Hey Everybody,
The next UASC meeting is coming up fast, this Wednesday the 29th of May, at the Chicago Maritime Society space on the 6th floor of the Helix Building, 310 S. Racine at Jackson. As usual, light refreshments will start at 6:30, business at 7:00, and the guest speaker around 8:00.
This month our guest speaker will be Ted Karamanski, who will be presenting on the Great Lakes Sailing Vessels of the War of 1812. He is working on a history of the Great Lakes region, specifically a history of Lake Michigan, particularly a cultural and environmental history, book length. Dr. Karamanski is a Professor of History at Loyola University Chicago where he teaches courses in American Indian history, the Civil War, and public history. Karamanski has been a leading and national voice in the promotion of American and public history for more than three decades. He was the founder and later director of Loyola’s Public History Program, the first such program in the Midwest and later the first to offer the Ph.D. in public history. For a full biography on Dr. Karamanski, see facultyandstaffdirectory/theodorekaramanski.shtml
If anyone has any items that they would like added to the agenda, please let me know. ( If you have images to go with it, that is even better. )
For refreshments this month we will have a pot-luck provided by 3 to 5 UASC members.I know a few people volunteered at the April meeting, so if you can't remember if that includes you, or if you want to get added to the list, please contact Dan Kasberger, (
See you there,
John