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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. He was a Fulbright Scholar, and is a member of the Organization of American Historians.

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.

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. , 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. , 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. , online
  • The Human Tradition in American Labor History. Wilmington, Del.: SR Books, 2004. ,
  • editor, Encyclopedia of US Labor and Working-Class History. London: Routledge, 2006.
  • The Black Worker: Race, Labor, and Civil Rights Since Emancipation Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. ,
  • "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

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