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| Subject | Author | Title | Description | |||||||
| Archeology | Klapper, Gilbert | Questions of Fraud | Scientific forgeries: Devonian Conodonts and Piltdown Man | |||||||
| Archeology | Parkhurst, Todd Sheldon | *Adventure for Two | Discovery and recovery of the riches of the Spanish galleon Atocha | |||||||
| Architectural History | Allan, Stanley Nance | At the Beginning | Construction of the Washington DC Metro | |||||||
| Architectural History | Allan, Stanley Nance | Building the Pentagon | Construction of the Pentagon | |||||||
| Architectural History | Blew, John C. | "The Emperor's New Clothes" -- Now Playing in Plano | Contrary view of the viability of the Farnsworth House | |||||||
| Architectural History | Deen, Yolanda M. | Amidst a Grove of Olive Trees | Archibald Clinton Harte and the vision and construction of the Jerusalem YMCA | |||||||
| Architectural History | Jones, William G. | The Houses in Between | London's Crystal Palace. | |||||||
| Architectural History | Lackner, Herman H. | Procrustes Frustrated | Domiciles from the Cook County Jail to Guadalcanal to Valamo to the modern subdivision | |||||||
| Architectural History | Wrobleski, Donald von F. | A Little House in the Country | The Farnsworth House | |||||||
| Architectural History | Wrobleski, Donald von F. | Home and the Chicago Bungalow | History and description of the Chicago bungalow | |||||||
| Art History | Deen, Yolanda M. | Fair Warning | Christie's | |||||||
| Art History | Deen, Yolanda M. | It's A Steal | Art theft: famous cases, famous thieves, famous victims. | |||||||
| Art History | Dryer, Joel S. | Again & Again | Recovery of a missing art work | |||||||
| Art History | Dryer, Joel S. | How Do We Find Mr. Parker? | Lawton Parker | |||||||
| Art History | DuBrul, E. Lloyd | *Stroke of Flame | Lascaux cave art | |||||||
| Art History | Greenblatt, Ray H. | The Vanishing Trove: Reviled Heroes, Revered Thieves | Takla Makan | |||||||
| Art History | Hutchinson, Charles Lawrenc | *Art and Artists | Reflections on art | |||||||
| Art History | Mullaney, Thomas | From Floor to Ceiling | Leo and Gertrude Stein | |||||||
| Art History | Mumford, Luigi | High Art | The process of moving art between museums for shows and exchanges | |||||||
| Art History | Rutherford, R. Calvert | A Celebration of Life | Character and celebration of Mexican folk art. | |||||||
| Art History | Thompson, Michael | The Grave | Discovery and sale of 19 watercolors by William Blake. | |||||||
| Art History | Wilson, John S. | Rue 28 Vignon | Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Impressionist art dealer | |||||||
| Biography | Andrews, James H. | God Tempers the Wind to the Shorn Lamb | Biography of James Harper Andrews | |||||||
| Biography | Andrews, James H. | Three Bears | Three influential Californians of the 20th century: Earl Warren, Richard Nixon, and Ronald Reagan. | |||||||
| Biography | Ballowe, James | A Man of Salt and Trees | Life and values of Joy Morton | |||||||
| Biography | Barnhart, William E. | Tales of Hoffman | Judge Julius Hoffman | |||||||
| Biography | Barrington, L. F. Barry | A Puckish Sage | William Allen White | |||||||
| Biography | Chatham, Donald | Table Manners | Origins and anecdotes of the Algonquin Round Table. | |||||||
| Biography | Conway, Teresa | Portrait | Angermann family | |||||||
| Biography | Dodd, William Edward | *Robert J. Walker, Imperialist. | Biography of Jackson's Secretary of the Treasury | |||||||
| Biography | Dryer, Joel S. | Spectacular | James Morrison Steele MacKaye | |||||||
| Biography | Guthrie, Gayle E. | Suzie, Lucy and Liz | Women's suffrage movement | |||||||
| Biography | Hanes, Susan R. | My Persistent Phantom | Wilkie Collins | |||||||
| Biography | Haskin, Warren | Big Little Man | Samuel Insull | |||||||
| Biography | Houle, Cyril O. | The Founder | Montaigne | |||||||
| Biography | Jones, William G. | Dr. Bright's Patient | Isambard Kingdom Brunel, with reference to Dr. Richard Bright and the kidney affliction he described. | |||||||
| Biography | Kitt, F. Theodore | Michael O'Shaughnessy | Biography of an engineer instrumental in developing San Francisco's water supply. | |||||||
| Biography | Kritzberg, Barry | Wa-Tho-Huck, in Chicago and Elsewhere | Jim Thorpe | |||||||
| Biography | Lackner, Herman H. | Pushy Women | Three women from St. Petersburg | |||||||
| Biography | Lewis, Edwin Herbert | *William Vaughn Moody | Promethean myth in the author's work | |||||||
| Biography | Liebson, Philip Robert | The Two Bodies | Biographies of and comparison of J. Robert Oppenheimer and Ernst Hartwig Kantorowicz. | |||||||
| Biography | Malkinson, Frederick D. | *Paternity, U.S.A. | Establishment of the myth of George Washington | |||||||
| Biography | McMillan, Florence | Thorns Among Roses | Five influential women: Bertha Honore Palmer; Medora, Marquise de Mores; Alice Roosevelt; Dorothy Parker; Gloria Steinem | |||||||
| Biography | Morrissey, Corinne | Frankie and Nellie Were Not Lovers | Life and family of Earl B. Dickerson | |||||||
| Biography | Notz, John K. Jr. | Henry Lord Gay, F.A.I.A. | Biography of the late 19th century Chicago and Geneva Lake architect. | |||||||
| Biography | Notz, John K. Jr. | William Le Baron Jenney -- A Man for All Seasons | First-hand' account of the life of architect and engineer William Le Baron Jenney | |||||||
| Biography | Parkhurst, Todd Sheldon | Revolutionary Remarks | Biography of Clarence Darrow | |||||||
| Biography | Peck, Claude J. | September Song | Life of Peter Stuyvesant | |||||||
| Biography | Prescott, Richmond | The Self Shelf | Discussion of diaries | |||||||
| Biography | Quattrocchi, Edward A. | Utopia in Chicago | Italians of the 16th century: Vespucci, Manutius and Mirandola | |||||||
| Biography | Reiffel, Leonard | The Eye of the Beholder: An Eye of Scenes Unseen | Walter McCrone | |||||||
| Biography | Schwartzberg, Hugh J. | *The Invisible Advocate: Richard V. Gilbert | Richard Gilbert | |||||||
| Biography | Schwarzer, William W. | The Most Hated Man in England | Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII's chief minister and advisor who was beheaded in 1540 | |||||||
| Biography | Spofford, Richardson L. | Intrepid Women -- No. 1 | Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell | |||||||
| Biography | Spofford, Richardson L. | Master of the Slave Ship | John Newton | |||||||
| Biography | Strong, Robert K. Jr. | A Life In Music | Musical biography of Ludwig Beethoven | |||||||
| Biography | Taubeneck, G. Gregory | Man with a Black Bag | Leo Burnett | |||||||
| Biography | Thomas, Stephen P. | Chicago's Oregon Trail | Lorado Taft and the Eagles Nest group at Oregon Illinois | |||||||
| Biography | Tyre, William H. | A Voice from the Past: Rediscovering the Writings of John Jacob Glessner | Life, career, home, and writings of John Jacob Glessner | |||||||
| Biography | Wilson, John S. | Faithful Faithless Famous | Friendship of GB Shaw, Dame Laurentia MacLachlan, and Sydney Carlyle Cockerell | |||||||
| Book Review | Deen, Yolanda M. | Madness | Mad Men; a television comedy. | |||||||
| Book Review | Ebeling, Charles | Bozzy's Last Lap | "James Boswell, The Great Biographer – 1789-1795" | |||||||
| Book Review | Maher, David W. | Mantissa | Book review: "Mantissa" | |||||||
| Book Review | Maher, David W. | Meditations on Hunting and The Tender Carnivore | Book Review: "Meditations on Hunting" and "The Tender Carnivore" | |||||||
| Book Review | Maher, David W. | The French Lieutenant's Woman | Book Review: "The French Lieutenant's Woman" | |||||||
| Book Review | Maher, David W. | The Making of Moral Theology | Book review: "The Making of Moral Theology" | |||||||
| Book Review | Sullivan, Peggy | Rudyard Kipling's "Kim" | ||||||||
| Books | Blew, John C. | Howes' --- The Man (and Woman) Behind the Book | Book collecting | |||||||
| Books | Kritzberg, Barry | I've Got a Little List | Book lists | |||||||
| Books | Thompson, Michael | Out of Print | Out of print books | |||||||
| Chicago History | Baer, Arthur Alois | The Great Evergreen Park Train Robbery | Evergreen Park crime | |||||||
| Chicago History | Bailey, Orville T. | *Migration and Nemesis | Dr. Thomas Neill Cream, murderer | |||||||
| Chicago History | Bosch, Jennifer Marjorie | Secrets and Lies of the Second City: Cultural Deceptions in Four Acts | Crosby's Opera House; the origin of the Chicago Library; Samuel Gross and Cyrano de Bergerac; Samuel Insull and Citizen Kane | |||||||
| Chicago History | Burley, Augustus H. | The Cairo Expedition | Chicago's response to the start of the Civil War | |||||||
| Chicago History | Cannon, Douglas R. | Nazis on the Northshore | An intense exploration of the violent white supremacist Nazi movement on Chicago's northshore. | |||||||
| Chicago History | Carlson, John W. | A Couple of Old Landmarkers | History of Chicago landmarks | |||||||
| Chicago History | Carrow, Leon A. | Sell It or Smell It | The Water Street Market | |||||||
| Chicago History | Carton, Robert W. | *A Good-Hearted Man | Dr. James Herrick | |||||||
| Chicago History | Davis, Richard S. | Screwed Up | Raising the streets of Chicago out of the native swamp in the 1850's and 1860's. | |||||||
| Chicago History | Dryer, Joel S. | Founders | First art show in Chicago | |||||||
| Chicago History | Dryer, Joel S. | The Story You Don't Know About a Place We All Love | Legal foundations of The Art Institute | |||||||
| Chicago History | Dryer, Joel S. | Too Long In Coming | Amos Alonzo Stagg and football at the University of Chicago | |||||||
| Chicago History | Gross, Ted | The Auditorium Theater and Roosevelt University | Discussion of the ownership of the Auditorium Theater | |||||||
| Chicago History | Jones, William G. | Some Fields Are in the City | Architecture of the UIC campus | |||||||
| Chicago History | Lackner, Francis A. Jr. | Out of the Chrysalis: The Birth of Millennium Park | Origin of Chicago's Millennium Park | |||||||
| Chicago History | Loesch, Frank J. | Personal Experiences during the Chicago Fire | Chicago Fire of 1871 | |||||||
| Chicago History | McConnell, Thomas Chalfont | *Luck and Witless Virtue vs. Guile: In Which an English Clergyman Proves the Nemesis of John …("Jake the Barber") Factor, Alias J. Wise, Alias H. Guest | The downfall of Jake 'The Barber' Factor | |||||||
