Passage to Chicago: A journey on the Illinois & Michigan Canal in the Year 1860 takes the reader on a special kind of journey: an in-depth, illustrated look at

Exhibition guide on the traveling photography exhibition and subsequent book titled Prairie Passage, by Edward Ranney.

Explorer, scientist, writer, and humanist, Alexander von Humboldt was the most famous intellectual of the age that began with Napoleon and ended with Darwin. Wi

From its inception in Greek antiquity, the science of optics was aimed primarily at explaining sight and accounting for why things look as they do. By the end o

"In A Natural History of the Chicago Region, Greenberg takes you on a journey that begins with European explorers and settlers and hasn't ended yet. Along the w