"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. 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

Drs. Fraterrigo and Kaufman speak at the Newberry's Women and Gender Seminar: Loyola University Chicago

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Drs. Fraterrigo and Kaufman speak at the Newberry's Women and Gender Seminar

The February 20 meeting of the Women and Gender Seminar series, "Feminism, Sexuality, and the Media", features two of Loyola's own.

Dr. Suzanne Kaufman will comment on two papers: the University of Illinois' Tamara Chaplin's "Lesbian Utopias: Toulouse Bagdam Cafee, 1976-2009" and Dr. Elizabeth Fraterrigo's "Televising the Feminine Mystique: Betty Friedan's Appraisal of Television, Female Audiences, and the Feminist Series that Never Aired." Dr. Fraterrigo's paper assesses Friedan's role as a pioneering feminist media critic, analyzes audiences' views on domesticity, femininity and spectatorship, and explores Friedan's vision for a feminist inspired television series.

The seminar will meet on February 20 from 3-5 PM in room B-82 at the Newberry Library. The Scholl Center circulates the papers prior to the seminar. For a copy of the papers, contact scholl@newberry.org. Please do not request a paper unless you plan to attend. For more information on the Women and Gender Seminar series, visit the series webpage.

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