Eric Arnesen
American historian (born 1958)
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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 | April 30, 1958 |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Wesleyan University Yale University |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Historian |
| Sub-discipline | Modern American Labor History |
| Institutions | George Washington University |
| Main interests | African American Labor History |
| Website | https://history.columbian.gwu.edu/eric-arnesen |
Life
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
- " '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
- Black Protest and the Great Migration: A Brief History with Documents. Boston; New York: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2003. ISBN 9780312391294, OCLC 249089825 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