2007-2008 Seminars
“Bulwark Against Radicalism: Labor Conservatives in World War I”
Jennifer Luff, University of California at Los Angeles
“Of Tubs and Toil: Locating Kohler Village in an Empire of Hygiene, 1920–2000”
Kathryn Oberdeck, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“Youth Acculturation and Revolt in Mexican American South Texas: Understanding the Roots of Working-Class Ethnic Protest after 1960”
Marc Rodriguez, Notre Dame University
Rethinking Black Freedom in the Era of Slavery: The Challenge of Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s through the Civil War
Featuring author Melvin Ely
“ ‘We Must Bring Together a New Coalition’: The Challenge of Working-Class White Ethnics to Color-Blind Conservatism in the 1970s”
Dennis Deslippe, Franklin & Marshall College
“ ‘Bowlers First, Union Men Second’: The Politics of Race, Work, and Leisure in the UAW’s Campaign to Desegregate Bowling”
Molly Hudgens, University of Chicago
“ ‘Will “our people” be any better off after this war?’: Spaces of Opportunity in Black Chicago, 1938–1947”
Jeffrey Helgeson, University of Illinois at Chicago
“Working-Class Utopia: Work, Masculinity, and Vice in Post-war Gary, Indiana”
S. Paul O’Hara, Xavier University