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Loyola History Department Wins Career Diversity Grant
The Career Diversity grant, awarded by the American Historical Association and funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, will support the implementation of new programs and initiatives designed to better prepare PhD students for a wide array of careers within and outside the academy.
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Hope Shannon Serves as Guest Editor of History News
Hope Shannon, a PhD student in the Public History and US History program, served as guest co-editor of the American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) newsletter, History News. This Winter 2018 issue focused on emerging museum professionals.
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Loyola Alumnus and Graduate Student Create New Digital Exhibit
Kyle Mathers, a graduate of the Loyola Public History M.A. Program, recently completed a new digital exhibit, Kenilworth Centennial Structures, for the Kenilworth Historical Society. This exhibit is accessible online and will appear as an interactive feature on a tablet in the Kenilworth Historical Society's galleries starting February 11. Kyle worked with current Loyola Public History and U.S. History graduate student Kelly Schmidt to construct the site using the Omeka online exhibit platform.
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Preserving the Story of Immigrant Advocates
The Immigration Advocacy History Project at Loyola University Chicago is seeking people willing to be interviewed about their work standing up for immigrants. The project is designed to document both past and current immigration advocacy at Loyola and in the surrounding areas and to illuminate contemporary activism by understanding its roots, as well as to give participants a chance to have their work and stories documented.
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Summer 2018 Course Registration is now OPEN!
This summer, the History Department is offering a number of exciting courses both online and in-person, including a graduate-level course on Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Displacement around the world with our own Dr. Aidan Forth. We're also offering a number of undergraduate options. Read more and sign up today!
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Faculty Spotlight
Faculty Spotlight: Q&A with Dr. Aidan Forth
Aidan Forth, history professor at Loyola University Chicago, talks about the publication of his book Barbed-Wire Imperialism: Britain’s Empire of Camps, 1876-1903, his recent experience teaching in Prague, and some of the challenges of writing about and teaching difficult histories.
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PhD Candidate Jérémie-Brink Awarded Louisville Institute Fellowship
Loyola History Department PhD Candidate Nathan Jérémie-Brink is awarded a Louisville Institute Dissertation Fellowship for the 2017-2018 academic year. This competitive writing fellowship is given to PhD candidates whose research contributes to the study of North American Christianity.
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Graduate Students
Graduate Students Collaborate with Digital Paxton Project
Graduate students Kate Johnson, Marie Pellissier, and Kelly Schmidt partnered with PhD student Will Fenton of Fordham University to create pedagogical tools to that expand engagement with his site Digital Paxton: A Digital Archive and Critical Edition of the Paxton Pamphlet War.
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Events
One Night Only: Carry A. Nation, The Famous and Original Bar Room Smasher!
Carry A. Nation grabbed a drink out of a man’s hand and announced to the crowd, “Anyone who thinks this is fit to drink can come outside and suck it out of the street!” at which point she proceeded to leave the tavern and pour the beer into the gutter. That was the introduction many got to Carry A. Nation when she was the scourge of tavern owners in the early 20th century. She’s back in Chicago on April 10 to admonish the students of Loyola University as she did 115 years ago.
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Undergraduate
New 300-level Classes for Fall 2017!
Fall course registration begins on April 4! Consider taking one of the history department’s many interesting 300-level classes. From food and Pompeii to heresy and Chicago to film and music, there's something for everyone in every major! Classes are open to majors, minors, and non-majors.
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Atlantic Writing Group
English Atlantic Writing Group to Meet Wednesday, April 26
On Wednesday, April 26, the English Atlantic Writing Group will meet to discuss Dr. Bryan Rindfleisch's paper, “’Possessed of the most Extensive Trade, Connexions, and Influence’: George Galphin and the Power of Intimacy in Early America” at 6 pm at the Red Lion Pub.
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Events
Join Fellow History Students and Faculty for a Special Theater Event!
Join fellow history students and faculty for a musical exploration of early 20th century America through the lives of Emma Goldman, Charlie Chaplin, and Teddy Roosevelt. Tintypes, presented by Loyola University Fine and Performing Arts, is offering discounted tickets to history students for the performance on Wednesday, March 1.
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Lecture
Dr. Thomas Murphy Lecture and Luncheon Event: Jesuit Slaveholding In Maryland
On Thursday, February 9, Dr. Thomas Murphy will present "The Jesuit Choice: Religious Freedom Before Ecumenism and Slave Emancipation" at 4 pm in McCormick Lounge in Coffey Hall. The lecture will examine the legacies of Jesuit slaveholding for Jesuit institutions today.
