Reference and Primary Sources
- - - - - -. “The FBI has posted a FOIA release on Howard Zinn. It consists of 423 pages … released from a domestic security investigation file on Zinn.” Posted on H-HOAC, 7/30/2010) (http://foia.fbi.gov.foiaindex/zinn_howard.htm)
- - - - - -. “Mary Metlay Kaufman: An online exhibit … ” Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, 2010. “ … From 1948 to 1960, her practice consisted primarily of defending state and national leaders of the U.S. Communist Party indicted under the Smith Act … ” (http://www.smith.edu/library/libs/ssc/agents/kaufman.html)
- Davenport, Tim. Non-English Press of the Communist Party USA. “During the nine decades since its establishment in 1919, the CPUSA produced or inspired a vast array of newspapers and magazines in at least 25 different languages. This list … provides basic information on each title, along with links to pages dealing with specific publications in greater depth,” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-English_press_of_the_Communist_Party_USA)
- Kuntz, Tom, Kuntz, Phil. The Sinatra Files: The Secret [1,275 pp.] FBI Dossier. New York: Three Rivers Press, 2010. Electronic book, publisher's description available online
- Leab, Daniel J. et al., eds., The Great Depression and the New Deal: A Thematic Encyclopedia. 2 Vols. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC- CLIO, 2010
- Mustello, Marcello. “Marx is back: The Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe (MEGA) project.” Rethinking Marxism 22, no. 2 (2010): 290–1
- Pons, Silvio, Service, Robert, Epstein, Mark, Townsend, Charles. A Dictionary of 20th-Century Communism. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010
- United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation. The Amerasia Affair, China, and Postwar Anti-Communist Fervor. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale, a part of Cengage Learning, 2010. Online resource (14,164 images)
- United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Federal response to radicalism in the 1960s. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gales 2010. Online resource. Contents include: … [a] file on Communist infiltration of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Biographical and Individuals-based Studies (monographs and edited works, journal articles)
- Ahad, Badia Sahar. “A genuine cooperation: Richard Wright's and Ralph Ellison's psychoanalytic conversations.” In Freud Upside Down: African American Literature and Psychoanalytic Culture. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2010
- Alman, Emily Arnow, Alman, David. Exoneration: The Rosenberg—Sobell Case in the 21st Century. Seattle: Green Elms Press, 2010
- Andrews, George Reid. “Afro-world: African-diaspora thought and practice in Montevideo, Uruguay, 1830–2000.” The Americas 67, no. 1 (2010): 83–107. Contains discussion of favorable reception of Langston Hughes and Communism
- Arnesen, Eric. “A. Philip Randolph, black anticommunism, and the race question.” In Rethinking U.S. Labor History: Essays on the Working-Class Experience, 1756–2009, Donna Haverty-Stacke, Daniel J. Walkowitz, eds., New York: Continuum, 2010
- Bach, Morten, Hale, Korcaighe. “What he is speaks so loud that I can’t hear what he's saying”: R.W. Scott McLeod and the long shadow of Joe McCarthy.” Historian 72, no. 1 (2010): 67–95. “ … headed the Bureau of Security and Consular Affairs in the U.S. State Department during the … 1950s … ”
- Barton, Melissa. “Speaking a mutual language: The Negro People's Theatre [1938–40] in Chicago.” TDR 54, no. 3 (2010): 54–70
- Bick, S. “A double life in Hollywood: Hanns Eisler's score for the film Hangmen also Die and the covert expressions of a Marxist composer. “The Musical Quarterly 93, no. 1 (2010): 90–143
- Blake, Matthew. “Woody Guthrie.” Journalism History 35, no. 4 (2010): 184–93. “ … especially his writings for the San Francisco-based People's World … columns and cartoons for eighteen months … ”
- Brody, Leslie. Irrepressible: The Life and Times of Jessica Mitford. Berkeley: Counterpoint Press: Distributed by Publishers Group West, 2010
- Browne, Blain T., Cottrell, Robert C. “The Cold War at home: Paul Robeson, Pat McCarran.” In Lives and Times: Individuals and Issues in American History. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2010
- Canton, David A. Raymond Pace Alexander: A New Negro Lawyer Fights for Civil Rights in Philadelphia. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2010. Contents include: “Using the left to fight for what is right: civil rights law and radicalism, 1925–1935”; and “The Cold War, northern Scottsboro, and the politics of civil rights, 1949–1953.”
- Cohen, Michael. “Imagining militarism: Art Young and The Masses face the enemy.” Radical History Review 106 (2010): 87–108
- Cohen Ronald D. “Millard Lampell: Blacklisted.” American Communist History 9, no. 3 (2010): 293-313
- Cordery, Simon. Mother Jones: Raising Cain and Consciousness. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2010
- Davis, Susan G. “Ben Botkin's FBI file.” Journal of American Folklore 122, no. 487 (2010): 3–30
- deNiord, Chard. “An Interview with Maxine Kumin.” The American Poetry Review 39, no. 1 (2010): 39-45. Contains mention of her brief attempt to be a communist at Radcliffe, a poem thereabout, recalls her friend Bobby Lewis, who “ … married Bob Solow, who went on to win a Nobel Prize in economics. She was about as red as you can get.”
- Dick, Bernard F. “Potato-eater priest: On the Waterfront's Father Barry and his real-life counterpart.” American Communist History 9, no. 3 (2010): 235–8
- Donohue, Kathleen G. “Choosing Conservatism in the 1930s: The Political Odyssey of F. J. Schlink.” Journal of the Historical Society 10, no. 4 (2010): 437–73. The left-to-right evolution of “cofounder of … Consumers’ Research … ”
- Dorrien, Gary. “Michael Harrington and the left wing of the possible.” CrossCurrents, 60, no. 2 (2010): 257–82
- Fasanella, Marc. “The utopian vision of an immigrant's son: The oil on canvas legacy of Ralph Fasanella.” Italian Americana 28, no. 2 (2010): 125–36
- Filardo, Peter Meyer. “Communications.” [A comment on Gerald Meyer's “The times they are a-changin’: Bob Dylan and the left” which appeared in ACH 9:1]. American Communist History 9, no. 3 (2010): 341–2
- Foley, Barbara. Wrestling with the Left: The Making of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man. Durham: Duke University Press, 2010
- Frost, Jennifer. “Dissent and consent in the good war: Hedda Hopper, Hollywood gossip, and World War II isolationism.” Film History: An International Journal 22, no. 2 (2010): 170–81. “ … Hopper's leading role in the anti-communist movement which affected Hollywood … ”
- Goodman, Jesse, Montgomery, Sarah, Ables, Connie. “Rorty's social theory and the narrative of U.S. history curriculum.” Education and Culture 26, no. 1 (2010): 3–22. Includes discussion of his anticommunism
- Goyal, Yogita. Romance, Diaspora, and Black Atlantic Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Contents include: “From double consciousness to diaspora: W.E.B. Du Bois and black internationalism”; “From romance to realism: Richard Wright and nation time.”
- Gronlund, Mimi Clark. “Cold War fever: National security versus individual freedom.” In Supreme Court Justice Thomas C. Clark: A Life of Service. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2010
- Haran, Barnaby. “Homeless houses: Classifying Walker Evans's photographs of Victorian architecture.” Oxford Art Journal 33, no. 2 (2010), 189–210. “ … In 1933, Evans and Leyda together photographed Diego Rivera's Portrait of America mural cycle for the New Workers’ School, which was set up by the Communist Party Opposition [Jay Lovestone] … ”
- Heard, Alex. “Communists coming here.” In The Eyes of Willie McGee: A Tragedy of Race, Sex, and Secrets in the Jim Crow South. New York: Harper, 2010
- Hornblum, Allen M. The Invisible Harry Gold: The Man Who Gave the Soviets the Atom Bomb. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010
- Horowitz, Daniel. “Jewish women remaking American feminism: Women remaking American Judaism: Reflections on the life of Betty Friedan.” In A Jewish Feminine Mystique?: Jewish Women in Postwar America, Hasia R. Diner, ed. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2010
- Jeffers, Thomas L. Norman Podhoretz: A Biography. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010
- Jodziewicz, Thomas W. “Peter Maurin and Dorothy Day: Friends.” Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture, no. 3 (2010): 164–77
- Kerman, Sarah. “Call It Sleep and the limits of typicality.” Journal of Modern Literature 33, no. 2 (2010): 47–69. Proletarian fiction and “typicality.”