| Chicago History | Mumford, Manly W. | The Old Family Fire | Chicago fire of 1871 | |||||||
| Chicago History | Notz, John K. Jr. | "Eagle Forgotten," Rediscovered | John Peter Altgeld | |||||||
| Chicago History | Notz, John K. Jr. | A Beginning, an End, and Another Beginning | Marion Mahony Griffin, Architect | |||||||
| Chicago History | Notz, John K. Jr. | A Failure at the Hand of the Dead: The Support of the Arts by the Crane Siblings | The Crane siblings support of the arts | |||||||
| Chicago History | Notz, John K. Jr. | A Second Fifty Years | History of the Lake Geneva Country Club | |||||||
| Chicago History | Notz, John K. Jr. | Charles Hutchinson and His Professionals | Impact of Charles Hutchinson on the careers of leading landscape designers | |||||||
| Chicago History | Notz, John K. Jr. | Did 'Success' Spoil Theodore Dreiser? Or from Dreiser to Yerkes to Cowperwood -- A Triple Play | Biography of Charles Tyson Yerkes | |||||||
| Chicago History | Notz, John K. Jr. | Go West, Young Man, Go West: Cincinnati to Chicago | Drain of intellectual talent from Cincinnati to Chicago for greater economic reward. | |||||||
| Chicago History | Notz, John K. Jr. | Prairie on the Lakes | Prairie School architecture at Geneva Lake | |||||||
| Chicago History | Notz, John K. Jr. | To Cathect or Not to Cathect | Jens Jenson | |||||||
| Chicago History | Parkhurst, Todd Sheldon | I'll Think of Something: Marching to Zion | John Alexander Dowie, faith healer, evangelist, and founder of Zion, Illinois | |||||||
| Chicago History | Raven, Seymour S. | Scrimmage with Self-Image | Disabusing the gangster image of Chicago through musical and other achievements. | |||||||
| Chicago History | Schlegel, Stephen J. | How a Golf Course Got Its Name | Biography of Billy Caldwell, early Chicago settler. | |||||||
| Chicago History | Stern, Harry L. | Nur Senf | History of David Berg hot dogs and their connection to Chicago baseball. | |||||||
| Chicago History | Straus, Francis H. II | Central Greenery, Public Space, and a View | Montgomery Ward and the open space of Grant and Dearborn Parks | |||||||
| Chicago History | Thomas, Stephen P. | Rolling Down the (Illinois) River | Geologic, cultural and human history of the Illinois River. | |||||||
| Chicago History | Wasik, John F. | Samuel Insull and the Creation of the Modern Age | The vision of Insull in the creation of the electric era. | |||||||
| Chicago History | Wright, Samuel Henry | *A Local Phase of Labor Combination | Study of the Building Trades Council in Chicago, 1900 | |||||||
| Club History | Baer, Arthur Alois | Mr. Gookin and the Monetary System | Banking, Money, Federal Reserve | |||||||
| Club History | Ball, Roger E. | A Literary Club for a New Millennium | CLC and the future | |||||||
| Club History | Barnhart, William E. | Our Fellow | Arthur Baer | |||||||
| Club History | Barnhart, William E. | Public Member | Frank Loesch, Chicago Crime Commission | |||||||
| Club History | Bing, Franklin C. | Robert Collyer, Our First President | Collyer | |||||||
| Club History | Even, Francis A. | The Life and Times of Edwin Channing Larned 1820-1884 | Edwin Channing Larned | |||||||
| Club History | Getzoff, William M. | A Literary Puzzle | Cliff Dwellers founding | |||||||
| Club History | Hurley, Stephen Edward | The Literary Club | History of Literary Clubs | |||||||
| Club History | King, Willard LeRoy | *Our Most Famous Lady | The career of Caroline Louise Dudley Carter | |||||||
| Club History | Lackner, Herman H. | Home of the Brave | Early architects of Chicago who were members of or related to members of the Chicago Literary Club. | |||||||
| Club History | Quattrocchi, Edward A. | Whirligig of Time | Relationships of CLC, the Caxton Club, and the University Club | |||||||
| Club History | Reed, Charles Bert | *Inaugural Address | Nature of a literary club | |||||||
| Club History | Reiffel, Leonard | Turn Down an Empty Glass | 125th Anniversary closing paper | |||||||
| Club History | Shilton, Earle Astor | *A Twenty-Minute History of the Chicago Literary Club | Brief history of CLC to the late 1950s | |||||||
| Club History | Straus, Francis H. II | Some Sixty-six Chicago Literary Club Papers | Papers presented by Straus family and antecedents | |||||||
| Club History | Thaler, Michael | "A Mugwampish Tendency": 100 Years of The Chit-Chat Club | Chit Chat Club papers and history from its founding. | |||||||
| Club History | Thaler, Michael | Progress Is Our Most Important Product | Biographies of two former Chit Chat Club members: Saunders and Leake | |||||||
| Club History | Wild, Payson Sibley | *An Early Literary Club | The Rome Literary Club with inferences to our own | |||||||
| Communication | Lackner, Francis A. | Dear Sir, You Cur | Effective letter-writing | |||||||
| Communication | Parkhurst, Todd Sheldon | Voices | The voice and a career as a voice-over actor | |||||||
| Computers/Internet | Lackner, Francis A. Jr. | Jake 'The Barber' and the Electronic Frontier | Musings on the Future of The Chicago Literary Club in an Electronic World | |||||||
| Computers/Internet | Maher, David W. | *Reporting to God | Origin of the Internet | |||||||
| Computers/Internet | Maher, David W. | False Gods | Conflicts for control of the nascent Internet between Network Solutions and ICAAN. | |||||||
| Computers/Internet | Mumford, Manly W. | On Line | The origin and nature of the Internet | |||||||
| Cultural Change | Allan, Stanley Nance | China*Today | Hong Kong turnover | |||||||
| Cultural Change | Benet, Thomas A | Where Did the Thunder Go? | Decline of the newspaper editorial | |||||||
| Cultural Change | Jordan, Robert H. Jr. | The Length of Each Broadcast News Paradigm Is Shorter Than the Precedi | Changes forced on journalism by 'improvements' in communications technology | |||||||
| Cultural Change | Pearce, Stephen S. | The Paradox of the Perpetual Revolution: Change vs. Resistance | The need to recognize the necessity of change to keep institutions fresh and vibrant. | |||||||
| Cultural Change | Shugg, Roger W. | *Slavery | Negro slavery in America; effect on slaves and descendants | |||||||
| Cultural Change | Thomas, Stephen P. | *America's Last Natural Man | The story of Ishii; last Yahi Indian | |||||||
| Economic Analysis | Barnhart, William E. | The Briar Patch | Executive Compensation | |||||||
| Economic Analysis | Gookin, Frederick William | *Our Defective American Banking System: A Diagnosis and a Prescription. | Economic analysis and proposal for centralized national bank | |||||||
| Economic Analysis | Morse, James | Capitalism | Review of the meaning and history of capitalism. | |||||||
| Economic Analysis | Prescott, Richmond | Capital Punishment | Global capitalism and its ramifications in the world | |||||||
| Economic Analysis | Prescott, Richmond | Homo Economicus | A discussion of economists' theories and human nature | |||||||
| Education | Greenblatt, Ray H. | Havoc or Chaos? | Inner-city education | |||||||
| Education | Gross, Ted | The University President: Officeholder or Risktaker? | Challenges of leadership | |||||||
| Education | Maher, David W. | The IQ | Iroquois Club at Harvard College | |||||||
| Education | Prossnitz, Howard Brian | Fords | Haverford College | |||||||
| Education | Seidner, Francis | Colleges and Universities | Issues in higher education. | |||||||
| Essay Clubs | Cruciger, Marc Petty | Essay Clubs of the United States | Origin, character and future of essay clubs, with listing of those known. | |||||||
| Essay Clubs | Cruciger, Marc Petty | Socrates, Would You Like to Join the Chit Chat Club? | A subtle discussion on Platonic philosophy that also deals with "essay clubs." | |||||||
| Essay Clubs | Hurley, Stephen Edward | The Literary Club | History of Literary Clubs | |||||||
| Essay Clubs | Jay, Stephen J. | “Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms” (Sherlock Holmes) | Origin and nature of literary clubs; source of Doyles' "A Literary Party at Sir Joshua Reynolds" | |||||||
| Essay Clubs | Patton, Robert Gray | By the Light of the Moon | The Lunar Society of Birmingham, England | |||||||
| Ethics | Jonsen,Albert R. | A Wisdom Gay and Sociable | Humor and aging | |||||||
| Ethics | Jonsen,Albert R. | Cell Wars | An Ethical/philosophical discussion of the 9/11 Bombing with reference to D. Bonhoeffer's thoughts | |||||||
| Ethics | Jonsen,Albert R. | Fetuses, Physicians, Felons | Discussion of what an ethicist does | |||||||
| Ethics | Jonsen,Albert R. | He Doesn't Eat Here | The ethical dilemmas of truth telling in the shielding or hiding of priests in Elizabethan England in order to prevent their execution. | |||||||
| Ethics | Jonsen,Albert R. | The Cloning of Coblenz | A discussion of casuistry, a branch of moral philosophy prominent in the Middle Ages and dealt a blow by Pascal | |||||||
| Exploration | Lackner, Francis A. | Beyond the Black Stump | Australian exploration | |||||||
| Exploration | Lackner, Francis A. | Deep Perils | Commentary by a fomer captain of the reasons for a captain and crew to abandon ship. | |||||||
| Exploration | Lackner, Francis A. | Northwest -- Or North? | Efforts to explore the Northwest Passage. | |||||||
| Exploration | Lackner, Francis A. | Tourist? | Exploration as contrasted with tourism, and the challenges of discovery. | |||||||
| Exploration | Lackner, Francis A. | Who? Where? Why? | The rationale for exploration, whether the Poles, the Pacific, or other unexplored areas. | |||||||
| Fiction | Barrington, L. F. Barry | A SouthWind-Elves Tale | ||||||||
| Fiction | Green, Theophilus | Blues for a Policeman | ||||||||
| Fiction | Green, Theophilus | The Death of the Reverend Doctor John Ellen Profrock | ||||||||
| Fiction | Grossman, Robert M. | City Boy | ||||||||
| Fiction | Grossman, Robert M. | Paul to Saul | Fictional story of a Jewish young man coming of age in the Air Force in Morocco. | |||||||
| Fiction | Grossman, Robert M. | The Science of Gerontology | ||||||||
| Fiction | Guthrie, Gayle E. | A New Creation | ||||||||
| Fiction | Guthrie, Gayle E. | It Isn't Easy Being Free | ||||||||
| Fiction | Guthrie, Gayle E. | Widow's Walk | ||||||||
| Fiction | Moroney, Jay | Milledufleur of the Mossad | ||||||||
| Fiction | Phillips, Glen H. | Triptych | Three short stories. | |||||||