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Conferences
Loyola Undergrads and Alumnus Present at the ACHA Conference in Denver
Loyola undergraduates Gustav Roman and Roman Krasnitsky and alumnus Michael Albani presented at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association/American Catholic Historical Association in Denver on January 7th.
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Undergraduate
History Honors Students Present Original Research on December 6th
Students in the history honors program will present their semester-long research projects on Tuesday, December 6th, from 2:30-5pm in Regis Hall. Presentations will be followed by a catered reception which all are invited to attend!
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Seminar
Graduate Students Attend Newberry Seminar Series
Loyola graduate student Kelly Schmidt participated in a full-day lecture and seminar series at the Newberry Library in association with the Chicago Humanities Council and the Karla Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture at the University of Chicago.
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Graduate Studies
Graduate Students Get Hands-On Experience with Medieval Manuscripts
This fall semester, history graduate students have the rare opportunity to work with the Newberry Library's renowned collection of medieval manuscripts through a seminar course on gender, bodies, and the body politic in medieval Europe led by Dr. Tanya Stabler-Miller.
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Special Event
Join Us for an Election Night Viewing Extravaganza!
Curious about how the 2016 election will end? Want to hear expert commentary from journalists, activists, and policy experts as the results come in? Drop by or spend the whole evening with us on election night, November 8th, at the Damen Theater from 7-11pm. This event is free and open to everyone!
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Upcoming Events
Dr. Raúl Rodríguez to speak Nov. 2 and 3
On November 2, the History Department will host Dr. Raúl Rodríguez, of the Center for Hemispheric and United States Studies at La Universidad de la Habana, for a roundtable discussion with interested faculty and graduate students at 1:30 pm. On November 3, Dr. Rodríguez will give a talk on US-Cuban relations at 5 pm in Cuneo Hall Room 312.
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Faculty Recognition
Professor Bucholz concludes three successful years as department chair
At the end of June 2016, Professor Robert O. Bucholz will conclude his three-year term as Chair of the History Department. During his tenure, Bob cultivated a culture of excellence that stressed the importance of teaching, research, and service.
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Faculty Recognition
Professors Hajdarpasic, Kaufman, Roberts recognized for Research and Teaching Excellence
Professors Edin Hajdarpasic and Kyle Roberts won the Sujack Awards for Research and Teaching Excellence. Professor Suzanne Kaufman was named 2016 Master Teacher. Congratulations to our award winning faculty!
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Not-to-miss Fall 2016 Courses!
Fall course registration begins on April 18. Consider taking one of the history department’s many 300-level classes. From presidential elections and pirates to China and the Caribbean to film and memoir, there's something for everyone. Open to majors, minors, and non-majors.
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Faculty Recognition
Professor Christopher Manning joins President’s Cabinet to address diversity at Loyola
Interim President John P. Pelissero invited Dr. Christopher Manning, Associate Professor of History, to join the President’s Cabinet to serve as an advisor on diversity at the end of fall semester.
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Student Recognition
Students blend history with advocacy
The Public History Lab started with a handful of students. What it has turned into, however, is a full-scale campaign of projects, art walks, community days, faculty consults, and numerous proposals—all to support Chicago’s historic neighborhoods.
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Professor Tanya Stabler Miller to lead graduate seminar at the Newberry Library this fall titled, 'Gender, Bodies, and the Body Politic in Medieval Europe.'
Early applications are due May 1 for this ten-week graduate seminar. The course will examine the relationship between gender, sex differences, and politics—defined broadly—in medieval Europe, exploring the ways in which systems of power mapped onto perceived sex differences and bolstered, reproduced, or authenticated those systems.
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Faculty Recognition
Professor Mooney-Melvin selected to serve as panelist for the Scholar Summit on Women’s History and Public History
The Scholar Summit invited women’s history scholars and museum professionals from across the country to attend and guide the development of the National Women's History Museum.
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Lecture
"Galileo, The Pope, A Cardinal: A Roman Triangle," on Friday, February 5.
A lecture will be given this Friday, February 5, in Piper Hall by Mons. Melchor Sánchez de Toca y Alameda,Undersecretary of the Pontifical Council for Culture (Vatican)on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the intervention of Card. Bellarmine and the injunction by the Roman Inquisition. Sponsored by Father Robert Bireley, SJ, Emeritus Professor of History and the Department of Theology.