- Kingham, Victoria. “The Pagan [1916–22], Joseph Kling, and American salon socialism.” The Journal of Modern Periodical Studies 1, no. 1 (2010): 1–37
- Lane, Julie B. “From cab rides to the Cold War.” Journalism History 36, no. 1 (2010): 2–12. “ … Richard H. Rovere's “Letter from Washington” helped the New Yorker become a prominent voice on U.S. politics … His consistent support of … anti-Communist foreign policy … reinforced the Cold War consensus in the early 1950s … ”
- Lee, Michael J. “WFB: The gladiatorial style and the politics of provocation.” Rhetoric & Public Affairs 13, no. 2 (2010): 217–50. William F. Buckley
- Lyne, Bill. “God's black revolutionary mouth: James Baldwin's black radicalism.” Science & Society 74, no. 1 (2010): 12–36
- M’Baye, Babacar. “Richard Wright and African francophone intellectuals: A reassessment of the 1956 Congress of Black Writers in Paris.” In African Diaspora and the Metropolis: Reading the African, African American and Caribbean Experience, Fassil Demissie, ed. London: Routledge, 2010
- McMullen, David Lee. Strike!: The Radical Insurrections of Ellen Dawson. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2010
- Meyer, Gerald. “Communications.” [A response to Filardo, Peter Meyer, “Communication”—listed above.] American Communist History 9, no. 3 (2010): 343–6
- Meyer, Gerald. “The times they are a-changin’: Bob Dylan and the left.” American Communist History 9, no. 1 (2010): 77–87
- Mirra, Carl. The Admirable Radical: Staughton Lynd and Cold War Dissent, 1945–1970. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2010
- Moore, David Chioni. “The Bessie Head-Langston Hughes correspondence, 1960–1961.” Research in African Literature, 41, no. 3 (2010): 1–20
- Moskowitz, Miriam Ruth. Phantom Spies, Phantom Justice: Elizabeth Bentley, Harry Gold, Roy M. Cohn, Irving H. Saypol, Judge Irving R. Kaufman, J. Edgar Hoover, and the Rehearsal for the Rosenberg Trial, or How I Survived McCarthyism. Bunin & Bannigan, 2010
- Newark, Timothy. “Cold War warrior.” In Lucky Luciano: The Real and the Fake Gangster. New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2010
- O’Farrell, Brigid. She Was One of Us: Eleanor Roosevelt and the American Worker. Ithaca: ILR Press, 2010
- Palma, Francisco Reyes. “Frida Kahlo: a gift-wrapped, anti-Stalinist bomb.” In Frida Kahlo: A Retrospective, Peter von Becker, Helga Prignitz-Poda, eds. Munich: Prestel Verlag, 2010
- Patterson, Jody. “The art of swinging left in the 1930s: Modernism, realism, and the politics of the left in the murals of Stuart Davis.” Art History 33, no. 1 (2010): 98-123
- Podhoretz, John. “Arnold Beichman, 1913–2010.” Commentary, 2010. (http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/arnold-beichman-1913-2010-15365)
- Pratt, Linda Ray. “Sustaining the ground of literary reputation.” Minnesota History 62, no. 2 (2010): 70–6. Meridel Le Sueur
- Radosh, Ronald. “Aside from that, he was also a Red.” Weekly Standard 15, no. 45 (2010): 15–6. Zinn's FBI file reveals memberships in numerous Communist front organizations
- Reid, Panthea. Tillie Olsen: One Woman, Many Riddles. Rutgers, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2010
- Reinsch, Richard M. Whittaker Chambers: The Spirit of a Counterrevolutionary. Wilmington: ISI Books, 2010
- Savvas, Theophilus. “Nothing but words? Chronicling and storytelling in Robert Coover's The Public Burning.” Journal of American Studies 44 (2010): 171–186. The Rosenbergs
- Sherwood, Timothy H. The Preaching of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen: The Gospel Meets the Cold War. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2010
- Slutsky, Beth. “Parlor pink turned soapbox red: The trial of Charlotte Anita Whitney.” American Communist History 9, no. 1 (2010): 35–59
- Snyder, Brad. “Taking great cases: Lessons from the Rosenberg Case.” Vanderbilt Law Review, May (2010): 887–956
- Spence, Rebecca, Palmer, Ethan, Neel, Andrew (Arthouse Films). Alice Neel. New York: New Video Group, 2010. One videodisc; 83 minutes. Neel (1900–84) did portraits of Bella Abzug and Gus Hall, among others
- Wallach, Jennifer Jensen. Richard Wright: From Black Boy to World Citizen. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2010
- Wedin, Carolyn. “Charlotta A. Bass: Win or lose, we win.” In African Americans and the Presidency: The Road to the White House, Glasrud, Bruce A., Wintz, Cary D., eds. New York: Routledge, 2010
- Wilentz, Sean. “Music for the common man: The Popular Front and Aaron Copland's America.” In Bob Dylan in America. New York: Doubleday, 2010
- Wolin, Richard. “Richard Rorty in retrospect.” Dissent 57, no. 1 (2010): 73-9
- Younger, Irving, Easton, Stephen D. “The trial of Alger Hiss.” In The Irving Younger Collection: Wisdom and Wit from the Master of Trial Advocacy. Chicago: American Bar Association, Section of Litigation, 2010
- Zandy, Janet. “Dangerous working-class women: Mother Jones, Lucy Parsons, and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn.” In Becoming Visible: Women's Presence in Late Nineteenth-Century America, Janet Floyd, ed. (2010)
Historical Studies (monographs and edited works, journal articles)
- - - - - -. “Communism and Political Violence.” Thematic issue of the online journal Twentieth Century Communism: A Journal of International History 2, May (2010). Includes: Violence as discourse? For a “linguistic turn” in communist history / Andreas Wirsching; Revolutionary groups after 1968: Some lessons drawn from a comparative analysis / Isabelle Sommier; and several national studies (http://www.lwbooks.co.uk/journals/twentiethcenturycommunism/archive/issue2.html)
- - - - - -. McCarthy: There Were Reds under the Bed (2010). Documentary film, 30 minutes; produced for BBC Radio 4 by Kati Whitaker (A Juno Production)
- - - - - -. “Symposium: On the Irish Waterfront: The Crusader, the Movie, and the Soul of the Port of New York (2009)). American Communist History 9, no. 3 (2010): 233-56. Contents: Introduction / Daniel J. Leab—The potato-eater priest: On the Waterfront's Father Barry and his real-life counterpart / Bernard F. Dick—Catholicism, popular culture and the spiritual front / James P. McCartin—The Catholic Church in the twentieth century / Steve Rosswurm—Comments on Corridan / Stephen Schwartz—On the spiritual front / James T. Fisher
- - - - - -. “Up for Debate.” Symposium on Thomas Sugrue's Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North (2008). Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas 17, no. 1 (2010): 17–44. Contents: Beneath the radar? Untold stories and hidden politics / Eric Arnesen— Taproots and Monday-morning militants / David L. Chappell—Relating the civil rights and community organizing movements / Amanda I. Seligman—Between long histories and biography / John McGreevy—Toward a new civil rights history / Thomas J. Sugrue
- Adi, Hakim. “The Comintern and Black workers in Britain and France, 1919–37.” Immigrants & Minorities 28, no. 2&3 (2010): 224–45. Includes U.S. African American Communists
- Argersinger, Jo Ann E. “Contested visions of American democracy: Citizenship, public housing, and the international arena.” Journal of Urban History 36, no. 6 (2010): 792–813. Discusses the influence and fear of Communism, from the Great Depression to the Cold War
- Athans, Mary Christine. “Courtesy, confrontation, cooperation: Jewish-Christian/Catholic relations in the United States.” U.S. Catholic Historian 28, no. 2 (2010): 107–34
