It is my favorite month of the year (my birthday month) and the start of the new academic year. This fall is HUGE for me: I am going up for tenure, submitting the first full draft of my book manuscript, and speaking at several events. If you are around, come check me out (deets below)!

“Saving the Unsaved Stories: Doing Oral History in Chicago”— Thursday September 15, 7pm, Lake Forest College

“DuSable in the Chicago Landscape”—Sunday, October 2, 9:30am, Alliance Francaise de Chicago (French Heritage Society Conference “Hidden in Plain Sight”)

“Finding William Peyton: Early Black Presence at Lake Forest College”—Friday, October 7, 2pm, History Center of Lake Forest-Lake Bluff

“Exodus: Black Midwestern Diasporas”—Friday, October 21, 3:45pm, Wayne Country Community College (Presence and Protest: The Second Biennial Black Midwest Symposium)

In Conversation with Margaret Burnham on her new book, “By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioner”—Saturday, October 29, 3pm, Chicago Humanities Festival