James Green (historian)

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James Green

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b James Green: Taking History to Heart (2000)
  2. ^ 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
personal data
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