The Staughton Lynd Factor: A Dispatch from the Frontline Trenches of Higher Education in Middle America

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Notes

¹ Carl Mirra, The Admirable Radical: Staughton Lynd and Cold War Dissent, 1945–1970 (Kent State: Kent State University Press, 2010). Andrej Grubačić ed., From Here to There: The Staughton Lynd Reader (Oakland, California: PM Press, 2010).

² Stefan Christoff, “Global Balkans,”http://www.hour.ca/news/news.aspx?iIDArticle=18381.

³ Staughton Lynd, “The Battle over Radical History, Part 2,” August 4, 2010, The New Republic online, http://www.tnr.com, and http://www.tnr.com/book/review/the-battle-over-radical-history-part-2.

⁴ Neil Cameron, “What's Wrong with Radical History … And the Radical ‘Historians Against the War,” I believe that Staughton Lynd would be covered by the following assertion: “The Cold War once did a favor for defenders of Western civilization that had little to do with the political struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union. It made it possible for academic liberals (in both the political and methodological sense) to recognize that there were at least some variants of radical thought that they were compelled to fight head on.” August 4, 2010, http://hnn.us/articles/1611.html , History New Network, George Mason University.

⁵ “For the past fifty years Staughton Lynd has dedicated his life to activism and social change as a historian, lawyer, labor activist, and Quaker pacifist. He has been called a saint of the modern American Left,” quoted in “Legendary Historian, Attorney & Peace Activist Staughton Lynd on War Resisters, the Peace Movement and the 1993 Lucasville Prison Uprising,” http://www.democracynow.org/2006/10/20/legendary_historian_attorney_peace_activist_staughton; “Suddenly Staughton Lynd is all the rage … again. In the last 18 months, Lynd has published two new books, a third that's a reprint of an earlier work, plus a memoir co-authored with his wife Alice,” states Andy Piascik in his original essay at the Connecticut Post, August 20, 2010 and online at http://www.centerforlaborrenewal.org/.; “Staughton Lynd, although he would never admit it, is one of the visible saints of the modern American left. His life has been full of the determined idealism, small kindnesses and self-abnegation that recall Catholic Worker Dorothy Day even better than Socialist Eugene Debs,” wrote Paul Buhle, May 22, 1997, The Nation, (http://www.thenation.com). See also, http://hnn.us/articles/123272.html, for David Waldstreicher's comments.

⁶ The most recent anthology of essays written by scholars influenced in some way by Lynd-the-historian is Revolutionary Founders: Rebels, Radicals, and Reformers in the Making of the Nation; edited by Alfred F. Young, Gary B. Nash, and Ray Raphael. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.