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Camille Cole, Illinois State University The City is a Garden: Dates, Wealth, Work and Space in Late Ottoman Basra

Join @andrewhartman.bsky.social & me for the next @newberrylibrary.bsky.social Capitalism Seminar -- Camille Cole will be sharing new on what is now southern Iraq. Please join us!

www.newberry.org/calendar/cam...

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Camille Cole, Illinois State University The City is a Garden: Dates, Wealth, Work and Space in Late Ottoman Basra

Join @andrewhartman.bsky.social & me for the next @newberrylibrary.bsky.social Capitalism Seminar -- Camille Cole will be sharing new on what is now southern Iraq. Please join us!

www.newberry.org/calendar/cam...

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Anthony Stamilio, Loyola University Chicago “John Blake Rice’s Second Chicago Theater and the Rise of Celebrity in the United States”

Please join Andrew Hartman and me for Friday, April 3's Newberry Library Capitalism Seminar! 3pm CT. Anthony Stamilio will be sharing his work on the business of theater and celebrity in Chicago. Use the link for the paper and Zoom info.

www.newberry.org/calendar/ant...

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Anthony Stamilio, Loyola University Chicago “John Blake Rice’s Second Chicago Theater and the Rise of Celebrity in the United States”

Please join Andrew Hartman and me for Friday, April 3's Newberry Library Capitalism Seminar! 3pm CT. Anthony Stamilio will be sharing his work on the business of theater and celebrity in Chicago. Use the link for the paper and Zoom info.

www.newberry.org/calendar/ant...

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Amy Zanoni “You Listen to What People Say”: The Politics of HIV/AIDS at the Public Hospital

Zoom in Friday, March 21, 3pm CT for the next Newberry Library Labor Seminar. Amy Zanoni will present her work on AIDS, activism, and Chicago's public hospitals. Registration for the paper and link is free! www.newberry.org/calendar/amy...

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Amy Zanoni “You Listen to What People Say”: The Politics of HIV/AIDS at the Public Hospital

Zoom in Friday, March 21, 3pm CT for the next Newberry Library Labor Seminar. Amy Zanoni will present her work on AIDS, activism, and Chicago's public hospitals. Registration for the paper and link is free! www.newberry.org/calendar/amy...

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Pamela C. Nogales C., University of Chicago 'This Reform Must Commence with the Laboring Classes’: Demands for the Shorter Working Day

@andrewhartman.bsky.social and I hope you'll Zoom with us for the next Newberry Capitalism seminar!, Friday, Jan 23, 3pm CT. Pamela C. Nogales C. will share new work on social reform and unemployment -- comment from Toby Higbie.

www.newberry.org/calendar/pam...

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Pamela C. Nogales C., University of Chicago 'This Reform Must Commence with the Laboring Classes’: Demands for the Shorter Working Day

@andrewhartman.bsky.social and I hope you'll Zoom with us for the next Newberry Capitalism seminar!, Friday, Jan 23, 3pm CT. Pamela C. Nogales C. will share new work on social reform and unemployment -- comment from Toby Higbie.

www.newberry.org/calendar/pam...

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Tamar Carroll, Rochester Institute of Technology “Picturing Equality: The Lambda Network at Kodak and LGBTQ Workplace Rights in the 1990s”

Zoom with us for the January 9th Newberry Library Labor Seminar, where Tamar Carroll will share her work on the Lambda Network changing Kodak's corporate policies. Registration for the paper and Zoom link is free www.newberry.org/calendar/tam...

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Tamar Carroll, Rochester Institute of Technology “Picturing Equality: The Lambda Network at Kodak and LGBTQ Workplace Rights in the 1990s”

Zoom with us for the January 9th Newberry Library Labor Seminar, where Tamar Carroll will share her work on the Lambda Network changing Kodak's corporate policies. Registration for the paper and Zoom link is free www.newberry.org/calendar/tam...

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Penelope Dean, University of Illinois Chicago Capitalism and You

@bsky.app Friday, Nov 21, 3pm CT: Join @andrewhartman.bsky.social & me for the next Newberry Capitalism seminar. UIC's Penelope Dean will share her new work on capitalism, xerox, and YOU. Comment by @elicook.bsky.social

Free registeration for paper and zoom info: www.newberry.org/calendar/pen...

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Penelope Dean, University of Illinois Chicago Capitalism and You

@bsky.app Friday, Nov 21, 3pm CT: Join @andrewhartman.bsky.social & me for the next Newberry Capitalism seminar. UIC's Penelope Dean will share her new work on capitalism, xerox, and YOU. Comment by @elicook.bsky.social

Free registeration for paper and zoom info: www.newberry.org/calendar/pen...

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Melanie R. Sheehan, Hartwick College Negotiating Fair Trade in a World of Uneven Development: US Garment Unions in the 1960s

Please join @andrewhartman.bsky.social & I for the first Newberry Capitalism seminar. Friday, October 3, 3pm CT. Registration link below.

Melanie Sheehan will be sharing her work on unions & trade policy with a comment from @nelsonlichtenstein.bsky.social

www.newberry.org/calendar/mel...

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Melanie R. Sheehan, Hartwick College Negotiating Fair Trade in a World of Uneven Development: US Garment Unions in the 1960s

Please join @andrewhartman.bsky.social & I for the first Newberry Capitalism seminar. Friday, October 3, 3pm CT. Registration link below.

