The Sunday Scholars panel on September 10 will be moderated by TimeLine Board Member Peter H. Kuntz (Managing Director, Programs and Production - Chicago Humanities Festival) and will feature panelists:
Alfred F. Young
Alfred F. Young is Emeritus Professor of History at Northern Illinois University and Senior Research Fellow at the Newberry Library in Chicago. In 2000, the Organization of American Historians honored him with its Distinguished Service Award. He is the author of The Shoemaker and the Tea Party: Memory and the American Revolution, We the People (with others), Masquerade: The Life and Times of Deborah Sampson, Continental Soldier, and The Democratic Republicans of New York, and has edited numerous other volumes.
Christopher Sparshott
Christopher Sparshott, a native of Thirn, Ripon, England, is completing his doctorate in history at Northwestern University. His interest in American history, especially that of the American Revolution, began while he was an undergraduate at Oxford. After taking every course on early American available, and with the encouragement of Northwestern historian T. H. Breen, he decided to pursue a graduate career in the subject -- in America. His dissertation examines the ordinary men and women who supported Britain during the American Revolution.