- Balint, Benjamin. Running Commentary: The contentious magazine that transformed the Jewish left into the neoconservative right. New York: Public Affairs, 2010
- Baker, Kimball. Go to the Worker: America's Labor Apostles. Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 2010. Catholic social action movement, 1930s, including Father Charles Owen Rice, Philip Carey
- Barnhisel, Greg. “Cold warriors of the book: American book programs in the 1950s.” Book History 13 (2010): 185–217. “An overview … shows that their portraits of the U.S. mirrored those of Cold War liberals generally … ”
- Barnhisel, Greg, Turner, Catherine, eds. Pressing the Fight: Print, Propaganda, and the Cold War, Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2010. Contents: Printing from left to right. The medium, the message, the movement: print culture and new left politics / Kristin Mathews— The education of a Cold War conservative: anti-communist literature of the 1950s and 1960s / Laura Jane Gifford—Establishing a beachhead. Literature and reeducation in occupied Germany, 1945–1949 / Christian Kanig—Democratic bookshelf: American libraries in occupied Japan / Hiromi Ochi—The British Information Research Department and Cold War propaganda publishing / James B. Smith—Books for the world: American book programs in the developing world, 1948–1968 / Amanda Laugesen—Impact of propaganda materials in free world countries / Martin Manning—Print as a tool to shape domestic attitudes. How can I tell my grandchildren what I did in the Cold War?: militarizing the funny pages and Milton Caniff's Steve Canyon / Edward Brunner—Pineapple glaze and backyard luaus : Cold War cookbooks and the fiftieth state / Amy Reddinger—Mediating revolution: travel literature and the Vietnam War / Scott Laderman—The cultural Cold War in the United States and abroad. Promoting literature in the most dangerous area in the world: the Cold War, the boom, and mundo nuevo / Russell Cobb— Truth, freedom, perfection: Alfred Barr's What Is Modern Painting? as Cold War rhetoric / Patricia Hills
- Bates, Cheryl A. “The gay McCarthyites.” Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide 17, no. 2 (2010): 21–2. Roy Cohn, David Schine
- Bean, Philip A. The Urban Colonists: Italian American Identity and Politics in Utica, New York. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2010. Includes: “Labor and leftism in Utica's early colonia”; “World War II and the Cold War.”
- Bell, Jonathan. “Social politics in a transoceanic world in the early Cold War years.” Historical Journal 53, no. 2 (2010): 401–21. “ … liberals in the United States had the opportunity in the late 1940s to use overseas case studies to reshape the … agenda of the New Deal along … social democratic lines, but … found it impossible to match interest … with a concrete programme to overcome tension between left-wing politics and the … antitotalitarianism of the Cold War … [t]he examples of … Britain … and … New Zealand … provided … case studies … ”
- Blahova, Jindriska. “A merry twinkle in Stalin's eye: Eric Johnston, Hollywood, and Eastern Europe.” Film History 22, no. 3 (2010): 347–59. Johnston was head of the MPPDA
- Bolton, K.R. “Sex Pol ideology: The influence of the Freudian-Marxian synthesis on politics and society.” The Journal of Social, Political, and Economic Studies 35, no. 3 (2010). 329–55. Traces the supposed roots of the allegedly pernicious influences of liberalism and “relativism.”
- Brenner, Aaron, Brenner, Robert, Winslow, Calvin. Rebel Rank and File: Labor Militancy and Revolt from Below during the Long 1970s. London: Verso, 2010. Traces of the Old Left
- Briley, Ron. “Danny Gardella and baseball's reserve clause: A working-class stiff blacklisted in Cold War America.” NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture 19, no. 1(2010): 52–66. Attack on early challenger to the reserve clause couched in anti-Communist rhetoric
- Brooks, Jennifer. “Unexpected foes: World War II veterans and labor in the Postwar South.” Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas 7, no. 2 (2010): 27–52. “ … the SOC failed to hire black or female organizers, did not encourage racially progressive attitudes among staff and removed leftists from their ranks.”
- Burns, Jennifer, Allitt, Patrick. “The conservatives: Ideas and personalities throughout American history.” Modern Intellectual History 7, no. 2 (2010): 479–94. Includes: Chambers, Trilling
- Campbell, Craig. “Cold War, the universities and public education: The contexts of J. B. Conant's mission to Australia and New Zealand, 1951.” History of Education Review 39, no. 1 (2010): 23–39
- Carlson, Peter. K Blows Top: A Cold War Comic Interlude, Starring Nikita Khrushchev, America's Most Unlikely Tourist. New York: Public Affairs, 2010
- Castillo, Greg. Cold War on the Home Front: The Soft Power of Midcentury Design. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010
- Caute, David. Politics and the Novel during the Cold War. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, 2010. Contents include: “Hemingway: For Whom the Bell Tolls”; “Dos Passos: Betrayal”; “Mailer: The Armies of the Night”; “Fiction and the Rosenbergs: E. L. Doctorow and Robert Coover.”
- Charles, Douglas M. “From subversion to obscenity: The FBI's investigations of the early homophile movement in the United States, 1953–1958.” Journal of the History of Sexuality 19, no. 2 (2010): 262–87. “ … An examination of … FBI … into the Mattachine Society and ONE … ”
- Cherny, Robert W. “The Communist Party in California, 1935–1945: From the political margins to the mainstream and back.” American Communist History 9, no. 1 (2010): 3–33
- Cohen, Ronald D. Work and Sing: A History of Occupational and Labor Union Songs in the United States. Crockett, CA: Carquinez Press, 2010
- Cullen, David, Wilkison, Kyle G. “The Communist Party of the United States and African American political candidates.” In African Americans and the Presidency: The Road to the White House, Glasrud, Bruce A., Wintz, Cary D., eds. New York: Routledge, 2010
- Cullen David O’Donald, Wilkison, Kyle, Grant. “Looking for lefty: Liberal/left activism and Texas labor, 1920s–1960s.” In The Texas Left: The Radical Roots of Lone Star Liberalism. College Station: Texas A&M Press, 2010
- Cummings, Richard H. Radio Free Europe's Crusade for Freedom: Rallying Americans behind Cold War Broadcasting, 1950–1960. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 2010
- Dagbovie, Pero Gaglo. “Among the vitalizing tools of the radical intelligentsia, of course the most crucial was words: Carter G. Woodson's The Case of the Negro (1921).” Journal for the Study of Radicalism 3, no. 2 (2010): 81–112. Also substantively discusses left black historiography, and black historians’ coverage of various forms of radicalism
- Davidson, Alastair. “History, human rights and the left.” Thesis Eleven 100 (2010): 106–16
- Davin, Eric Leif. Crucible of Freedom: Workers’ Democracy in the Industrial Heartland, 1914–1960. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2010
- Delton, Jennifer. “Rethinking post-World War II anticommunism.” Journal of the Historical Society 10, no. 1 (2010): 1–41. “ … the most effective anticommunist measures … were … carried out by liberals … anticommunism did not curtail the New Deal … but … strengthened and expanded it.”
