Michael H. Ebner is James D. Vail III Professor of History Emeritus at Lake Forest College, where he taught from 1974 to 2007. He is best known as author of the prizewinning Creating Chicago's North Shore: A Suburban History (1988). He also has served as academic director of A Model Curriculum: Rethinking American History, funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Teaching American History initiative and Creating a Geographically Extended Class, underwritten by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Ebner is the recipient of awards--as a mentor, as a teacher, and for public service--from the American Historical Association, the Chicago Tribune, The City College of New York, and Lake Forest College, and is a life trustee at the Chicago History Museum.

Lecture topics:

• Teaching American History: What Happens When Professors and Secondary School Educators Converge?
• The Globalization of American Urban History
• How the Automobile Revolutionized the American Metropolis
• Extremely Suburban America: Narratives from the Twentieth Century
• Baseball as History/History as Baseball
• Chicago's Iconic Jane Addams: Feminist, Urbanist, and Pacifist

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