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Student Recognition
Rachel Boyle wins President's Medallion
Congratulations to PhD candidate Rachel Boyle on winning the President's Medallion. The President's Medallion is one of the highest honors bestowed by the University, recognizing outstanding students for their leadership, scholarship, and service.
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Student Recognition
Loyola Public History Graduate Students Making an Impact in Chicago Neighborhoods
Class projects are taking students into Rogers Park and Chrysler Village. Master’s student Kristin Jacobsen talks about her experience leading a walking tour of the Glenwood Avenue Arts District for the Rogers Park/West Ridge Historical Society.
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"Civil War Chicago: Eyewitness to History" on October 20th
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Loyola to host Conference on Women and Vatican II
In fall of 2015 Loyola University Chicago will mark the fiftieth anniversary of the conclusion of Vatican II with a public symposium. Please join us in what promises to be a lively exploration of the Council's history and impact on women by proposing a paper, panel, or roundtable!
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Lauren O'Brien named 2015–16 ACE Mentor
Congratulations to Master's student Lauren O'Brien on being named a 2015–2016 Achieving College Excellence (ACE) Master's Mentor. Loyola's ACE program (a federal TRIO program) is designed to support the college success of first generation and low-income undergraduate students and students with documented disabilities.
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Professor Berger Explores Early Women Activists for Pan Americanism
How did women and ordinary citizens shape US foreign policy in Latin America? Dina Berger, a Professor of History at Loyola University Chicago, will explore this question in her new book project “Before the Good Neighbor: Pan American Friendship in the Twentieth Century.”
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Richard Pryor Biographer to Speak at Loyola
Scott Saul, the author of Becoming Richard Pryor, will give a public lecture on the comedian entitled "Living with Richard Pryor: A Biographer's Tale" on Friday, April 24 at 3 PM. -
Timothy Gilfoyle on "The Changing Forms of History"
Should history be a book discipline? What constitutes "acceptable scholarship" in history? Professor Timothy Gilfoyle considers the rich and diverse forms that historical scholarship take from books, digital media, and public history projects in his article "The Changing Forms of History" in April's edition of Perspectives on History, the AHA newsmagazine. -
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Devin Hunter Accepts Faculty Position at University of Illinois Springfield
The Department of History congratulates Devin Hunter on his acceptance of a tenure-track faculty position in the History Department of the University of Illinois Springfield. Devin will complete Loyola’s Joint Ph.D. Program in American and Public History, and defend his dissertation on April 23. His dissertation research is titled “Growing Diversity: Urban Renewal, Community Activism, and the Politics of Cultural Diversity in Postwar Uptown Chicago.″ Devin’s new role at UIS will begin this fall, as an assistant professor of American and Public History.
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History Faculty Honored for Teaching and Research
Professor Steven Schloesser, S.J. will receive the Sujack Award for Excellence in Faculty Research and Professor Suzanne Kaufman will be named a Master Teacher in the College of Arts and Sciences at an awards ceremony on April 21 at Loyola. In Springfield on April 25, Professors Ted Karamanski and Eileen McMahon (Ph.D. Loyola, 1989) will be award the Russell P. Strange Book of the Year Award.
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Professor Hajdarpasic's New 500-Level Seminar on Nationalism Available for Fall 2015
History Graduate Students: Interested in the history of Nationalism and National Identity? Sign up for Dr. Edin Hajdarpasic's new course: History 533-Nationalism and National Identity. Fall 2015 Registration begins April 9th!
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Amber Bailey named a 2015 Preservation Action Foundation Scholar
Public History Master's student Amber Bailey was named a 2015 Preservation Action Foundation Scholar and traveled to Washington, D.C. to lobby members of Congress on historic preservation policy issues as a part of this month's National Historic Preservation Advocacy Week.
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Public History Alumna Promoted to Director of Education at the Illinois Holocaust Museum
Kelley Szany has been named Director of Education at the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center. Kelley joined the Museum’s staff in 2001 and will now oversee all of the Museum’s education and public programming initiatives.
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Check out the Feminist Forum Records at the Women and Leadership Archives!
The Feminist Forum is a student organization at Loyola University Chicago which seeks to provide students with a supportive, safe, and open environment to discuss feminist issues. Founded in 1995 through the Women’s Studies and Gender Studies Program, the first meeting was held on September 19, 1995 on the Lakeshore campus.
