It's only a month until A History of America in Ten Strikes is released and so it is going to be all publicity all time. Oh boy! Anyway, I did an author Q&A for The New Press for your Labor Day weekend. Here's a chunk...
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Last week I had the opportunity to tear into the newly released manuscript of Zora Neale Hurston's Barracoon: The Story Of The Last Black Cargo with a fantastic supplemental material.
Zora Neale Hurston is one of the greatest literary and anthropologist treasures in American history, despite her dying completely forgotten and in poverty in 1960. Her 1931 novel Barracoon is.
At the end of last year, I put up a list of the books I read for professional reasons in 2016. People seemed to like it, so here is this year's list. Just as a refresher, I read these books for my own purposes--to prepare...
My book Empire of Timber is now in paperback and thus at a price that is reasonably affordable, if still a little high for a paperback. If you have an.
To discuss something other than politics (well, not really since what is more political than our understanding of the past), I am teaching a graduate seminar in Environmental History. Here.
Above: Free Angela Davis poster, Havana, 1971 I start each and every day by reading a couple of chapters of a history (or related) book. I do this primarily to keep up on the literature, making it possible for me to know what I'm talking...
Our esteemed colleague howard (Further research shows it was Patricia and not howard and I thank you very much!) recently purchased for me the first volume of the Library of.
Above: A man too dangerous for Texas prisoners The U.S. prison system is primarily designed to lock up people of color, control their labor, and humiliate them. There is very.
As I am desperately trying to write the draft of my book on strikes, one of the things I've had to sacrifice is writing book reviews here. They take too long to do well. But I did want to note a few relatively recently published...
Backlist has published an excellent food history reading list for those of you interested in those sorts of things. I did a labor history reading list for them a few.
On March 15, 1940, John Ford's film version of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, was released to universal acclaim. This was perhaps the greatest moment of the cultural left.