Seminars are held on Fridays from 3:00–5:00 PM at the Newberry Library, 60 West Walton Street, Chicago, IL. Papers are pre-circulated. For a copy e-mail scholl@newberry.org

October 13, 2006—From Birmingham to Memphis: Connecting Labor and Civil Rights in the 1960s
Will Jones, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Commentators: Eric Arnesen, University of Illinois at Chicago, and James Wolfinger, DePaul University

November 10, 2006—Manhood, Work, and ‘Growing Old’ during the Early Twentieth Century
Greg Wood, Penn State Erie
Commentators: Stephen Meyer, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, and Colleen Doody, DePaul University

December 8, 2006—‘A Hive of Activity’: Worker’s Fashioning and Self-Fashioning in Confederate Prison Camps
Scott Nelson, College of William and Mary
Commentators: Susan Pearson, Northwestern University, and Joe Bigott, Purdue University–Calumet

January 19, 2007—Remembering Virden: Shaping and Reconstructing Radical and Racial Memories of an Epic Event, 1898–1936
Rose Feurer, Northern Illinois University
Commentators: Susan Hirsch, Loyola University Chicago, and Erik Gellman, Roosevelt University

February 9, 2007—African Americans and the Politics of Labor in Reconstruction Washington
Kate Masur, Northwestern University
Commentators: James Schmidt, Northern Illinois University, and Vernon Burton, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign

March 9, 2007—The Lynching of Francis McIntosh and the Boundaries of Labor Solidarity in 1830s St. Louis
Dan Graff, University of Notre Dame
Commentators: David Roediger, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, and Dylan Penningroth, Northwestern University

April 13, 2007—Defining and Controlling Labor in the Post-Revolutionary Slave South
Laura Edwards, Duke University
Commentators: Bruce Levine, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, and Dan Graff, University of Notre Dame

May 11, 2007—Labor and Urban Politics in Comparative Perspective: Mexico City and Chicago in the Early Twentieth Century
Georg Leidenberger, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana–Azcapotzalco, Mexico City
Commentators: Tobias Higbie, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, and Shelton Stromquist, University of Iowa

The seminar format assumes that all participants have read the essay in advance, and that all who request the paper will attend the seminar. Please do not request a paper unless you plan to attend.

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Co-sponsored by the History Department of the University of Illinois at Chicago, Northern Illinois University, and the Labor and Working Class History Association