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- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Jun 13, 2018
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History resonates through Suzan-Lori Parks’s Civil War drama Father Comes Home From the Wars
The past—especially our legacy of slavery—isn’t dead, it’s not even past.
- Arts & Culture, Travel May 30, 2018
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Leave the flatlands behind in Savanna and Galena, along the bluffs of the mighty Mississippi
Head west for quaint townships and lush landscapes.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 12, 2018
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Daniel Weinberg loves Abraham Lincoln (and especially Abraham ‘Linclon’) more than you do
A profile of the owner of the Abraham Lincoln Book Shop reveals the depths of his obsession with our 16th president.
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 7, 2017
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Alderman Ameya Pawar slams Ed Burke for representing Trump in tax refund lawsuit, and other Chicago news
Also, Chicago is close to surpassing 600 homicides for the second year in a row.
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 31, 2017
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Removal of Confederate statues tidies up southern history—but it doesn’t touch the grease stains
Meanwhile the proposed HBO series Confederate is based on the premise that the south won the Civil War.
- Blogs, Bleader May 12, 2017
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Historians: The Bronzeville Culver's is being built on the site of a former Confederate smallpox cemetery, and other Chicago news
Also, an auto parts maker is opening a south-side plant that will create about 300 new jobs.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 6, 2016
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'Lincoln's Undying Words' shows how a president changed his mind about slavery
A Chicago History Museum exhibit examines Lincoln's speeches for clues about how he changed from political moderate to the Great Emancipator.
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 11, 2016
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After 40 years, Black History Month’s abolition is overdue
Stop presenting American history as if it were white history with a few black cameos.
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 24, 2015
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Why didn't the Confederate battle flag go the way of the swastika?
So far the Stars and Bars have enjoyed a much gentler fate.
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 6, 2014
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Could reparations for African-Americans help reduce violence?
A conversation with veteran reparations activist and political organizer Conrad Worrill.
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 25, 2013
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Did Edward Snowden tell us anything we didn't already know?
Cynicism and the national defense
- Blogs, Bleader May 2, 2013
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For black and Hispanic families, no end yet to the bottoming out
The wealth gap between white families and black and Hispanic families has grown to six to one.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Jan 30, 2013
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The Whipping Man goes south
Matthew Lopez's play shows its seams in a Northlight Theatre production.
- Blogs, Bleader May 24, 2012
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Friday at the Bottle: the polystylistic grind of Starring
Violist and former Chicagoan Amy Cimini opens for Bobby Conn tomorrow with multistylistic rock band Starring
- News & Politics, Chicagoans May 16, 2012
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This week's Chicagoan: Leslie Goddard, historical interpreter
"Every time I do Jackie Kennedy, I have to make sure there are no runs in the stockings; everything has to be perfectly pressed and perfectly clean."
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Review Apr 18, 2012
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A foggy war at Steppenwolf
Frank Galati fails to focus in his adaptation of E.L. Doctorow's The March
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 11, 2011
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Morning Newsfeed: Banned Brown-Bag Lunches, Walmart in Lakeview, the Civil War in Lincoln Park, and More
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 16, 2011
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The Disappointment: Or, the Force of Credulity
Brian Springer's family searches for an anarchist diary and buried treasure on their Missouri farm in his documentary "The Disappointment: Or, the Force of Credulity," screening Thursday 3/17 at the Gene Siskel Film Center.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 26, 2010
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Hilterbrick v. Mehring: The Verdict
A Pennsylvania grand jury washes its hands of the famous mince pie law suit
- Music, Soundboard Mar 4, 2010
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The List: March 4-10, 2010
Critic's Choices and other notable concerts: The Magnetic Fields, Katherine Young, Atomic, Goatwhore, Efterklang, the Gunshy, and more
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 24, 2009
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A Very Reader Christmas: Abe Lincoln Gets the Biggest Christmas Gift Ever
To: the President From: William Tecumseh Sherman
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 11, 2006
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The teacher taught
College doesn’t just change its students.
- Arts & Culture, Travel Jun 17, 1999
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Down Town
The thriving if sinful city of Cairo seemed destined for greatness. What went wrong?