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Student Spotlight: Pamela Johnson
Meet Pamela Johnson, a Masters student in European History, who specializes in French history and has interests in micro-history, women & gender, race relations, and urban studies. After reading about Pam in the Lakefront Historian's Student Spotlight, find out how you can apply to graduate programs and be a part of the History Department's brilliant and supportive student body.
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Professor Patricia Mooney-Melvin Profiled in AHA Member Spotlight
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History Professor Johnson's Book Among Writer's Top 10 Books on Texas
John Phillip Santos listed Professor Ben Johnson's Revolution in Texas: How a Forgotten Rebellion and Its Bloody Suppression Turned Mexicans into Americans as one of ten books every Texan should read in a recent article for Texas Monthly. Dr. Johnson answers a few questions about Revolution in Texas and his current book project.
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Graduate Students Nominate Chrysler Village to the National Register
Students in Dr. Karamanski's Management of Historical Resources class experienced the process of historic preservation firsthand when they set out to nominate the Chrysler Village Historic District to the National Register of Historic Places.
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Introducing the Jesuit Libraries Provenance Project
An innovative new project designed by History students and faculty uses the social media imaging-sharing site Flickr to reassemble the surviving books from Loyola's original (1870) library collection. -
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Loyola Undergraduates Win Competitive Research Fellowships for 2014-15
Over the coming academic year, undergraduate History majors will study Moroccan perceptions of the Arab Spring, examine the impact of the Chicago Metro History Fair, trace the ownership histories of Loyola's original library books, create an online exhibition commemorating the 1986 visit of Ignacio Ellacuria, SJ to Loyola, and uncover the social dynamics of modern-day sex trafficking.
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Public History Graduate Program Alumni and Students Find Success on the Job Market
Alumni and current students of the Loyola Public History graduate program are proving their value in even the most challenging hiring environment. A number of them have recently secured excellent jobs at institutions that represent the range of public history careers.
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2015 Robert McCluggage Award Competition
History Graduate Students: Don't forget to submit your best essays for the 2015 Robert McCluggage Award Competition! The deadline is March 11, 2015. The winner's name will be engraved on a plaque in the department. The winner will also receive a $400 cash prize!
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The 2014 Jan Karski Memory and Responsibility Conference
Loyola's Polish Studies Program will host an international conference on genocide and responsibility September 19-21, 2014. Join participants from the US, Canada, Poland, Great Britain, and Italy in a full program of presentations, food, cultural events and a concert on September 20.
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Crossings and Dwellings closes with International Conference, Oct. 16-18
Loyola University Chicago will hold a conference marking the bicentennial of the Restoration of the Society of Jesus in 1814. The conference aims at locating works-of both restored Jesuits and their colleagues from women's religious orders-within the specific experiential context of building an American nation.
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Hit & Stay Screening and Panel Discussion
On November 11, join history professor Michelle Nickerson, filmmaker Joe Tropea, and Loyola alumnus Thom Clark for a screening and panel discussion of the award-winning documentary Hit & Stay, a film about Vietnam-era raids on draft board offices by Catholic radicals protesting the war.
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Crossings and Dwellings Opens July 19th!
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"Truth wherever it may lead us"
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Graduating soon? Advice on Careers in History
We have asked Keyalo Gray, the History Advisor in the Career Development Center, to offer advice for graduating seniors about finding a fulfilling job. Keyalo will be leading a workshop for all History students thinking about careers on Friday, April 25th, from 2-3:30 in Life Science Building 312. Refreshments will be offered.
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Meet the Summer Session B Interns
A monument, a controversial legal maneuver, an oral history: all three have provided the jumping off points for exploring the past for bright History students enrolled in HIST 398, the History Undergraduate Internship, this Summer Session B. As they earn three credit hours and satisfy Loyola’s Engaged Learning requirement, these students are working closely with faculty and public historians to apply the skills they learned in the classroom to real world projects. Read on to learn more about their projects – and then visit their blogs to learn about their experiences in their own words!
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These students helped bring LUMA exhibition to life
The research conducted by these four students was vital to the “Crossings and Dwellings” exhibition that runs from July 19 to October 19 at LUMA. Read more about their projects, what they learned, and why at least one of them felt like a modern-day Indiana Jones. -
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A Spate of New Books by Recent PhDs
Recent PhDs have been busy publishing impressive monographs of late! On topics ranging from Vegetarianism to the memory of the Great War in Irish culture to the idea of Great Books, these books evidence the rich diversity of scholarship that began as dissertations in our department.
