"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

Professor Rosenwein Publishes New Book: Loyola University Chicago

Loyola University Chicago Department of History

Professor Rosenwein Publishes New Book

Professor Emerita Barbara Rosenwein's new book, Generations of Feeling: A History of Emotions, 600-1700, recently published by Cambridge University Press, examines the history of emotions in pre-modern and early-modern Western Europe. Using a case studies of emotional communities in England and France, Rosenwein demonstrates the ways in which emotions and their expression responded to and influenced social, cultural, and religious norms over the course of eleven centuries of European history.

Generations of Feeling has already garnered glowing reviews. Christina Lutter, of the University of Vienna, writes that "Barbara Rosenwein's pioneering account masterly bridges the gap between the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times to show the historicity of emotions, and their making and unmaking over time within a variety of emotional communities." William Reddy, of Duke University, explains that "through a series of micro-historical case studies, Rosenwein elaborates a vision of European history in terms of multiple interacting emotional communities, each repurposing the emotional schemes of the past, within a larger legacy of Western conceptions."

Congratulations on this achievement, Dr. Rosenwein!

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