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The Newberry Library’s Urban History Co-sponsored by the Karla Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture at the University of Chicago All meetings are held on
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September 6, 2008—(2:30 pm)
Mapping Respectability: Freedom’s Journal and Virtual Place-Making in Emancipation Era New York City
Jennifer Hull, University of Wisconsin at Madison
The X Brothers and Middletown: Campus Development in an All-American Community
Dale Winling, University of Michigan
October 4, 2008—“I Can’t Be Satisfied”: The Black Muscians in Chicago
Amy Absher, University of Washington
November 1, 2008—(2:30 pm)
Getting Around in the Motor City: Race, Mobility, and Environment in Postwar Detroit
Sarah Frohardt-Lane, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ethnic Reactions to Racial Diversity, 1960s Chicago
Margaret Lee, University of Wisconsin at Madison
December 6, 2008—From Foundings to Foundations: The Landscape of Religious Hospital Care in 1950s Los Angeles
Jennifer Vanore, University of Chicago
February 7, 2009—(2:30 pm)
Changes in the Banking Industry, 1995–2004
Ed Miller, University of Illinois at Chicago
Urban Renewal and Housing in Milwaukee: A Diminishing Role for the State?
Phyllis Santacroce, University of Wisconsin at Madison
March 7, 2009—Moving to New York: Housing Puerto Ricans in New York City, 1940-52
Marygrace Tyrrell, Northwestern University
April 4, 2009—(2:30 pm)
Doers of the Word: Adult Bible Classes and Urban Reform in the Progressive Era
Chris Cantwell, Cornell University
Reconstructing Chicago: The Real and Symbolic Capital of Expressway Jursidiction and Finance
David Spatz
May 2, 2009—(2:30 pm)
Housing Industrial Workers in Indiana Harbor, Indiana, 1920-50
Tamsen Anderson, University of California at Berkeley
Theater as Sanctuary: Creating the Central Church in Chicago
Jessica Westphal, University of Chicago
This is a monthly workshop in which graduate students studying urban history issues present to their peers works-in-progress from their dissertations. Papers are pre-circulated by e-mail and must be requested in advance. If you are interested in presenting or would like to attend, please contact the Scholl Center at scholl[at]newberry.org.
The group is open only to graduate students (no faculty), and members should be committed to attending as many of the meetings as possible.