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Ellie Shermer Granted Prestigious Russell Sage Foundation Fellowship
Assistant Professor Elizabeth Tandy Shermer will be spending the 2014-15 academic year as a Visiting Fellow of the Russell Sage Foundation. She will be working on her new book, The Business of Education: The Corporate Transformation of America's Public Universities.
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Meet the Summer Session A Interns
This summer Loyola History undergraduates have undertaken HIST 398 internships in order to learn how to design and build things: online exhibitions, digital archives, classroom curricula, and complex statistical analyses. Working closely with archivists, educators, and faculty, they are putting the skills they have learned in the classroom to work in various “real world” applications.
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Introducing the Spring 2014 Undergraduate Interns
Polar vortexes and near record snow falls might have grounded many of us this winter, but not the 17 intrepid Loyola students participating in HIST 398, the History Undergraduate Internship, this semester. Each week these interns are traveling to venerable institutions in the Loop; basements in Edgewater; and (from the comfort of the library or their dorm rooms) seventeenth-century Jamaica, nineteenth-century Chicago, Nazi Germany, and post-Katrina New Orleans. In their internships, students are putting the skills they have learned in the classroom to work in various “real world” applications.
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Fellowships Available for Mentored Undergraduate Research
Are you an undergrad looking to work on a historical research project as part of a class, an internship, or simply on your own free time? Are you a faculty member who can envision an undergrad assisting you with your own research while you teach them skills of historical inquiry? If yes, you should look into LUROP Fellowships. Applications are due March 1st.
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LUC Graduate School Features Public History Alumna
Kristin Emery (2013 Public History MA) chose Loyola’s Public History program because she wanted to engage with history in a unique way.READ MORE -
Students Curate Exhibit on Campus Activism in the 1980s
As students in Dr. Dina Berger’s Cold War in the Americas course (HIST 300) have learned this fall semester, the Cold War was just as hot in the Western Hemisphere as it was in Europe and Asia. Dr. Berger’s course offered students the unique opportunity to learn about the Cold War in Latin America by developing an exhibit based on materials held at the University Archives.
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Activist Mundelein: Civic Engagement at a 20th Century Women's College
A new online exhibition created by Public History graduate Annie Cullen ('13) and PhD candidate Will Ippen traces the history of student activism at Mundelein College from the 1940s through the early 1970s. -
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Voices of Chicago Women Activists
Celebrate Women's History Month with the Women & Leadership Archives and the Chicago Area Women's History Council. Come hear multimedia excerpts of oral histories by Columbia College honors students featuring Chicago women activists and leaders. The event will be held on Sunday, March 16th from 2:00pm-5:00pm on the 1st floor of Piper Hall. -
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What was Chrysler Village and how did it get its name?
Public History graduate students know and shared their work on a historic nomination for the neighborhood with Ask Geoffrey on WTTW the other night.LEARN MORE -
Student Exhibition Explores Campus Activism in the 1980s
Created by students in Professor Dina Berger's Cold War in the Americas seminar, “Voices in Solidarity with Central America: Campus Activism in the 1980s” examines the varied ways Loyola students, faculty, and staff responded to U.S. government aid to Central America’s militaries during the civil wars in Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Guatemala.
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Meet the Fall 2013 HIST 398 Undergraduate Interns
What do Pell Grants, International Houses, Sister Carrie, and an oral history of a WWII Army Air Corps veteran have in common? All are subjects of internships undertaken by this fall semester’s ten undergraduate interns. Read on to find out more about what they are up to this semester!
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Closing the Gap
Sarah Doherty (PhD '12) reflects on the importance of the Preparing Future Faculty Program in equipping her, and other minority doctoral students, with the skills necessary for a career in academia.LEARN MORE -
Professor profile
London expert finds calling teaching first-year students
When history professor and London expert Robert Bucholz isn’t conducting research or writing books, he’s in the lecture hall, teaching Loyola’s newest Ramblers. Bucholz was recently honored with the University’s Excellence in Teaching Freshmen Award.
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Historians Against Slavery Combat Modern-day Injustice
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10th Annual History Graduate Student Conference
Join graduate students from across the country as they present their work on a wide variety of topics, ranging from Hawaii's response to the American Civil War to religious identity in colonial Morocco, at Loyola's 10th Annual History Graduate Student Conference this Saturday.
