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The Author’s Corner with Samantha Ege

Rachel Petroziello   |  December 27, 2024

Samantha Ege is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Southampton. This interview is based on her new book, South Side Impresarios: How Race Women Transformed Chicago’s Classical Music Scene  (University of Illinois Press, 2024). JF: What led you […]

The Author’s Corner with Paul D. Brinkman

Rachel Petroziello   |  September 10, 2024

Paul D. Brinkman is Head of the Environmental Humanities Research Lab and Curator of Special Collections at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences and Adjunct Associate Professor of History at North Carolina State University. This interview is based on […]

The Author’s Corner with Hendrik Hartog

Rachel Petroziello   |  August 20, 2024

Hendrik Hartog is Class of 1921 Bicentennial Professor in the History of American Law and Liberty, Emeritus at Princeton University. This interview is based on his new book, Nobody’s Boy and His Pals: The Story of Jack Robbins and the […]

The Author’s Corner with John William Nelson

Rachel Petroziello   |  February 29, 2024

John William Nelson is Assistant Professor of History at Texas Tech University. This interview is based on his new book, Muddy Ground: Native Peoples, Chicago’s Portage, and the Transformation of a Continent (University of North Carolina Press, 2023). JF: What […]

The Author’s Corner with Zachary Brodt

Rachel Petroziello   |  December 4, 2023

Zachary Brodt isĀ the University Archivist and Records Manager for the University of Pittsburgh Library System. This interview is based on his new book, From the Steel City to the White City: Western Pennsylvania and the World’s Columbian Exposition (University of […]

Democrats heading to Chicago in 2024

John Fea   |  April 11, 2023

The Democratic Party will return to Chicago in 2024. It will be held from August 19-22. You can get the details from any news website, but we thought we would call your attention to previous Chicago conventions. This will be […]

A Chicago church closes its doors

John Fea   |  August 31, 2022

A nice piece of reporting and stortytelling here from Bob Smietana of Religion News Service: Like so many pastors around the United States, the Rev. Amanda Olson has kept one eye on the Bible and another on the evolving religious […]

The only Democrat to defeat Barack Obama is retiring from the House of Representatives

John Fea   |  January 4, 2022

He is 75-year-old Chicago congressman Bobby Rush and he wants to spend more time with his grandkids after serving fifteen terms in the House. Rush beat Obama in the 2000 Illinois 1st congressional district Democratic primary by about thirty percentage […]

What is going on at North Park University?

John Fea   |  October 16, 2021

North Park is a Christian college in Chicago. Here is Colleen Flaherty at Inside Higher Ed: North Park University’s faculty voted no confidence in President Mary Surridge this week, 55 to 26. According to information from North Park’s Faculty Senate, […]

Do Americans still believe in the common good?

John Fea   |  August 23, 2021

It’s a fair question. Here is Kentucky-based writer Silas House at The Atlantic: Refusing to sacrifice for the common good is an American problem, not just a Kentucky one; opposition to masking and vaccination is happening in such disparate places […]

Chicago’s DuSable Museum is getting Kamala Harris and Barack Obama hate mail

John Fea   |  April 28, 2021

Here is Patrick Elwood at WGN-TV: The president and CEO of the DuSable Museum of African American History went public Tuesday with news of a series of threatening letters that began after the Capitol insurrection and shortly before the Biden/Harris administration took […]

Episode 2 of “A History of Evangelicals and Politics” podcast is here!

John Fea   |  April 27, 2021

Episode 2: ā€œObama Goes to Church” (our third episode) dropped last night. Subscribers toĀ CurrentĀ at the Longshore level and above receiveĀ this brand new narrative history podcast. In this episode I talk about Obama’s first encounter with Jeremiah Wright and what the […]