Urban History Seminars

Stagg and Stella: We Interrupt this Marriage for Football Season

• Erin McCarthy, Associate Professor of History in the Humanities, History, and Social Sciences Department at Columbia College Chicago 

Breaking the Japantown Stereotype: Who Were the Japanese and Japanese Americans in Chicago 1865–1940? 

• Takako Day, independent researcher, and Michael Day, Emeritus Professor of English, Northern Illinois University 

Cincinnati and the Prehistory of US City Planning

• Henry Binford, Professor of History at Northwestern University 

Chicago and New York: Variations on an American Theme

• Thomas Dyja, author  

Hartford Bound: How the City Became a West Indian, Puerto Rican, and African American Gateway

• Fiona Vernal, the University of Connecticut 

Open Land for Whom? Race, Environmentalism, and the Battle Over Chicago’s Washington Park

• Brian McCammack, Lake Forest College

Chicagolandia: A History of Latinx Suburbia

• Antonio Ramirez, Elgin Community College 

Reporting the Loop: Taking the ‘L’ from Newspapering to History-writing

• Patrick T. Reardon, author  

Cultures of Aspiration: African Americans in Chicago, 1929 to 1960  

• Julius L. Jones, CHM curator and PhD candidate at the University of Chicago 

How the Suburbs Were Segregated 

• Paige Glotzer, University of Wisconsin–Madison 

Chicago Lumbermen in the New South: The Philanthropic Legacies of B. F. Ferguson, Francis Beidler, and South Carolina’s Old Growth Hardwood Forests 

• Professor Jessica I. Elfenbein, University of South Carolina  

Chicago Lumbermen in the New South: The Philanthropic Legacies of B. F. Ferguson, Francis Beidler, and South Carolina’s Old Growth Hardwood Forests

• Professor Jessica I. Elfenbein, University of South Carolina

Latinx New York: Work and the Origins of the Modern City

• Pedro A. Regalado, Harvard University 

Uncontrollable Blackness

• Douglas Flowe, Washington University in St. Louis 

Revisioning Historic Preservation: Chicago in the Twenty-First Century

• Ward Miller, executive director of Preservation Chicago 

The Elusiveness of History: Responding Again to the Great Chicago Fire

• Carl S. Smith, emeritus professor at Northwestern University 

Chicago Católico: Making/Unmaking Mexican Parishes

• Deborah Kanter, Albion College 

Urban Spaces and Democratic Protest in Postwar Chicago: Historicizing the Street Photography of Art Shay

• Erik S. Gellman, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 

Laboring in Industrial Chicago: Latino Workers in the Age of Manufacturing Flight

• Lilia Fernández, Rutgers University 

A Girl’s Preparation for Life’: How Women Reformed Vocational Education in Progressive-Era Chicago 

• Ruby Oram, Loyola University Chicago 

Southern Exposure: The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago’s South Side 

• Lee Bey, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago 

You Destroy the Rule of Supply & Demand: Power and Profits in Chicago’s Cattle Market 

• Joshua Specht, Monash University 

Wade-in-Rainbow Beach: Contested Integration along Chicago’s Lakefront, 1960–61 

• James Barrett, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 

Confronting Chicago’s 1919 Race Riot: Remembering in Black and Red 

• D. Bradford Hunt, Newberry Library, and Christopher Robert Reed, Roosevelt University 

The Attica Prison Uprising and Why It Matters Today 

• Heather Thompson, University of Michigan 

Split-levels/Sea-levels Rise: Suburbanization, Racism, and Climate Change in the Postwar Metropolis 

• Robert Gioielli, University of Cincinnati 

The Not-So-Common Life: Lea Demarest Taylor and the Chicago Commons Settlement 

• Alicia Schatteman, Northern Illinois University 

Chicago Foodways: An Ever-Changing Menu 

• Bruce Kraig, Roosevelt University 

Uptown Chicago and the Politics of Cultural Diversity, 1955–81 

• Devin V. Hunter, University of Illinois – Springfield 

Vivian Maier: A Photographer’s Life and Afterlife 

• Pamela L. Bannos, Northwestern University 

City of Choice: Magnet Schools and Urban Renaissance in Post-Civil Rights Chicago 

• Nicholas Kryczka, University of Chicago 

Protest in Suburbia! The 1965 North Shore Summer Project for Fair Housing 

• Mary Barr, Kentucky State University 

Richard J Daley as Urban Reformer 

• Richard Anderson, Princeton University 

What If Early Chicago Was Not “Preeminently a Man’s City?

• Ann Durkin Keating, North Central College 

Urban Schools, Ethnicity, and the Mobility Ladder 

• Cristina Groeger, Lake Forest College 

Jesse Binga: The Untold Story of Chicago’s First Black Banker 

• Don Hayner, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus, Chicago Sun-Times 

Making Neoliberal Chicago 

• Morris Vogel, Tenement Museum, NYC 

Amigos for Daley: Richard J. Daley, Mexican Americans, and the Making of the Conservative Colonia 

• Mike Amezcua, University of Notre Dame 

Indigenous Metropolis: Chicago’s Urban Indians 

• Patricia Marroquin Norby, director of the D’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies at the Newberry Library 

Black Metropolis Revisited and Revised 

• Mary Pattillo, professor of sociology and African American studies at Northwestern University 

Reconsidering Jane Addams’s Imagined Neighborhood: Hull-House and the Near West Side 

• Ellen Skerrett and Rima Schultz, independent scholars 

Race and Cultural Geography in Chicago’s Loop 

• Gerald Butters, Aurora University 

Undocumented: Immigrants Crossings between Detroit and Windsor before World War II 

• Ashley Johnson Bavery, Northwestern University