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Padberg, McGreevy, and Molina on the Jesuit Restoration on November 5th
Loyola University Chicago concludes its Fall 2013 programming commemorating the bicentennial of the Jesuit Restoration with two events on Tuesday, November 5th: A lecture with John Padberg, S.J. on the Jesuit Restoration at 3 pm and a discussion with John McGreevy of a chapter draft from his forthcoming history of 19th-century Jesuits in the United States at 6 pm. -
Digital Scholars Spoke on New Civil War Letter Transcription Website
On October 30, Anne Flannery and Adam Strohm of the Newberry Library, and Greg Ruth of Loyola will speak on "The Civil War in Letters: Crowd Sourcing the Transcription of the Newberry Library's Collection of Civil War Letters." The seminar will take place at 12:30 pm in Life Sciences Building 312.
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Brad S. Gregory Delivered Annual Surtz Lecture on Oct 22
Brad S. Gregory will deliver Loyola University Chicago's annual Edward Surtz Lecture on Tuesday, October 22nd, at7:30 pm in Piper Hall, Lake Shore Campus. His talk is entitled: "Buying In: The Reformation Era and the Makings of Modern Consumerism."
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Thomas Tweed Talk for October 29th to be Rescheduled
"Circulation Patterns: Print Culture, a Chicago Jesuit Library, and American Catholic Identity" is a seminar series cosponsored by the Loyola History Department and the Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage that is bring leading scholars of religion, history, and print culture to Loyola in October and November. -
Kim A. Wagner Spoke on Colonial Violence in British India on October 16th
Kim Wagner will examine the forms and functions of colonial violence in British India between 1857 and 1919 on Wednesday, October 16th, at 4 pm in McCormick Lounge. Come learn more about how at a time when most modern states had long replaced the spectacle of the scaffold with prisons, the British in India still had recourse to exemplary punishment on a significant scale.
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Acclaimed Author and Documentary Filmmaker Maurice Fitzpatrick Screened and Discussed "The Boys of St. Columb"
Loyola’s Department of History cordially invites you to a film showing and talk by acclaimed author and documentary filmmaker: Maurice Fitzpatrick The Boys of St. Columb Friday, October 11, 2013 3:00 pm Crown Center 530 Fitzpatrick’s The Boys of St. Columb tells the story of eight former St. Columb’s students who took advantage of Northern Ireland’s revolutionary 1947 Education Act, which allowed students from working-class families to attend grammar schools in Northern Ireland for the first time. The eight alumni profiled in the documentary are: Nobel Prize winners Seamus Heaney (Literature), John Hume (Peace) singer and songwriter Phil Coulter, civil rights campaigner and writer Eammon McCann, Irish ambassador James Sharkey, and retired Bishop of Derry, Dr. Edward Daly.
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Professor Kyle Roberts wins Schiller Prize from Bibliographical Society of America
Kyle B. Roberts, Assistant Professor of Public History and New Media, has been awarded the 2013 Justin G. Schiller Prize for his essay, “Rethinking The New-England Primer,” by the Bibliographical Society of America.
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Professor Elliott Gorn elected to Society of American Historians
Elliott J. Gorn, Joseph A. Gagliano Professor of Urban History at Loyola University Chicago, has been elected to the Society of American Historians. Gorn is among a small and select number of authors to be nominated this year by the Society.
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Andrew Jackson O’Shaugnhessy Spoke on Sept 6th
Dr Andrew Jackson O’Shaugnhessy will speak on his new book, The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of Empire, on Friday, September 6th, at 4 pm on the Fourth Floor of the Information Commons. The event is free and open to the public.
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Professor Elizabeth Fraterrigo Awarded Research Support Grant from the Schlesinger Library
Associate Professor of History Elizabeth Fraterrigo has been awarded a Research Support Grant from the Schlesinger Library to work in the National Organization of Women (NOW) Papers at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.
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Professionalization Workshops for Graduate Students on April 29th and May 3rd
Two professionalization workshops for graduate students - on preparing for the academic job and for grant writing - were offered this spring by faculty members. Please email Amelia Serafine (aserafine@luc.edu) if you would like to attend.
