James Green (historian)
James R. Green (born 1944 in Oak Park Illinois , † June 23, 2016 in Boston , Massachusetts ) was an American historian . His research focus was on the history of the working class .
Life
Green grew up as the eldest of four siblings with two sisters and one brother in Carpentersville , Illinois. His mother was a school clerk, while his father taught math in a high school and worked as a stonemason during the summer months . Green himself studied at Northwestern University , where he received his bachelor's degree in 1966 . In 1972 he received his PhD from Yale University . He then taught history at Brandeis University and was a visiting lecturer at the University of Warwick in England . In 1977 he began teaching at the University of Massachusetts Boston . There he was a professor at the College of Public and Community Service . He was also a Lecturer for the Harvard Trade Union Program at Harvard Law School and Senior Lecturer for the Fulbright Program at the University of Genoa .
He has also written articles for various publications such as Radical America and the Boston Globe . He also supported the film director Barbara Kopple with her documentary Out of Darkness: The Mine Workers' Story . In 2001 he produced the brochure A Working Peoples' Heritage Trail: Guide to a Driving Tour of Labor History Sites in Boston for the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations .
In June 2016, Green died at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston at the age of 71 as a result of complications from a bone marrow transplant he had undergone for a leukemia disease.
Green was married twice. His first, divorced marriage had a daughter. In 1988 he married again. From this marriage a son was born.
Publications (selection)
- Grass-Roots Socialism: Radical Movements in the Southwest, 1895-1943 (1978, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press)
- with Hugh Carter Donahue: Boston's Workers: A Labor History (1979)
- The World of the Worker: Labor in Twentieth Century America (1980)
- with Tom Juravich, William Hartford: Commonwealth of Toil: Chapters from the History of Massachusetts Workers and their Unions (1996, Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press)
- Taking History to Heart: The Power of the Past in Building Social Movements (2000, Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press)
- Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America (2006, New York: Pantheon Books, Random House)
- The Devil Is Here in These Hills: West Virginia's Coal Miners and Their Battle for Freedom (2015, New York: Grove-Atlantic)
Web links
- James Green, 71, UMass Boston labor historian and writer , June 27, 2016, The Boston Globe
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b James Green: Taking History to Heart (2000)
- ^ Mark Herlihy: Pursuing History in the Hub: Assessing Heritage Trails in Boston. In The Public Historian , Vol. 25, No. 2 (Spring 2003), pp. 73-77
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SURNAME | Green, James |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Green, James R. |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American historian |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1944 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Oak Park Illinois |
DATE OF DEATH | June 23, 2016 |
Place of death | Boston , Massachusetts |