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United States Communist History Bibliography 2018

Peter Meyer Filardo
Pages 97-168 | Received 04 Jan 2019, Accepted 01 Mar 2019, Published online: 14 May 2019

Reference and primary sources

  • ——, “Amiri Baraka [1913–1998] Papers: Poet laureate of the Black Power Movement.” The Journal of Pan African Studies 11, no. 2 (2018): 225–32. “This collection of Amiri Baraka materials was made available by Dr Komozi Woodard (professor of history, Sarah Lawrence College). He collected these documents during his career as an activist in Newark, New Jersey. The collection consists of rare works of poetry, organizational records, print publications, over one hundred articles, poems, plays, and speeches by Baraka, a small amount of personal correspondence, and oral histories. The collection has been arranged into seventeen series: (1) Black Arts Movement; (2) Black Nationalism; (3) Correspondence; (4) Newark (New Jersey); (5) Congress of African People; (6) National Black Conferences and National Black Assembly; (7) Black Women’s United Front; (8) Student Organization for Black Unity; (9) African Liberation Support Committee; (10) Revolutionary Communist League; (11) African Socialism; (12) Black Marxists; (13) National Black United Front; (14) Miscellaneous Materials, 1978–1988; (15) Serial Publications; (16) Oral Histories; (17) Woodard’s Office Files. The dates range is between 1913 and 1998 with 9297 images via the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System (Komozi Woodard Amiri Baraka Papers, Archives Division).”
  • ——, “Bibliography.” International Review of Social History 63, no. 1 (2018): 171–99. Monographs only. See section on the United States.
  • ——, “Bibliography.” International Review of Social History 58, no. 1 (2018): 171–99. Monographs only.
  • ——, Marxists Internet Archive: What’s New. Recently uploaded items include materials by American members of the anti-communist left, including Grace Carlson and Sol Dollinger. (https://www.marxists.org/admin/new/index.htm).
  • ——, Political Extremism & Radicalism in the Twentieth Century: Far-Right and Left Political Groups in the U.S., Europe and Australia. (Farmington Hills, MI: Gale, 2018). “…contains more than 600,000 pages and more than 42 audio histories with full transcripts…”
  • ——. “Recent books in film history.” Film History: An International Journal 30, no. 2 (2018): 199–207.
  • ——, “Waldorf Astoria archives: Long-forgotten artifacts [mostly ephemera] give incredible insight into New York’s most glamorous hotel.” Atlas Obscura, e-journal (February 18, 2018). Site of the notorious Communist-sponsored “Scientific and Cultural Conference for World Peace,” March 25–27, 1949. Note: General Douglas MacArthur lived at the Waldorf Astoria after his return from Korea.
  • ——, Writers under Surveillance: The FBI Files (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2018). Contents: Hannah Arendt – Isaac Asimov – James Baldwin – Ray Bradbury – Truman Capote – Allen Ginsberg – Ernest Hemingway – Aldous Huxley – Ken Kesey – Norman Mailer – Susan Sontag – Terry Southern – Hunter S. Thompson – Gore Vidal – Howard Zinn.
  • Jennifer Atkins, Sally R. Sommer, editors, Perspectives on American Dance: The Twentieth Century (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2018). “…focuses on dance and its social, cultural, and political constructs.”
  • Barry J. Balleck, Modern American Extremism and Domestic Terrorism: An Encyclopedia of Extremists and Extremist Groups (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2018). Includes “…the anti-communist rhetoric and activities of the John Birch Society…”
  • Lean’tin Bracks, The Complete Encyclopedia of African American History (Chalfont, PA: African American Publications, 2018). 4v.
  • Alice Calaprice, Daniel Kennefick, Robert Schulmann, Einstein Encyclopedia (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018). See Part III: Identity and Principles.
  • CARR: Center for the Analysis of the Radical Right [apparently founded 2018]. (http://www.radicalrightanalysis.com/about/). “…CARR will be the leading information aggregator and knowledge repository on the radical right, past and present…will feature work by academic experts on the radical right in Europe, the US and beyond. Research Fellows will write blogs, add bibliographic content, contribute video blogs and podcasts; and above all, to make themselves available for media commentary, stakeholder consultation and policy formulation…emphasis is placed upon the public dissemination of specialist insights and research on this resurgent phenomenon…” Contents: Books, Dissertation and theses – Articles in journals and collections – Conference papers, working papers, and preprints – Reports – Research projects – Conference programs and abstracts – Legislation and proposed legislation – Book reviews – Film reviews – Interviews – News accounts – Blog posts and opinion pieces – Timelines and chronologies – Databases – Maps, charts, and infographics – videos and podcasts.
  • Bryan Conn, Tara Bynum, editors, Encyclopedia of African-American Writing: Five Centuries of Contribution: Trials & Triumphs of Writers, Poets, Publications and Organizations (Amenia, NY: Grey House Publishing, 2018).
  • William J. Connell, Stanislao G. Pugliese, editors, The Routledge History of Italian Americans (New York: Routledge, 2018). Contents include: From margins to vanguard to mainstream: Italian Americans and the labor movement/Marcella Bencivenni – The Sacco and Vanzetti case and the psychology of political violence/Michael Topp – Fascism and anti-fascism in Italian America/Stanislao G. Pugliese.
  • Jonathan S. Cullick, “Willie Stark was not Huey Long.” In Robert Penn Warren’s All the King’s Men: A Reader’s Companion (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2018).
  • John Davies, Alexander Kent, The Red Atlas: How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped the World (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018).
  • Andrew Delapaine, Lillian Hellman: The Cambridge Book of Essential Quotations (New York: Gramercy Park Press, 2018).
