Monthly Archives: February 2015

Can Historians Steal Agency?: Historiographical Comparisons Between Labor History and the History of Slavery

Posted on February 15, 2015 by crb11

Thomas G. Andrews, Killing for Coal: America’s Deadliest Labor War (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2008). “By making victimization the main story line of a struggle in which strikers actually inflicted more deaths than they suffered, historians have treated men, … Continue reading →

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The Power of Identity: Understanding Race as a Category of Power

Posted on February 8, 2015 by crb11

Alan M. Kraut, “Doing As Americans Do: The Post-Migration Negotiation of Identity in the United States” Journal of American History 101:3 (Dec. 2014): 707–725. Political discourse about immigration in the United States marches on with great continuity. This historical trend … Continue reading →

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Evolving Economics: The Ebbs and Flows of American Capitalism and its History

Posted on February 1, 2015 by crb11

Jonathan Levy, Freaks of Fortune: The Emerging World of Capitalism and Risk in America (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2012). Elizabeth Tandy Shermer lists Jonathan Levy’s Freaks of Fortune as a work of intellectual history contributing to the writing of … Continue reading →

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