A good book review is a historian’s best friend. In that spirit, The Life of a Historian offers our review of… Purcell, Aaron D. White Collar Radicals: TVA’s Knoxville Fifteen, the New Deal, and the McCarthy Era. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 2009. Affiliate Disclosure The Life of the Historian: A Book Review of Aaron Purcell’s White Collar Radicals: TVA’s Knoxville Fifteen, the New Deal, and the McCarthy Era In White Collar Radicals, Purcell examines
In this historiographical essay, The Life of a Historian surveys the scholarship of the Cold War civil rights historiography. In particular, this review primarily focuses on the following historians and their respective books: Woods, Jeff. Black Struggle, Red Scare: Segregation and Anti-Communism in the South, 1948-1968. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004. Lewis, George. The White South and the Red Menace: Segregationists, Anticommunism, and Massive Resistance, 1945-1965. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2004. Katagiri,
In this installment of the Highlight Series, The Life of a Historian presents a quick summary and review of… Dudziak, Mary L. Cold War Civil Rights: Race and Image of American Democracy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. Affiliate Disclosure Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy The story of civil rights and the Cold War is in part the story of a struggle over the narrative of race and democracy.” 1
In this installment of the Highlight Series, The Life of a Historian presents a quick summary and review of… Rediker, Marcus. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Merchant Seamen, Pirates and the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1700 – 1750 .New York: Cambridge Press, 1987. Affiliate Disclosure Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Merchant Seamen, Pirates and the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1700 – 1750 The omnipotence of the elements and the fragility of human
In this installment of the Highlight Series, The Life of a Historian presents a quick summary and review of… Cronon, William. Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England. 1st rev. ed. New York: Hill and Wang, 2003. Affiliate Disclosure Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England There has been no timeless wilderness in a state of perfect changelessness, no climax forest in permanent stasis.” 13