  • Peter Meyer Filardo, “United States Communist history bibliography and selective international Communist history bibliography, 2017.” American Communist History 17, no. 1 (2018): 33–118.
  • Paul Finkelman, editor, Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties (New York: Routledge, 2018). 3 v.
  • Fyodor Firsov, The Secret History of the Comintern Codes, 1919–1943 (Berlin: Book on Demand, 2018).
  • Anne Fletcher, Felicia Hardison Londre, Decades of Modern American Drama: Playwriting from the 1930s to 2009, 8v.; one for each decade (London: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018).
  • Craig Martin Gibbs, Field Recordings of Black Singers and Musicians: An Annotated Discography of Artists from West Africa, the Caribbean, and the Eastern and Southern United States (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2018).
  • Edward Goedeken, “The literature of American library history, 2014–2015.” Information & Culture: A Journal of History 53, no. 1 (2018): 85–120.
  • Mitchell K. Hall, editor, Opposition to War: An Encyclopedia of U.S. Peace and Antiwar Movements, 2v. (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2018).
  • Patricia Hall, editor, The Oxford Handbook of Music Censorship (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018). Contents include: Censorship and the politics of reception: The filmic afterlife of Marc Blitzstein’s The Cradle Will Rock/David C. Paul – Pete Seeger’s project/Dick Flacks – Government censorship and Aaron Copland’s Lincoln Portrait during the second Red Scare/Jennifer De Lapp Birkett.
  • Phillip L. Hammack, The Oxford Handbook of Social Psychology and Social Justice (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018).
  • Ernest Hemingway; Sandra Whipple Spanier, Miriam B. Mandel, editors, The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, Volume 4, 1929–1931 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018).
  • Thomas S. Hischak, editor, Woody Allen Encyclopedia (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2018).
  • Dolores Janiewski, Hayden Thorne, Cold War Supreme Court: Analyzing the Change in Constitutional Interpretation between Dennis v. U.S. (1951) and Yates (1957) (Victoria: University of Wellington, 2018). Internet Resource; Archival Material
  • Edward H. Judge, John W. Langdon, editors, The Cold War through Documents: A Global History, 3rd edition (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2018).
  • Benjamin Knysak, “Musical information in a new land: Immigrant music periodicals in the United States, part two: 1931–2000.” Notes 74, no. 4 (2018): 543–73.
  • Vassiliki Kolocotroni and Olga Taxidou, editors, The Edinburgh Dictionary of Modernism (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018).
  • Kelli A. Larson, “Current bibliography.” The Hemingway Review, 38, no. 1 (2018): 157–71.
  • Melanie Lefkowitz, “Documents illuminate U.S. Yiddish-speaking life until the Cold War.” “Newly digitized documents from the archives of the International Workers’ Order (IWO) and the Jewish People’s Fraternal Order (JPFO)…are part of the Cornell Library’s Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives in the ILR School.” For a more complete description, see: (http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2018/06/documents-illuminate-us-yiddish-speaking-life-until-cold-war)
  • James Benjamin Loeffler, Rooted Cosmopolitans: Jews and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018).

  • Salvador Jiminez Murguia, editor, Encyclopedia of Racism in American Film (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2018). Brief entries on approximately 250 films.
  • James Stuart Olson, Mariah Gumpert, editors, The 1960s: Key Themes and Documents (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2018).
  • Christopher Sebastian Parker, “The radical right in the United States of America.” In The Oxford Handbook of the Radical Right (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018).
  • Jerald E. Podair, Darren E. Dochuk, editors, The Routledge History of the Twentieth-Century United States (New York: Routledge, 2018). Chapters, all with the subtitle “a historiographical survey,” include: The Great Depression and New Deal/Mason B. Williams – World War II/John McCallum – The Cold War era/Gene Zubovich – The 1960s:/Doug Rossinow – Politics of liberalism and conservatism/Jennifer Delton – Labor and working-class/Jon Shelton – African American and civil rights/Clarence Taylor.
  • Murray Pomerance, Lester D. Friedman, series editors, Screen Decades: Complete 11 Volume Set, American Cinema from the 1890 s to the 2000s. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2018).
  • Kimberley Reynolds, Jane Rosen, Reading and Rebellion: An Anthology of Radical Writing for Children, 1900–1960 (Kettering: Oxford University Press, 2018).
  • David H. Richter, Companion to Literary Theory (Chichester, West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2018). Includes essays on Marx, the Frankfurt School, and Althusser.
  • Steven Jay Rubin, The Twilight Zone Encyclopedia (Chicago: Chicago Review Press Incorporated, 2018). This 1959–1964 TV show challenged, in various fictional episodes, conformity, conservatism, prejudice, intolerance of minority opinion, etc., at times with coded reference to McCarthyism and anti-Communism.
  • Jennifer Schuessler, “Portrait of a marriage: On stage and at the barricades.” The archive of Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis, now at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture…” New York Times (November 12, 2018).
  • Sebastian Simcox, Elia Kazan: The Cambridge Book of Essential Quotations (New York: Gramercy Park Press, 2018).
  • William Solomon, editor, Cambridge Companion to American Literature of the 1930s (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018). Contents: Marxist literary debates in the 1930s/Alan Wald – Aesthetics and politics of the depression era/Matthew Stratton – Architects of history: Politics and experimentalism in American writing of the 1930s/Catherine Morley – Radical politics and experimental poetics in the 1930s/Ruth Jennison – “I plan to send you some pictures”: Documenting the 1930s in cold blood/Paula Rabinowitz – Songs of social significance: A theatre of the depression era/Ilka Saal – Literature and labor/Laura Hapke – Transgression and redemption in the 1930s/Thomas J. Ferraro – The race radical thrust of ethnic proletarian literature in the 1930s/Chris Vials – African American historical writing in the depression/Nathaniel Mills – Popular fiction in the 1930s/Jennifer Haytock and William Solomon – Performance and politics in the 1930s/William Solomon – Remembering the 1930s in contemporary historical fiction/Caren Irr.
