Newberry Seminar Series

Panelists: Sharony Green, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Kyle Mays, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

“Freedom: ‘A Matter I Deserve to Have’: Constructions of Identity and the Fancy Girl”
Sharony Green, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

“Out in the Cold: Urban Radicals, Deportations, and the Mexican Great Migration in Early Cold War Chicago”
Mike Amezcua, Northwestern University
“Latino Landscapes in Chicago: Transnational History, Architecture, and the Origins of a New Urban America”
Andrew Sandoval-Strausz, University of New Mexico
Commentator: Ralph Cintron, University of Illinois at Chicago

“Theatrical Captivity and Murder in Junius Brutus Stearns’s Hannah Duston Killing the Indians of 1847”
Lauren Lessing, Colby College
“Consuming Identities: Visual Culture and Celebrity in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco”
Amy Lippert, University of Chicago
Commentator: Sarah Burns, Indiana University

“Crafting the New Deal Economy”
Tom Dorrance, University of Illinois at Chicago

“From the Hook to the Box: How Longshore Unions in the San Francisco Bay Area and Durban Survived the Container”
Peter Cole, Western Illinois University

“ ‘Borders Thick and Foggy’: The 1837 Upper Canada Rebellion and Emerging American Nationhood”
Karen Marrero, Independent Scholar

“Chicana/o Studies and the Whiteness Problem or Towards a Mapping of Whiteness on the Border”
Lee Bebout, Arizona State University
“Working Conditions: Latino doctors, Medical Authority, and Civil Rights in Texas, 1900-1963”
John McKiernan-Gonzalez, University of Texas at Austin
Commentator: Benjamin Johnson, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

“’This very troublesome business’: The Struggle for Control of Charleston’s Waterfront Workforce”
Michael Thompson, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Panelists: Julie Fountain, University of Illinois at Chicago and Martin Smith, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

“Mother Figures: Women Military Officers in Britain in the 1950s”
Julie Fountain, University of Illinois at Chicago

“Navigating Postindustrial Ethnicity”
Chloe Taft, Yale University

“Agents of the American Revolutions: South American Rebels in the United States, 1810-1830”
Caitlin Fitz, Northwestern University

“Black, White, and Tan: The Expulsion of Mexicans from SNCC and the Formation of a Black Third World Left”
Cecilia Marquez, University of Virginia
“Puerto Rican Nationalism, the Communist Party, and the U.S. Government during the Cold War: The Challenges of ‘Domestic’ Decolonization”
Margaret Power, Illinois Institute of Technology
Commentator: Shana Bernstein,…

“Playing in Paris: Native American Artists and the Hand-Painted Poster”
Jessica Horton, University of Rochester
“Andy Warhol and the American Photobook”
Lucy Mulroney, Syracuse University
Commentator: Elizabeth McGoey, Indiana University

“A. Philip Randolph & the World: The Politics of Black Anticolonialism, Antifascism, & Anticommunism”
Eric Arnesen, George Washington University

“‘Falling in Love Intelligently’: Eugenic Love in the Progressive Era”
Susan Rensing, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh

Commentator: Susan J. Pearson, Northwestern University

“Illegal Laborers: Undocumented Europeans and Detroit’s Unions, 1924-1942”
Ashley Johnson, Northwestern University

“’A Precedent Worth Setting’: The U.S. Military and Humanitarian Operations”
Jana Lipman, Tulane University

“Cucapá Families, Intermarriages, and Migration in the Mexico-U.S. Borderlands”
Verónica Castillo-Muñoz, University Of California, Santa Barbara

“Urban Challenges and the Appeal of Cultural Institutions in Minneapolis and St. Paul”
Susannah Engstrom, University of Chicago

By 1920, Chicago had become “the literary capital of the United States,” according to one of the nation’s influential cultural arbiters, H. L. Mencken. Indeed, American literature of the period bore an aesthetic shaped by a palpable confrontation with the city’s railroads, skyscrapers, and stockyards. Chicago helped produce many of the most important writers of the era.