- Disalvo, Daniel. “The politics of a party faction: The liberal-labor alliance in the Democratic Party, 1948–1972.” Journal of Policy History 22, no. 3 (2010): 269–99
- Dreier, Peter, Vrabel, Jim. “Did he ever return?: The forgotten story of ‘Charlie and the M.T.A.”” American Music 28, no. 1 (2010): 3–43. “Most people think of “M.T.A.” as a … novelty song … in fact, “M.T.A.” began as a frankly political song, written for the campaign of Walter A. O'Brien Jr., the Progressive Party candidate for mayor of Boston in 1949 … it was meant to dramatize the … call for a rollback of the subway fare increase
- Ekbladh, David. “Meeting the challenge from totalitarianism: The Tennessee Valley Authority as a global model for liberal development, 1933–1945.” International History Review 32, no. 1 (2010): 47–67
- Emmons, Caroline S., ed. Cold War and the McCarthy Era: People and Perspectives. Santa Barbara: ABC- CLIO, 2010. Contents: Catalyst of empire : Joseph McCarthy, anti-communism and early Cold War political culture / Jeffrey D. Bass—Federal loyalty oath program / Martin Manning— McCarthy's forgotten defenders: political and social conservatism in 1950s pop culture / Bryan E. Vizzini—McCarthy and the media: How the Red Scare affected radio, TV, and film / Donna L. Halper—An unlikely team: the social aspects of the Ground Observer Corps / David Mills— McCarthyism and the cold war against organized labor in the United States / Saranna Thornton— Racist saints and communist devils: African Americans, McCarthyism, and the Cold War / S. Ani Mukherji—Sexuality and gender in Cold War America: Social experiences, cultural authorities, and the roots of political change / Howard H. Chiang—Mothers, spy queens, and subversives: women in the McCarthy era / Michella M. Marino—Duck and cover: children's Cold War experiences in 1950s America / Margaret Peacock
- Falk, Andrew Justin. Upstaging the Cold War: American Dissent and Cultural Diplomacy, 1940–1960. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2010
- Fallace, Thomas D. “John Dewey on history education and the historical method.” Education and Culture 26, no. 2 (2010): 20–35. Includes discussion of 1950 attack on Dewey's views as a species of relativism that failed to condemn Communism
- Fellman, Paul. “Iron Man: America's Cold War champion and charm against the Communist menace.” Voces Novae: Chapman University Historical Review 1, no. 2 (2010): 11–21. “the American comic book industry during the Cold War. It uses the … Iron Man [character] in the Tales of Suspense series as a central point of focus … ”
- Flemming, Tracy. “Black Marxism, creative intellectuals and culture: The 1930s.” The Journal of Pan African Studies 3, no.9 (2010): 7–24
- Fones, Wolf, Ken, and Elizabeth. “No common creed: White working-class Protestantisms and the CIO's Operation Dixie.” In Rethinking U.S. Labor History: Essays on the Working-Class Experience, 1756–2009, Donna Haverty-Stacke, Daniel J. Walkowitz, eds. New York: Continuum, 2010
- Frederickson, Kari. “The Cold War at the grassroots: Militarization and modernization in South Carolina.” In The Myth of Southern Exceptionalism, Lassiter, Matthew D., Crespino, Joseph, eds. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010
- Fried, Richard M. “Operation Polecat: Thomas E. Dewey, the 1948 election, and the origins of McCarthyism.” Journal of Policy History 22, no. 1 (2010): 1–22
- Frisch, Morton J., Diamond, Martin, Kesler, Charles R., eds. The Thirties: A Reconsideration in the Light of the American Political Tradition. Dekalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2010. Includes: Ten years in a tunnel: reflections on the 1930's / Irving Kristol –- A comparison of the militant left of the thirties and sixties / Howard Zinn
- Garcia, Daniel Eugene. “Class and brass: Demobilization, working class politics, and American foreign policy between World War and Cold War.” Diplomatic History 34, no. 4 (2010): 681-98. Includes discussion of left in GI pressure for demobilization and continuation of U.S.-Soviet alliance, including “ … Sergeant Emil Mazey … the prewar president of United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 212 … was a founder of the “Bring the Boys Home” movement … ”
- Geduld, Victoria Phillips. “All fall down: The demise of the New Dance Group and the highest stage of Communism.” American Communist History 9, no. 2 (2010): 201–9
- Genter, Robert. Late Modernism: Art, Culture, and Politics in Cold War America. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010
- Goldstone, Dwonna Naomi. “The Socialist Workers Party and African Americans.” In African Americans and the Presidency: The Road to the White House, Glasrud, Bruce A., Wintz, Cary D., eds. New York: Routledge, 2010
- Gonaver, Wendy. “You, me, and Joe McCarthy: The enduring legacy of the Cold War.” American Quarterly 62, no. 2 (2010): 175–86. Review essay
- Goodman, Gloria. “The British government and the challenge of McCarthyism in the early Cold War.” Journal of Cold War Studies 12, no. 1 (2010): 62–97
- Greene, Doyle. The American Worker on Film: A Critical History, 1909–1999. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2010. Includes: “The promised land (or, many will enter, few will win): The grapes of wrath”; “Rally ’round the flag: labor, Hollywood, World War II, and the Cold War”; “In praise of the individual: On the Waterfront.”
- Guglielmo, Jennifer. “Red scare, the lure of fascism, and diasporic resistance.” In Living the Revolution: Italian Women's Resistance and Radicalism in New York City, 1880–1945. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010
- Guill, Stacey. “Now you have seen it: Ernest Hemingway, Joris Ivens, and The Spanish Earth.” The Hemingway Review 30, no. 1 (2010): 51–68
- Gurman, Hannah. “Learn to write well: The China Hands and the communist-ification of diplomatic reporting.” Journal of Contemporary History 45, no. 2 (2010): 430–53. 1941–60
- Haigh, Thomas. “Computing the American way: Contextualizing the early US computer industry.” IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 32, no. 2 (2010): 8–20. “ … the early computer industry emerges as one devoted primarily to government business, liberal in its political leanings, and with a paternalist corporate culture profoundly shaped by the threat of unionization [and the desire to contain communism].”
- Hale, Grace Elizabeth. “Black as folk: the southern civil rights movement and the folk music revival.” In The Myth of Southern Exceptionalism, Matthew D. Lassiter, Joseph Crespino, eds. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010
- Harris, Jerry. “The center cannot hold: The Communist Party, 1957–58.” Science & Society 74, no. 4 (2010): 461–88
- Herzog, Jonathan. “America's spiritual-industrial complex and the policy of revival in the early Cold War.” Journal of Policy History 22, no. 3 (2010): 337–65. “ … to create a religious citizenry that grounded material power in sacred wisdom and immunized itself to … Communism.”
- Hönicke Moore, Michaela. Know Your Enemy: The American Debate on Nazism, 1933–1945. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010
- Humphries, Reynold. Hollywood's Blacklists: A Political and Cultural History. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010
- Inazu, John D. “The strange origins of the Constitutional right of association.” Tennessee Law Review 77, no. 3 (2010): 485–562. “ … three factors that influenced the development of the right of association: (1) the conflation of rampant anti-communist sentiment with the rise of the Civil Rights movement … ”
- Issel, William. For Both Cross and Flag: Catholic Action, Anti-Catholicism, and National Security Politics in World War II San Francisco. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2010
- Isserman, Maurice. “Reds, menaced.” Artforum. (Dec 2009/Jan 2010): 6–9. “ … while Communism in power proved … .[a] disaster, it doesn’t follow that the values and beliefs that led millions of men and women around the world to become Communists in the first place, often at the risk of persecution or death, were contemptible or held in bad faith.”