  • Josef Stalin; David V. Reynolds, Vladimir Pechatnov, editors, Kremlin Letters: Stalin’s Wartime Correspondence with Churchill and Roosevelt (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018). “Stalin exchanged more than six hundred messages…during the Second World War… from intimate personal greetings to…salvos about diplomacy and strategy…”
  • Michael Taber, John Ridell, The Communist Movement at a Crossroads: Plenums of the Communist International’s Executive Committee, 1922–1923 (Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2018).
  • Karen Taborn, Walking Harlem: The Ultimate Guide to the Cultural Capital of Black America (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2018).
  • Vincent Terrace, Encyclopedia of Unaired Television Pilots, 1945–2018, Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2018). The lack of a chronological index limits its usefulness.
  • Rosemarie Botts Tong, Feminist Thought: A More Comprehensive Introduction (Fifth Edition) (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2018).
  • Lionel Trilling; Adam Kirsch, editor, Life in Culture: Selected Letters of Lionel Trilling (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018). “…Trilling’s letters add up to an intimate portrait of a great critic, and of America’s intellectual journey from the political passions of the 1930s to the cultural conflicts of the 1960s and beyond.”
  • Bryan S. Turner, editor, The Wiley Encyclopedia of Social Theory, 5v. (West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell, 2018).
  • Jennifer Ulrich, archivist; Zach Leary, Michael Horowitz, The Timothy Leary Project (New York: Abrams Press, 2018). “The first collection of Timothy Leary’s (1920–1996) selected papers and correspondence opens a window on the ideas that inspired the counterculture of the 1960s and the fascination with LSD that continues to the present…”
  • Akinyele Umoja, Black Power Encyclopedia: From “Black Is Beautiful” to Urban Uprisings (Santa Barbara: Greenwood, 2018).
  • Peter Van Coutren and Ariel Andrew, “Major Steinbeck publications 2016–2017.” Steinbeck Review 15, no. 1 (2018): 80–107.
  • Tom Zaniello, Working Stiffs, Union Maids, Reds, and Riffraff: An Expanded Guide to Films about Labor, 2nd ed. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2018). Book, Internet resource, Computer file. Brief entries on approximately 100+ films.

Biographical and individuals-based works

  • ——, “I Wonder as I Wander: Langston Hughes in the global world” Introduction to the special issue/Tara T. Green, South Atlantic Review 83, no. 1 (2018): 1–3. Contents: with abstracts, listed throughout.
  • ——, “The life, legacy, and activism of Queen Mother Audley Moore.” A thematic issue of Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International 7, no. 2 (2018). Contents: “Guest editors’ introduction: The life, legacy, and activism of Queen Mother Audley Moore”/Ashley D. Farmer, Erik S. McDuffie – To keep alive the teaching of Garvey and the work of the UNIA: Audley Moore, Black women’s activism, and nationalist politics during the twentieth century/Keisha N. Blain – Somebody has to pay: Audley Moore and the modern reparations movement/Ashley D. Farmer – “We owe a debt to her, she taught us how to think: Eloise Moore and her impact on Queen Mother Moore and twentieth-century grassroots Black nationalism/Erik S. McDuffie –Poem for Queen Mother Moore/Sonia Sanchez – “Matriarch of the captive African nation: Recollections of Queen Mother Moore/Akinyele Omowale Umoja – “Queen Mother Moore and the Black Power generation”/Komozi Woodard.
  • ——, “Martin Luther King, Jr.” A thematic issue of Telos 182 (Spring 2018). Contents include: The radical King: Democratic socialism, personal idealism, anti-militarism, and Black Power/Gary Dorrien: 67–84.
  • ——, “Rivers Cosmogram: A memorial marks the library lobby where Langston Hughes’ ashes are buried – The Schomburg Library in Harlem, New York” (Atlas Obscura, online journal)
  • ——, “Overlooked no more: Clara Lemlich Shavelson, crusading leader of labor rights.” New York Times (September 3, 2018). A retrospective obituary…includes discussion of her long-time CPUSA affiliation.
  • ——, “The tragedy of Bayard Rustin: How one of the greatest American socialists ended up on the wrong side of history.” Jacobin Magazine 29 (Spring 2018): 14–17.
  • ——, “Richard Hofstadter: A thematic issue on his The American Political Tradition.” Society 55, no. 2 (2018).
  • Asael Abelman, “The Red Napoleon.” Segula: The Jewish Journey through History 41 (January 2018): 40–51. Trotsky.
  • Nathan Abrams, Stanley Kubrick: New York Jewish Intellectual (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2018). Contents: Looking to killing [The Killing] – The macho mensch – Kubrick’s double – Banality and the bomb [Dr. Strangelove] – Kubrick and Kabbalah – A mechanical mensch – A spatial odyssey [2001: A Space Odyssey] – Interpretation of dreams – Men as meat [Soylent Green] – Coda.
  • David Aikman, “Killing Communism with kindness.” Christianity Today (April 2018): 72–5. Billy Graham.
  • Mark Allison, “Building a Bridge to Nowhere: “[William] Morris, the education of desire, and the party of utopia.” Utopia Studies 29, no. 1 (2018): 44–66.