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Professor David Dennis on Extension 720
Listen to Professor Dennis speak with Milt Rosenberg about his newest book, Inhumanities: Nazi Interpretations of Western Culture (2012).LEARN MORE -
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Blogging Jesuit History
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Six New Faculty Join Department
Recent hires strengthen the Department's teaching and scholarship in urban history, gender history, transnational European history, and the digital humanities. -
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Meet the Spring 2013 Undergraduate Interns
Fourteen Loyola undergraduates are putting the skills they learned in the classroom to work in archives, museums, gardens, and even on the streets of Rogers Park this semester as part of HIST 398: the History Undergraduate Internship. -
Professor Elliot Gorn on Newtown
In the wake of the Newtown Massacre, Professor Gorn reflects on what lessons the Emmet Till murder sixty-five years earlier might have to offer. -
Assistant Professor Edin Hajdarpasic Profiled in AHA Member Spotlight
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Occupy Chicago Oral History Project
Graduate students under the direction of Professor Michelle Nickerson document the Occupy Chicago protest site in the financial district of the city's downtown through oral histories and photography. -
Meet the Fall 2012 Undergraduate Interns
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Restored Jesuits and the American Experience
Explore material for the study of urban and Native American Catholicism in preparation for a major conference in commemoration of the bicentennial of the restoration of the Jesuits at Loyola in 2014. -
Public History Ryan Gosling
Anne E. Cullen and Rachel Boyle, students in Loyola's Public History Program, recently posted about their experience writing a history meme for the National Council on Public History’s blog.LEARN MORE -
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For the Love of History
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Introducing... Chicago Catholic Immigrants: The Italians
Did you miss November's conference on Chicago Catholic Immigrants: The Italians? Check out the videos of the first in a series of conferences that focus on the role that Roman Catholicism played in the lives of immigrants who came to Chicago in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Symposium Honoring Professor Barbara Rosenwein on Feb 28
One-day symposium celebrates Rosenwein's four decades of work bringing the medieval past into dialogue with contemporary questions, mainly through her engagement with other social sciences.LEARN MORE -
Undergraduate Alumni Spotlight: Juan Basadre
Juan Basadre is an alumnus of Loyola's undergraduate history program. He is currently pursuing his J.D. at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and working at the Kathryn O. Greenberg Immigration Justice Clinic. Read more about Juan's path from History Major to law student!
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Congratulations and Farewell, Dr. Manning!
Christopher Manning moves to the University of Southern California The History Department is losing a valued colleague this spring, as Dr. Christopher Manning moves to the University of Southern California in March to become Chief Inclusion and Diversity Officer. He will report to USC President Carol L. Folt and will play a central role in USC’s diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts.
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Historians in the Field: Ramblers at the 2019 AHA Conference
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Graduate Alumni Spotlight: Kelley Szany
Kelley Szany holds her master’s degree in public history from Loyola, where her work focused on the trajectory of memory in Holocaust museums and memorials. She now works as the Vice President of Education & Exhibitions at the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center in Skokie.
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American History/Public History Graduate Students Found Public History Consulting Business
American History/Public History PhD alumna, Dr. Rachel Boyle and current PhD candidate, Hope Shannon have operated Omnia History, a public history consulting business, since 2017. Learn more about Omnia History and some of their projects.
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Timothy B. Neary Presents for 17th Annual Signum Fidei Lecture
Timothy B. Neary earned both his MA and Ph.D. (with distinction) in History from Loyola University. Now, he will be presenting "Education Practical and Sacred: Bishop Bernard J. Sheil's Vision for Lewis University" as part of the 17th Annual Signum Fidei Lecture.
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UHA Announces Executive Director Transition - Hope Shannon
The Urban History Association (UHA) Board of Directors announced the appointment of long-time UHA member Hope Shannon to the position of UHA Executive Director effective May 11, 2020. Hope will graduate with her Ph.D. in United States history and public history from Loyola University Chicago this May.
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Historians in the Field: Ramblers at the 2020 AHA Annual Meeting
The 134th American Historical Association Annual Meeting will take place in New York City from January 3-6th, 2020. Loyola History faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students will be taking part at the meeting in numerous ways. Dr. Ben Johnson along with Sonia Hernandez, Trinidad Gonzales, John Morán González, and Monica Muñoz Martinez will be receiving special recognition at this year’s meeting for the “Refusing to Forget” project. The project was awarded the Herbert Feis Award for its “ distinguished contributions to public history.” Read on for an interview with Dr. Johnson followed by a list of the panels and sessions Loyolans will be participating in this year’s meeting.