Melanie Sheehan will be sharing her work on unions & trade policy with a comment from @nelsonlichtenstein.bsky.social

www.newberry.org/calendar/mel...

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So honored to have been interviewed!

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Big news: I'm returning to the Sunbelt. I'm officially a professor in UGA's History Dept where I'll direct the new Applied History program. I am really excited for the chance to work with old friends and meet new colleagues.

I'll still co-run the virtual Newberry seminars. Please keep Zooming in!

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Newberry Scholarly Seminar Deadline Approaching! June 6. Please apply!

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Neil Johnson-Rogers, University of Michigan “The Learning Never Ends”: The New Industrial Relations and the Limits ofRetraining in the Age of Deindustrialization

Friday, May 30, 3-430pm CT: Please join @andrewhartman.bsky.social and me for this year's last Newberry Capitalism Seminar. Neil Johnson will present his work on job retraining and @elicook.bsky.social will comment. Registration for the paper and Zoom link is free.

www.newberry.org/calendar/nei...

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Neil Johnson-Rogers, University of Michigan “The Learning Never Ends”: The New Industrial Relations and the Limits ofRetraining in the Age of Deindustrialization

Friday, May 30, 3-430pm CT: Please join @andrewhartman.bsky.social and me for this year's last Newberry Capitalism Seminar. Neil Johnson will present his work on job retraining and @elicook.bsky.social will comment. Registration for the paper and Zoom link is free.

www.newberry.org/calendar/nei...

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For yet another year, I am co-hosting the Newberry Library History of Capitalism Seminar with the awesome @etshermer.bsky.social. Check out the CFP--submission deadline June 6.

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Allyson Brantley, University of La Verne Unionizing the Parochial School: The Battle over Lay Teachers & Labor Unions in Chicago’s Archdiocesan Schools in the 1970s

The last Newberry Library Labor Seminar for 2024-2025 is next week. Y'all can register here for the paper for this free event, May 9, 3pm CT on Zoom. www.newberry.org/calendar/all...

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Jason Petrulis, The Education University of Hong Kong From Temple Tonsure to Woman's Wig: Making Indian hair markets in the Cold War

Next Newberry Library Capitalism seminar w/ @andrewhartman.bsky.social and me! Jason Petrels will be sharing his new work on Cold War hair markets.

Zooming 3pm CT on May 2. Free registration for the paper and link. www.newberry.org/calendar/jas...

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Email my Loyola address and we can set up a time. Likely in a few weeks because term is ending and I have a mountain of marking ahead of me

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Jason Petrulis, The Education University of Hong Kong From Temple Tonsure to Woman's Wig: Making Indian hair markets in the Cold War

Next Newberry Library Capitalism seminar w/ @andrewhartman.bsky.social and me! Jason Petrels will be sharing his new work on Cold War hair markets.

Zooming 3pm CT on May 2. Free registration for the paper and link. www.newberry.org/calendar/jas...

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Janine Giordano Drake, Indiana University Hoping on Homesteading: The Failure of the Civil War to Galvanize a New Social Contract, 1862-1872

Next Newberry Capitalism Seminar.

Fri., February 28th, 3pm CT

@janinegiordano.bsky.social will be sharing her work on schooling, homesteading, & the social contract after the Civil War. Comment by @nelsonhist.bsky.social

Register here for the paper and Zoom link
www.newberry.org/calendar/jan...

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Janine Giordano Drake, Indiana University Hoping on Homesteading: The Failure of the Civil War to Galvanize a New Social Contract, 1862-1872

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Janine Giordano Drake, Indiana University Hoping on Homesteading: The Failure of the Civil War to Galvanize a New Social Contract, 1862-1872

Next Newberry Capitalism Seminar.

Fri., February 28th, 3pm CT

@janinegiordano.bsky.social will be sharing her work on schooling, homesteading, & the social contract after the Civil War. Comment by @nelsonhist.bsky.social

Register here for the paper and Zoom link
www.newberry.org/calendar/jan...

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Sam Hege, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science “The Most Non-Union Place I’ve Been”: United Packing's Texas Panhandle Campaign and the Transformation of Meatpacking in the 1960s

Please Zoom into the Newberry Labor Seminar, Feb 21, 4pm CT. We’ll be discussing Sam Hege’s paper on workers in the Texas meat packing industry. Roger Horowitz will be providing comments.

Register here for the paper and Zoom link.

www.newberry.org/calendar/sam...

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Cheryl Hudson, University of Liverpool Capitalism v Democracy: Lessons from the Pullman Experiment

Join @andrewhartman.bsky.social and me for the first Newberry History of Capitalism seminar of 2025. Cheryl Hudson will be presenting her new work on the company town of Pullman -- Comment by Andrew Cohen . We Zoom at 3pm CT, Friday, Jan 10. Register for link & paper www.newberry.org/calendar/che...

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Cheryl Hudson, University of Liverpool Capitalism v Democracy: Lessons from the Pullman Experiment

Join @andrewhartman.bsky.social and me for the first Newberry History of Capitalism seminar of 2025. Cheryl Hudson will be presenting her new work on the company town of Pullman -- Comment by Andrew Cohen . We Zoom at 3pm CT, Friday, Jan 10. Register for link & paper www.newberry.org/calendar/che...

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