Illinois Humanities Council

A CRITIC AT LARGE reflecting on the ways in which recipes and cookbooks have changed over the years. Writer imagines a man and a woman lying in bed, reading. She is leafing through a fashion magazine, he through a cookbook. Why they read these things mystifies even the readers. Vicarious…

Join Chicago Public Radio as Interfaith Youth Core founder Eboo Patel sits down for a conversation with Krista Tippett, the host of public radio's Speaking of Faith. How does she answer the kinds ...

Isaiah Berlin—renowned liberal theorist, historian of ideas, Oxford don, cultural gadfly—was one of the great raconteurs of his generation. According to Robert Darnton, a professor of history ...

This presentation describes the photographs of Abraham Lincoln as they appear in the history of photography. Lincoln was the first extensively photographed President, and the first for whom the media helped sway an election. ...

“Having fun isn’t hard when you have a library card.” Or so Peter Daining reminds us in his worthy post today on Tainted Green entitled “Libraries: The cheaper, greener alternative ...

With student debt rising and more of those enrolled failing to graduate in four years, there is a growing sentiment that college may not be the best option for all students. At the same time, President ...