... 1983 Interview with Herbert Gutman The following is an excerpt from an interview with Herbert Gutman, Distinguished Professor of History at the City University of New York. The entire interview, which includes an extensive discussion of his well known essay on “Work...

... Copyright © January 1986 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 1986 REMEMBERING HERBERT GUTMAN Herbert G. Gutman, 1928-1985 The following remarks were presented as part of the Memorial...

...Leon Fink; George Rawick; Evelyn Brooks Barnett 1977 Symposium On Herbert Gutman's 'The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom' i. Introduction The scholarly controversy excited by the pub• lication of Herbert G. Gutman's The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom, 1750-1925...

.... A volume under our joint editorship is forthcoming. Perhaps the most striking element to emerge from those inter- views was the determination with which the graduate student gen- eration of Herb Gutman and Warren Susman rejected predominant Cold War historical scholarship in both its liberal...

... alike. Joe considered it an essential part of his job as chancellor to help keep radical ideas alive and flourishing. Joe Murphy was also a devoted, though not uncritical, supporter of CUNY’s American Social History Project (which I co-founded with the late Herb Gutman in 1981). Like RHR...

... to new and sometimes contradictory ideas and perhaps bring us closer to the reality of conflicting experiences in the past. Correction The photograph of Herbert Gutman on p. 106 of RHR No. 34 should have been credited to Judith Gutman. ...

.... GUTMAN (1928-1985) Social historians around the world lost one of the major figures in the historical profession when Herb Gutman died after a brief ill- ness on July 21, 1985. The Radical History Review lost, in addition, an editorial associate who was also a good friend and a loyal...

... of herself and her past. Gutman, too, was drawn to the old romance of the intellectual who, blessed with an insider’s knowledge and access to print, could illuminate suppressed experience. The experience he wanted to reveal was social in its details and political in its meanings, tending toward...

.... Herbert Gutman retold the story of Camella Teoli and the suppres- sion of memory at a 1980 conference on kinship, where its drama attracted sufficient attention to be one of the impulses for a further conference on silences and commemorations.8 Gutman retold the story on at least two subsequent...

... and when we shall break through this vicious circle, but even whether we shall be able to do so. After all, the scene has not changed greatly since Herb Gutman challenged us in 1981 to rewrite the master narrative, stat- ing, "A new synthesis is needed, one that incorporates and then transcends...

..., gambling and other recreations. Harring explicitly challenges Herbert Gutman’s ar- gument that in single-industry communities local police forces often refused to break strikes because of family or ethnic ties to the workers. 7 Harring argues that as industrial capitalists tightened control...

... to Herbert Gutman and Warren Susman, Memories of Madison in the Fifties. 36:lOl-9. Obituary of C.L.R. James. 4614744546. 148/RADICAL HISTORY REVIEW Buhle, Paul, and Jo Blatti. Reds: A Symposium. 26:153-63. Bundy, Colin. An Image of Its Own Past? Towards a Comparison...

... domain of institutional economics, from which Herbert Gutman did so much to rescue it. Nor does the hostility with which workers have regarded both would-be benefac- tors from the upper classes, and fellow workers of different races and ethnicities, authorize us to write of them as though...

... Gutman on p. 106 of RHR No. 34 should have been credited to Judith Gutman. ...

..." constituted no "qualification." Here, Comrade Perkins has apparently con• fused my argument with that of Gutman and Sutch.3 I argued that those rights emerged from the slaves' struggle against their masters—hardly an argument for some alleged impo• tence. When Comrade Perkins adds that I attribute...

... not to separate myself or the argu- ment here from that of Gutman, or Thompson, or other radical histo- rians-who have all sought this goal. Second, the problems before us will not go away if someone should turn up a placard from the 1912 strike with that slogan on it (though I doubt that will happen...

... or relegated to the margins of their stories both white workers’ racial ideologies and practices, and the presence of African Americans and other nonwhite workers. Herbert Hill has gone so far as to charge the new labor historians (namely, Herbert Gutman and his students) with “revived populist neo...

... of an ideology shared with their Whig leaders. It is in a way a new con• sensus interpretation, and the term consensus, which we thought was used up a decade ago, deserves revival here, just as Gutman has recently revived it to describe Fogel and Engerman's work on slavery.9...

... and 1986 thought of the Camella Teoli story as a tale of repressed memory. This was not because radical history flowed freely in the city’s schools. The ”social closure” Gutman sought to explore was real enough in La~rence.~It was because the mysterious man who came to the Teoli household...

... of the British Com- munist Party Historians Group, along with Christopher Hill, Rodney Hilton, E. P. Thompson, Dorothy Thompson, and John Saville. This group founded a new trend in history that crossed the pond, profoundly influencing social and labor historians David Montgomery, Herbert Gutman...