Full Description
This Festschrift acknowledges the scholarly work of Leo Schelbert and his mentorship of graduate students in the Department of History at the University of Illinois at Chicago where for 33 years he taught American history. Professor Schelbert has specialized in the story of European migrations and especially of immigration to the United States. His courses offered not only pertinent data, but they also raised theoretical issues to which historical work is tied inescapably.
The varied essays included in this book reflect the range of themes former students, who now are scholars in their own right, have been pursuing. The topics of three essays center on North American Indians facing white intruders, another on émigré Hungarians living in Scotland, and one (contributed to this volume by a most esteemed colleague with whom Leo Schelbert shared many a student) on striking women straw workers in Tuscany. Another essay concerns matters relating to those grappling with mental health issues, while others deal with African newcomers in Chicago, Jewish immigrants to America who first worked as peddlers, contemporary Polish American politics in Chicago, and also with a nineteenth-century Swiss American theologian. Two of the last three essays honor Leo Schelbert's work as a colleague and historian apart from the university setting, whereas the final one honors Leo Schelbert as a teacher as well as the Department of History at UIC in which its Swiss-born member worked from 1971 to 2003.
Contents
Contents: David R. M. Beck: Reinterpreting Historical Evidence: The Existence of Numerous Menominee Villages at the Time of Earliest European Contact - Eva Becsei-Kilborn: Finding a New Home: Hungarian Emigrés in Scotland - Adrian Capehart: African Newcomers in Chicago: The Struggle for Permanence Versus the Desire to Return 41 - Hasia Diner: Wandering Jews: Peddlers, Immigrants, and the Discovery of «New Worlds» - Michael Doorley: The Gaelic American and the Shaping of Irish-American Opinion, 1903-1914 - Sean Harris/Becca Sanders: Justice in Mental Health: A Better Foundation for the Expansion of Peer Support - Manuel Menrath: Pioneers and Native Peoples: The Discrepancy between Historical Scholarship and Its Popular Presentation in the United States and Switzerland - Marion S. Miller:«Pane et Lavoro»: Agrarian Strikes of Women Straw Workers in Tuscan Contado, 1896-1897 - Dominic A. Pacyga: Losing Clout: Nancy Kaszak Versus Rahm Emanuel and the Decline of Polish American Politics in Chicago - Gary K. Pranger: Philip Schaff, Marginal Men and Academic Freedom - Leo Schelbert: Different but Equally Ingenious: Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897-1941), a Pioneer in Understanding the Equivalence of the Western and the North American Indian Mind - Marianne Burkhard: History Seen Through Multiple Lenses: Leo Schelbert and the Swiss American Historical Society - Susann Bosshard-Kälin: The Battle against Forgetting - Wendy Everham: A Scholar's Journey to the Open: An Appreciation.