| Fiction | Pond, Irving Kane | A Strange Fellow | Encounter of a burglar and a broker. | |||||||
| Fiction | Saxena, Amod | The Face in the Mirror | Celebration of life in the aftermath of the Indian Partition | |||||||
| Fiction | Saxena, Amod | Smile for Me! | Murder mystery with a international medical twist. | |||||||
| Fiction | Shain, Murray M. | The Whip Mountain Saga | Biography of Errol Hemmelberg, aka Whip Mountain, bad guy of movie Westerns. | |||||||
| Fiction | Thomas, Stephen P. | Family Values: A Story for Our Time | ||||||||
| Fiction | Thompson, James E. | Crossroads | ||||||||
| Geneology | Boutell, Henry Sherman | *A Deserted Village | Colonial New England | |||||||
| Geneology | Lackner, Herman H. | Latin Farmers | Nineteenth century German immigrants to Missouri | |||||||
| Geneology | Tomes, Jim S. | Serendipity | Growth of the Tomes family tree | |||||||
| Historical Fiction | David, Henri C-E | *La Douceur de Vivre under the Reign of Terror | Diary of a Frech abbe during the Revolution | |||||||
| Historical Fiction | Schlegel, Stephen J. | A Castle Guard | Fictional tale of twelfth century castle life. | |||||||
| History | Andrews, James H. | Who Knew?! | Terra cotta warriors and other forgotten aspects of Chinese history and culture | |||||||
| History | Benet, Thomas A | Thank You, Thank You | Tokyo Rose, her trial and her life. | |||||||
| History | Breckinridge, Frank P. | *Mary, the Wife (of Abraham Lincoln) | Script for TV drama | |||||||
| History | Buecker, Robert E. | Linear One, Two, Three | Decyphering Minoan languages | |||||||
| History | Carrow, Leon A. | *The Greatest Gamble | Norwegian resistance fighters and the Bismarck | |||||||
| History | Carton, Robert W. | A Voice from the South | John Forsyth as epitomy of the period 1810-1840 in US history. | |||||||
| History | Catchpole, Hubert R. | A History of the Decline and Fall of the British Empire | The eclipse of the British Empire after WWI | |||||||
| History | Cheney, Charles Edward | *A Belated Plantagenet | Arthur, child of King Edward IV of England | |||||||
| History | Cheney, Charles Edward | *A King of France Unnamed in History | John I of France, a.k.a. Gianni Guccio of Siena | |||||||
| History | Cheney, Charles Edward | *The Barefoot Maid at the Fountain Inn | Love affair of Charles Henry Frankland and Agnes Surriage of Marblehead, Massachusetts, 1742 | |||||||
| History | Cheney, Charles Edward | *The Second Norman Conquest of England | King John's era | |||||||
| History | Cohen, Isaac | The False Promise of Emancipation | Emancipation of Jews in French Revolution | |||||||
| History | Conroy, Peter V. | St. Bartholomew | The massacre of the French Huegenots in 1572. | |||||||
| History | Conroy, Peter V. | The French Student's May Riot | Paris student riots of May 1968 | |||||||
| History | Conway, Teresa | When Small Was Better | Midland Valley Railroad | |||||||
| History | Crawford, Stephen C. | Turpentine | History of turpentine in southeast US and social consequences. | |||||||
| History | Diers, Arthur James | *The Good King and His Heirs | Tribute to the character of the Czech people exemplified in King Wenceslas and others. | |||||||
| History | Ebeling, Charles | Breakfast with Mr. McDonald | The reconciliation of Dick McDonald with McDonald's Corporation. | |||||||
| History | Farbman, Albert Irving | Digging the Panama Canal | Discussion of the early attempts and and alternate routes for the canal, as well as the construction itself. | |||||||
| History | Fujimoto, Ralph | *Hiatus | Youth in Japanese internment camp during World War II | |||||||
| History | Fujimoto, Ralph | Celebration | Enthronement of Emperor Akihito of Japan | |||||||
| History | Fujimoto, Ralph | Ships That Pass in the Night | Melville, Manjiro, and the opening of Japan | |||||||
| History | Gould, Arthur I. | Alphabet Soup, Maya-Style | Decipherment of the Maya language | |||||||
| History | Grayson, Marc B. | *Churchill In the War Rooms | Churchill's radio broadcasts | |||||||
| History | Grayson, Marc B. | A Train Ride for Mr. Lincoln | Lincoln's trip to first inaugural | |||||||
| History | Grayson, Marc B. | Pheidippides | Marathon races | |||||||
| History | Greenblatt, Ray H. | When Harlem Was in Vogue | Book Review | |||||||
| History | Haskin, Warren | "A plague o' both" | Feuds from Shakespeare to the OK Corral | |||||||
| History | Haskin, Warren | Filibuster | Aaron Burr's as example of private military expeditions in foreign nations at peace with USA. | |||||||
| History | Haskin, Warren | Interview | Hamilton-Burr duel | |||||||
| History | Hermann, Donald H.J. | Deception and Betrayal: The Tragedy of Alger Hiss | Alger Hiss | |||||||
| History | Hermann, Donald H.J. | Having the Crown and Marrying, Too: Alternatives Available to Edward VIII During the Abdication Crisis | Abdication of Edward VIII | |||||||
| History | Hermann, Donald H.J. | The Trial of Charles I: The First War Crimes Trial | Trial of Charles I | |||||||
| History | Holzwarth, Elsie G. | Captivated and Buffaloed | The fascination with Indian captivity andBuffalo Bill's Wild West Show. | |||||||
| History | Horn, Albert | Betrayal | Internment of Nisei Japanese by the USA in World War II | |||||||
| History | Horn, Albert | The President and the Emperor | Truman-MacArthur confrontation | |||||||
| History | King, Thomas G. | The President's Judge | The relationship of Abraham Lincoln to the Supreme Court, reviewing three major cases and the influence of Judge David Davis. | |||||||
| History | Koenigsknecht, Michael J. | A Generation, Or Two… | Origin, construction and effects of the Erie Canal | |||||||
| History | Lackner, Francis A. | Julfa | History of the Armenian community of Julfa in Isfahan, Iran | |||||||
| History | Lackner, Francis A. | Kabbarli | The alliance of Daisy Bates and the Aborigines of Australia. | |||||||
| History | Lackner, Francis A. | Vice | Discussion of the Vice-Presidency of the United States. | |||||||
| History | Liebson, Philip Robert | A Pleasure Dome Decreed | Marco Polo, Kublai Khan and the interest of Europeans in the Far East | |||||||
| History | Liebson, Philip Robert | Transformations | 1939 New York World's Fair as the emblem of cultural changes in the pre-War period. | |||||||
| History | Lyons, Arthur | What If | Fortuitous events of history examined with a medical bent. | |||||||
| History | Malkinson, Frederick D. | A French-American Tale | History of the Statue of Liberty | |||||||
| History | Malkinson, Frederick D. | Divided We Stood, I | American Revolution as a civil war | |||||||
| History | Malkinson, Frederick D. | Yellow Jack | Influence of yellow fever on history | |||||||
| History | Marks, Melvin | *A Jew Among the Indians | Sigmund Shlesinger | |||||||
| History | Maser, Clark | April, 1917: What If? | Discussion and effects of violations of US neutrality by German submarine fleet in April 1917 | |||||||
| History | Maser, Clark | Brush Up Your Thucydides | Discussion of the causes of wars | |||||||
| History | Maser, Clark | King Canute and the Tipping Point | Discussion of immigration, population growth and its impacts | |||||||
| History | Maser, Clark | The Price of Loyalty | A discussion of what happened to those loyal to the Crown during and after the American Revolution. | |||||||
| History | McKenzie, Kirk | Armies of the Night | 1967 March on the Pentagon | |||||||
| History | McLaughlin, Andrew C. III | Thoughts on the Formation of the State of Iraq | Formation of the nation of Iraq and character of its peoples. | |||||||
| History | Megan, Charles P. | *Murder in the Tower | Edward IV and Richard III | |||||||
| History | Morse, James | Abraham Lincoln, What If | The assasination of Lincoln. | |||||||
| History | Morse, James | Are All Men Created Equal? | Exploration of the phrase in the Declaration of Independence | |||||||
| History | Morse, James | Gettysburg, What If? | Gettysburg as the turning point of the Civil War and potential results had the Union lost. | |||||||
| History | Morse, James | The New Millennium | Review of the coming millennium from the perspective of the past century. | |||||||
| History | Morse, James | We Need a Good War | Benefits and effects of a 'good war'. | |||||||
| History | Mumford, Manly S. | The Skull of a Buffalo | The nature of buffalo | |||||||
| History | Mumford, Manly W. | *The Menehune | Prehistoric peoples of Hawaii | |||||||
| History | Mumford, Manly W. | Moral Dilemmas: To Cross | Caesar on crossing the Rubicon | |||||||
| History | Mumford, Manly W. | Temple | Abu Simbel | |||||||
| History | Nell, Patricia Ann | Border Crossing | Role of women in warfare through history | |||||||
| History | Nissen, William J. | Last Seen in the Bermuda Triangle | The Story of the Norwegian Four – | |||||||
| History | Pado, Thomas F. | Hot Air | History and recollections of work at the the Gary Works of US Steel | |||||||
| History | Parkhurst, Todd Sheldon | Justice and Mercy | Biography of Daniel E. Sickles, his murder of Philip Barton Key, and one of the celebrated trials of the 19th century. | |||||||
| History | Puttkammer, Ernst Wilfred | *The Notorious Colonel Blood | Restoration era scalawag, Thomas Blood | |||||||
| History | Puttkammer, Ernst Wilfred | *The Princes of Thurn and Taxis | Origin of the postal system | |||||||
| History | Reiffel, Leonard | *Zona | Aftemath of Chernobyl | |||||||
| History | Reinhardt, Richard | What Was a Newspaper? | History of the San Francisco Chronicle | |||||||
| History | Rheinstein, Max | *Inside Germany, 1914-1918 | Recollections of WWI Germany | |||||||
| History | Rogal, Helen R. | Full Circle | Cades Cove | |||||||
| History | Rutherford, R. Calvert | An Historical Crime | Andalusian Islamic culture of the 9th, 10th, and 11th centuries as the source of Western culture. | |||||||
| History | Rutherford, R. Calvert | From Francis to Perry | Japan's reluctant opening to the Western world. | |||||||
| History | Rutherford, R. Calvert | The Strange Story of Santiago de Compostela | History and influence of the shrine at Santiago de Compostela, Spain. | |||||||
| History | Rutherford, R. Calvert | Walls | Three walls from history with thoughts on the walls of today. | |||||||
| History | Saxena, Amod | Revolt and Revenge | 1857 Sepoy Mutiny/1st War of Independence | |||||||
