All Outputs (11)

Why Did Teachers Organize? Feminism and Socialism in the Making of New York City Teacher Unionism (2021)
Journal Article
Phelps, C. (2021). Why Did Teachers Organize? Feminism and Socialism in the Making of New York City Teacher Unionism. Modern American History, 4(2), 131-158. https://doi.org/10.1017/mah.2021.11

What prompted New York City teachers to form a union in the Progressive Era? The founding of the journal American Teacher in 1912 led to creation of the Teachers' League in 1913 and then the Teachers Union in 1916, facilitating formation of the Ameri... Read More about Why Did Teachers Organize? Feminism and Socialism in the Making of New York City Teacher Unionism.

The Novel of American Authoritarianism (2020)
Journal Article
Phelps, C. (2020). The Novel of American Authoritarianism. Science and Society, 84(2), 232-260. https://doi.org/10.1521/siso.2020.84.2.232

Fictional literature portraying the descent of the United States into dictatorship is assessed critically and divided into three cultural-historical phases, each specific in class modality. Ignatius Donnelly’s Caesar’s Column (1890) and Jack London’... Read More about The Novel of American Authoritarianism.

The Communist Party (2018)
Book Chapter
Phelps, C. (2018). The Communist Party. In I. Takayoshi (Ed.), American Literature in Transition: The 1930s (421-435). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108563895.023

In the Great Depression, numerous American writers and intellectuals were attracted to the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA). This chapter provides an institutional analysis of that political-literary experience, arguing that i... Read More about The Communist Party.

The Labor Beat: an introduction (2018)
Journal Article
Fraser, M., & Phelps, C. (2018). The Labor Beat: an introduction. Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, 15(1), https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-4288611

Heywood Broun, Benjamin Stolberg, and the politics of American labor journalism in the 1920s and 1930s (2018)
Journal Article
Phelps, C. (2018). Heywood Broun, Benjamin Stolberg, and the politics of American labor journalism in the 1920s and 1930s. Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, 15(1), 25-51. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-4288647

Between the First and Second World Wars, Heywood Broun (1888-1939) and Benjamin Stolberg (1891-1951) were labor journalists when the newspaper industry was consolidating into chains and industrial unionism was gaining in American society. A compariso... Read More about Heywood Broun, Benjamin Stolberg, and the politics of American labor journalism in the 1920s and 1930s.

Taking exception: Christopher Phelps challenges Jefferson Cowie’s The great exception (2017)
Journal Article
Phelps, C., & Cowie, J. (2017). Taking exception: Christopher Phelps challenges Jefferson Cowie’s The great exception. Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, 14(2), https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-3790223

A "Point/Counterpoint" interview of historian Jefferson Cowie with deliberately provocative thesis-testing questions.

The sexuality of Malcolm X (2016)
Journal Article
Phelps, C. (2017). The sexuality of Malcolm X. Journal of American Studies, 51(3), https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875816001341

This article engages the controversy over whether Malcolm Little, who would become Malcolm X, had same-sexual encounters. A minute sifting of all evidence and claims, augmented by new findings, yields strong indication that Malcolm Little did take pa... Read More about The sexuality of Malcolm X.

Lefts Old and New: Sixties Radicalism, Now and Then (2015)
Book Chapter
Phelps, C. (2015). Lefts Old and New: Sixties Radicalism, Now and Then. In H. Brick, & G. Parker (Eds.), A New Insurgency: The Port Huron Statement and Its times (143-152). Maize Books

Radicals in America: The U.S. Left since the Second World War (2015)
Book
Brick, H., & Phelps, C. (2015). Radicals in America: The U.S. Left since the Second World War. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139027700

© Howard Brick and Christopher Phelps 2015. All rights reserved. Radicals in America is a masterful history of controversial dissenters who pursued greater equality, freedom and democracy - and transformed the nation. Written with clarity and verve,... Read More about Radicals in America: The U.S. Left since the Second World War.

The New Left wasn't so new (2013)
Journal Article
Phelps, C. (2013). The New Left wasn't so new. Dissent, 60(4), https://doi.org/10.1353/dss.2013.0082

Examination of relationship of Old Left to New Left in U.S. political history and validity of Old Left and New Left as concepts.

Herbert Hill and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (2012)
Journal Article
Phelps, C. (2012). Herbert Hill and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Labor History, 53(4), https://doi.org/10.1080/0023656X.2012.732757

This article points to previously undetected evidence demonstrating that Herbert Hill, labor director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) from the 1950s to the 1970s, informed for the Federal Bureau of Investigat... Read More about Herbert Hill and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.