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Elizabeth Tandy (Ellie) Shermer @etshermer.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

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

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Elizabeth Tandy (Ellie) Shermer @etshermer.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

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”

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Elizabeth Tandy (Ellie) Shermer @etshermer.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

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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”

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Elizabeth Tandy (Ellie) Shermer @etshermer.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

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

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Elizabeth Tandy (Ellie) Shermer @etshermer.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

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Amy Zanoni

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

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Elizabeth Tandy (Ellie) Shermer @etshermer.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

@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

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Elizabeth Tandy (Ellie) Shermer @etshermer.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

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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

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Elizabeth Tandy (Ellie) Shermer @etshermer.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

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”

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Elizabeth Tandy (Ellie) Shermer @etshermer.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

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Tamar Carroll, Rochester Institute of Technology

“Picturing Equality: The Lambda Network at Kodak and LGBTQ Workplace Rights in the 1990s”

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Elizabeth Tandy (Ellie) Shermer @etshermer.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

@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

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Elizabeth Tandy (Ellie) Shermer @etshermer.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

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Penelope Dean, University of Illinois Chicago

Capitalism and You

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Elizabeth Tandy (Ellie) Shermer @etshermer.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

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

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Elizabeth Tandy (Ellie) Shermer @etshermer.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

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Melanie R. Sheehan, Hartwick College

Negotiating Fair Trade in a World of Uneven Development: US Garment Unions in the 1960s

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Elizabeth Tandy (Ellie) Shermer @etshermer.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

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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Elizabeth Tandy (Ellie) Shermer @etshermer.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

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

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Elizabeth Tandy (Ellie) Shermer @etshermer.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

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

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Elizabeth Tandy (Ellie) Shermer @etshermer.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

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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

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Andrew Hartman @andrewhartman.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

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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Elizabeth Tandy (Ellie) Shermer @etshermer.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

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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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

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Elizabeth Tandy (Ellie) Shermer @etshermer.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

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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Jason Petrulis, The Education University of Hong Kong

From Temple Tonsure to Woman's Wig: Making Indian hair markets in the Cold War

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Elizabeth Tandy (Ellie) Shermer @etshermer.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

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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

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Elizabeth Tandy (Ellie) Shermer @etshermer.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

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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Elizabeth Tandy (Ellie) Shermer @etshermer.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

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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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Elizabeth Tandy (Ellie) Shermer @etshermer.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

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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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

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Elizabeth Tandy (Ellie) Shermer @etshermer.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

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

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Elizabeth Tandy (Ellie) Shermer @etshermer.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

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Cheryl Hudson, University of Liverpool

Capitalism v Democracy: Lessons from the Pullman Experiment

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Elizabeth Tandy (Ellie) Shermer @etshermer.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Join @andrewhartman.bsky.social & me for the next virtual Newberry History of Capitalism Seminar. Dan Geary will be sharing his new work on Gloria Steinem -- Leandra Zarnow will be commenting. We start at 3PM CT, December 6. Free registration for the link and paper. www.newberry.org/calendar/jos...

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Daniel Geary, Trinity College, Dublin

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Elizabeth Tandy (Ellie) Shermer @etshermer.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Join Andrew Hartman and me for the @NewberryLibrary Capitalism Seminar, on Zoom, Friday Nov 22, 330-5pm CT. We will discuss Joseph Heathcott's new work, "Surreal Estate: Property After Abandonment," -- Naomi Williams will comment. Register: www.newberry.org/calendar/jos...

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Joseph Heathcott, The New School

Surreal Estate: Property After Abandonment

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Elizabeth Tandy (Ellie) Shermer @etshermer.bsky.social · 19/05/2024

Apply to share your work for next year's (2024-25) Newberry Library Capitalism Seminar. Or encourage others to apply! Deadline is June 7, 2024. @andrewhartman.bsky.social and I are excited to continue to offer it virtually so more can join drive.google.com/file/d/1_irE...