| History | Schmitt, Bernadotte Everly | *Interviewing the Authors of the War | Discussions with the heads of state at the opening of World War I, after the war. | |||||||
| History | Schram, John A. | Election Year 1800 | Consequences of the election of 1800 | |||||||
| History | Schram, John A. | The Lincoln Douglas Debates | The famous debates as catalyst to Lincoln's development and the 1860 election. | |||||||
| History | Schwartzberg, Hugh J. | Mercy's Revenge | Mercy Otis Warren and the history of the American Revolution | |||||||
| History | Schwartzberg, Hugh J. | One Founding Father, Invisible, with Liberty and Justice for All | James Wilson, one of the unsung Founding Fathers of the United States. | |||||||
| History | Schwartzberg, Hugh J. | Slavery and the Three Colonels | Ethics of slavery as seen in Washington, Jefferson, and James Wilson. | |||||||
| History | Schwartzberg, Hugh J. | Take Pride | James O. Wilson and the early history of Illinois. | |||||||
| History | Schwartzberg, Hugh J. | VL:B4 | Vachel Lindsay's discourse on Bryan and the McKinley campaign of 1896. | |||||||
| History | Schwartzberg, Steven J. | White Sand and Red Clay | The Cherokee removal of 1838; debates and issues leading up to a pivotal point in Indian relations. | |||||||
| History | Schwarzer, William W. | Mr. Polk's War | The acquisition of western lands from Mexico | |||||||
| History | Schwarzer, William W. | SUPCTHIS | John Marshall and the establishment of the Supreme Court. | |||||||
| History | Sheldon, Wylie | Straining to Atone | Discussion of the origin and practice of Native American gaming, especially in California. | |||||||
| History | Spofford, Richardson L. | A Unique Survivor | Bayeux Tapestry | |||||||
| History | Spofford, Richardson L. | Navvies | Nineteenth century English construction workers | |||||||
| History | Straus, Francis H. II | A Witch or Not | Salem withc trials; Elizabeth Jackson Howe | |||||||
| History | Straus, Francis H. II | Burke and Wills, and Lewis and Clark | Australian exploration | |||||||
| History | Straus, Francis H. II | Howe's War | American Revolution | |||||||
| History | Straus, Francis H. II | Poplar Forest | Discussion of Jefferson and his 'second' estate at Poplar Forest | |||||||
| History | Straus, Francis H. II | Was Necessity Necessary? | Fort Necessity and George Washingon's early military career | |||||||
| History | Sullivan, Charles | As If He Had Seen It Before; Deconstructing the "First Voyage" of Christ | Analysis of Columbus' 1492 voayage | |||||||
| History | Swanstrom, Thomas Evan | Remember the Maine … Boundary | Border disputes on Maine's northern border | |||||||
| History | Swing, David | *A True Love Story | Linda Mellet and Chateaubriand's ante-bellum love story | |||||||
| History | Thomas, Stephen P. | And the Winner Is… | Presidential trivia, Electroal College arcana, and reflections on the elections of 1968 and 1972 | |||||||
| History | Thomas, Stephen P. | Surveying the Scene | Settlement of the Northwest Territory | |||||||
| History | Ungashick, John M. | The Perfect Heresy | History and beliefs of the Cathars of 12th century France. | |||||||
| History | Wilson, John S. | *The Importance of a Hat | Principles of William Penn | |||||||
| History | Wilson, John S. | Foot-Notes | Forcible deportation of Quakers during American Revolution | |||||||
| History | Zeisler, Sigmund | *Reminiscences of the Anarchist Case | Chicago anarchist bombing of May 4, 1886. | |||||||
| History | Zucker, David B. | And That's the Way It Was… | Nomination of Dwight Eisenhower in 1952 | |||||||
| History | Zucker, David B. | With Muffled Oars | Family sacrifices of presidential candidates in the early years of the Republic. | |||||||
| Horticulture | Bailey, Orville T. | *Chance Favors the Prepared Mind | Joseph Paxton, horticulturalist | |||||||
| Horticulture | Mason, Arthur J. | A Corn Belt without Corn | The need for crop selection to promote sustainable agriculture. | |||||||
| Horticulture | Mason, Arthur J. | Is the U.S. a Permanent Country, Like North Europe? | The need for soil retention and erosion control in the US to prevent desertification. | |||||||
| Horticulture | Mason, Arthur J. | Some Studies in Agriculture by a Non-Farmer | The value of curing in agriculture. | |||||||
| Horticulture | Straus, Francis H. II | Tulbend | Tulips | |||||||
| Human Dynamics | Carton, Robert W. | Leadership | Alexander MacKenzie | |||||||
| Human Dynamics | Lowrance, Michelle F. | Eliciting Good Karma | Means to understand the breakup of personal relationships. | |||||||
| Human Dynamics | Maher, Chauncey C. | Louie | Story of a small-town woman with many lovers | |||||||
| Human Dynamics | Swing, David | The History of Love | Educaction as the impetus to love beyond the physical impulse. | |||||||
| Humor | Chatham, Donald | Cold Beet Soup | History of Borscht Belt comedians, with examples of their work. | |||||||
| Humor | Greenblatt, Ray H. | In the Eye of the Beholder -- Figure and Ground | Humor in politics and the law | |||||||
| Humor | Malkinson, Frederick D. | Something Light: Comedy Tonight | Growth of the radio as an entertainment form, especially in humor | |||||||
| Humor | Mumford, Manly W. | *The Unobservable Force | The movement of lost items | |||||||
| Humor | Shilton, Earle Astor | *Once in a Lifetime | Schmaltz's Snore Stopper and its discovery | |||||||
| Intellectual Reflection | Ball, Roger E. | *Across the Boundary | Creativity at the boundaries of disciplines | |||||||
| Intellectual Reflection | Ball, Roger E. | *The Legacy of Daedalus | Limits of technology | |||||||
| Intellectual Reflection | Ball, Roger E. | The Improbable It | Ancient logical puzzles | |||||||
| Intellectual Reflection | Ball, Roger E. | The Masks of Erato | Creativity in literature | |||||||
| Intellectual Reflection | Brown, Edward Osgood | *De Senectute | Reflections on age | |||||||
| Intellectual Reflection | Chatham, Donald | Curmudgeon, Heal Thyself | A cynic’s perspective on the ups and downs of “moving on.” | |||||||
| Intellectual Reflection | Ciric, Ivan | The Will to Live | The will to live as a Law of Nature. | |||||||
| Intellectual Reflection | Clark, J. Wendell | Fashion | Discussion of fashion as the arbiter of taste in matters physical and intellectual. | |||||||
| Intellectual Reflection | Cruciger, Marc Petty | Postmodernism - Have We Seen the End of It? | Intellectual history of Post-modernism from its sources and birth in 1960's to decline in 1990's. | |||||||
| Intellectual Reflection | Hayman, Daniel | A Mimetic Tradition | Books and mental development | |||||||
| Intellectual Reflection | Hayman, Daniel | Grapes | Selection of books for intentional reading | |||||||
| Intellectual Reflection | Hungerford, Harold Roe | *Conversation | Conversation as an ongoing art and value | |||||||
| Intellectual Reflection | Hungerford, Harold Roe | *Sheep, Goats, and Chinese Encyclopedias | Imperfection | |||||||
| Intellectual Reflection | Hungerford, Harold Roe | Though China Fall | Re-affirmation of 'the nature of things' in language, James Joyce and Chinese philosophy. | |||||||
| Intellectual Reflection | Hurley, Stephen Edward | Quiet, Please | Favorite authors, pleasures of reading. | |||||||
| Intellectual Reflection | Husser, Wendy Cowles | So Many Men; So Little Time | Adventures with favorite authors. | |||||||
| Intellectual Reflection | Jones, Alan | Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus! | Reflections on the joy and purpose of life through Francis Church, G K Chesterton and Irving Berlin | |||||||
| Intellectual Reflection | Jonsen,Albert R. | The Spotless Mind | Leisure and the life of the mind. | |||||||
| Intellectual Reflection | Josephs, Devereux | Doffing the Wig | Satiric hoaxes and their darker cousins. | |||||||
| Intellectual Reflection | Koenigsknecht, Michael J. | Now and Then | Personal development from classical roots with experience of his father. | |||||||
| Intellectual Reflection | Koenigsknecht, Michael J. | Who Knew?! | Emotional and cultural limits to stepping into new intellectual territory | |||||||
| Intellectual Reflection | Lackner, Herman H. | *Day by de Senectute | Age and aging | |||||||
| Intellectual Reflection | Lackner, Herman H. | Disparate Measures | Units of measure | |||||||
| Intellectual Reflection | Liebson, Philip Robert | *Cityscapes | Nature of Cities | |||||||
| Intellectual Reflection | Liebson, Philip Robert | It's About Time | The relative concept of time | |||||||
| Intellectual Reflection | Liebson, Philip Robert | Location, Location, Location: A Study in Triple Rhythm | A reflection on repetition of three in life and literature. | |||||||
| Intellectual Reflection | Liebson, Philip Robert | Mum's the Word | A consideration of silence in music, literature, religion and social interaction. | |||||||
| Intellectual Reflection | Maher, David W. | An Intriguing City | Seville, Spain | |||||||
| Intellectual Reflection | Maher, David W. | Truth Without Parallel, | New mathematics | |||||||
| Intellectual Reflection | Maser, Clark | What Governs History, Man or Fate? | The title is descriptive. | |||||||
| Intellectual Reflection | Mumford, Manly W. | Jelly Side Down | The randomness of events, which by definition cannot be observed scientifically. | |||||||
| Intellectual Reflection | Mumford, Manly W. | Rules | The nature of rules | |||||||
| Intellectual Reflection | Orlowek, Charles | Old Soldiers | Lessons learned from the veterans of war, particularly WWII | |||||||
| Intellectual Reflection | Pargellis, Stanley | *Brown and Smith: A Socratic Dialogue | Socrates on the modern world | |||||||
| Intellectual Reflection | Parker, Donald J. | The Philosopher | Aristotelian philosophy; roots, tenets, history | |||||||
| Intellectual Reflection | Pearce, Stephen S. | The Pursuit of Happiness | Happiness and the meaning of life. | |||||||
| Intellectual Reflection | Pond, Irving Kane | Book Night | ||||||||
| Intellectual Reflection | Pond, Irving Kane | Just One Thing After Another | Relationof artist and model, art and life | |||||||
| Intellectual Reflection | Pond, Irving Kane | On Believing and Leaving | ||||||||
| Intellectual Reflection | Quattrocchi, Edward A. | *Life Imitates Art | Utopian literature vs life in Plato's Republic, More's Utopia, and Orwell's 1984. | |||||||
| Intellectual Reflection | Ruhl, Kathleen Kehoe | Hats on the Floor: Acting and Teaching | Acting, teaching and English | |||||||
