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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.

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.