Eric Arnesen (born 30 April 1958) is an American
historian
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.
He is currently the James R. Hoffa Professor of Modern American Labor History at
George Washington University
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. He was a
Fulbright Scholar
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,
and is a member of the
Organization of American Historians
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.
Life
Arnesen completed his BA degree from
Wesleyan University
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in 1980. He completed his MA in
Afro-American Studies from
Yale University
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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
References
External links
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Eric Arnesen Bio at Wilson Center
Eric Arnesen Biography at Organization of American Historians
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Living people
1958 births
Labor historians
Wesleyan University alumni
Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni
George Washington University faculty
21st-century American historians
21st-century American male writers
Columbian College of Arts and Sciences faculty
Columbian College of Arts and Sciences
American male non-fiction writers