Marquette University Faculty Symposium
Join us for this special lecture series highlighting the latest scholarship from Marquette University faculty members. Each scholar will speak for twenty minutes about their new book and then will take your questions. These free, informal lectures and discussions are a unique forum to engage Marquette faculty, so please take advantage!
Lecture Series
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Refreshments – 7:00pm; Lecture and discussion – 7:30pm
FREE
John Jentz, Chicago in the Age of Capital: Class, Politics, and Democracy during the Civil War and Reconstruction (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2012)
“In this sweeping interpretive history of mid-nineteenth-century Chicago, historians John B. Jentz and Richard Schneirov boldly trace the evolution of a modern social order. Combining a mastery of historical and political detail with a sophisticated theoretical frame, Jentz and Schneirov examine the dramatic capitalist transition in Chicago during the critical decades from the 1850s through the 1870s, a period that saw the rise of a permanent wage worker class and the formation of an industrial upper class.” Read more about Chicago in the Age of Capital at University of Illinois Press.
John Lentz is the Research and Instructional Services Librarian at Marquette University.
James Marten, Children and Youth during the Civil War Era (New York: NYU Press, 2012)
“The Civil War is a much plumbed area of scholarship, so much so that at times it seems there is no further work to be done in the field. However, the experience of children and youth during that tumultuous time remains a relatively unexplored facet of the conflict. Children and Youth during the Civil War Era seeks a deeper investigation into the historical record by and giving voice and context to their struggles and victories during this critical period in American history.” Read more about Children and Youth during the Civil War Era at NYU Press.
James Marten is Professor and Chair of the History Department at Marquette University.
