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Illinois likes a good curse. You know about Wrigley Field, cursed by an angry goat owner. Perhaps you’ve heard of the curse of Kaskaskia, a once bustling town near Missouri that was briefly the capital of Illinois. What happened was — so says an old, racist legend — a French fur trapper in the 18th century, upset that his daughter fell in love with a local Native American boy, found the boy ...

Illinois likes a good curse. You know about Wrigley Field, cursed by an angry goat owner. Perhaps you’ve heard of the curse of Kaskaskia, a once bustling town near Missouri that was briefly the capital of Illinois. What happened was — so says an old, racist legend — a French fur trapper in the 18th century, upset that his daughter fell in love with a local Native American boy, found the boy ...

Over the past couple of decades, one of the most active and creative fields of historical scholarship has been the history of the senses, of the ways in

An exhibit at the Oriental Institute — soon to change its name — takes a skeptical look at its Roman statue collection.