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Five Questions with Elizabeth Mitchell Elder, author of “Company Towns”

January 14, 2026

In Company Towns, Elizabeth Mitchell Elder examines the long-lasting political legacies of mining-company dominance in the Midwest and Appalachia. While the economic consequences of deindustrialization are well-known, Elder shifts the focus to a more insidious problem: the political dysfunction that took root long before the mines shut down. Elder charts

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A Conversation on Writing, Craft, and Poetry

December 18, 2025

Read on below for a conversation between CavanKerry Press authors Dorsía Smith Silva (In Inheritance of Drowning) and Cati Porter (The Body at a Loss) about their writing journeys and the craft of poetry. Cati Porter: Dorsía, you read and reviewed my first poetry collection, Seven Floors Up, for a

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Five Questions with Alison Bashford, author of “Decoding the Hand”

December 17, 2025

Decoding the Hand is an astounding history of magic, medicine, and science, of an enduring search for how our bodily surfaces might reveal an inner self. From sixteenth-century occult physicians to twentieth-century geneticists, and from criminologists to eugenicists, award-winning historian Alison Bashford takes us on a remarkable journey into the

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Read an Excerpt from “Atlas’s Bones” by D. Vance Smith

December 10, 2025

Atlas’s Bones is a major new look at Africa’s influence on European culture and how colonization remade Africa in the image of a medieval Europe. D. Vance Smith reveals that much of what is claimed as European culture up to the Middle Ages—its great themes in literature, its sources in

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Five Questions for Joshua B. Freeman, Author of “Garden Apartments”

November 25, 2025

In his new book, eminent historian Joshua B. Freeman turns his attention to an overlooked feature of the American landscape: garden apartments. He details their outsized influence on housing and social policy, helping improve living standards for working people. Inspired by the architectural innovations and socialist politics of British garden

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Five Questions with Cynthia Cruz, poet and author of “Sweet Repetition”

November 21, 2025

As we continue to celebrate the amazing writers, editors, and translators in our Phoenix Poets series, we’re delighted to highlight poet Cynthia Cruz, whose latest poetry collection, Sweet Repetition, published with the series in October. Sweet Repetition centers its movement on repetition and return, integrating Lacanian and Freudian psychoanalysis, continental

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Read an Excerpt from “The Adaptability Paradox” by Stephen Skowronek

November 18, 2025

Faith in the resilience and adaptability of the US Constitution rests on a long history of finding new ways to make the system work. In The Adaptability Paradox, political scientist Stephen Skowronek examines the rearrangements that regenerated the American government in the past and brings that experience to bear on

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From the Archives and Spotlight Collections from Chicago Journals

November 13, 2025

In 2023, the University of Chicago Press Journals Division launched a new online feature called “From the Archives” to bring new readership to less recent and archival scholarship. Each month, our team works to choose a different topic, and articles are selected for inclusion on the page via keyword search.

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Teaming UP at the South Side Science Festival

November 10, 2025

Since 2023, the University of Chicago Press has been proud to participate in the South Side Science Festival, a yearly event that brings STEM research to the families of Chicago’s South Side. Along with representatives from across the University of Chicago’s divisions, members of the press volunteer at the festival,

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FBI Launches Active Shooter Webpage

By Homeland Security NTARC News on June 11, 2013

Recent active shooting incidents have underscored the need for a coordinated and consistent law enforcement response to these incidents. And two recent actions—the passage of the Investigative Assistance for Violent Crimes Act and an administration initiative targeting violent crime—have enhanced FBI efforts to better assist its law enforcement partners who are almost always the first [...]

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Flight from Los Angeles to Texas diverted to Phoenix after phone bomb threat

By Homeland Security NTARC News on June 11, 2013

The FBI says they found no threats aboard a Southwest Airlines flight that was diverted to Phoenix Monday after a telephone bomb threat. The plane was traveling from Los Angeles to Austin, Texas when authorities in Los Angeles requested authorities in ...

Big Cat Attack in India

By John J. Fanning on December 28, 2010

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By John J. Fanning on December 16, 2010

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By John J. Fanning on December 16, 2010

Snow Wreaks Havoc on Travelers

By John J. Fanning on December 11, 2010

High winds and pilling snow drifts left thousands of travelers stranded on highways, subways and airports this Christmas. More…

Why Watch The Blackhawks?

By John J. Fanning on June 11, 2010

Pope Talks Money and New World Order

By John J. Fanning on July 10, 2009

Prairie Fire

By John J. Fanning on July 9, 2009

These Days… When was the last time you heard any Illinois politician speak about bringing business into this state? Do you recall hearing anything in a recent “State of the State” address that forecasted the establishment of even a dozen of the thousands of jobs we so desperately need in Illinois? If you can’t recall the last time anyone spoke…

Buffett: “Economy a Shambles”

By John J. Fanning on June 24, 2009

Warren Buffett said the US economy is a “shambles” and that, “We haven’t got the economy moving yet.” In an interview with CNBC Wednesday. More…

Tehran Streets

By John J. Fanning on June 24, 2009

Today’s Viral Video

By John J. Fanning on June 22, 2009

Today’s Viral Video

By John J. Fanning on June 21, 2009

Today’s Viral Video

By John J. Fanning on June 20, 2009

Stanford Indicted For Alleged Ponzi Scheme

By John J. Fanning on June 19, 2009

Today’s Viral Video

By John J. Fanning on June 19, 2009

Senator Questions Obama Firing of 3 Taxpayer Watchdogs

By John J. Fanning on June 18, 2009

When Obama ran for President promising transparency and honesty, he was apparently speaking of such things in the "Chicago sense" and not literally. At least that’s what some are starting to wonder as the administration removed two more inspector generals who dared to question actions by members of the current administration. More…

N. Korea Thinking About Firing Missile Towards Hawaii

By John J. Fanning on June 18, 2009

A Japanese news report says that North Korea is considering firing a long-rage ballistic missle towards the Hawaiian Islands some time in early July. More…