<b>Steve Nelson (Author) </b><br> <b>Steve Nelson</b> was a Croatian immigrant who rose to become a leader in the American Communist Party, before resigning in 1957 upon hearing of Stalin's crimes, and unsuccessful attempt to democratize the Party.<br><br><b>Rob Ruck (Author) </b><br> <b>Rob Ruck </b>is a historian at the University of Pittsburgh, where he teaches and writes about sport. He focuses on how people use sport to tell a collective story about who they are to themselves and the world. He is the author of <i>Tropic of Football: The Long and Perilous Journey of Samoans to the NFL</i>, <i>Raceball: How the Major Leagues Colonized the Black and Latin Game</i>, and <i>Rooney: A Sporting Life</i>, among other titles. His documentaries <i>Kings on the Hill: Baseball’s Forgotten Men</i> and <i>The Republic of Baseball: Dominican Giants of the American Game</i> appeared on PBS.<b></b><br><br>
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Barrett James R. Barrett: History from the Bottom Up and the Inside Out
In History from the Bottom Up and the Inside Out James R. Barrett rethinks the boundaries of American social and labor history by investigating the ways in which working-class, radical, and immigrant …
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Steve Nelson & James Barrett: Steve Nelson, American Radical
As the immigrant teenage son of a Croatian miller, Steve Nelson arrived in the United States after World War I and entered a world of chronic unemployment, low wages, dangerous work, and discriminati …
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Greg Patmore & Shelton Stromquist: Frontiers of Labor
Alike in many aspects of their histories, Australia and the United States diverge in striking ways when it comes to their working classes, labor relations, and politics. Greg Patmore and Shelton Stro …
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John J Bukowczyk: Immigrant Identity and the Politics of Citizenship
The next volume in the Common Threads book series, Immigrant Identity and the Politics of Citizenship assembles fourteen articles from the Journal of American Ethnic History . The chapters discuss th …
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Frederick E Hoxie: University of Illinois
The founding of the university in 1867 created a unique community in what had been a prairie. Within a few years, this creative mix of teachers and scholars produced innovations in agriculture, engin …
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Dennis A. Deslippe & Eric Fure-Slocum: Civic Labors
Labor studies scholars and working-class historians have long worked at the crossroads of academia and activism. The essays in this collection examine the challenges and opportunities for engaged sch …
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Eric Arnesen & Julie Greene: Labor Histories
Is class outmoded as a basis for understanding labor history? This collection emphatically answers, "No!" These thirteen essays delve into subjects like migrant labor, religion, ethnicity, …
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Nick Salvatore: Faith and the Historian
Faith and the Historian collects essays from eight experienced historians discussing the impact of being "touched" by Catholicism on their vision of history. That first graduate seminar, th …
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