| Intellectual Reflection | Seidner, Francis | The Bell and the Candle Snuffer | Intellect, creativity, accomplishment and genius. | |||||||
| Intellectual Reflection | Seidner, Francis | The Collecting Phenomenon | The passion of collecting. | |||||||
| Intellectual Reflection | Seidner, Francis | Whatever Happened to Honor? | Honor as the heart of a personal code of conduct and the failure of a common moral ground in present society. | |||||||
| Intellectual Reflection | Thompson, James E. | What Did You Expect? | An exploration of expectations. | |||||||
| Intellectual Reflection | Thompson, James E. | Whattya Know | What do you know? Perception, belief and knowledge. | |||||||
| Intellectual Reflection | Wild, John Daniel | *Pseudo-Humanism | Dueling philosophical camps | |||||||
| Intellectual Reflection | Wild, Payson Sibley | *Megistotheos and My Anima Vagula | The cosmic embryonic hatchery | |||||||
| Intellectual Reflection | Wild, Payson Sibley | *On the Hades Golf Club Portico | Poetic vision of the afterlife | |||||||
| Intellectual Reflection | Yarros, Victor S. | *Pessimism and Optimism: Fresh Treatment of an Old Subject | ||||||||
| Intellectual Reflection | Zast, Victor | A Bump in the Road | Aberrations as the norm of life's road; the death of Michael Dane Allen | |||||||
| Language | Conroy, Peter V. | Lost in Translation | The foibles of translating between languages, specifically French and English. | |||||||
| Language | Conroy, Peter V. | The Sports Lexicon | A linguistic romp through the language of sports | |||||||
| Language | Conroy, Peter V. | You Do Speak Latin! | Exploration of Latin words and phrases in use today. | |||||||
| Language | Lackner, Francis A. Jr. | Haec Nomine | An exploration of the nature of names. | |||||||
| Language | Nissen, William J. | Looking Behind the Words | Exploration of the history of English with 'The Chicago Literary Club' as exemplar. | |||||||
| Language | Swing, David | Parlez Vous Francais? | The value of speaking and writing English well. | |||||||
| Law | Karton, Robert M. | *Hearts and Flowers | Appreciation of the Law | |||||||
| Law | Liebson, Philip Robert | Excellence in the Mundane | Frederic William Maitland | |||||||
| Law | O'Dea, Dennis M. | *On Working Out | A bankruptcy case | |||||||
| Law | Rogal, Helen R. | A Somewhat Comic Tragedy, or Just a Little Anxiety | Unusual divorce cases | |||||||
| Libraries | Sullivan, Peggy | Naming the Branches | Chicago library branch names | |||||||
| Literary Analysis | Altrochi, Rudolph | *Gabriele D’Annunzio: Poet of Beauty and Decadence. | ||||||||
| Literary Analysis | Ames, Edward Scribner | *Humanism | Modern day humanist thought and religion | |||||||
| Literary Analysis | Barnhart, William E. | *Four Score | Lincoln as an author | |||||||
| Literary Analysis | Barnhart, William E. | Book Night | The Big Money by John Dos Passos | |||||||
| Literary Analysis | Barnhart, William E. | Oyez | Supreme Court humor | |||||||
| Literary Analysis | Blumen, Daniel L. | Rats in Literature: Beyond the Cloaca | Rats in literature and personal experience | |||||||
| Literary Analysis | Borelli, Nelson | Alice | Psychology in Alice in Wonderland | |||||||
| Literary Analysis | Carlton, William Newnham C | *The Icelandic Sagas: Their Origin and Character | Icelandic Sagas | |||||||
| Literary Analysis | Carton, Robert W. | Up from Steventon | Jane Austen | |||||||
| Literary Analysis | Cassell, George Frederick | *Clive Staples Lewis | C.S. Lewis | |||||||
| Literary Analysis | Cohen, Isaac | Living Well, A Voyage without Borders | Paul Eluard | |||||||
| Literary Analysis | Conroy, Peter V. | French B(ay) D(ay) | Exploration of French graphic novels, or comix, thru the characters of Tintin and Asterix. | |||||||
| Literary Analysis | Cruciger, Marc Petty | Come On! Try It! You Might Like It! | The New Yorker magazine and its temptations | |||||||
| Literary Analysis | David, Henri C-E | *Flaubert and George Sand in Their Correspondence | Relationship of Flaubert and George Sand as shown in their correspondence. | |||||||
| Literary Analysis | David, Henri C-E | *Marcel Proust | Marcel Proust | |||||||
| Literary Analysis | Diers, Arthur James | A Certain Take on Life: The Lively Ideas of William James | William James | |||||||
| Literary Analysis | Ebeling, Charles | Samuel Johnson and His 'Clubbable' Friends | Samuel Johnson and The Literary Club | |||||||
| Literary Analysis | Franklin, James Louis | Siren's Song: Music in the Writings of James Joyce | James Joyce | |||||||
| Literary Analysis | Fujimoto, Ralph | From Lucadia to Matsue -- An Odyssey | Lafcadio Hearn | |||||||
| Literary Analysis | Greenblatt, Ray H. | Black as Bat Wings | Vladimir Nabokov | |||||||
| Literary Analysis | Halperin, George | *Dostoevskiy | Dostoevskiy | |||||||
| Literary Analysis | Halperin, George | *Tolstoy | Tolstoy | |||||||
| Literary Analysis | Halperin, George | *Tourgenev | Tourgenev | |||||||
| Literary Analysis | Haskin, Warren | These Boys' Lives | Childhood memoirs as works of literature. | |||||||
| Literary Analysis | Heath, John Reardon | *The Strange Case of Thomas Wolfe | Thomas Wolfe | |||||||
| Literary Analysis | Holzwarth, Elsie G. | Providence | Abraham Lincoln’s use of religious references | |||||||
| Literary Analysis | Houle, Cyril O. | *He | Alexander Pope | |||||||
| Literary Analysis | Josephs, Devereux | The Light at the End of the Literary Tunnel | Rites of passage as a theme in literature. | |||||||
| Literary Analysis | Kass, Amy Apfel | *Sons and Fathers: The Education of Telemachos | Reconciling of sons and fathers as shown in The Odyssey | |||||||
| Literary Analysis | King, Lester | *Bernard and Peter | Bernard of Clairvaux and Peter Abelard | |||||||
| Literary Analysis | Krieg, Wendell J.S. | *"It Takes a Thief…" | Rabelais | |||||||
| Literary Analysis | Kritzberg, Barry | A Turn Down the Harbor | Thoreau's educational values, skills, and foresight. | |||||||
| Literary Analysis | Kritzberg, Barry | B-Who? | B. Traven: the search for the man behind the name | |||||||
| Literary Analysis | Kritzberg, Barry | The Case of the Rather Indiany Nose | Thoreau | |||||||
| Literary Analysis | Lackner, Francis A. Jr. | Shakespeare's Faeries | Alternative view of witches and faeries in Shakespeare's work | |||||||
| Literary Analysis | Lackner, Herman H. | Book Night | Witold Rybczinski "The Most Beautiful House in the World" | |||||||
| Literary Analysis | Lackner, Herman H. | Sack-cloth and Hashish | Diaries and diarists | |||||||
| Literary Analysis | Larson, Robert K. | *Painted Windows | Robert Louis Stevenson | |||||||
| Literary Analysis | Lewis, Edwin Herbert | *The Work of Tagore | Rabindranath Tagore | |||||||
| Literary Analysis | Lewis, Jonathan D. | The Madness of Lear and Edgar | The orginality of the psychology of Shakespeare's characters | |||||||
| Literary Analysis | Lewis, Jonathan D. | Unicorns May Be Betrayed with Trees | The psychology of persuasion in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. | |||||||
| Literary Analysis | Liebson, Philip Robert | *How Sweet It Is… | Poets of World War One | |||||||
| Literary Analysis | Liebson, Philip Robert | Hypotheses | Sherlock Holmes | |||||||
| Literary Analysis | Liebson, Philip Robert | It Was Al All the Time | Ring Lardner | |||||||
| Literary Analysis | Liebson, Philip Robert | Near Beer | Comparison of Johnson and Mencken | |||||||
| Literary Analysis | Little, Charles Joseph | *John Milton | John Milton | |||||||
| Literary Analysis | Lyons, Phyllis Ilona | Earthquakes | Tanizaki Jun'ichiro and the 1923 Tokyo earthquake | |||||||
| Literary Analysis | Matter, Joseph A. | *Henry Blake Fuller | Henry Blake Fuller | |||||||
| Literary Analysis | McCulloch, Warren Sturgis | *One Word After Another | Edward Arlington Robinson | |||||||
| Literary Analysis | Mumford, Manly W. | Beyond Reason | Formation of a sound speech or essay | |||||||
| Literary Analysis | Parkhurst, Todd Sheldon | Through Other Eyes | The art of the monologue | |||||||
| Literary Analysis | Payne, William Morton | *A Quarter-Century of English Literature | Late 19th century English and American literature. | |||||||
| Literary Analysis | Petersen, Scott William | The Best Medicine | Analysis and history of humor | |||||||
| Literary Analysis | Pillinger, Douglass | *A Golden Vessel of Great Song | Edna St. Vincent Millay | |||||||
| Literary Analysis | Pillinger, Douglass | *K.M. | Katherine Mansfield | |||||||
| Literary Analysis | Prescott, Richmond | A Hogshead of Sense? | Samuel Johnson | |||||||
| Literary Analysis | Prescott, Richmond | Two Angry Men | Discussion of Samuel Clemens and “Mark Twain” | |||||||
| Literary Analysis | Prescott, Richmond | Whiteness | Discussion of Melville and Moby Dick | |||||||
| Literary Analysis | Quattrocchi, Edward A. | Redeeming Time: Shakespeare's Golden Mean | The concept of time in works of Shakespeare. | |||||||
| Literary Analysis | Regnery, Henry | *A Prophet Without Honor in His Own Country: Francis F. Browne and THE DIAL | Francis F. Browne | |||||||
| Literary Analysis | Regnery, Henry | *To Edit or Not to Edit | Theodore Dreiser's "Jennie Gerhardt" | |||||||
| Literary Analysis | Regnery, Henry | *Wyndham Lewis: A Man Against His Time | Wyndham Lewis | |||||||
| Literary Analysis | Reinhardt, Richard | The One, The Only, The Original Don Juan | Discussion of the literary and musical creations based on the character of Don Juan. | |||||||
| Literary Analysis | Rutherford, R. Calvert | The Inventors of Romantic Love | The troubadours of Occitania. | |||||||
| Literary Analysis | Ruxin, Paul T. | * How Sam and Dave Helped Save Bill | Formation of the Shakespearean canon by Johnson and Garrick | |||||||
| Literary Analysis | Ruxin, Paul T. | An Hospitable and Well-Covered Table… | The crafting of a famous dinner party by James Boswell for Samuel Jonson and John Wilkes | |||||||
| Literary Analysis | Ruxin, Paul T. | Dorando and the Douglas Cause | James Boswell and the Douglas case | |||||||
| Literary Analysis | Ruxin, Paul T. | One Thing Leads to Another | Pyramis and Thisbe from Ovid to The Fantasticks | |||||||
| Literary Analysis | Silverstein, Theodore | *The Art of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight | ||||||||
