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Eric Arnesen

Eric Arnesen (born 30 April 1958) is an American historian. He is currently the James R. Hoffa Professor of Modern American Labor History at George Washington University.[1] He was a Fulbright Scholar,[2] and is a member of the Organization of American Historians.[3]

Eric Arnesen
Born (1958-04-30) April 30, 1958 (age 65)
NationalityAmerican
Academic background
Alma materWesleyan University
Yale University
Academic work
DisciplineHistorian
Sub-disciplineModern American Labor History
InstitutionsGeorge Washington University
Main interestsAfrican American Labor History
Websitehttps://history.columbian.gwu.edu/eric-arnesen

Life edit

Arnesen completed his BA degree from Wesleyan University in 1980. He completed his MA in Afro-American Studies from Yale University in 1984. He received his Ph.D in History from Yale University in 1986.[4]

Bibliography edit

  • " 'Like Banquo's Ghost, It Will Not Down': The Race Question and the American Railroad Brotherhoods, 1880-1920." American Historical Review 99.5 (1994): 1601–1633. online
  • Waterfront Workers of New Orleans: Race, Class, and Politics, 1863–1923. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994. ISBN 9780252063770, OCLC 28854129 online
  • co-editor, Labor Histories: Class, Politics, and the Working-Class Experience (1998) excerpt
  • "Whiteness and the historians' imagination." International Labor and Working-Class History 60 (2001): 3–32. online
  • Brotherhoods of Color: Black Railroad Workers and the Struggle for Equality. London: Harvard University Press, 2002. ISBN 9780674008175, OCLC 972850795 online
  • . "Specter of the Black Strikebreaker: Race, Employment, and Labor Activism in the Industrial Era." Labor History 44.3 (2003): 319–335. online
  • The Human Tradition in American Labor History. Wilmington, Del.: SR Books, 2004. ISBN 9780842029872, OCLC 52134758
  • editor, Encyclopedia of US Labor and Working-Class History. London: Routledge, 2006. OCLC 667098511
  • The Black Worker: Race, Labor, and Civil Rights Since Emancipation Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. ISBN 9780252031458, OCLC 708300233
  • "Reconsidering the" Long Civil Rights Movement". Historically Speaking 10.2 (2009): 31–34. online
  • "Civil rights and the cold war at home: postwar activism, anticommunism, and the decline of the left." American Communist History 11.1 (2012): 5–44. online
  • "The Final Conflict? On the Scholarship of Civil Rights, the Left and the Cold War." American Communist History 11.1 (2012): 63–80. online

References edit

  1. ^ "Eric Arnesen - Department of History -". The George Washington University.
  2. ^ "British Abolitionism, Moral Progress, and Big Questions in History".
  3. ^ "Eric Arnesen". Organization of American Historians.
  4. ^ "Eric Arnesen". September 22, 2011.

External links edit

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