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Studs Terkel Archive, 21 Years in the Making, Takes Aim at 'United States of Amnesia'
May 15, 2018 It took 21 years and a lot of work to launch Studs Terkel's digital audio treasure trove and, as it turns out, the timing is just right.
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TBT: The Pentagon Papers
May 18, 2017 In 1971, analyst Daniel Ellsberg gave parts of a Department of Defense study on American involvement in Vietnam to a New York Times reporter, Neil Sheehan.
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Women's Voices, Women's Work
Jan. 15, 2018 Looking forward to the Women's Marches this weekend, we're bringing together a collection of women's voices: women who worked hard, pushed the envelope, and took risks to make their communities a better place.
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Five Things Chicago's Media Archivists Want You To Know
Feb. 27, 2018 A cadre of Chicagoans who are hard at work salvaging our recorded history -- on film, video and audio tape -- recently swapped stories.
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Happy Birthday Gwendolyn!
Jun. 27, 2017 We in Chicago are very proud of our hometown star, Gwendolyn Brooks. She was poet laureate in Illinois and the first African-American writer to win the Pulitzer Prize.
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Labor Day Voices
Sep. 4, 2017 Quality of life for working men and women was so important to Studs. Many people are familiar with his book Working that brought their lives and struggles into the light, but Studs also interviewed dozens (hundreds?) of people about their jobs for his regular radio show.
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Classroom
We’ve partnered with the Chicago Public Library's YOUmedia department and the Great Books Foundation to develop a series of curricula using audio from the archive to teach critical listening skills for students in grades 9–12.
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