Presenters and panelists
Foundation Distinguished Professor of American Studies and History at the University of Kansas. He is co-author, with Philip Foner, of Our Own Time: A History of American Labor and the Working Day, and author of The Wages of Whiteness and The Sinking Middle Class, among other works.
A professor at Northern Illinois University whose research focuses on the political economy of social conflict. She is the author of Radical Unionism in the Midwest, 1900–1950 and Against Labor: How U.S. Employers Organized to Defeat Union Activism.
A professor at Texas A&M University whose research and writing focus on immigration and the American Civil War. He is a former president of the Society for German-American Studies and author of Germans in America, Germans in the Civil War, and News From the Land of Freedom.
Genealogy librarian at the St. Louis Public Library. He received a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Texas, specializes in Eastern European research, and is involved in placing historical markers at sites across St. Louis.
Holder of a J.D. from Washington University School of Law and a Ph.D. in American Studies from Saint Louis University. His books include The St. Louis Commune of 1877: Communism in the Heartland and Socialism in the American West, 1830–1954.
Associate professor in the Department of History at Saint Louis University. Her book Deportation: Origins of U.S. Policy examines the national and international origins of U.S. deportation policy between 1875 and 1924.
Emeritus professor of history specializing in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. His work addresses business and labor history and nineteenth-century death commemoration. He is the author of The Rural Cemetery Movement.
A member of the American Studies faculty at Saint Louis University. He is the author of the award-winning A Nation of Neighborhoods and co-editor of Left in the Midwest: St. Louis Progressive Activism in the 1960s and 1970s.
Christopher Tinson is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of African American Studies at Saint Louis University.