| Literary Analysis | Starr, Merritt, et al. | *Dante Six Hundred Years After | Dante | |||||||
| Literary Analysis | Swing, David | The Greatest of the Fine Arts | The value of literature. | |||||||
| Literary Analysis | Thomas, Stephen P. | Henry in Love: A Thoreau Tableau Vivant | Exploring Thoreau through characters that knew him well. | |||||||
| Literary Analysis | Thomas, Stephen P. | James Joyce for Dummies | James Joyce | |||||||
| Literary Analysis | Wagner, Clark L. | *Who's There | Shakespeare's Hamlet | |||||||
| Literary Analysis | Wagner, Clark L. | *Words | Strength of words and language | |||||||
| Medical History | Belfield, William Thomas | *The Value of Mental Impressions in the Treatment of Disease | Value of instinct in governing human action | |||||||
| Medical History | Blumen, Daniel L. | Surviving American Medicine | Humorous and cathartic personal reminiscence of the failings of American medicine. | |||||||
| Medical History | Carrow, Leon A. | Tucks | Biography of Dr. Beatrice Tucker; Chicago Maternity Center | |||||||
| Medical History | Chertow, Sheldon | Krebiozen | Medical Fraud | |||||||
| Medical History | Cruciger, Marc Petty | How Little Know….Or Do We? | The physiology of romantic love from the ancient Greeks to the present. | |||||||
| Medical History | Klooster, John W. | Profiles: Mayo, et al. | Profile of the Mayo Clinic | |||||||
| Medical History | Maher, Chauncey C. | A Man of Good Will | Biography of Dr. Weller Van Hook | |||||||
| Medical History | McCulloch, Warren Sturgis | *The Past of a Delusion | Issues in psychiatry | |||||||
| Medical History | Patton, Robert Gray | The Gene Is in the Bottle | The history and future of genetics. | |||||||
| Medical History | Perlman, Robert L. | *Why We Get Sick | Evolutionary orogins of health and disease | |||||||
| Medical History | Prescott, Richmond | Einthoven, Enthoven, and Entitlement | A discussion of the economics of health care in the US with respect to advances in medicine | |||||||
| Medical History | Reed, Charles Bert | *Albrecht von Haller: A Physician--Not Without Honor | ||||||||
| Medical History | Strong, Robert K. Jr. | Blind Chance or Divine Retribution | The Black Death | |||||||
| Medical History | Susmano, Armando | The Dark Urines of 1776 | Porphyria in English royal bloodline, particularly George III, and its effects on history. | |||||||
| Medical History | Warren, Sherwyn E. | Carrel of Discontent | Biography of Dr. Alexis Carrel | |||||||
| Musical History and A | Barnhart, William E. | Fifth String | History and leading artists of the five-string banjo | |||||||
| Musical History and A | Franklin, James Louis | Mozart, Mesmer and Medicine | Mesmer in Mozart's Operas | |||||||
| Musical History and A | Franklin, James Louis | Sing High, Sing Low | Role and origin of castrati in bel canto opera and religious music of the 16th-18th century. | |||||||
| Musical History and A | Franklin, James Louis | The Sound of One Hand Clapping: Meditations on Sinistrality | The left hand in music and in life | |||||||
| Musical History and A | Klapper, Gilbert | The Music Was Not to Blame | Dmitri Shostakovich | |||||||
| Musical History and A | Lyons, Arthur | Words and Music | The enduring attraction of Gilbert and Sullivan. | |||||||
| Musical History and A | Maher, David W. | *The Don | Mozart's "Don Giovanni" | |||||||
| Musical History and A | McKenzie, Kirk | Is There A Crisis In the Performing Arts? The Case of Opera and Symph | Challenges facing opera companies and symphony orchestras. | |||||||
| Musical History and A | Raven, Seymour S. | *Crescendos and Dim Innuendos | Stories of conductors offstage | |||||||
| Musical History and A | Safrit, Henry F. | The Romantic Era in Music | With an emphasis on German Romantic Music. | |||||||
| Musical History and A | Susmano, Armando | G..B..D… | Reflections on his own composition style | |||||||
| Musical History and A | Susmano, Armando | Two 2 Tango | History of the Tango | |||||||
| Musical History and A | Tomashefsky, C. Steven | Dog Days | Celebration of the Blues as a musical form and the culture of The Delta from which it sprang, and the author's involvement. | |||||||
| Musical History and A | Wagner, Suzanne L. | Baroque Idol: The Little-Known, Barely Remembered, Oft-Disregarded | Handel and Bononcini: Muzio Scevolo | |||||||
| Natural History | Carton, Robert W. | What Time Was It? | Reflections on the development of the Earth as shown in "Evolving Planet" at the Field Museum | |||||||
| Natural History | Jessup, Theodore | *Illinois State Parks | Need for expansion of state park system in Illinois | |||||||
| Natural History | Lyons, Arthur | It's for the Birds | The joys of bird-watching. | |||||||
| Natural History | Pond, Irving Kane | The Whale -- A Study | Nature of whales | |||||||
| Natural History | Wagner, Clark L. | *Carp Wars | Invasion of invasive fish species | |||||||
| Natural Resources | McMillan, Florence | Simple with Bells On | Development of the Bakken Oil Shale of North Dakota | |||||||
| Non-fiction | Bowman, James H. | The Florsheim Shoe Story | Florsheim Shoe Company | |||||||
| Non-fiction | Bronson, Bennett | Pearls Beyond Price | Pearls | |||||||
| Non-fiction | Ebeling, Charles | French Fried -- From Monticello to the Moon | Appraisal of the French Fry | |||||||
| Personal Reminiscence | Adler, Yolanda Torrisi | Accidental Pioneers | A life in medicine and an account of women breaking into medicine in Chicago in the late 20th century. | |||||||
| Personal Reminiscence | Adler, Yolanda Torrisi | Organization | Organizing family memories and mementoes. | |||||||
| Personal Reminiscence | Aryaputri, Narveen | Life on the Mississippi: The New Millennium | Selections from The Big Black Book of the Quincy Institute | |||||||
| Personal Reminiscence | Bailey, Percival | *Harun-al-Rashid | Happiest days in life | |||||||
| Personal Reminiscence | Ball, Roger E. | *Anchors Awry | Naval experiences in World War II | |||||||
| Personal Reminiscence | Ball, Roger E. | An Accidental Imrperialist | Phillipine War 1898-1900 | |||||||
| Personal Reminiscence | Barrington, L. F. Barry | Desperately Seeking Jupiter Pluvius | Dust-bowl Kansas youth | |||||||
| Personal Reminiscence | Batko, Anthony J. | *Charlie | Youth on Chicago's South Side | |||||||
| Personal Reminiscence | Bauman, Gerald I. | A Day with Richard | Adventures with a neer-do-well financier. | |||||||
| Personal Reminiscence | Carrow, Leon A. | Road Toward Maturation | Humboldt Park youth | |||||||
| Personal Reminiscence | Carrow, Leon A. | Work Hard, Play Hard | Cook County Hospital internship | |||||||
| Personal Reminiscence | Carton, Robert W. | Innocents in the Garden of Beasts | A college trip to Germany in the summer of 1939 as a precursor to World War II | |||||||
| Personal Reminiscence | Carton, Robert W. | On the Road to LeRoy | A trip as the metaphor for the details of life. | |||||||
| Personal Reminiscence | Diers, Arthur James | The Hard and the Soft of It | Germanic character and intellect in history and in the character of his father. | |||||||
| Personal Reminiscence | Ebeling, Charles | Acceleration | The early growth of Toyota as it entered the US market, with recollections of its public relations efforts. | |||||||
| Personal Reminiscence | Ebeling, Charles | All That Glitters… | Experiences as a lieutenant in the Army during the Viet Nam war. | |||||||
| Personal Reminiscence | Gibson, Lewis E. | The Couch In the Kennel | Canine psychology | |||||||
| Personal Reminiscence | Gifford, Sanford Robinson | *Garlic and Old Horse Blankets | Youth in Omaha | |||||||
| Personal Reminiscence | Grossman, Robert M. | The Catholic Owl and the Jewish Pussycat | Exploring Catholic and Jewish
pasts on a trip to Poland and Belarus in 1997 exploring Catholic and Jewish pasts on a trip to Poland and Belarus in 1997 |
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| Personal Reminiscence | Hedberg, C. Anderson | *Notes from a Road Show | A physician travels with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra | |||||||
| Personal Reminiscence | Hedberg, C. Anderson | My Basement | Fascinating artifacts found in cleaning a basement and reflections thereon. | |||||||
| Personal Reminiscence | Hegyvary, Csaba | *Dulce et Decorum (Memories of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution) | Hungarian revolutionof 1956 | |||||||
| Personal Reminiscence | Knospe, William H. | Back to Berlin | Personal experience of the physician to Rudolf Hess in postwar Berlin | |||||||
| Personal Reminiscence | Liebson, Philip Robert | Of Time and the Lake | Youthful experiences near, and reflections on, the Housatonic River in Connecticut | |||||||
| Personal Reminiscence | Maher, Chauncey C. | La Belle | World War One experiences | |||||||
| Personal Reminiscence | Marks, Melvin | We Never Say Goodbye | Fraternal bonds between WWII veterans | |||||||
| Personal Reminiscence | Melamed, Leo | *Reflections on a World Lost | Personal search for roots in pre-WWII European Jewish community | |||||||
| Personal Reminiscence | Nissen, William J. | "Second to None" Does Not Mean "Next to Nothing" | Recollections of Viet-Nam era deployment on USS Ramsey | |||||||
| Personal Reminiscence | Nissen, William J. | Crossing the Path of a Black Cat | Recollection of naval service in the Pacific theater during the Viet-Nam conflict. | |||||||
| Personal Reminiscence | Pado, Thomas F. | Labrador Retriever | Memories of military service at Goose Bay, Labrador. | |||||||
| Personal Reminiscence | Pond, Irving Kane | The Mystery of the Light | Personal reflectionof a storm and its aftermath | |||||||
| Personal Reminiscence | Prossnitz, Howard Brian | Heroes | Biography of his father | |||||||
| Personal Reminiscence | Quattrocchi, Edward A. | An Irish Epiphany | Family reunion in Ireland | |||||||
| Personal Reminiscence | Quattrocchi, Edward A. | Making a Small Fortune in the Commodity Market | Personal career in the commodity exchanges. | |||||||
| Personal Reminiscence | Reed, Charles Bert | *Duke | Canine companionship | |||||||
| Personal Reminiscence | Robieson, Timothy Alan | …you're welcome | Computers | |||||||
| Personal Reminiscence | Robieson, Timothy Alan | Ribbons and Frogs | Railroads | |||||||
| Personal Reminiscence | Robieson, Timothy Alan | Sweepers, sweepers … | Naval experiences | |||||||