  • Riccardo Altieri, “Paul Frölich [1884-1953], American exile, and Communist discourse about the Russian Revolution.” American Communist History 17, no. 2 (2018): 220–31. “Paul Frölich was among the most important politicians in the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and later in the Communist Party of Germany Opposition (KPDO) and the Socialist Workers’ Party of Germany (SAPD). His 1939 biography, Rosa Luxemburg: Gedanke und Tat (Paris: Editions Nouvelles Internationales, 1939), also confirms his importance…as [do] the three volumes he edited about Luxemburg’s estate…After his exile to New York in 1941, He broke with Leninism and wrote a critical biography of Stalin.”
  • Mamoun Alzoubi, Richard Wright and Transnationalism: New Dimensions to Modern American Expatriate Literature (New York: Routledge, 2018). Contents include: Richard Wright’s Black Power: The writer as a world citizen. Wright’s harbingers of transnational thought – Black power: The promised land revisited – Constructing community: Overarching global view and philanthropic appeal in Wright’s the color curtain – Wright’s transnational journey from Africa to Asia – The Bandung Conference and the Third World – The color curtain and Wright’s theory of constructing transnationalism – Reviving the Spanish dream for freedom: Civilizations meeting in the ghetto of enlightenment – Wright’s odyssey from America to Africa, Asia, and Europe – Wright’s discourse on Spanish culture, society, religion, and politics – Pagan Spain [1957] and Wright’s transnational, transracial, and universal worldview – Conclusion.
  • Josep M. Armengol, “Black-White relations, in Red: Whiteness as class privilege in Langston Hughes’s The Ways of White Folks.” MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S. 43, no. 1 (2018): 115–33. Discussion on the relative weight of class and race in Hughes’s work.
  • Ron Austin, “Blacklisted.” First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion & Public Life, 281 (2018): 9–12. A personal narrative… the author’s experience of being a blacklisted Communist writer and facing the…U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and being a member of the Young Communist League (YCL) for several years in the 1950s.
  • James Baldwin – See: Alazzia J. Hasty, under Dissertations.
  • Paul A. Baran, Paul M. Sweezy; edited by Nicholas Baran, John Bellamy Foster, The Age of Monopoly Capital: Selected Correspondence of Paul A. Baran and Paul M. Sweezy (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2018).
  • Damon Barta, Philip Roth’s American Pastoral and the culture war: Innocence, nostalgia, and American historiography.” Philip Roth Studies 14, no. 1 (2018): 25–35.
  • Wallace D. Best, Langston [Hughes’s] “Salvation”: American Religion and the Bard of Harlem (New York: New York University Press, 2017). “…includes attention to Hughes’s unpublished religious poems…his writing also needs to be understood within the context of…American religious liberalism and of the larger modernist movement…” “Salvation” is the third chapter of his memoir, The Big Sea.
  • Roger Biles, Mayor Harold Washington: Champion of Race and Reform in Chicago. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2018). [Remnants of the Old Left played a significant role in garnering initial support for his candidacy, including “seed” money.]
  • Norman Birnbaum [1926-], From the Bronx to Oxford and not Quite back, Washington, DC: Vellum, an imprint of New Academia Publishing, 2018). “…a contribution to the history of the Cold War, Dr. Birnbaum having been a…critic of US policy…The author, now the senior member of the editorial board of The Nation, was a founding editor of New Left Review, a member of the editorial board of Partisan Review, and…[h]is… direct experience of public affairs includes…advisory roles with the United Auto Workers and Senator Edward Kennedy…”
  • Howard Blum, In the Enemy’s House: The Secret Saga of the FBI Agent and the Code Breaker who Caught the Russian Spies (New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2018). “In 1946…codebreaker Meredith Gardner discovered that the KGB was running a…network of… spies inside the United States…to…steal the nation’s military and atomic secrets. Over the…next decade, he and young FBI supervisor Bob Lamphere worked together on Venona…”
  • Christopher Bonanos, Flash: The Making of Weegee [1899-1968] the Famous (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2018). Born Arthur Usher Fellig (Ukraine), noted street and crime scenes photographer, some of whose work appeared in PM [1940–48], the…Popular Front NYC tabloid.
  • Richard Bradford, The Man Who Wasn’t there: A Life of Ernest Hemingway (London: I.B. Tauris, 2018).
  • Mark Philip Bradley, “Richard Wright, Bandung, and the poetics of the Third World.” Modern American History 1, no. 1 (2018): 147–50. Published online (access through your institution or public library).
  • Bertolt Brecht, Collected Poems of Bertolt Brecht; David Constantine and Tom Kuhn, translators (New York: Liveright, 2018). “…the most extensive English translation of Brecht’s poetry…Brecht wrote more than two thousand poems—though fewer than half were published in his lifetime, and early translations were heavily censored… [now they] have … translated more than 1,200 poems…Written between 1913 and 1956, these…celebrate…an artist driven by bitter and violent politics, [and]…by…love and erotic desire…”
  • Nick Bromell, editor, A Political Companion to W. E. B. Du Bois (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2018). “…eleven essays, including: W.E.B. Du Bois: Black radical liberal/Charles W. Mills.
  • Howard Bryant, The Heritage: Black Athletes, a Divided America, and the Politics of Patriotism (Boston: Beacon Press, 2018). Includes some discussion of Paul Robeson.
  • Eamonn Butler, Ayn Rand: An Introduction (Washington, DC: Cato Institute, 2018).
  • Mary Schmidt Campbell, An American Odyssey: The Life and Work of Romare Bearden (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018).
