2008-2009 Seminars
“’The Factions Guiding the CIO are Red and They Hope to Take the Blue and White Out of the Color of Our Flag’: Detroit Labor and Anticommunism”
Colleen Doody, DePaul University
“Heretical Tendencies in the Kingdom of God: Radical Christian Intellectuals and the Ideological Boundaries of the Social Gospel”
Dave Burns, Northern Illinois University
The North as a Civil Rights Battleground: Debating Thomas Sugrue’s Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North
Featuring author Thomas Sugrue, Univesity of Pennsylvania
“A Labor History of Hippies: The KMPX and Wild West Festival Strikes and Countercultural Workers in Late Sixties San Francisco”
Michael J. Kramer, Northwestern University
Not Right: Progressive Era Liberals and Open Shoppery
Chad Pearson, University of Alabama in Huntsville
Commentators: Shelton Stromquist, University of Iowa, and Rosemary Feuer, Northern Illinois University
“In the Driver’s Seat: Black Power Unionism and Chicago’s Bus Drivers”
Erik S. Gellman, Roosevelt University
“Immigration Politics, Service Labor and the Problem of the Undocumented Worker in 1970s Los Angeles”
Thomas Jessen Adams, University of Chicago
“Rethinking the Popular Front”
James Barrett, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign