...Casey Blake 1984 CONTINUING DEBATES Where are the Young Left Historians? Casey Blake In a recent article in Dissent, Russell Jacoby called attention to the ”marked absence of younger...

...Philip Scranton 1984 Culture, Politics, and Acquiescence: Left Historians and Textile Paternalism Philip Scranton Patrick Joyce. Wark, Society and Politics: The Culture of the Factory in Later Victorian England. New Brunswick...

... doing strengthened the impetus to activism. Her effectiveness in linking the complexities of policy with the human consequences of official decisions underpinned her long career. While many left historians abandoned the study of “powerful white men” for the more appealing vistas of social history...

...David Ogawa The convergence of the commodification of art and the discursive authority of the art museum seem to have left little space for politically motivated practices in both art and criticism. This review essay considers two books that offer potential alternatives. One proposes a theoretical...

... of a corrupt American society. The two sides of this ambivalence were expressed most starkly by two New Left historians who had much in common but had drawn different lessons from their experiences. Staughton Lynd, in a keynote speech, argued that commitment to a univer- sity career and its “upward...

.... In ways both direct and indirect, these articles pose questions about power, culture, and responsibility that are central to the lives and the work of left historians today. In ”Horrors -Theirs and Ours,” Robert Westbrook considers recent changes in Americans’ attitudes towards the bombing...

... a critical understandug of how the legal changes which they study were bound up in complex ways with contests over social and economic power. RADICALHISTORY REVIEW 26 1982 PAGES5-9 6 RADICAL HISTORY REVIEW And only recently have left historians...

...- view on the American Empire as part of the effort of left historians to develop such a comprehensive analysis. 4 RADICAL HISTORY REVIEW Mike Wallace's interview with Nicaraguan historians points to the ties between U.S. imperialism in the early twentieth century and U.S...

... suggested that this reflects the competing professional aspirations and obligations of a maturing generation of radical historians. But the Collective remains a diverse group with substantial representation of what Casey Blake in his let- ter to us would call the second generation of left...

... and the revival of ethnic, racial, and class consciousness. A variety of New Left historians began not only to challenge corporate liberalism and the American Empire but also to recover the daily lives of ordinary Americans. Perhaps for the first time since the 1930s, dn alternative historical...

.... Basically, we are looking at a phenomenon not simply for its "presentness" implications, but for its "pastness". The conference is a time when a visible showing of the community of left historians is possible and those in• terested in a vibrant marxist historiography can...

... academic historians of the left for “a preoccupation with end products and the ’correct socialist con- sciousness’ of the final texts.” He worried that History Workshop would become a “textual movement” based on the fallacy that socialism could be built book by book. And he was concerned...

..., Wood- ward responded with a critical essay, “The Populist Heritage and the Intellectual,” laying down a democratic duty for historians and other thinkers, a commitment to making the past relevant to the .present much like the one that would later motivate New Left historians...

... to cinema, all too often they cite films merely to illustrate overarching generalizations about mass cultural trends. The need for new social and cultural analyses of motion pictures from a radical perspective has long been apparent. In recent years film historians on the Left have begun...

... to three new books-two of them by left historians-on social themes in the history of health. The affirm- ative nature of the review (perhaps more than the books themselves) so clearly offended Dr. Stevenson, the Bulletin‘s editor, that he took it upon himself to write an unprecedented five...

... University and is a member of GSOC/UAW. R. J. Lambrose recently joined Viageron, an Assisted-Loving Commune in Boca Raton for not- so-New-Left historians. Staughton Lynd and Alice Lynd have edited The New Rank and File, oral histories...

...? Such fears are heightened by the appointment of a slew of conservatives to the National Humanities Council, including such formerly Left historians as Stephan Thernstrom and Elizabeth Fox-Genovese (also the recipient of the National Humanities Medal...

... paper. Within the past decade New Left historians have demonstrated increasing interest in the Communist experience, particularly of the thirties. Earlier the New Left tended to reject that experience as either irrelevant or misleading, though no U.S. movement professing to be socialist...

... equivalent of the Electra complex at work here. Her critique of the ”New Left” historians centers on the concepts of “hegemony” and “false consciousness” employed in radical histori- ography, and here she scores heavily. These concepts have been used by radical historians to formulate non...

... historian and the first great white historian of the black experience needs no defense. That stature has been widely recognized throughout the black community, throughout the Left, and even throughout a bourgeois Academy that has disgraced itself by excluding him from a university professorship...