  • Russell Campbell, Codename Intelligentsia: The Life and Times of the Honourable Ivor Montagu, Filmmaker, Communist, Spy (Stroud, UK: History Press, 2018). Contents: Prologue – Cambridge – Film culture – The proletarian cause – The film industry – Cultural relations – Subversive cinema – Hollywood – Trotsky – Commitment – Gaumont-British – Fighting fascism – Moscow and Madrid – Agitprop – Espionage – Epilogue. Publisher’s abstract: “…He was a collaborator of Alfred Hitchcock…directed comedies from stories by H.G. Welles…worked in Hollywood with Eisenstein…made documentaries in Spain during the Civil War. He lobbied for Trotsky to be granted asylum in the UK and became a leading propagandist for the anti-fascist and Communist causes. Under the nose of MI5…he became a secret agent of the Comintern and a Soviet spy…”
  • Damian Carpenter, Lead Belly, Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan and American Folk Outlaw Performance (London: Routledge, 2018).
  • Michael Cassella-Blackburn, Radical anti-Communism in American Politics after World War II 1945–1950: William C. Bullitt and the Campaign to Save Nationalist China (Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen, 2018.
  • Christopher Caudwell; David Margolies, editor, Culture as Politics: Selected Writings of Christopher Caudwell [1907–1937] (London: Pluto Press, 2018). [British Communist author and intellectual polymath killed in the Spanish Civil War.]
  • Larry Ceplair, “Ring Lardner, Jr. and the Hollywood blacklist: A new perspective on the perennial struggle against thought control in the United States.” Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television 38, no. 3? (2018): published online, 4 Jul 2018. Best known as an Academy award winning screenwriter (Woman of the Year), he was also the author of a scathing satire of anti-Communism, The Ecstasy of Owen Muir (1954).
  • Larry Ceplair, “The United States government, in the form of the FBI, the Immigration and Naturalization Service, and the House Committee on Un-American Activities versus three alien artists (Charlie Chaplin, Bertolt Brecht and Hanns Eisler).” Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television, 38, no. 1 (2018): 20–53.
  • D. Cerce, “The ideologically biased reception of John Steinbeck’s works in Communist Eastern Europe.” Slovstvo 63, no. 1 (2018): 89–99.
  • James Chapman, Hitchcock and the Spy Film (London: I.B. Tauris, 2018).
  • Linda Chavers, “What we kill for: The lethality of a white supremacist imagination in Native Son.” In Violent Disruptions: American Imaginations of Racial Anxiety in William Faulkner and Richard Wright (New York: Peter Lang, 2018).
  • Robert Elliot Chiles, The Revolution of ’28: Al Smith, American Progressivism, and the Coming of the New Deal (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2018). Contents: The making of a progressive – Progressive governor – The campaign of the decade – The people’s verdict – The revolution before the New Deal. Publisher’s abstract: “…Smith’s progressive agenda became Democratic partisan dogma and a rallying point for policy formation and electoral success…”
  • John Claborn, “From Black Marxism to industrial ecosystem: Racial and ecological crisis in William Attaway’s Blood on the Forge [1941].” In Civil Rights and the Environment in African-American Literature (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018).
  • Victoria Clouston, André Breton in Exile: The Poetics of “Occultation,” 1941–1947 (New York: Routledge, 2018). Contents include: Chapter 6: L’ Ode â Charles Fourier: A new social perspective in the wake of the “great visionaries.”
  • Milton A. Cohen, The Pull of Politics: Steinbeck, Wright, Hemingway and the Left in the Late 1930s (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2018). “…wrote the most important American novels of 1939 and 1940: The Grapes of Wrath, Native Son, and For Whom the Bell Tolls…they had…gravitated to the Left or were already residing there…their political commitment directly informed their fiction.”
  • Patricia Hill Collins, “Pauli Murray’s journey toward social justice.” Ethnic & Racial Studies 41, no. 8 (2018): 1453–67. [African American lawyer, whose career included work with the Workers’ Defense League.] See also: Pauli Murray, below.
  • James Connolly, Shaun Harkin, editor, The James Connolly Reader (Chicago: Haymarket Press, 2018).
  • Dawn Curry, “Through “the doors of return”: Paul Robeson and Miriam Makeba’s “migration” to Africa.” In New Frontiers in the Study of the Global African Diaspora: Between Uncharted Themes and Alternative Representations, Rita Kiki Edozie, Glenn Anthony Chambers, editors (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2018).
  • Roger Daniels, Franklin D. Roosevelt: Road to the New Deal, 1882–1939 (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2018).
  • Maggie E. Morris Davis, “Sound and silence: The politics of reading early twentieth century lynching poetry.” Canadian Review of American Studies 48, no. 1 (2018): 40–60. Includes… Langston Hughes’s “Three songs about lynching,” and Claude McKay’s “The lynching.”
  • Melanie Dawson, Meredith Goldsmith, editors, American Literary History and the Turn towards Modernity (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2018). Contents include: Wavering in delight: Time, progress, and the turn of the century in Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie/Myrto Drizou – Yours for the (marriage) revolution: Mary Austin and Jack London/Donna Campbell.
  • Michelle Dean, Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion (New York: Grove Press, 2018). Contents: Preface – [Dorothy] Parker – [Rebecca] West – West & [Nora Zeale] Hurston – [Hannah] Arendt –[Mary] McCarthy – Parker & Arendt – Arendt & McCarthy – [Susan] Sontag – [Pauline] Kael – [Joan] Didion – [Nora] Ephron – Arendt & McCarthy & [Lillian] Hellman – Adler – [Janet] Malcolm – Afterword.
  • Ezio De Nucci, Stefan Storrie, editors, 1984 [Orwell] and Philosophy: Is Resistance Futile (Chicago, IL: Open Court, 2018). Volume 116 in the Popular Culture and Philosophy series.
