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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.
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. LEARN MORE
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 MORE
Ann Harrington Spoke on the History of the BVMs
Professor of History Emerita Ann Harrington spoke on her new book - Expanding Horizons: Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, 1919-1943 - on Thursday, February 6th, at 11:30 am in Cuneo Hall, Room 425. LUC faculty only. RSVP required. Contact the Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage for more information (773-508-3820).
Harrington's academic teaching field and, consequently, research has been Japan and East Asia. In 2001 the administration of her religious congregation, the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, commonly known as BVMs, invited her to research their founder, Mary Frances Clarke. Agreeing to this took Harrington into new territory: she had done research on the French nuns who, in the nineteenth century, were the first Roman Catholic sisters to go to Japan. That project convinced her of the importance of studying the history of women religious in order to expand women's history and history in general, and she thinks influenced the BVMs to invite her to look more deeply into our their congregation's history.
Harrington's new book, Expanding Horizons: Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, 1919-1943 covers a period of the BVM's history not previously studied. Therefore, it is somewhat of an overview of the era when Isabella Kane, followed by Gervase Tuffy, each served as the mother general of the BVM congregation. The work focuses on a variety of issues such as modernism, Americanism, patriotism, and the aftermath of World War I. It also includes outreach to the American Indian youth at the Phoenix American Indian School at the invitation of the Jesuits.
Harrington's talk focused on chapter 7 of the work, which looks at major issues of racism and of culture surface as BVMs moved into Memphis, Tennessee where they taught African American students.