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Co-taught by two award-winning science fiction novelists, who are both also historians and critics of the field, this course examines the evolution of science fiction literature from its pre-modern...
Which musicals changed the face of this most American of art forms? Join the Chicago Tribune's renowned theater critic and cultural columnist Chris Jones on a weekly journey across the most...
This three quarter series is a study of the historical geography of the land of the Bible from prehistory to the establishment of the modern State of Israel and the conflict over the Palestinian...
This three quarter series is a study of the historical geography of the land of the Bible from prehistory to the establishment of the modern State of Israel and the conflict over the Palestinian...
The nineteenth century saw the advent of the scientist as both a word and a concept. The “natural philosopher,” whose purview had for centuries been a theoretical understanding of the world, was...
From the relative backwater of ancient Macedonia emerged one of the most influential persons of human history, Alexander III, known to history as “Alexander the Great”. Born in the political shadows...
The Magic Mountain tells the story of an “ordinary young man” whose visit to a Swiss tuberculosis sanatorium ends up lasting seven years. A work that beautifully explores themes of illness, death...
For centuries, the name Medici has been practically synonymous with patronage of art. Between the early fifteenth and later sixteenth centuries, the Medici family of Florence rose from the ranks of...
Medieval manuscripts defy modern expectations: far from relics of a 'dark age' of rigid thinking and inflexible dogma, these books instead are a window into the culture of ingenuity, care, and...
After the Civil War and the Reconstruction Era Southerners sought in earnest to “take back” the South. What emerged was the period of Jim Crow and Segregation between Euro and African American...