| Personal Reminiscence | Robieson, Timothy Alan | That Filling Is No Bananna | Bolivian misionary work | |||||||
| Personal Reminiscence | Ruhl, Kathleen Kehoe | Making Connections: 'You Be Mimi and I'll Be St. Louis' | The journey toward self understanding in the course of retiring from a career teaching and acting | |||||||
| Personal Reminiscence | Saxena, Amod | Learning English | Process of learning English, at home and through authors such as Wodehouse, Lawrence, and Doyle. | |||||||
| Personal Reminiscence | Saxena, Amod | The Culprit | A young intern's first experience of death | |||||||
| Personal Reminiscence | Saxena, Amod | The Invisible Enemy | Death of a close medical colleague and patient | |||||||
| Personal Reminiscence | Saxena, Amod | Walter | Life story of a golf partner and fellow physician | |||||||
| Personal Reminiscence | Schlegel, Stephen J. | Moving On | Lessons learned from a 1961 cross-country bicycle trip. | |||||||
| Personal Reminiscence | Schwartzberg, Hugh J. | Spinning the Distaff Tale | Accomplishments of Joanne Schwartzberg in overcoming her daughter's congenital deafness and creating a new field of medicine as a result. | |||||||
| Personal Reminiscence | Shilton, Earle Astor | *Boots, Shoes, and Notions | General merchandising in small-town Illinois in early 20th century | |||||||
| Personal Reminiscence | Shilton, Earle Astor | *God's Country | Early days in Montana | |||||||
| Personal Reminiscence | Spock, Judith W. | War Christmas 1943 | How a cardboard christmas tree changed a family's spirit amid wartime privation. | |||||||
| Personal Reminiscence | Susmano, Armando | On Music Writing | Discussion of musical composition | |||||||
| Personal Reminiscence | Susmano, Armando | One Summer Sunday in Lima | Visit to Lima, Peru, and the Museum of the Inquisition. | |||||||
| Personal Reminiscence | Thomas, Stephen P. | Christmas, 1944 | Christmas, 1944 as emblematic of the life of his family and the country in 1945 | |||||||
| Personal Reminiscence | Thomas, Stephen P. | Strangers in the Car and Other Stories | Three true-life instances in which the author is part of the story | |||||||
| Personal Reminiscence | Thomas, Stephen P. | Thirty-two or Thirty-three | Childhood reminiscence of 1948 Truman-Dewey campaign. | |||||||
| Personal Reminiscence | Thompson, James E. | A Little Resurrection and a Little Redemption | Remembrances of his father and an essay on Roy Campanella | |||||||
| Personal Reminiscence | Tomashevsky, C. Steven | *From Meri to Milt | Two formative teachers | |||||||
| Personal Reminiscence | Tomashevsky, C. Steven | A Super Heavy | Recollections of his father | |||||||
| Personal Reminiscence | Tomashevsky, C. Steven | Easter Egg Chickens | Chickens with the ability lay eggs in a range of hues. | |||||||
| Personal Reminiscence | Warren, Sherwyn E. | *Saluting | Recovery of a jet pilot killed in a Cold War air crash | |||||||
| Personal Reminiscence | Wilcox, Edward Byers | *An Ecclesiastical Autobiography | Formative experiences in religion | |||||||
| Personal Reminiscence | Zummer, Anthony S, | *Outdoors | Youth in Kankakee | |||||||
| Personal Reminiscence | Zummer, Anthony S, | Trouble | Further adventures of a youth in Kankakee | |||||||
| Poetry | Barrington, L. F. Barry | *Meyotzi | Epic poem of an Indian maiden | |||||||
| Poetry | Barrington, L. F. Barry | Entangling Alliances and Other Knotty Affairs | Poetry Evening contributions | |||||||
| Poetry | Benet, Thomas A | Poetry -- An Elusive Task | Exploring the emotional force of poetry through the lives of three poets and their work. | |||||||
| Poetry | Bing, Franklin C. | *I Sonnetize My Life's Iambic Prime | Uses of iambic pentameter in personal life | |||||||
| Poetry | Chatham, Donald | Poetics | Poetry Night 2012 | |||||||
| Poetry | Klapper, Gilbert | Three Poems | Poetry Night 2008 | |||||||
| Poetry | Maser, Clark | Summoned by Bells | The Poetry of John Betjeman | |||||||
| Poetry | McCulloch, Warren Sturgis | *The Natural Fit | Poetry | |||||||
| Poetry | Pond, Irving Kane | Poems | ||||||||
| Poetry | Schwartzberg, Hugh J. | History Through Two Eyes Only | The poet 'S' and the Schwartzberg poetry salon. | |||||||
| Poetry | Thompson, James E. | Ten Poems | ||||||||
| Poetry | Thompson, James Westfall | *Cain | Discussion of Cain and a one-act play | |||||||
| Poetry | Warren, Sherwyn E. | Poems | Poetry | |||||||
| Politcal Commentary | Andrews, James H. | House Without Windows | Workings of the Illinois General Assembly | |||||||
| Politcal Commentary | Barrington, L. F. Barry | This Is Not a Line | Chaos | |||||||
| Politcal Commentary | Davis, Walker B. | *The Reluctant Conservative | Responsible conservatism | |||||||
| Politcal Commentary | Dryer, Joel S. | Whose Land Is It Anyway Part II | Israel | |||||||
| Politcal Commentary | Dryer, Joel S. | Whose Land Is It Anyway? | Israel | |||||||
| Politcal Commentary | Duff, Brian B. | The Wolf Marks the Tundra | Illinois gubnatorial race and observations | |||||||
| Politcal Commentary | Ebeling, Charles | One Collage Too Many | Arguments for abolition of the Electoral College | |||||||
| Politcal Commentary | Ebeling, Charles | Red, White, Blue and You | Color in politics; the derivation of the red and blue state political maps | |||||||
| Politcal Commentary | Hermann, Donald H.J. | Prisoners of War | The role of medical professionals in the practice of torture and coercion by the United States | |||||||
| Politcal Commentary | Holzwarth, Elsie G. | The Jury Is Still Out | The fight for women on juries, particularly in Illinois. | |||||||
| Politcal Commentary | Horn, Albert | E Pluribus Unum | The integration, or lack thereof recently, of immigrants to this country | |||||||
| Politcal Commentary | Horn, Albert | Should We or Should We Not? | Discussion of inheritance taxes. | |||||||
| Politcal Commentary | Mason, Arthur J. | Comments of an Ore Engineer | Need for reform of coal mines through use of mechanization. | |||||||
| Politcal Commentary | McKenzie, Kirk | Playing the Devil: | How Iran Came to See the United States As the ‘Great Satan,’ and How Despite This, a Nuclear Accord Might Be Reached | |||||||
| Politcal Commentary | McLaughlin, Andrew C. III | Wet-Dry, Silver-Lead | History of Prohibition and its relation to current drug policy, | |||||||
| Politcal Commentary | Mumford, Manly W. | Conservancy | Conservation trusts | |||||||
| Politcal Commentary | Mumford, Manly W. | Government on a Far Planet | Commentary on establishing a human colony beyond the solar system. | |||||||
| Politcal Commentary | Nelson William R. | How Did We Get Here? | Why democracy fails to seriously address ecoomic issues in a rational and knowlegeable way. | |||||||
| Politcal Commentary | Notz, John K. Jr. | Sausage or Legislation? | The legislative process | |||||||
| Politcal Commentary | O'Dea, Dennis M. | *Predators | Nature of political rhetoric exemplified by the Kennedys | |||||||
| Politcal Commentary | Prescott, Richmond | The Principle of Self-Interest Rightly Understood: DeToqueville Revisited | A discussion of the observations and philosophy of DeToqueville | |||||||
| Politcal Commentary | Puttkammer, Ernst Wilfred | *Mau Mau | Kenyan Mau Mau movement | |||||||
| Politcal Commentary | Rutherford, R. Calvert | All States Are Not Created Equal | Why Texas is more a state of mind than a locale. | |||||||
| Politcal Commentary | Safrit, Henry F. | The Building Health Care Crisis in the U.S. | The need for and the difficulty of reform of the health care system in the US | |||||||
| Politcal Commentary | Safrit, Henry F. | The Gap | A discussion of the educational gap in the minority population as compared to the majority | |||||||
| Politcal Commentary | Schram, John A. | Figures of Speech | Comparison of President Obama's style of speaking with Lincoln and other Presidents. | |||||||
| Politcal Commentary | Schram, John A. | Opening for Chit-Chat 2012 | Experiences of the 2012 Presidential election | |||||||
| Politcal Commentary | Schram, John A. | Religion and the Part It Plays In Presidential Elections | Importance of religion in politics dating to King Henry VIII | |||||||
| Politcal Commentary | Schram, John A. | Sometimes the Good Guys Wear Black Hats | Human rights, diplomacy and trade. | |||||||
| Politcal Commentary | Schwartzberg, Hugh J. | Meddling | Recounting an activist life in the political arena. | |||||||
| Politcal Commentary | Schwartzberg, Hugh J. | Throwing Money at the Problem | Political action in Chicago's neighborhoods and gentrification. | |||||||
| Politcal Commentary | Schwarzer, William W. | Money | Money in politics and campaign finance reform. | |||||||
| Politcal Commentary | Schwarzer, William W. | NATO and the Transatlantic Divide | History of NATO and post-Cold War challenges it faces. | |||||||
| Politcal Commentary | Schwarzer, William W. | The Crime of Punishment | Discussion of sentencing laws and practices. | |||||||
| Politcal Commentary | Seidner, Francis | Choosing Candidates | The problem of Presidential primaries. | |||||||
| Politcal Commentary | Strong, William C. | Birthers, Death Panels and Satanic Corporations: The Challenges of Polic | Pursuit of political consensus through reform and the art of listening well. | |||||||
| Politcal Commentary | Wasik, John F. | The Cul-de-Sac Syndrome and the Future of Housing | Causes of the housing crisis and a prescription. | |||||||
| Recreation | Carlson, John W. | Gone Fishing | Personal experiences of the sport | |||||||
| Recreation | Carrow, Leon A. | Premature Exhilaration | Baseball | |||||||
| Recreation | Conroy, Peter V. | Name That Team | Names of sports teams | |||||||
| Recreation | Lackner, Thomas W. | Pease Porridge Hot: In praise of good plain food | The pleasures of soup and plain food | |||||||
| Recreation | Lyons, Phyllis Ilona | Food Porn, or A Memoir of My Life with Cookbooks | Cookbooks and cooking equipment as objects of pleasure and desire | |||||||
| Recreation | Maher, Chauncey C. | Matronae Agri | Hobby farming | |||||||
| Recreation | Mumford, Manly W. | Fish Eyes | Senses in fish | |||||||
| Recreation | Nissen, William J. | Wooden Magnet | Background, construction and use of a personal faering. | |||||||
| Recreation | Petersen, Scott William | I've Been Working on the Railroad | Hobby of collecting autographs | |||||||
