University of Chicago

The common assumption, at the time this book was written, was that the Chicago Public Library system had been founded in a distinct moment after the Great Chicago Fire in 1871, with help from the British. Author Gwladys Spencer argues that by 1871, the founding of CPL was already underway. The book presents a history of CPL up to 1872, and sets it in the greater context of the library movement in Illinois and around the country. (Adapted from introduction.)

Written by the founder of the Anthropology Department at the University of Chicago this book this considers the development of the sophistication of man.

The Chicago Review is an international journal of writing and critical exchange published quarterly by the Division of Humanities of the University of Chicago.

The Chicago Review is an international journal of writing and critical exchange published quarterly by the Division of Humanities of the University of Chicago.

The Chicago Review is an international journal of writing and critical exchange published quarterly by the Division of Humanities of the University of Chicago. The first part of this double-issue is a celebration of the work of poet Lisa Robertson. The poem by Eric Elshtain is a collaboration with Gnoetry, a computerized language synthesizer that develops poems from an analytic, statistical process once certain parameters (source texts, stanzas, length of lines) are input into the system.

The Chicago Review is an international journal of writing and critical exchange published quarterly by the Division of Humanities of the University of Chicago.

The Chicago Review is an international journal of writing and critical exchange published quarterly by the Division of Humanities of the University of Chicago.

The Chicago Review is an international journal of writing and critical exchange published by the Division of Humanities of the University of Chicago. Much of this issue focuses on an appreciation of the work of poet/academic Christopher Middleton.

Exhibition book for a showing of works by Kerry James Marshall at the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, May 6-June 28, 1998. Marshall works in the genre of history painting, seeking to "reread the legacy of the Civil Rights Movement and the whole of African-American history in relation to a very complex present" (Acknowledgements). The exhibit also included prints, sculpture, and video. Includes intepretive essays by Cheryl I. Harris and Richard J. Powell, with extracts from the writings of Will Alexander.