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"Civil War Chicago: Eyewitness to History" on October 20th
Professor of History Theodore J. Karamanski, PhD and Loyola alumna Eileen M. McMahon, PhD, will discuss their new book on the Civil War’s transformative role in Chicago's development.
Richard Pryor Biographer to Speak at Loyola
Scott Saul, the author of Becoming Richard Pryor, will give a public lecture on the comedian entitled "Living with Richard Pryor: A Biographer's Tale" on Friday, April 24 at 3 PM.
Timothy Gilfoyle on "The Changing Forms of History"
Should history be a book discipline? What constitutes "acceptable scholarship" in history? Professor Timothy Gilfoyle considers the rich and diverse forms that historical scholarship take from books, digital media, and public history projects in his article "The Changing Forms of History" in April's edition of Perspectives on History, the AHA newsmagazine.
"The Rise of the Nation-Saint" on November 5th
Prof. Kathleen Sprows Cummings, University of Notre Dame, discusses a pre-circulated paper on the efforts of U.S. Catholics to secure their first canonized saint for the third meeting of the 2015-2016 Ramonat Seminar Series.
Voices of Chicago Women Activists
Celebrate Women's History Month with the Women & Leadership Archives and the Chicago Area Women's History Council. Come hear multimedia excerpts of oral histories by Columbia College honors students featuring Chicago women activists and leaders. The event will be held on Sunday, March 16th from 2:00pm-5:00pm on the 1st floor of Piper Hall.
What was Chrysler Village and how did it get its name?
Public History graduate students know and shared their work on a historic nomination for the neighborhood with Ask Geoffrey on WTTW the other night.
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Closing the Gap
Sarah Doherty (PhD '12) reflects on the importance of the Preparing Future Faculty Program in equipping her, and other minority doctoral students, with the skills necessary for a career in academia.
LEARN MOREMichelle Nickerson to Speak at OAH Luncheon
FBI surveillance photo of draft board raiders Kathleen Ridolfi and Rosemary Reilly entering the Camden Federal Building in August of 1971. Print courtesy of ECC Media, LLC, http://www.camden28.org/
Next month, Dr. Michelle Nickerson will be the featured speaker at the Urban History Association Luncheon at the Organization of American Historians conference in St. Louis. Dr. Nickerson's luncheon, "Burn Draft Cards Not Cities: Catholic Leftist Politics of the Vietnam Era", will be held on April 18 from 12:20-1:50 PM. Conference registration and luncheon tickets are available through the OAH conference webpage.
In their recent newsletter, the Urban History Association detailed "Burn Draft Cards Not Cities": "Late one night in August of 1971, the FBI caught eight opponents of the Vietnam War vandalizing a Selective Service office in Camden, New Jersey. The burglars were part of the “Catholic Left” network of activists who had raided over a hundred draft board offices and destroyed a million 1-A files. While the FBI and raiders faced off on the third floor of the Federal Building, a war of another kind was engulfing the city around them. The smell of smoke from fires mixed with tear gas. The sounds of violence—gunshots, sirens, bottle rockets—were now entering third night of the so-called “Puerto Rican Riot.” What did these events—the draft board raid and riot—have to do with each other? At the UHA luncheon at the OAH, Dr. Nickerson will examine this question within the context of her current project on the Camden 28 and Catholic radicalism in the Vietnam War era."
For more information on the Urban History Associations luncheon at the Organization of American Historians conference and to purchase luncheon tickets, check out the OAH conference webpage.