians who battled sorcerers, witches, and even Satan to protect the fields, flocks, and humanity—a baffling claim that attracted the notice of the judges then and stil...

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  • AMERICA'S INEQUALITY TRAP
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    AMERICA'S INEQUALITY TRAP
    NATHAN J. KELLY
    The gap between the rich and the poor has grown dramatically in the United States and is now at its widest since at least the early 1900s. While by most measures the economy has been improving, soaring cost of living and stagnant wages have done little to assuage economic anxieties. Conditions like these seem designed to produce a generation-defining intervention to balance the...

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  • TROUBLEMAKERS
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    TROUBLEMAKERS
    ERIK S. GELLMAN
    What does democracy look like? And when should we cause trouble to pursue it? Troublemakers fuses photography and history to demonstrate how racial and economic inequality gave rise to a decades-long struggle for justice in one American city. In dialogue with 275 of Art Shay’s photographs, Erik S. Gellman takes a new look at major developments in postwar US history: the Second ...

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  • A SMALL DOOR SET IN CONCRETE
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    A SMALL DOOR SET IN CONCRETE
    ILANA HAMMERMAN
    “I was taught from the start not to be silent.” For years, renowned activist and scholar Ilana Hammerman has given the world remarkable translations of Kafka. With A Small Door Set in Concrete, she turns to the actual surreal existence that is life in the West Bank after decades of occupation. After losing her husband and her sister, Hammerman set out to travel to the end of th...

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  • TRADING SPACES
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    TRADING SPACES
    EMMA HART
    Looks at the shift from the marketplace as an actual place to a theoretical idea and how this shaped the early American economy. When we talk about the economy, “the market” is often just an abstraction. While the exchange of goods was historically tied to a particular place, capitalism has gradually eroded this connection to create our current global trading systems. In Tradin...

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  • WATERS OF THE WORLD
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    WATERS OF THE WORLD
    SARAH DRY
    The compelling and adventurous stories of seven pioneering scientists who were at the forefront of what we now call climate science. From the glaciers of the Alps to the towering cumulonimbus clouds of the Caribbean and the unexpectedly chaotic flows of the North Atlantic, Waters of the World is a tour through 150 years of the history of a significant but underappreciated idea:...

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  • IMAGINING JUDEO-CHRISTIAN AMERICA
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    IMAGINING JUDEO-CHRISTIAN AMERICA
    K. HEALAN GASTON
    “Judeo-Christian” is a remarkably easy term to look right through. Judaism and Christianity obviously share tenets, texts, and beliefs that have strongly influenced American democracy. In this ambitious book, however, K. Healan Gaston challenges the myth of a monolithic Judeo-Christian America. She demonstrates that the idea is not only a recent and deliberate construct, but al...

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  • THE WORLD OF JULIETTE KINZIE
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    THE WORLD OF JULIETTE KINZIE
    ANN DURKIN KEATING
    When Juliette Kinzie first visited Chicago in 1831, it was anything but a city. An outpost in the shadow of Fort Dearborn, it had no streets, no sidewalks, no schools, no river-spanning bridges. And with two hundred disconnected residents, it lacked any sense of community. In the decades that followed, not only did Juliette witness the city’s transition from Indian country to i...

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  • AMERICAN WARSAW
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    AMERICAN WARSAW
    DOMINIC A. PACYGA
    A comprehensive and engaging history of a century of Polish immigration and influence in Chicago. Every May, a sea of 250,000 people decked out in red and white head to Chicago’s Loop to celebrate the Polish Constitution Day Parade. In the city, you can tune in to not one but four different Polish-language radio stations or jam out to the Polkaholics. You can have lunch at pier...

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  • AUTHORITARIAN APPREHENSIONS
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    AUTHORITARIAN APPREHENSIONS
    LISA WEDEEN
    If the Arab uprisings initially heralded the end of tyrannies and a move toward liberal democratic governments, their defeat not only marked a reversal but was of a piece with emerging forms of authoritarianism worldwide. In Authoritarian Apprehensions, Lisa Wedeen draws on her decades-long engagement with Syria to offer an erudite and compassionate analysis of this extraordina...

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