July’s free e-book is here! Check out Democracy’s Rebirth: The View from Chicago by Dick Simpson before the month is over! Dick Simpson draws upon his fifty-year career as a […]
Free E-book Giveaway: DEMOCRACY’S REBIRTH
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Q&A with the author of DANIEL BURNHAM AND LOUIS SULLIVAN
Trygve Thoreson, author of Daniel Burnham and Louis Sullivan: Personal Histories of Two Icons of American Architecture, answers questions about his new book. Why did you decide to write this […]
Q&A with the author of THE HOURS ARE LONG, BUT THE PAY IS LOW
Rob Miller, author of The Hours Are Long, But the Pay Is Low: A Curious Life in Independent Music, answers questions about his new book. Q: Why did you decide […]
Q&A with the author of GOING RACKLESS
Dylan Taylor-Lehman, author of Going Rackless: Chicago’s Amateur Pool Players and the Quest for Glory in the Biggest Tournament in the World, answers questions about his new book. Q: Why […]
Free E-book Giveaway: PUERTO RICAN CHICAGO
September’s free e-book is here! Check out Puerto Rican Chicago: Schooling the City, 1940-1977 by Mirelsie Velázquez before the month is over! The postwar migration of Puerto Rican men and […]
Free E-book Giveaway: ROOTS OF THE BLACK CHICAGO RENAISSANCE
August’s free e-book is here! Check out Roots of the Black Chicago Renaissance: New Negro Writers, Artists, and Intellectuals, 1893-1930 edited by Richard A. Courage and Christopher Robert Reed before […]
Q&A with the author of CHICAGO BEFORE THE FIRE
Louis P. Cain, author of Chicago before the Fire: An Economic History, answers questions about his new book. Q: Why did you decide to write this book? I have researched […]
Q&A with the author of ALMOST NOTHING
Nora Wendl, author of Almost Nothing: Reclaiming Edith Farnsworth, answers questions about her new book. Q: Why did you decide to write this book? I decided to write this book […]
Q&A with the author of RECLAIMING MODERNITY
Larry Bennett, editor of Reclaiming Modernity: Essays on a Paradoxical Nostalgia, answers questions about his new book. Q: Why did you decide to write this book? As I indicate in […]
Q&A with the author of SOUTH SIDE IMPRESARIOS
Samantha Ege, author of South Side Impresarios: How Race Women Transformed Chicago’s Classical Music Scene, answers questions on her new book. Q: Why did you decide to write this book? […]
Q&A with the author of THE DALEY SHOW
Forrest Claypool, author of The Daley Show: Inside the Transformative Reign of Chicago’s Richard M. Daley, answers questions on his new book. Q: Why did you decide to write this […]
Q&A with the author of WHEN FRIENDS COME FROM AFAR
Susan Blumberg-Kason, author of When Friends Come From Afar: The Remarkable Story of Bernie Wong and Chicago’s Chinese American Service League, answers questions on her new book. Q: Why did […]