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SPOTLIGHT
Loyolans share their experience at the Midwestern History Conference in Grand Rapids, MI
Loyola History Department faculty, recent alumni, and graduate students all presented at the Fifth Annual Midwestern History Conference in Grand Rapids, MI, on May 30-31. Read more about their presentations and their takeaways from the experience.
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Honor Societies, History Graduate Student Association, and History Club 2020
Spring is a time for change! This spring, the History Graduate Student Association (HGSA) and the History Club both held elections for new officers. In addition, there are new members who will be inducted into Phi Alpha Theta and Alpha Sigma Nu.
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Dr. Theodore Karamanski featured in Faculty Friday Spotlight from Loyola Dean's Office and University Marketing and Communication
This week’s “Faculty Friday Spotlight” in the College of Arts and Sciences at Loyola University Chicago shines on Theodore (Ted) Karamanski, Professor of History and co-founder of the Public History graduate program, which marks its 40th anniversary this academic year. His 2020 book, Mastering the Inland Seas: How Lighthouses, Navigational Aids, and Harbors Transformed the Great Lakes and America, is a compelling social, economic, and ecological history of the Great Lakes and the maritime infrastructure that shaped the region. Published in 2020 by the University of Wisconsin Press, the book began as a public history project when Karamanski was commissioned by the National Park Service to inventory and do historical analysis of 263 still existing historic lighthouses on the U.S. side of the Great Lakes.
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Dr. Jo Hays Book Publication
Professor Emeritus Jo N. Hays recently authored a timely new reference book, Epidemics and Pandemics: From Ancient Plagues to Modern-Day Threats. ABC-CLIO, a specialty academic publisher for mass-market library reference books, published the two-volume set. Dr. Hays co-authored the books with Dr. Joseph P. Byrne, a professor of medieval and early modern European history at Belmont University. A project six years in the making, the books were fittingly released this year to help readers understand the current coronavirus pandemic by learning about its contemporary context and how epidemics and pandemics have affected world history by looking at humanity’s response to such crises. In Volume 1, Dr. Byrne covers and explains what epidemics are and how human society spread and controlled contagious diseases. In Volume 2, Dr. Hays presents examples of past epidemics and pandemics and how they left a lasting impact on history, from malaria in ancient Rome to measles outbreaks in the United States today.
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Loyola Hosts the 17th Annual HGSA Conference Virtually
The Loyola HGSA hosted its 17th Annual History Graduate Student Association Conference on Saturday, February 20, and Sunday, February 21, 2021. For the first time, the conference was completely virtual to ensure everyone’s safety during the coronavirus pandemic. Throughout the weekend, over 90 registrants logged onto the conference. While the conference looked different this year, the conference was successful in provoking productive and engaging discussions!
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Loyola Public History Program Wins National Council on Public History Founders Award
In March 2021, the History Department’s Public History Program received the prestigious 2021 Founders Award from the National Council on Public History (NCPH). The award recognizes four decades of leadership by Loyola historians in nurturing, growing, and transforming the practice of public history in the U.S.
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Refusing to Forget, Founded by History Professor Dr. Benjamin Johnson, Receives 2021 OAH Friend of History Award
Refusing to Forget, an organization founded by Dr. Benjamin Johnson and other U.S.-Mexico Border scholars, received the 2021 Organization of American Historians (OAH) Friend of History Award. Refusing to Forget aims to bring public awareness to the anti-Mexican racial violence of the 1910s through historical markers, museum exhibits, lesson plans, publications, and other means, with the hope of supporting contemporary struggles for racial justice and the reform of policing. The Friend of History Award is annually granted by the Board of the Organization of American Historians to “an institution or organization, or an individual working primarily outside college or university settings, for outstanding support for historical research, the public presentation of American history, or the work of the OAH.”
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History Graduate Student Association, Honor Societies, and History Club 2021-22
A new year brings new changes. We thank past officers of all groups for their work in navigating an unusually challenging school year, and welcome new leadership. We look forward to what you will help accomplish!
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Loyola MA Alumna Leads Re-interpretive Project at Lower East Side Tenement Museum
Lauren O'Brien (History MA, 2016) recently spearheaded research for the Joseph Moore Project, an effort by the New York's Lower East Side Tenement Museum to better highlight Black New Yorkers' experiences in its overall interpretive schema.
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