- Jeffreys-Jones, Rhodri. “Changes in the nomenclature of the American Left.” Journal of American Studies 44 (2010): 83–100
- Johnston, Gordon. “Revisiting the cultural Cold War.” Social History 35, no. 3 (2010): 290–307. Modernism
- Jones, William P. “The unknown origins of the March on Washington: Civil Rights politics and the Black working class.” Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas 7, no. 3 (2010): 33–52
- Jung, Moon-Kie. Reworking Race: The Making of Hawaii's Interracial Labor Movement. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. ILWU
- Kahan, Alan S. Mind vs. Money: The War between Intellectuals and Capitalism. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2010
- Katz, Sherry J. “Excavating radical women in Progressive-Era California.” In Contesting Archives: Finding Women in the Sources, Nupur Chaudhuri, ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2010
- Kaunonen, Gary. Challenge Accepted: A Finnish Immigrant Response to Industrial America in Michigan's Copper Country. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2010. Pre-WWI, but discusses Tyomies Publishing Company
- Klehr, Harvey. The Communist Experience in America: A Political and Social History. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2010
- Kumano, Ruriko. “Anticommunism and academic freedom: Walter C. Eells and the red purge in occupied Japan.” History of Education Quarterly 50, no. 4 (2010): 513–37
- Lam, Kitty. “Forging a socialist homeland from multiple worlds: North American Finns in Soviet, Kareliz
- Karelia 1921–1938.” The Romanian Journal for Baltic and Nordic Studies (Revista Română de Studii Baltice şi Nordice), no. 2 (2010): 203–24
- Levy, Ellen. “Borrowing paints from a girl: [Clement] Greenberg, [T.S.] Eliot, [Marianne] Moore and the struggle between the arts.” Modernism/Modernity 17, no. 1 (2010): 1–20
- Li, H. Mark. “Organizing the community: Communists during the Great Depression.” In Chinese American Transnational Politics. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2010
- Lingeman, Richard. “The files’ tale: Redbaited by the FBI.” The Nation 290, no. 2 (2010): 23–4. “A 180-page internal FBI monograph dated April 1959 is devoted entirely to refuting a … special issue of The Nation … critical of the FBI … ”
- Looker, Benjamin. “Microcosms of democracy: Imagining the city neighborhood in World War II-era America.” Journal of Social History 44, no. 2 (2010): 351–78. “ … the rise of a Popular Front-inflected vision of the U.S. city neighborhood's meaning and worth … before receding [post-WWII] … During the war years … progressives interpreted the ethnic-accented … neighborhood as a place where national values became … a uniquely American rebuff to the fascist drive for purity. Elaborations … in … writings by … Kurt Weill [Street Scene], Langston Hughes, and others … ”
- Luce, Caroline. “Radicalism in the ethnic market: The Jewish Bakers Union in Los Angeles in the 1920s.” UC Los Angeles: The Institute for Research on Labor and Employment. (http://escholarship.org/uc/item/53b6q84v)
- Lynch, Shawn M. “Red riots and the origins of the Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, 1915–1930.” Historical Journal of Massachusetts 38, no. 1 (2010): 60–81
- Matusevich, Maxim. “Harlem globe-trotters: Black sojourners in Stalin's Soviet Union.” In The Harlem Renaissance Revisited: Politics, Arts, and Letters, Jeffrey Ogbnna Green Ogbar, ed. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010
- Maxwell, William J. “African American modernism and state surveillance.” In A Companion to African American Literature, Gene Andrew Garrett, ed. London: Blackwell, 2010
- McDonald, Verlaine Stoner. The Red Corner: The Rise and Fall of Communism in Northeastern Montana. Helena: Montana Historical Society Press, 2010. Sheridan County
- Mello, William J. New York Longshoremen: Class and Power on the Docks. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2010
- Monroe, Gerald M. “Artists as militant trade union workers during the Great Depression.” Archives of American Art Journal 49, nos. 1–2 (2010): 44–53. “ … the Unemployed Artists Group [aka] the Artists’ Union … ”
- Marans, Jon. The Temperamentals. A drama about the gay liberation movement in California, featuring Harry Hay (http://thetemperamentals.com/home/?p=85)
- McEnaney, Laura. “Cold War mobilization and domestic politics: the United States.” In The Cambridge History of the Cold War, Leffler, Melvyn P., Westad, Odd Arne, eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010
- Monroe, Gerald M. “Artists as militant trade union workers during the Great Depression.” Archives of American Art Journal 49, nos. 1–2 (2010): 44–53
- Muller, Jerry Z. “Radical anticapitalism: The Jew as communist.” In Capitalism and the Jews. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010
- Nadis, Fred. “Reality TV as social experiment. Citizen Funt: surveillance as Cold War entertainment.” In The Tube Has Spoken: Reality TV & History, Taddeo, Julie Anne, Dvorak, Ken, eds. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2010
- O’Brien, Matthew J. “Irish America, race, and Bernadette Devlin's 1969 American tour.” New Hibernia Review 14, no. 2 (2010): 84–101. Impact of anticommunism thereon
- Phillips-Fein, Kim. “Business conservatism on the shop floor: Anti-union campaigns in the 1950s. Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas 7, no. 2 (2010): 9–26
- Pickard, Victor. “Reopening the postwar settlement for U.S. Media: The origins and implications of the social contract between media, the state, and the polity.” Communication, Culture & Critique. Article first published online: 7 May 2010. DOI: 10.1111/j.1753-9137.2010.01065.x
- Pondillo, Robert. America's first network TV censor: The Work of NBC's Stockton Helffrich. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2010
- Paton, Fiona. “Monstrous rhetoric: Naked Lunch, national insecurity, and the gothic fifties.” Texas Studies in Literature and Language 52, no. 1 (2010): 48–69
- Patterson, Jody. “The art of swinging left in the 1930s: Modernism, realism, and the politics of the left in the murals of Stuart Davis.” Art History 33, no. 1 (2010): 98–123
- Pawley, Christine. Reading Places: Literacy, Democracy, and the Public Library in Cold War America. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2010. Wisconsin
- Pontikes, Elizabeth, Negro, Giacomo, Rao, Hayagreeva. “Stained red: A study of stigma by association to blacklisted artists during the Red Scare in Hollywood, 1945 to 1960.” American Sociological Review 75, no. 3 (2010): 456–78
- Richmond, Yale. “Cultural exchange and the Cold War: How the West won.” American Communist History 9, no. 1 (2010): 61–75
- Robé, Christopher. “The Good Fight: The Spanish Civil War and U.S. left film criticism.” Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media 51, no. 1 (2010): 79–107
- Robé, Chris. Left of Hollywood: Cinema, Modernism, and the Emergence of U.S. Radical Film Culture. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2010. Contents include: “Eisenstein in America: the Que viva México! debates and emergent Popular Front U.S. film theory and criticism”; “Screening race: the antilynching film, the black press, and U.S. Popular Front film criticism.”
- Rodimtseva, Irina V. “On the Hollywood chain gang: The screen version of Robert E. Burns’ I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang! and penal reform of the 1930s–1940s.” Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory 66, no. 3. (2010), 123–46
- Roll, Jarod. Spirit of Rebellion: Labor and Religion in the New Cotton South. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2010. Includes discussion of: Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union, Alabama Sharecroppers’ Union, Louisiana Farmers’ Union, Owen Whitfield
- Rosswurm, Steve. “The contextualization of a moment in CIO history: The Mine-Mill battle in the Connecticut Brass Valley during World War II.” In Rethinking U.S. Labor History: Essays on the Working-Class Experience, 1756–2009, Donna Haverty-Stacke, Daniel J. Walkowitz, eds. New York: Continuum, 2010
- Rottenberg, Catherine. “Writing from the margins of the margins: Michael Gold's Jews without Money and Claude McKay's Home to Harlem.” MELUS: The Journal of the Society for the Study of the Multi- Ethnic Literature of the United States 35, no. 1 (2010): 119–40
- Rubio, Philip F. “Fighting Jim Crow and McCarthyism (1947–1954).” In There's Always Work at the Post Office: African American Postal Workers and the Fight for Jobs, Justice, and Equality. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010
- Sakmyster, Thomas. “The Lautner affair and the American Communist Party. American Communist History 9, no. 3 (2010): 257–91
- Schrank, Sarah. “Public art at the global crossroads: The politics of place in 1930s Los Angeles.” Journal of Social History 44, no. 2 (2010): 435–57. “ … artworks by David Siqueiros, Myer Shaffer, and Sabato Rodia … ”
- Scipes, Kim. “War within labor: The struggle to build international labor solidarity.” In AFL-CIO's Secret War against Developing Country Workers: Solidarity or Sabotage? Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2010
- Sears, John Bennett. “Peace work: The antiwar tradition in American labor from the Cold War to the Iraq War.” Diplomatic History 34, no. 4 (2010): 699–720
- Scott, Henry E. Shocking True Story: The Rise and Fall of Confidential, America's Most Scandalous Scandal Magazine. New York: Pantheon Books, 2010. “ … and its editor, a former Communist Party member who … became a virulent Red-hunter, combined to make the magazine the perfect confluence of explosive ingredients that reflected the America of its time.”
