— The poor boys of large cities have plenty of physical vigor, plenty of cleverness, plenty of bravery ; but, as a class, they have the sad failings of untruthfulness and irresponsibility.

A century ago, UChicago scholars argued a controversial idea: Western civilization had its roots in the ancient Middle East—not in Greece or Rome. Today, scholars at the OI and across the University ...

Moments of sociopolitical tumult have a way of generating all-encompassing explanatory histories. These chronicles either indulge a sense of decline or applaud our advances. The appetite for such ...

Unraveling the mysteries of lost civilizations is a fascinating endeavor that combines the thrill of discovery with the intellectual rigor of scientific investigation. As we delve into the past, we ...

OUR present Western outlook on history is an extraordinarily contradictory one. While our historical horizon has been expanding vastly in both the space dimension and the time dimension, our ...