  • Thomas Alan Dichter, “An extreme sense of protest against everything: Chester Himes’s prison novel.” American Literature 90, no. 1 (2018) 111–40. “First drafted during the author’s imprisonment in the 1930s…Himes’s autobiographical prison novel, Yesterday Will Make You Cry [1998], was…published in expurgated form as Cast the First Stone in 1953…. Yesterday’s representation of…prison violence undermines the state’s claims to rationality…the book’s exploration of queer, criminalized, and racialized subjectivity resists the pathologizing discourses that legitimized state violence…”
  • Aileen Dillane, Martin J. Power, Eoin Devereux, Amanda Haynes, Songs of Protest: International Perspectives (New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2018). Contents include: Billie Holiday’s Popular Front songs of protest: “Strange Fruit,” Café Society and the Left – “High Art” From Below – “Strange Fruit” for Billie Holiday – God Bless the Child; Race, Class, and the Musician as Organic Intellectual – Protest Genealogies; Pete Seeger and the Politics of Participation – The Road to a Constructionist Approach: Rethinking “Political Music”; Audience Participation as Democratic Practice – Theorizing Audience Participation; Adorno Redux – Notes.
  • Joel Dinnerstein, “Lorraine Hansberry and the end of postwar cool.” In The Origins of Cool in Postwar America (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2018).
  • Stephen Dippnall, “Hating America? Great Britain and the execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.” Cold War History 18, no. 1 (2018): 55–71. “…examines reactions in Great Britain…Through an assessment of the papers of the British National Rosenberg Defence Committee and other archival sources, it challenges the view that British responses were characterized by anti-Americanism…” See also: Megan Bennett, under Dissertations.
  • Mark E. Dixon, “The case of the gutsy librarian: McCarthyism thrived on pliant citizens. Mary Knowles wasn’t one of them.” (http://www.mainlinetoday.com/core/pagetools.php?url=/Main-Line-Today/May-2008/FRONTLINE-Retrospect/&mode = print)
  • Gary Dorrien, Breaking White Supremacy: Martin Luther King and the Black Social Gospel (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018). “…centers around King and the mid-twentieth-century Black church leaders who embraced the progressive, justice-oriented, internationalist social gospel from the beginning of their careers…”
  • Gary Dorrien, “Religious socialism, Paul Tillich, and the abyss of estrangement.” Social Research: An International Quarterly 85, no. 2 (2018): 425–52.
  • Gary Dorrien, “True religion, mystical unity, and the disinherited: Howard Thurman and the Black Social Gospel.” American Journal of Theology & Philosophy 39, no. 1 (2018): 74–99. Described as an anti-anti-communist; historical period: 1920–30s.
  • Michael B. Doughteery, “Overlooked no more: Voltairine de Cleyre [1866–1912], “America’s greatest woman anarchist.” New York Times (September 26, 2018). Retrospective obituary.
  • James Duban, “Philip Roth, Arthur Koestler, and the varieties of indignation.” Philip Roth Studies 14, no. 2 (2018): 51–65.
  • Martin B. Duberman, “Writing the Paul Robeson biography.” In The Rest of It: Hustlers, Cocaine, Depression, and Then Some (Durham: Duke University Press, 2018). Autobiography, by the distinguished, gay historian, and author of Paul Robeson (New York: Knopf, 1988).2
  • Jacalyn Duffin, Joseph L. Pater, Mrs. Robinson’s revenge: Pete Seeger, Earl Robinson, and the Medicare protest song.” Canadian Bulletin of Medical History 35, no. 2 (2018): 413–36. “In 1962, Pete Seeger recorded “The Ballad of Doctor Dear John,” about Canadian Medicare and the Saskatchewan doctors’ strike of the same year…traces the ballad’s fortunes through the papers of composer Earl Robinson (University of Washington) and the archives of the American Medical Association…”
  • Eric B. Easton, Defending the Masses: A Progressive [Gilbert Roe] Lawyer’s Battles for Free Speech (University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, 2018). Contents: Introduction: A free speech pioneer – The Muckrakers – The anarchists –The feminists – The socialists – The pacifists I – The pacifists II – The Communists – Winding down – Gilbert Roe’s legacy. Publisher’s abstract: “…Roe’s cases involved such activists as Emma Goldman, Lincoln Steffens, Margaret Sanger, Max Eastman, Upton Sinclair, John Reed, and Eugene Debs, as well as the socialist magazine The Masses and the [Communist-led] New York City Teachers Union…”
  • Paul M. Edwards, “I know what you said last time: Reflections and cogitations by a 46-year JWHA charter member.” John Whitmer Historical Association Journal 38, no. 1 (2018): 87–94. Subject headings: Communists—History; Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. [John Whitmer Historical Association purpose “Stimulate scholarly research and publication in the field of Latter Day Saint history.]
  • Sam Edwards, Marcus Morris, “Common Sense on the Lower East Side: Thomas Paine and the era of immigration, c. 1900 –1950.” In The Legacy of Thomas Paine in the Transatlantic World (New York: Routledge, 2018).
  • Allan R. Ellenberger, “They sure are Reds,” In Miriam Hopkins [1902–1972]: Life and Films of a Hollywood Rebel (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2018). Also discusses her relationship with Theodore Dreiser.
  • Ralph Ellison; John F. Callahan, Marc C. Conner, editors, Ralph Ellison: A Life in Letters (New York: One World, 2018). “An autobiography through the previously unpublished letters… Over six decades (1933 to 1993).”
  • Christopher England, “John Dewey and Henry George: The socialization of land as a prerequisite for a democratic public.” The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 77, no. 1 (2018): 169–200.
  • Ben Etherington, “Claude McKay’s primitivist narration.” In Literary Primitivism (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2018). “…primitivism was an aesthetic mode produced in reaction to…European imperialism…”
  • Lara Feigel, “Communism.” In Free Woman: Life, Liberation and Doris Lessing (London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018).