- Segaloff, Nat. The Waldorf Conference. (Electronic audio book.) Venice, CA: L.A. Theatre Works; Boulder, CO: Made available electronically by NetLibrary, 2010. “ … a drama about a meeting of the “Hollywood moguls” at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in Nov. 1947, which paved the way for the blacklisting of alleged Communists … and HUAC 87 minutes
- Selverstone, Marc J. “A literature so immense: The historiography of anticommunism.” Magazine of History 24, no. 4 (2010): 7–11
- Sitkoff, Harvard. “African American militancy in the World War II South: Another perspective.” In Toward Freedom Land: The Long Struggle for Racial Equality in America. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2010
- Smith, Anthony Burke. The Look of Catholics: Portrayals in Popular Culture from the Great Depression to the Cold War. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2010. Includes: “The Catholic front: religion, reform, and culture in Depression-era America”; and “Performing Catholicism in an age of consensus: Fulton J. Sheen, television, and postwar America.”
- Smith, David A. “American nightmare: Images of brainwashing, thought control, and terror in Soviet Russia.” Journal of American Culture 33, no. 3 (2010): 217–29
- Shaw, Tony. “The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming (1966): Reconsidering Hollywood's Cold War “turn” of the 1960s.” Film History: An International Journal 22, no. 2 (2010): 235–50
- Spear, Michael. “The struggle to build a progressive urban politics: Frank Barbaro's 1981 New York City mayoral campaign.” New York History 91, no. 1 (2010): 45–69. Communists played a significant role in this campaign
- Srebrnik, Henry Felix. Dreams of Nationhood: American Jewish Communists and the Soviet Birobidzhan Project, 1924–1951. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2010
- Stepan-Norris, Judith, Southworth, Caleb. “Rival unionism and membership growth in the United States, 1900 to 2005: A special case of inter-organizational competition.” American Sociological Review 75, no. 2 (2010): 227–41. One factor assessed “was the effect of left-wing political culture using the popular vote for socialist and communist candidates in presidential elections.”
- Stevens, Jason W. God-fearing and Free: A Spiritual History of America's Cold War. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2010
- Thomas, Lorrin. “How to represent the postwar migration: The liberal establishment, the Puerto Rican Left, and the Puerto Rican problem.” In Puerto Rican Citizen: History and Political Identity in Twentieth-Century New York City. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010
- Vaisse, Justin. Neoconservatism: The Biography of a Movement. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010
- Ward, Nathan. Dark Harbor: The War for the New York Waterfront. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010. Chapters include: “Dov’ è Panto” and “Communists and newsmen.” Jim Longhi is a prominent source
- Weinberg, Carl R. “Salt of the Earth: Labor, film, and the Cold War.” Magazine of History 24, no. 4 (2010): 41–5
- White, Ahmed A. “Industrial terrorism and the unmaking of New Deal labor law.” (2010). 67 pp. (http://works.bepress.com/ahmed_white/1)
- Williams, Brandon Kirk. “Labor's Cold War missionaries: The IFPCW's transnational mission for the Third World's petroleum and chemical workers, 1954–1975.” Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas 7, no. 4 (2010): 45–69. “ … the International Federation of Petroleum and Chemical Workers … maintained international offices from 1954 to 1975 … ties to the [CIA] … .”
- Williams, Charles. “Reconsidering CIO political culture: Briggs Local 212 and the sources of militancy in the early UAW.” Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas 7, no. 4 (2010): 17–43. Role of Socialists [Emil Mazey] and Trotskyists
- Wolfe, Audra. “What does it mean to go public? The American response to Lysenkoism, reconsidered.” Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences 40, no. 1 (2010): 48–78
- Womack, John, Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne. “Dreams of revolution: Oklahoma, 1917.” Monthly Review 62, no. 6 (2010): 42–56. A failed socialist uprising—also discusses its later Communist Popular Front reception
- Yannella, Philip R. American Literature in Context after 1929. New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. Includes: “The Depression and the early 1940s”; “Anti-Communism.”
- Zelizer, Julian E. “Rethinking the history of American conservatism.” Reviews in American History 38, no. 2 (2010): 367–92
Dissertations and Selected Theses
- Ansari, Emily Theodosia Abrams. “Masters of the president's music: Cold War composers and the United States government.” Harvard (2010)
- Balthaser, Benjamin. “I see foundations shaking: Transnational modernism from the Great Depression to the Cold War.” Univ. of California, San Diego, 2010. “ … how African-American, Native American, Chicano/a, and working-class writers and filmmakers during the Great Depression engaged in a transnational modernist movement that … [challenged the] … dominant modernist aesthetic of a previous generation … [adopting] … a southward-looking transnational vision of multiethnic solidarity … .viewed the Americas as a new source of inspiration, with Mexico City and Havana as centers of intellectual production and experimentation. As a project of cultural recovery, I rely extensively on archival material, including … farm labor and literary journals from California such as UCAPAWA News, The Agricultural Worker … [Authors discussed include Josephine Herbst, Langston Hughes, Carey McWilliams, Clifford Odets, Emma Tenayuca, Richard Wright.] … ”
- Carriere, Michael H. “Between being and becoming: On architecture, student protest, and the aesthetics of liberalism in postwar America.” Univ. of Chicago (2010). “ … the relationship between liberalism, modernism and the postwar American college campus … their robust modernist design … served as a visual reminder of American potency in the postwar struggle against global communism … would also come to be viewed as symbols by … student protesters—or groups that came to challenge postwar liberalism …
- Cashbaugh, Sean Francis. “A popular front, a popular future: the emergence of a radical science fiction.” M.A. Thesis (103 pp.). Univ. of Texas, Austin, (2010). “ … during the 1930s … one group of fans embraced Communism and hoped to politicize science fiction … The Michelists, as they called themselves … advocating a unique Marxist understanding of science fiction … situates them within the Popular Front … ”
- Cirelli, Gary. “Building the absent argument: The impact of anti-communism on the development of Marxist historical analysis within the historical profession of the United States, 1940–1960.” MA, Bowling Green State Univ. 2010
- Cohn, Erin Park. “Art fronts: Visual culture and race politics in the mid-twentieth-century United States.” Univ. of Pennsylvania (2010). “ … political lives and cultural productions of a generation of visual artists … who seized on the Depression-era ethos of art as a weapon to forge a … visual activism that agitated for … equality for African Americans … from the early days of the Depression, when artists affiliated with the Communist Party … ”
- Dail, Chrystyna Marta. “Theatrical militants: Stage for Action and social activist performance, 1943–1953.” Univ. of Maryland, College Park, 2010. “Stage for Action … a group which dramatiz[es] current problems and [is] patterned after the Living Newspaper technique. From their original theme of supporting the war effort to … tackling post-war issues [including HUAC] … operated in at least nine cities … was funded by or had a direct connection to the Jewish People's Fraternal Order, the CIO Teachers’ Union, the United Electrical Workers, the Furriers Union, Transport Union, National Maritime Union, and Department Store Workers’ Union
