Eric Arnesen (born 30 April 1958) is an American

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the st ...

. He is currently the James R. Hoffa Professor of Modern American Labor History at

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. He was a

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, and is a member of the

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Life

Arnesen completed his BA degree from

Wesleyan University Wesleyan University ( ) is a private liberal arts university in Middletown, Connecticut. Founded in 1831 as a men's college under the auspices of the Methodist Episcopal Church and with the support of prominent residents of Middletown, the col ...

in 1980. He completed his MA in Afro-American Studies from

Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the w ...

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
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* ''Waterfront Workers of New Orleans: Race, Class, and Politics, 1863-1923'' Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994. ,
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* co-editor, ''Labor Histories: Class, Politics, and the Working-Class Experience'' (1998
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* "Whiteness and the historians' imagination." ''International Labor and Working-Class History'' 60 (2001): 3-32
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* ''Brotherhoods of Color: Black Railroad Workers and the Struggle for Equality'' London: Harvard University Press, 2002. ,
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* . "Specter of the Black Strikebreaker: Race, Employment, and Labor Activism in the Industrial Era." ''Labor History'' 44.3 (2003): 319-335
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* ''Black Protest and the Great Migration: A Brief History with Documents'' Boston; New York: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2003. ,
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* ''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
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* "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
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* "The Final Conflict? On the Scholarship of Civil Rights, the Left and the Cold War." ''American Communist History'' 11.1 (2012): 63-80
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References

External links

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Eric Arnesen
Bio at Wilson Center
Eric Arnesen
Biography at Organization of American Historians * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Arnesen, Eric 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