Jefferson Cowie has an excellent essay on how labor historians totally missed Trump. And he's right--it's that way too many labor historians have huge ideological blinders that romanticize working class.
A journalist called up David Blight, one of the greatest living historians of the Civil War, and asked him what he thought of Trump's Andrew Jackson comments. Blight clearly hadn't.
James Green, preeminent labor historian, has died. His books reached far beyond the academy to transform popular understanding of the United States' most dramatic labor incidents. Probably his most famous.
Gordon Wood is an esteemed historian of the American Revolution. He's probably most famous for The Radicalism of the American Revolution, which was popular but not universally acclaimed due to.
