2011-2012 Seminars
“Bionic Ballplayers: The Contractual Construction of Fitness in Major League Baseball, 1964- 2007”
Sarah Rose, University of Texas at Arlington and Joshua Salzmann, University of Illinois at Chicago
“Transatlantic Women: Fishermen’s Wives’ Organizations in Gloucester and Hull”
Colin Davis, University Of Alabama at Birmingham
“ ‘It Was Nothing Short of War’: Street Railways and the Spread of Class Conflict in Early Twentieth Century Philadelphia”
James Wolfinger, DePaul University
Collision Course: Ronald Reagan, the Air Traffic Controllers, and the Strike that Changed America (Oxford University Press, 2011)
Featuring Author Joseph McCartin, Georgetown University
“Union Made: Working People and the Rise of the Social Gospel in Turn of the Century Chicago”
Heath Carter, University of Notre Dame