- Devers, Rebecca Allison. “The Iron Curtain in the picture window: The Cold War home in American fiction and popular culture.” Univ. of Connecticut, 2010. “ … Readings of literary texts by … Lorraine Hansberry … ”
- Fitzloff, Chad L. “The limits of American labor's influence on the Cold War free labor movement: a case study of Irving Brown and the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions in Tunisia and Algeria.” Thesis (M. A.): Kansas State Univ. (2010)
- Garrison, Justin David. “An empire of ideals: The chimeric imagination of Ronald Reagan.” The Catholic Univ. of America (2010). “ … his vision has much in common with important Marxist ideas. The political theories of both men have strong elements of Gnosticism … ”
- Hardy, Travis J. “The Consanguinity of ideas: Race and anti-communism in the U.S. —Australian Relationship, 1933—1953.” Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, 2010
- Hellstein, Valerie. “Grounding the social aesthetics of Abstract Expressionism: A new intellectual history of “The Club’,” State Univ. of New York at Stony Brook (2010). “the artists’ weekly discussions suggest … that this social community embodied anarchist mutual aid … I recover … the communitarian impulses … While Abstract Expressionism has come to signify heroic individuality and Cold War patriarchy, I … suggest that it signifies … radical community that … puts Abstract Expressionism … within the reformulation of Leftist politics that began after World War II … ”
- Hoefer, Peter D., “A David against Goliath: The American Veterans Committee's challenge to the American Legion in the 1950s.” Univ. of Maryland, College Park (2010). “ … despite suffering heavy membership losses after purging the Communist Party from its ranks … [it] survived … to defend and advance the New Deal legacy … ”
- Jewell, Katherine Rye. “As dead as Dixie: The Southern States Industrial Council and the end of the New South, 1933–1954.” Boston Univ., 2010
- Lane, Julie B. “Richard Rovere and the American conscience.” Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, 2010. “ … This dissertation explores how Rovere made this transition from a student radical and editor for the CP-affiliated New Masses to a political critic with close ties to the Establishment … ”
- Lucander, David. “It is a new kind of militancy: March on Washington Movement, 1941–1946.” Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst, 2010. Extensive discussion of Communism
- Mendes, Gabriel N. “A deeper science: Richard Wright, Dr. Fredric Wertham, and the fight for mental healthcare in Harlem, NY, 1940–1960.” Brown Univ., 2010
- Petrulis, Jason. “America the brand: Advertising the American Way.” Columbia Univ. (2010) “ … United States government officials and corporate marketers worked together to sell World War II and the early Cold War using idea advertising … ”
- Petrus, Stephen. “To break down the walls: The politics and culture of Greenwich Village, 1955—1965.” City Univ. of New York, (2010). “ … focusing on the Village Voice, Judson Memorial Church, the Village Independent Democrats, and the Living Theatre … ”
- Pye, David Kenneth. “Legal subversives: African American lawyers in the Jim Crow South.” Univ. of California, San Diego, 2010. Non-NAACP focus, Angelo Herndon, etc
- Rey, Josue. “The civil war of ideas: Ayn Rand, intellectual freedom, and the regulation of thought in the Soviet Union and United States, 1905–1943.” Florida International Univ., 2010. “ … Rand as a freethinker allows me to examine her anticommunism as a reaction against Leninism and to consider the relation of her ideas to Marxism … Rand, as Marx, opposed the State … From 1926 to 1943, Rand … determined her opposition first to the New Deal liberals and second business conservatives. To these ends, Marxism and Protestantism served Rand's individualism … ”
- Sidorick, Sharon McConnell. “Silk stockings and socialism: Class, community, and labor feminism in Kensington, Philadelphia, 1919–1940.” Temple Univ., 2010. “ … A left-wing-Socialist-led union, the [American Federation of Hosiery Workers] developed a subculture of radicalism … ”
- Strait, Kevin Michael Angelo. “A tone parallel. Jazz music, leftist politics, and the counter-minstrel narrative, 1930–1970. George Washington Univ. (2010). “ … “modern” incarnations of jazz … as a product of the leftist … values that circulated amongst black public intellectuals during the New Deal. Understanding jazz as a product of the Popular Front offers insight … .”
- Waisanen, Don J. “I once was lost, but now am found … politically: Conversion narratives as deliberative forms in American public discourse.” Univ. of Southern California, 2010. “ … Three intertextual autobiographies are examined: Whittaker Chambers's Witness (1952), Norman Podhoretz's Breaking Ranks (1979), and David Horowitz's Radical Son (1997) … ”
- Workman, Stanley E., Jr. “Hanns Eisler and his ‘Hollywood Songbook’”: A survey of the “Five Elegies” (Fuenf Elegien) and the ‘Hoelderlin Fragments’ (“Hoelderlin Fragmente”). Ohio State Univ., 2010
- Wright, Trudi Ann. “Labor takes the stage: A musical and social analysis of “Pins and Needles” (1937–1941).” Univ. of Colorado at Boulder (2010). “ … links between organized labor … and left- wing politics caused the show's makers to clearly express … their distaste for Communism … to moderate public perceptions of the ILGWU's former Communist background … .”
- Zarnow, Leandra Ruth. “A very simple sense of justice: Bella Abzug, Jewish radicalism, and the legal left from the Popular Front to the Cold War.” Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, 2010
- Zimmer, Kenyon. “The whole world is our country: Immigration and anarchism in the United States, 1885–1940.” Univ. of Pittsburgh, 2010
Conference materials
- AHA (American Historical Association, January 7–10, San Diego, CA)
- OAH (Organization of American Historians, April 7–10, Washington, DC)
- PCA/ACA (Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, Mar 31–Apr 3, St. Louis, MO)
- THSC (The Historical Society Conference, George Washington University, Washington, DC, June 3–5, 2010)
Panels
- “Conservatism in the 1960s.” (OAH). Race is only a minor concern: White resistance and the concealment of race in the Civil Rights Era South / Stephanie Rolph, Georgia Southwestern State Univ. —Tracing the culture wars in the 1960s: Richard Nixon and the shift in evangelical politics from anti-Catholic to anti-secular / Daniel Williams, Univ. of West Georgia—Girded with a moral and spiritual revival: The Christian Anti-Communism Crusade and conservative politics / Laura Gifford, George Fox Univ. — Comment: Jonathan Schoenwald
- “From National to transnational: The frontiers of Cold War United States labor.” (OAH). More subtle than we knew: The AFL in the British Caribbean / Robert Anthony Waters, Jr., Ohio Northern Univ. —George McCray's imprint on the African Labor College: The refraction of AFL-CIO labor policy through an African American activist / Yevette Richards, George Mason Univ. —From dollars to deeds: AFL foreign policy against Nazism and Communism, 1934–1945 / Geert van Goethem, American Institute of Social History, Ghent, Belgium—The American Federation of Labor campaign against “slave labor” and the Cold War: Interrelationships between labor and government in the United States and Europe / Quenby Hughes, Rhode Island College – Comment: Peter Hahn
- “Investigators and Witnesses: The House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) revisited.” (OAH). Chair: John Earl Haynes, Library of Congress—Terminal hearing: The House Committee on Un-American Activities and the death of Jerry J. O’Connell / Vernon Pedersen, Univ. of Great Falls—Cold War patriarch: The several lives of FBI informant Herbert Philbrick / Veronica Wilson, Univ. of Pittsburgh, Johnstown—Behind the curtain: HUAC Investigator Robert Stripling and the Alger Hiss case / Jason Roberts, Northern Virginia Community College—Comment: Dan Leab, Seton Hall Univ
