Dr. William M. Scholl Center for American History and Culture
Labor History 2015-2016 Seminar Series
Sponsors: The History Departments of DePaul University, Northern Illinois University, University of Illinois, Roosevelt University, the University of
Illinois at Chicago, Northwestern University; the Karla Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture at the University of Chicago; the Department
of History and Political Science at Purdue University Calumet; and LABOR: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas.
3:00pm to 5:00pm / The Newberry Library / 60 West Walton Street / Chicago, IL 60610
September 11, 2015 Seminar
• “Costa Rica’s Inter-American Highway: Building an Inter-American Dream, 1941-44”
Carmen Kordick, Roosevelt University
Repondents: Christopher Boyer, Northwestern University / Ellie Shermer, Loyola University Chicago
October 3, 2015 Big Book Symposium / 11:00am to 3:00pm
Join us for a discussion of the Elizabeth A. Fones-Wolf and Ken Fones-Wolf book, Struggle for the Soul of the Postwar South.
Panelists include Robert Korstad, Duke University; Jane Dailey, University of Chicago, and Chris Cantwell, University of Missouri-KC
November 6, 2015 Seminar
• “Death Penalty for Integrated Dissent: 1930’s Communists Caught in Georgia’s Dragnet”
Maryan Soliman, Washington University-St. Louis
Respondents: Colleen Doody, DePaul University / Kevin Boyle, Northwestern University
January 29, 2016 Seminar
• “Lost Worlds?: Touring the Radical Past with Milwaukee’s Most Recent Socialist Mayor”
Aims McGuinness, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Respondents: Shelton Stromquist, University of Iowa / Stephanie Seawall, University of Illinois
February 26, 2016 Seminar
• “Neo-Liberalism Before Its Time: Labor and the Free Trade Ideal in the Era of the Great Compression, 1945-1972”
Leon Fink, University of Illinois at Chicago
Respondents: Jeff Sklansky, University of Illinois at Chicago / Jonathan Levy, University of Chicago
March 25, 2016 Seminar
• “‘Good Government/Bad Workers’ / Martin H. Kennelly’s Reform Crusade in Chicago, 1947-1955”
Richard Anderson, Princeton University
Respondents: D. Bradford Hunt, The Newberry Library / Joseph Bigott, Purdue University
April 29, 2016 Seminar
• “Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to the War on Crime”
Simon Balto, Ball State University
Respondents: Samuel Mitrani, College of DuPage / Lionel Kimble, Chicago State University
All papers are pre-circulated electronically. Please contact [email protected] for a copy, if you plan to attend.
Scholl Center activities are sponsored in part by the Dr. Scholl Foundation. • www.newberry.org • [email protected]