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CAPS CFP.pdf

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Elizabeth Tandy (Ellie) Shermer @etshermer.bsky.social · 19/05/2024

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CAPS CFP.pdf

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Elizabeth Tandy (Ellie) Shermer @etshermer.bsky.social · 10/05/2024

Last Zoom Newberry Library Capitalism Seminar. Please join @andrewhartman.bsky.social and I for next Friday's session, May 17 3pm CT, featuring Eli Cook's work on choice in the neoliberal economy. Registration info below www.newberry.org/events/categ...

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History of Capitalism

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Elizabeth Tandy (Ellie) Shermer @etshermer.bsky.social · 10/05/2024

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History of Capitalism

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Elizabeth Tandy (Ellie) Shermer @etshermer.bsky.social · 19/04/2024

Bouie has a terrific article on southern labor out this morning? Why is it so good? It emphasizes the amazing work of Kate Jewell in her first book, Dollars for Dixie. Read the article, the book, and her second book on college radio! www.nytimes.com/2024/04/19/o...

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Elizabeth Tandy (Ellie) Shermer @etshermer.bsky.social · 22/03/2024

Join @andrewhartman.bsky.social & I for the next Newberry Capitalism seminar. Dael Norwood will present his work on Gilded Age Business Schools & Cristina Groeger will comment! We Zoom Friday, March 29, 3pm-5pm CT Registration to get the Zoom link and paper! www.newberry.org/calendar/dae...

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Elizabeth Tandy (Ellie) Shermer @etshermer.bsky.social · 22/03/2024

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Elizabeth Tandy (Ellie) Shermer @etshermer.bsky.social · 11/01/2024

Please join @andrewhartman.bsky.social and I for the next Newberry Library Capitalism seminar. Great paper on liberalism, technology, and industrial policy. Registration is free. We Zoom 3-5pmCT, Friday Jan 19. www.newberry.org/calendar/hen...

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Elizabeth Tandy (Ellie) Shermer @etshermer.bsky.social · 11/01/2024

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Elizabeth Tandy (Ellie) Shermer @etshermer.bsky.social · 20/11/2023

Please join @andrewhartman.bsky.social and I for the next virtual NewberryLibrary Capitalism Seminar! Jordan Howell will be sharing his work on ALCOA in the US South and Caribbean w/ a comment from Stefan Link Registration below but please share! www.newberry.org/calendar/jor...

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Elizabeth Tandy (Ellie) Shermer @etshermer.bsky.social · 27/11/2023

Gentle reminder: bsky.app/profile/etsh...

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Elizabeth Tandy (Ellie) Shermer @etshermer.bsky.social · 20/11/2023

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Elizabeth Tandy (Ellie) Shermer @etshermer.bsky.social · 11/10/2023

Really honored that the Baffler asked me to write about the Biden Administration's new repayment plan, SAVE. It's better but still won't rescue us. That's going to take activism and organizing to get Congress to act. thebaffler.com/latest/borro...

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Elizabeth Tandy (Ellie) Shermer @etshermer.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

Please join Andrew Hartman and I for this first Newberry Capitalism seminar of the academic year. Amy Wood will be sharing her new work on Progressive Era prison reform. Over zoom and free. Registration info in the link! www.newberry.org/calendar/amy...

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Elizabeth Tandy (Ellie) Shermer @etshermer.bsky.social · 04/09/2023

Want to celebrate Labor Day? Check your paystub and consider what it means that gig workers don't get one. Huge thanks to the folks at Time for working with me on this essay, a very very early preview of my next research project on the history of the US paystub. time.com/6309751/labo...

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Elizabeth Tandy (Ellie) Shermer @etshermer.bsky.social · 17/08/2023

Mark your calendars for the Newberry History of Capitalism Seminar's return! Everything remains on Zoom so Andrew Hartman and I hope you can join us for a great set of papers! www.newberry.org/events/category/hi…

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