The Urban History Seminar series feature a scholarly presentation followed by lively discussion. Rebekah Coffman, CHM curator of religion and community history, and Chris Redgrave, architectural photographer at Historic England, present “How to Save a Building with a Camera: Architectural Photography and Its Role in the Preservation Movement in London and Chicago, 1960s–2020s.” This talk More
The Urban History Seminar series feature a scholarly presentation followed by lively discussion. Betsy Schlabach, Associate Professor of History at Lawrence University, presents “Tracking Black Women’s Informal Labor in Chicago’s Municipal and Carceral Archives: A Closer Look at Bronzeville’s Policy Game.” Schlabach will share material from her recently published book Dream Books and Gamblers: Black More
We are happy to announce that May’s Urban History Seminars (UHS) will be in-person at the Chicago History Museum. UHS features a scholarly presentation followed by lively discussion. Lisa Yun Lee, executive director of the National Public Housing Museum, will speak about the history, vision, and future of the NPHM, the only cultural institution devoted More
The Urban History Seminar series feature a scholarly presentation followed by lively discussion. Tikia K. Hamilton, assistant professor of history at Loyola University Chicago, presents “Before Brown v. Board of Education.” Many are familiar with the unprecedented 1954 ruling, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, which suspended the practice of legal segregation in More
The Urban History Seminar series features a scholarly presentation followed by lively discussion. Aaron Shkuda, project manager at the Princeton-Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities, presents “Commodities Capital of the World? Building for the Future of Trading in Chicago.” The Zoom session will open at 6:45 p.m. with the program starting at 7:00 More
The Urban History Seminar series feature a scholarly presentation followed by lively discussion. Historian and author Rima Lunin Schultz and Ann Durkin Keating, the Dr. C. Frederick Toenniges Professor of History at North Central College, present “Jane Addams, Social Planning, and Early Public Housing on Chicago’s Near West Side.” Beginning in 1889, Jane Addams fashioned More
The Urban History Seminar series feature a scholarly presentation followed by lively discussion. Author Patrick T. Reardon presents “Reporting the Loop: Taking the ‘L’ from Newspapering to History-writing.” Reardon is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist with a 32-year career at the Chicago Tribune as an urban affairs writer, columnist, and editor. He is the author of More