- “Lewis A. Coser Memorial Lecture and Salon.” American Sociological Association, Atlanta, GA, August 14–17 (2010)
- “The Long Civil Rights Movement: A Roundtable.” Chair: Eric Arnesen, George Washington Univ.—Patricia Sullivan, Univ. of South Carolina—J. Mills Thornton, Univ. of Michigan—Beth Bates, Wayne State Univ. —Robert Korstad, Duke Univ. —James Leloudis, Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (THSC)
- “The only union in the Country people are suing to get into: Francis Murnane and the history of racism in Portland's ILWU Local 8.” Moderator: Michael Munk; Norman Parks, retired officer of ILWU Local 8; Chris Colie, retired member of ILWU Local 8; Sandy Polishuk; Paul Meyer, attorney for the Black longshoremen's 1968 suit against racial discrimination in Local 8. Pacific Northwest Labor History Association Annual Conference, Portland, Oregon, June 11–13, 2010
- “Radical Talk and Legal Thought: A Fresh Perspective on Free Speech and Suppression in Early. Twentieth-Century America.” (OAH). Chair: Melvin Urofskyi, Virginia Commonwealth Univ.—Anarchists in America: The emergence of free speech consciousness and free speech defenders (1901–1910) / Julia Rose Kraut, New York Univ. —The communist contribution to constitutional law / Jennifer Uhlmann, Washington Univ., St. Louis—The time to kill a snake: Gitlow v. New York and the bad tendency doctrine / Marc Lendler, Smith College— Comment: David Rabban, The Univ. of Texas School of Law
- “Radical Women of Color as Organic Intellectuals.” (OAH). Chair: Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Harvard Univ. —Thinking dialectically: Grace Lee Boggs and the legacy of C.L.R. James /. Scott Kurashige, Univ. of Michigan—Claudia Jones and the West Indian Gazette / Clarissa Atkinson, independent scholar—Black women radicals’ intellectual thought and activism during the 1950s / Dayo Gore, Univ. of Massachusetts
- “Rethinking the Cold War at Home.” (THSC). Chair: Eric Arnesen, George Washington Univ. — McCarthy and the 50s: Friends or foes / Richard Fried, Univ. of Illinois—The Cold War as the triumph of New Deal liberalism / Jennifer Delton, Skidmore College—The ‘opportunites lost’ thesis reconsidered: What, precisely, did the demise of the Communist left mean for civil rights in America? / Eric Arnesen, George Washington Univ
- “The Varieties of Progressive Politics in the New Deal Era.” (OAH). Chair: Alan Brinkley, Columbia Univ. —Outside and inside: What impact did mass movements really have on the New Deal? / Doug Rossinow, Metropolitan State Univ. —The political culture of American anti-fascism / John Enyeart, Bucknell Univ. —The black challenge to the red, white, and blue: What impact did the black left have redefining democracy during the New Deal? / Beth Bates, Wayne State Univ
Presentations
- Aigner, Peter, College of Staten Island, CUNY. “Mensheviks abroad: The secret career of Sol Levitas and the early Cold War” (THSC)
- Carol Anderson, Emory Univ. “Freedom fighters on the Cold War plantation: The histories of African Americans’ anticolonialism.” THSC (2010)
- Berkowitz, Aaron, Lincoln Land Community College. “Holy hours for Khrushchev: Prayer as a form of anti-communist protest.” (THSC)
- Birkhold, Matthew, Binghamton (SUNY). “Eventually they’ll have to move the factory out of Detroit or give it to us: The rise and demise of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers.” (AHA). “ … I examine the influence of Marxist–Leninist thought on the black liberation movement … ”
- Birkhold, Matthew, Binghamton (SUNY). “Masquerading as Lenin in October: Black Marxist-Leninist organizations and the end of Black Power.” (OAH)
- Boyett, Patricia Michelle, Buzard Univ. of Southern Mississippi. “A Mississippi mockingbird: The legal lynching of Willie McGee, 1945–51.” (AHA). Role of the Civil Rights Congress
- Chapman, Roger, Palm Beach Atlantic Univ. “The lion, the witch and the Cold War: The anti-Soviet sentiment in the fairy tales of C.S. Lewis” (PCA/ACA)
- Duncan, Stephen, Univ. of Maryland, “The new saloon: Oppositional politics and humor in New York's nightclub culture, 1954–1969.” International Graduate Student Conference on the Cold War, George Washington Univ., Washington, DC
- Edwards, Mark, Ouachita Baptist Univ. “Responsible freedom: Liberal Protestant ecumenism as Cold War counterculture.” OAH (2010)
- Fones-Wolf, Elizabeth, Fones-Wolf, Kenneth, Univ. of West Virginia, “White working-class Protestants and the failure of Operation Dixie” (THSC)
- Frazier, Robeson T.P., Univ. of Southern California. “Winter on the equator: The successes and failures of Robert Williams’ personal propaganda machine.” (AHA). RW, Cuba, China
- Gifford, Laura, George Fox Univ. “Girded with a moral and spiritual revival: The Christian Anti-Communism Crusade and conservative politics.” (OAH). 1960s
- Goedde, Petra, Temple Univ. “The World Peace Council and visions of global community on the political left.” (AHA). “ … in April 1949, the World Peace Council [first] convened … for this meeting that Pablo Picasso created the first version of his … peace dove.”
- Hausmann, John, Univ. of Louisville. “‘The Russians are coming!’: Revisiting Shostakovich and Cold War politics on the 50th anniversary of his trip to Louisville.” (PCA/ACA)
- Haynes, John Earl, Library of Congress. “Making new sources accessible: A digital concordance to Cold War intelligence records.” (THSC)
- Hobson, Emily, Univ. of Southern California. “Gay Liberation through socialist revolution: Anti-capitalism and a lesbian and gay left.” (AHA). 1970s
- Janiewski, Dolores, Victoria Univ., Wellington. “Patriots and parlor pinks: Patrioteering, surveillance, and the long red scare, 1915–1941.” (OAH)
- Lewis, Joel A., Central Michigan Univ. “We have the children at heart: Eugene Debs and socialist youth culture.” (PCA/ACA). Progressive Era
- Manthorne, Jason, Univ. of Georgia. “The union merely shows the way: Grassroots organizing and the Southern Tenant Farmers Union.” (OAH)
- Nemeth, Julian, Brandeis Univ. “Academic freedom from left to right: The case of Lewis Feuer.” (OAH)
- Osgood, Kenneth, Florida Atlantic Univ. “Advertising, anticommunism, and the making of the Cold War consensus in the United States, 1950–71.” (AHA). “ … the Crusade for Freedom … linked the CIA to the Advertising Council, conservative organizations … ”
- Orr, Elizabeth. “Rethinking protest: Alice Childress and Richard Wright.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the 34th Annual National Council for Black Studies, New Orleans, LA, Mar 17, 2010
- Pearson, Chad, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville. “What's so new about the New Right”? Rethinking the origins of postwar anti-unionism.” (OAH)
- Petenbrink, Eric W., Indiana Univ. “New blood for the Old Left: The W.E.B. DuBois Clubs of America and the struggle for a communist youth movement in the 1960s.” (PCA/ACA)
- Roberts, Jason D., North Virginia Community College. “Todd Gitlin, David Horowitz, and the debate over the Weathermen.” (PCA/ACA)
- Slagle, Mark. “Mightier than the sword? The black press and the end of racial segregation in the U.S. military, 1948–1954.” Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2010. Sections include: “The Black press and Communism”; “The National Conference on Negro Affairs”; “Nuts to Mr. Robeson”; “Calling the Red bluff.”
- Taylor, Clarence, Baruch College. “The New York City Teachers’ Union and civil rights” (THSC)
- van Goethem, Geert, Institute of Social History, Ghent, Belgium. “From dollars to deeds: AFL foreign policy against Nazism and Communism, 1934–1945.” (OAH)
- Wall, Wendy L., Queen's Univ., Kingston, Ontario. “One nation under God: religion, nationalism, and global politics during World War II and the Cold War.” (AHA) “de-racing of white ethnics (Catholics, Jews), and their incorporation into a pluralistic “American Way.”
- Woessner, Martin, City College of New York, Center for Worker Education (CUNY), “The challenge to the West: Charles Malik, human rights, and the Cold War” (THSC)