| Recreation | Quattrocchi, Edward A. | Hope Springs Eternal | Horse-racing | |||||||
| Recreation | Reiffel, Leonard | *Will of Iron, Flesh of Stone | Auctions | |||||||
| Recreation | Warnken, Kelly | Vocation, Avocation | The hobby of collecting | |||||||
| Religion 1905 | Brown, Edward Osgood | *A Catholic’s Contribution | A group of four papers on the author's religious views, 1905 | |||||||
| Religion 1905 | Messer, Loring Wilbur | *Fundamental Religious Truths Applied to Life | A group of four papers on the author's religious views, 1905 | |||||||
| Religion 1905 | Post, Louis Freeland | *A Non-Ecclesiastical Confession of Religious Faith | A group of four papers on the author's religious views, 1905 | |||||||
| Religion 1905 | Root, Frederic Woodman | *Some Religious Views | A group of four papers on the author's religious views, 1905 | |||||||
| Religion 1905 | Stolz, Joseph | *The Message of Judaism to the Twentieth Century | A group of four papers on the author's religious views, 1905 | |||||||
| Religion and Faith | Edge, Peter | *Kyrie Eleison: St. Catherine, the Holy Mountain and the Child in the Raspberry Bush | Codex Sinaiticus | |||||||
| Religion and Faith | Fifer, Samuel | *No Questions Asked | Growth of faith | |||||||
| Religion and Faith | Getzoff, William M. | Varieties of Religious Interpretation | Discssion of Biblical issues | |||||||
| Religion and Faith | Hermann, Donald H.J. | Ganesh | Nature and influence of the Hindu god Ganesh | |||||||
| Religion and Faith | Hermann, Donald H.J. | I'm Back | Theories about the Resurrection of Jesus | |||||||
| Religion and Faith | Jonsen,Albert R. | The Damnable Paradoxe | The paradox of faith against atheism, particularly in recent literature. | |||||||
| Religion and Faith | Lackner, Herman H. | Sounding Brass or Tinkling Cymbal | 1Corinthians13 | |||||||
| Religion and Faith | Maher, David W. | East and West | Filioque; ecumenism between Catholic and Orthodox churches | |||||||
| Religion and Faith | Parkhurst, Todd Sheldon | A Time to Sow and a Time to Reap | The sory of "Amazing Grace" | |||||||
| Religion and Faith | Schade, Stanley Greinert | A Christian Reads the Koran | Discussion of the Koran | |||||||
| Religion and Faith | Seidner, Francis | Faith and Tolerance | Tension between the demands of faith and the requirements of tolerance. | |||||||
| Religion and Faith | Seidner, Francis | Heaven and Hell; Choice and Aspiration (A conversation) | Discussion of Heaven and Hell | |||||||
| Religion and Faith | Stevers, Martin D. | *Retrospect and Prospect | Discussion of science and the soul | |||||||
| Religion and Faith | Swing, David | Augustine and His Mother | Transparency of the life and writings of St. Augustine | |||||||
| Religion and Faith | Thompson, James Westfall | *The Last Pagan. | Bernard of Cluny | |||||||
| Religion and Faith | Thompson, James Westfall | *The Last Pagan: Notes to Poem. | ||||||||
| Religion and Faith | Thompson, James Westfall | *The Last Pagan: Poem | ||||||||
| Religion and Faith | Todd, Arthur James | *The Secularization of Domestic Relations: Nineteen Centuries of Church Versus Sex | Family and sexual relations as defined by the Christian church | |||||||
| Religion and Faith | Yeomans, Charles | *Faith and "The Works" in the Trial of David Swing, Heretic | Swing heresy trial | |||||||
| Science | Beauman, William H. | *The Secret of the Spring | Semiochemistry | |||||||
| Science | Beauman, William H. | Nanoculture | Nano technology | |||||||
| Science | Beauman, William H. | Syndrome X | Obesity | |||||||
| Science | Beauman, William H. | The Unkindest Cut? | Castration | |||||||
| Science | Benet, Thomas A | Science 101 | Art as the precursor of science | |||||||
| Science | Fujimoto, Ralph | In Search of En | Language, linguistics, human relations | |||||||
| Science | Jackanicz, Theodore M. | A Volkswagen for Him, A Mercedes for Her | Detailed study of contraception and the human reproductive cycle. | |||||||
| Science | Klapper, Gilbert | EUREKA and then 'DELAY' | Charles Darwin's 'Origin of Species': timing of his inspiration and reasons for delay in publishing. | |||||||
| Science | Liebson, Philip Robert | It's Déjà Vu All Over Again | Discussion of déjà vu and other paranormal phenomena. | |||||||
| Science | Lyons, Arthur | Begot in the Ventricles of Memory | Memory as a function of time and the brain | |||||||
| Science | Nelson William R. | Boys and Girls | Gender differences with an emphasis on recent research in this field and implications in career choices and life decisions | |||||||
| Science | Patton, Robert Gray | Fish Out of Water | Evolution of life on this planet | |||||||
| Science | Sheldon, Wylie | A Very Likely Cause | Discussion of the science behind global warming | |||||||
| Science | Warren, Sherwyn E. | Smoke Screens: Enchantment and Menace of an American Weed | Tobacco | |||||||
| Science | Zummer, Anthony S, | Pseudoscience | Inappropriate uses of scientific arguments | |||||||
| Social Commentary | Barnhart, William E. | Sit | Dog training, theory and practice. | |||||||
| Social Commentary | Blew, John C. | Man Date | Male bonding | |||||||
| Social Commentary | Lackner, Herman H. | Crocodile Tears | Murderers of the female persuasion | |||||||
| Social Commentary | Lackner, Herman H. | Myths of Antiquity | Antiques and antiquities | |||||||
| Social Commentary | McLaughlin, Andrew C. III | An Examination of the American Character | Character and values of America and the sources thereof. | |||||||
| Social Commentary | Mumford, Manly W. | Competition Is a Loser | Misuse of competition | |||||||
| Social Commentary | Parker, Leslie Monroe | *He Needed No Wings | Circus in the character of Alfredo | |||||||
| Social Commentary | Parker, Norman S. | Nostalgia | Styles in pessimism and fashions in protest | |||||||
| Social Commentary | Petersen, Scott William | Lightly Buttered | The custom of toasting | |||||||
| Social Commentary | Pond, Irving Kane | *A Day Under the Big Top: A Study in Life and Art | Life in the circus | |||||||
| Social Commentary | Prescott, Richmond | Antis | A discussion, as posed by Sophocles’s play Antigone, of the question the right of the individual to defy civil authority | |||||||
| Social Commentary | Prescott, Richmond | Outraged Lamentations | French anti-Americanism, sources and manifestations. | |||||||
| Social Commentary | Prescott, Richmond | Story Telling: Nothing but the Truth? | A discussion of history writing and the reluctance of the Kaiser Permanente Care Program to present the life of its complex genius, Henry J. Kaiser, warts and all. | |||||||
| Social Commentary | Prescott, Richmond | The Best Offense | The results of the Grant Study of 1939 | |||||||
| Social Commentary | Raimondi, Anthony J. | *Concezio Di Rocco | Italian family life | |||||||
| Social Commentary | Schwarzer, William W. | In Search of Equality | Race and affirmative action in higher education. | |||||||
| Social Commentary | Schwarzer, William W. | Smoke and Mirrors | Tobacco: issues, dangers, and dilemmas. | |||||||
| Social Commentary | Seidner, Francis | Pumping Gas | Trust and corruption in different societies. | |||||||
| Social Commentary | Wagner, Suzanne L. | A Matter of Taste | Investigations of taste, food, and eating. | |||||||
| Travel | Baer, Arthur Alois | 604 Jerusalem | Peru | |||||||
| Travel | Baer, Arthur Alois | A Day in Oaxaca | Mexico | |||||||
| Travel | Baer, Arthur Alois | Decline of Hvar | Dalmatia | |||||||
| Travel | Baer, Arthur Alois | Flight to Zanzibar | Africa | |||||||
| Travel | Baer, Arthur Alois | Inn | Austria | |||||||
| Travel | Baer, Arthur Alois | The Worst | Persia | |||||||
| Travel | Baer, Arthur Alois | Title Impaired | Italy | |||||||
| Travel | Carrow, Leon A. | The Tip of the Boot | Italy | |||||||
| Travel | Diers, Arthur James | Of Clouds and Light | Trip to Turkey, with reflections on Turkish character and history mixed with personal recovery. | |||||||
| Travel | Ebeling, Charles | Masai Mara Hood Ornament | Conservation Meets Big Game Tourism in Kenya | |||||||
| Travel | Fujimoto, Ralph | A River Runs Through It Also | St. Petersburg, Russia | |||||||
| Travel | Lackner, Francis A. | Who Goes Where? | Tourism as a means to understand other peoples and nations. | |||||||
| Travel | Lackner, Herman H. | I Came, I Saw, Who Conquered? | Personal travel from Guadalcanal to Finland to Timbucktoo. | |||||||
| Travel | Mumford, Manly W. | Afloat in Champagne | French canals, wine, and a family trip to the source of Champagne. | |||||||
| Travel | Oakes, David Sydney | *Diesel and Docile | Mississippi towboats | |||||||
| Travel | Parker, Francis Warner | *The Land of Lost Causes | North Africa | |||||||
| Travel | Pond, Irving Kane | I'm a Member of the Cruise | Greece and the classical tradition | |||||||
| Travel | Pond, Irving Kane | The Pleasures of Travel | Joys of travel | |||||||
| Travel | Prossnitz, Howard Brian | In Search of Peter Mayle | Provence | |||||||
| Travel | Puttkammer, Ernst Wilfred | Impressions of Russia in 1957 | Russia as seen in a 1957 trip | |||||||
| Travel | Quattrocchi, Edward A. | Winds of Aeolus | Sicily | |||||||
| Travel | Rogal, Helen R. | Black, White and Maybe Gray | Differences in the resolution of racial tensions between South Africa and USA. | |||||||
| Travel | Rutherford, R. Calvert | India -- Land of Extremes | Impressions of India | |||||||
| Travel | Rutherford, R. Calvert | Saved by an Earthquake | Character and history of Antigua, Guatemala. | |||||||
| Travel | Wild, Payson Sibley | *The Villa and Valley of Horace | Literary travelogue | |||||||
| Travel, Astronomy | Fujimoto, Ralph | Let's Build a Stairway to the Stars | Machu Pichu | |||||||
| Values | Jaggers, Kenneth | *Mr. Greenberg | The strength of a neighborhood | |||||||
| Values | Lackner, Francis A. Jr. | Defining Moment: Challenges and Transformations | Need for challenge to define adulthood | |||||||
| Values | Parkhurst, Todd Sheldon | The Passage | Lifeline Pilots | |||||||
| Values | Petersen, Scott William | By Two's and Three's | Personal growth in learning from life's experiences. | |||||||
| Wine | Mumford, Manly W. | De Vinorom Mulsorumque Faciendo | Homemade beer and wine | |||||||
| Wine | Tomashevsky, C. Steven | Another World Waugh | Wine and wine critics, especially Harry Waugh. | |||||||