  • Michael R. Fischbach, “Reformers not revolutionaries: The NAACP, Bayard Rustin, and Israel.” In Black Power and Palestine: Transnational Countries of Color (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2018).
  • Katie Fitzpatrick, “A not-exactly-good man: Lionel Trilling on law and judgment.” Twentieth Century Literature 64, no. 2 (2018): 129–60. “…reads Lionel Trilling’s 1947 novel, The Middle of the Journey, through postwar controversies about the relationship between law and conscience…explores this question through debates about the Moscow Trials…”
  • Jacey Fortin, “David McReynolds, Socialist activist who ran for president, dies at 88.” New York Times (August 19, 2018).
  • Glenn Frankel, High Noon: The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of a Legend (New York: Bloomsbury, 2018). “…In the middle of the film shoot, screenwriter Carl Foreman was forced to testify before the House Committee on Un-American Activities about his former membership in the Communist Party. Refusing to name names, he was eventually blacklisted and fled the United States…”
  • Nicole Brittingham Furlonge, “To hear the silence of sound: Vibrational listening in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man.” In Race Sounds: The Art of Listening in African American Literature (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2018).
  • Grover Furr, The Fraud of the Dewey Commission: Leon Trotsky’s Lies (New York: Red Star Publishers, 2018).

  • Charles R. Gallagher, “Decentering American Jesuit anti-Communism: John LaFarge’s United Front strategy, 934–39.” Journal of Jesuit Studies 5, no. 1 (2018): 97–121. “…the Jesuits initiated [two] plans to meet the twin threats of Communism and atheism…The other plan was put forward…by the writer and editor John LaFarge….known as the United Front…was a localized program of reactive initiatives meant to meet the gains of the CPUSA with effective Catholic counter-Communist public attacks…In 1937, the publication of the papal encyclical Divini Redemptoris signaled that social reconstruction could become a part of authentic Catholic anti-Communism, indicating the eclipse of LaFarge’s United Front…”
  • Rachel Judith Galvin, News of War: Civilian Poetry 1936–1945 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018). Contents: Flesh made word: César Vallejo and the Spanish Civil War – W.H. Auden: Rushing to the pumps, or not, in Spain and China – W.H. Auden during World War II – Wallace Stevens in a Chapter Five: Raymond Queneau, reading the poor paper – Marianne Moore and the eyewitness bind – Gertrude Stein and the war she saw.
  • Neil Genzlinger, “Muriel Manings, dancer in a politically charged era, dies at 95.” New York Times (November 7, 2018). Member of the New Dance Group, she was listed in Red Channels.
  • Michael Germana, Ralph Ellison: Temporal Technologist (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018). Contents: Introduction – Overture. Time, history, and becoming in Invisible Man – Vision. Peristrephic Visions: Henry Box Brown, Ralph Ellison, and the panoramic logic of Invisible Man – Rhopographic photography and a-temporal cinema: The link between Ralph Ellison’s polaroids and three days before the shooting – Sound. “Modulate, Daddy, Modulate!”: Polyrhythms and metric modulation in the fiction of Ralph Ellison – A deep pocket for the truth of the times: Ellison’s other groove of history – Conclusion.
  • Jerry Gershenhorn, Louis Austin and the Carolina Times: A Life in the Long Black Freedom Struggle (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018). Contents: No man is your captain: The making of an agitator – We have got to fight for our rights: Advocacy journalist in the Great Depression – Double V in North Carolina: The struggle for racial equality during World War II – Segregation must and will be destroyed: The Black freedom struggle, 1945–1954 – We want equality now: Challenging segregation after Brown – The gospel of the sit-in: Direct action, 1960–1965 – It was a wonder I wasn’t lynched: A freedom fighter till the end, 1966–1971.
  • Deborah A. Gerson, “Sophie Melvin Gerson: The Brooklyn years.” American Communist History 17, no. 2 (2018): 129–37. An organizer of the Gastonia, North Carolina textile strike of 1932, and wife of Communist Party electoral politics leader Si Gerson, Sophie Melvin Gerson, in the years following WWII through the fall of the Soviet Union, forged a resumé of political activism, principally in her Bensonhurst neighborhood. In addition to activism in defense of her indicted husband, she was active in the PTA, in bringing together Black and white residents, was active in the Bensonhurst [Jewish] Fraternal Society and chaired the Bensonhurst Council for Senior Citizens.
  • Mehdi Ghasemi, “An equation of collectivity: We + you in Richard Wright’s 12 Million Black Voices.” Mosaic: an interdisciplinary critical journal 51, no. 1 (2018): 71–86.
  • Dennis Gildea, “Millard Lampell: From football to the blacklist.” In Defending the American Way of Life, Toby C. Rider, Kevin B. Witherspoon, editors (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2018). A member of the Popular Front folk song quartet The Weavers.
  • James Gilmore, Sidney H. Gottlieb, editors, Orson Welles in Focus: Texts and Contexts (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2018). Contents include: Progressivism and the struggles against racism and anti-Semitism: Welles’s correspondences in 1946/James N. Gilmore – Orson Welles as journalist: The New York Post columns/Sidney Gottlieb.
