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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 MORE11th Annual History Graduate Student Conference
Conference participants at last year's public history roundtable
The eleventh annual History Graduate Student Conference is this Saturday, November 15 at the Corboy Law Center on the Water Tower Campus.
The theme of this year’s conference is the silences of history. The conference lunch panel and afternoon public history roundtable will engage with this theme. The public history roundtable, Interpreting “Others” on Jekyll Island: A Voice for Workers, Women, and Children will feature a presentation from five graduate students from Middle Tennessee State University on exhibits they produced for the Jekyll Island National Historic Site and the challenges they faced in interpreting overlooked Jekyll Island inhabitants. After their presentation, conference participants will have the opportunity to discuss the challenges of interpreting underrepresented groups. The lunch panel, Changing Strategies for Collecting, Sharing, and (Re)telling LGBTQ Histories, will focus on the changes that occurred over the last thirty years in collecting, writing, and sharing LGBTQ histories. Panelists from the Chicago History Museum, the Leather Archives and Museum, Northwestern University, and the University of Illinois at Chicago will provide their perspectives and respond to audience questions.
The conference also includes panels on a wide variety of topics, including race in urban America, nineteenth century American womanhood, turning points in legal history, postwar identity in Europe, and empire building in the Caribbean, to name only a few. For more information on the panels and paper presentations, check out the conference program on the conference blog.
Registration for the conference begins at 8 AM in Kasbeer Hall, Corboy Law Center 15th Floor, and the presentations begin at 9 AM. We hope to see you there!