James Green
Professor, History and Labor Studies
Wheatley Hall, 3rd floor
617-287-7354
James.Green@umb.edu
www.JamesGreenWorks.com
James Green is a scholar, writer and teacher of U.S. history. He was born in Oak Park, Illinois, raised in small factory town outside of Chicago and educated at Northwestern University.
He received his PhD in history from Yale University in 1972 and five years later joined the faculty at the University of Massachusetts Boston where he currently teaches history.
Green has also held lectureships at Warwick University in England, at the University of Genoa in Italy where he was a Fulbright Senior Fellow and at Harvard University where he has taught in the Trade Union Program since 1987.
Degrees
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| 1972 | Ph.D., Yale University |
| 1966 | B.A., Northwestern University |
Awards
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| 2004 | Fellow, Centro Studi Liguri, Foundazione
Bogliasco, Itlay |
| 2003 | Research Fellowship, Newberry Library,
Chicago |
| 1998 | Fulbright Senior Lecturer, University
of Genoa, Italy |
| 1994 | Bryant Spann Award of the Eugene
V. Debs Foundation |
| 1979 | Chancellor's Award for Distinguished
Scholarship, University of Massachusetts Boston |
| 1977 | H. Bailey Carroll Award from the
Southwestern Historical Society for the best article of the year
published in the Southwestern Historical Quarterly |
| 1966-1969 | Woodrow Wilson Fellow, Yale University |
| 1966 | Cum Laude Degree
in History, Northwestern University |
Teaching Positions
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| 1998 | Fulbright Senior Lecturer in History,
University of Genoa, Ita |
| 1987– | Lecturer, Harvard Trade Union Program,
John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University |
| 1984– | Professor of History, College of
Public and Community Service, University of Massachusetts Boston |
| 1997–1984 | Associate Professor, College of
Public and Community Service, University of Massachusetts Boston |
| 1975–1976 | Visiting Lecturer, Centre for the
Study of Social History, Warwick University,
Coventry, U.K. |
| 1970–1977 | Assistant Professor of History,
Brandeis University |
Professional Positions
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| 1994–1995 | Acting Dean, College of Public and
Community Service, University of Massachusetts at Boston |
| 1994–1995 | Historical Consultant and Author
of Introduction to “Labor History Theme Study,” Historical
Landmarks Program, National Park Service |
| 1991–1993 | Series Research Coordinator and
Historical Consultant, "The Great Depression," an seven-part
television documentary for the Public Broadcasting System,
Produced by Blackside, Inc., Boston |
| 1990–1991 | Historical Consultant, "Wheels
of Change: The First Hundred Years of the Industrial Revolution" Slide
Show for Boot Mills Exhibit, Lowell National Park, Lowell, Massachusetts. |
| 1988-1990 | Project Historian, Writer, Designer, "Boston's
Black Railroad Workers” Oral History and Public Presentation--
Permanent Exhibit in Boston's Back Bay Station for the Massachusetts
Bay Transit Authority |
| 1979–1980 | Chairperson, Dean's Task Force on
the Liberal Arts, College of Publicand Community Service, University
of Massachusetts at Boston |
Other
Professional Activity |
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| 2004 | Chair, Local Resource Committee
for the 2004 meeting of the Organization of American Historians
in Boston |
| 2003–2006 | President, Labor and Working Class
History Association |
| 2003– | Associate Editor for Contemporary
Affairs, Labor: Working Class Studies in
the Americas |
| 1993–1996 | Member, Community Advisory Board,
WGBH, Public Broadcasting
System’s Boston Television and Radio Station |
| 1979–1989 | Founder and Organizer, Massachusetts
History Workshop |
| 1979–1985 | Project Director and Academic Consultant
on six Public History Projects sponsored by the Massachusetts History
Workshop and funded by the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities
(NEH) |
| 1973–1977 | Member, National Humanities Faculty (NEH)--
consultant to Secondary School History Teachers in Albuquerque,
Philadelphia, and Boston |
Publications: Books Authored:
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| 2006 | Death in the Haymarket:
A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing
That Divided Gilded Age America, New York: Pantheon |
| 2000 | Taking History to Heart:
The Power of the Past in Building Social Movements,
Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press |
| 1996 | Commonwealth of Toil:
Chapters from the History of Massachusetts Workers and their
Unions, (co-authored with Tom Juravich
and William Hartford) Amherst: University of Massachusetts
Press |
| 1980 | The World of the Worker: Labor
in Twentieth Century America,New York:Hill & Wang,
Farrar, Straus & Giroux (second edition by University of
Illinois Press, 1998) |
| 1979 | Boston's Workers: A Labor History, (co-authored with Hugh Carter Donahue), Boston: Boston Public Library and the National Endowment for the Humanities |
| 1978 | Grass-Roots Socialism: Radical Movements in the Southwest, 1895-1943,Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press Baton Rouge (Listed as one of the best academic books of 1978 by Choice.) |
Publications:
Recent Articles in Journals and Anthologies |
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| 2005 | “The Globalization of a Memory: The Enduring Memory of the Haymarket Martyrs around the World,” Labor: Studies of Working Class History in the Americas, Volume 2, number 4 (Winter) |
| 2004 | “Crime Against Memory at Ludlow,” Labor: Studies of Working Class History in the Americas, Volume 1, number 1 (Spring) |
| 2000 | “Crime Against Memory at Ludlow,” Labor: Studies of Working Class History in the Americas, Volume 1, number 1 (Spring) |
| 1999 | “Fare Storia di Movimento con ‘Radical America,” Acoma: Rivista Internazionale de Studi Nordamericani, (Rome) Numero 15 (Inverno) |
| 1999 | “Southern Places and Southern Voices: Oral History and Public History in the American South,” in Prospettive Euro-Atlantiche, edited by Susanna Delfino, Rome, United States Information Agency |
Recent
Essays, Reports and Editorials in Newspapers and Magazines: |
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| 2003 | “Howard Zinn’s History,” Chronicle of Higher Education, June 12 |
| 2001 | “The Making of Americans,” Boston Globe, July 29 |
| 2000 | “He Recalls, Rereads, C. Vann Woodward’s ‘History with a Purpose’,” Boston Globe Book Review, April 2 |
| 1999 | “A City of Multiple Memories,” Boston Globe, December 9 |
| 1997 | “Uncommon History: J. Anthony Lukas Retrieves the Tale of an Epic Clash” Boston Globe Book Review, October 5 |
