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In 1939, the University of Chicago’s football team was so bad that the Tribune headlined its report on one game with barely concealed sarcasm: “Maroons hold Michigan and Harmon, 85 to 0.” Tom Harmon was Michigan’s star. Chicago’s nickname was the Maroons. “After the game, Robert Maynard Hutchins, the university president, came down into the locker room,” John Davenport, the team’s co-captain, ...

A whale of a tale According to the International Whaling Commission “whale watching tourism is rapidly growing around the world.” But it is highly unlikely that the majority of the …

The Oct. 1, 1945 letter is just three paragraphs typed on onion skin paper, under a curiously sparse letterhead containing only a four-digit P.O. Box located somewhere in Santa Fe. But its subject matter — along with the man whose signature is scrawled at the end — would permanently alter the history of the world in ways that proved both groundbreaking and horrifying. “This letter is to ...

Leo Szilard conceived of the "nuclear chain reaction" almost a decade before the Manhattan Project. Lise Meitner used Albert Einstein's E=mc2 to first explain "nuclear fission."

Exploring the Chicago connections to Oppenheimer and the nuclear age.