  • Mollie Godfrey, “Sheep, rats, and jungle beasts: Black humanisms and the protest fiction debate.” Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory 74, no. 2 (2018): 39–62. “…the critical focus on the conflicts among Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, and others over the value of protest fiction has obscured their shared interest in critiquing the…assumption that white subjects represented the norm against which Black subjects could be judged…”
  • Jane Anna Gordon, editor, The Politics of Richard Wright: Perspectives on Resistance (Lexington: University Press, of Kentucky, 2018). “…Wright faced…criticism and even censorship…for the graphic sexuality, intense violence, and Communist themes…”
  • Grant Gosizk, “The banality of addiction: Arthur Miller and complicity.” Modern Drama 61, no. 2 (2018): 171–91 “…few critics have explored the influence that…debates on Holocaust complicity had on the author’s 1960s catalogue…”
  • Nicholas Grant, “The Negro Digest [1942–51]: Race, exceptionalism and the Second World War.” Journal of American Studies 52, no. 2 (2018): 358–89. “…The first title produced by the Johnson Publishing Company, the Digest had an international focus that connected Jim Crow to racial oppression around the world…”
  • Erin Graym, Asad Haider, Ben Maibe, editors, Black Radical Tradition: A Reader (New York: Verso, 2018). “…Including…writings of…figures such as W.E.B. Du Bois, Hubert Harrison, Harry Haywood, Claude McKay, Claudia Jones, C.L.R. James, Malcolm X, Angela Davis, Audre Lorde and the Combahee River Collective…”
  • Kevin D. Greene, The Invention and Reinvention of Big Bill Broonzy (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018). Popular Front blues artist who also testified for HUAC.
  • Alysha Griffin, “The correspondence of Langston Hughes as a lens for cultural production.” South Atlantic Review 83, no. 1 (2018): 83–90.
  • Anastasiya Vasilievna Grigorovskaya, “Emigres on the October Revolution: The Suicide of Russia in the Novels of Ayn Rand and Mark Aldanov.” Journal of Ayn Rand Studies 18, no. 1 (2018): 43–54.
  • William Grimes, “Richard Pipes, historian of Russia and Reagan aide, dies at 94.” New York Times (May 18, 2018).
  • Kristin Grogan, “Langston Hughes’s constructivist poetics.” American Literature 90, no. 4 (2018): 585–612. “…the relationship between Langston Hughes’s 1930s poetry and the Soviet avant-garde theater…provides an aesthetic framework through which to read Hughes’s radical poetry…a new reading of the Soviet avant-garde’s influence on US culture…”
  • Letitia Guran, “Insurgent [Langston] Hughes: Negotiating multiple narratives digitally.” MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S. 42, no. 4 (2017): 136–63. Compares Hughes’s 1934 pamphlet A Negro Looks at Soviet Central Asia, with his 1956 memoir, I Wonder as I Wander.
  • Letitia Guran, “The travelogue as cross-cultural translation: Langston Hughes in Soviet Russia.” South Atlantic Review 83, no. 1 (2018): 42–6.
  • Joshua M. Hall, “The necessary pain of moral imagination: Lonely delegation in Richard Wright’s haiku and White Man, Listen!” Eventual Aesthetics 7:1 (2018): 62–89.
  • Daniel Hanglberger, “Marcus Garvey and his relation to [Black] Socialism and Communism.” American Communist History 17, no. 2 (2018): 200–19. Suggests a more nuanced view of the relationship between Garvey, one the one hand, and Socialism and Communism, on the other.
  • Andrea Harris, “Lincoln Kirstein’s social modernism and the Cultural Front.” In Making Ballet American: Modernism before and beyond Balanchine (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018).
  • Laura Harris, Experiments in Exile: C.L.R. James, Helio Oiticica, and the Aesthetic Sociality of Blackness (New York: Fordham University Press, 2018). “Comparing radical experiments undertaken by…C. L. R. James and Brazilian artist Hélio Oiticica…how [they]…attempt to relay the ongoing renewal of dissident, dissonant social forms…in…Port-of-Spain…Rio de Janeiro, the assembly lines of Detroit and the streets of the New York…”
  • Heidi Hart, Hanns Eisler’s Art Songs: Arguing with Beauty (Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2018). “…traces Eisler’s art songs…through twentieth-century political crises…and from Eisler’s postwar deportation from the U.S., to the ideological pressures he faced in the early German Democratic Republic…”
  • Barbara A. Heavilin, “The wall of background: Cultural, political, and literary contexts of Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men.” Steinbeck Review 15, no. 1 (2018): 1–16.
  • Clare Hemmings, Considering Emma Goldman: Feminist Political Ambivalence & the Imaginative Archive (Durham: Duke University Press, 2018). Contents: Women and revolution – Race and internationalism – Sexual politics and sexual freedom – A longing for letters – From passion to panache.
  • Allison Hepler, McCarthyism in the Suburbs: Quakers, Communists, and the Children’s Librarian (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2018). “In 1953, Mary Knowles was fired as a branch librarian for the Morrill Memorial Library…in Norwood, Massachusetts…called before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee…asked if she’d ever been a member of the Communist Party, she declined to answer, relying on her Fifth Amendment rights. She was fired less than three weeks later…She found a job at a small library outside Philadelphia, where anti-communists…tried to create public support for a Loyalty Oath, resulting in the loss of public funding for the library. The…controversy eventually brought national attention to the local Quakers who had hired Knowles, the FBI was asked to investigate, Knowles was convicted of contempt of Congress, and the Quakers were subpoenaed and testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee. Knowles, however, was never fired…retiring from the library in 1979.”
  • Maria Hesse, Achy Obejas, “Leon Trotsky.” In Frida Kahlo: An Illustrated Life (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2018).
  • Maria Hessem, Svenja Becker, Frida Kahlo Graphic Novel (Berlin: Insel Verlag 2018).
  • Jason E. Hill, Artist as Reporter: Weegee, AD Reinhardt and the PM News Picture (Oakland: University of California Press, 2018). Contents: The artist as reporter at the Museum of Modern Art – Drawing on newsprint – Ralph Steiner’s editorial model – Weegee’s corpus – How to look at news pictures in America. Publisher’s abstract: “…considers the…contributions to PM [Popular Front NYC tabloid, 1940–1948] of such… American modernists as the curator Holger Cahill, the abstract painter Ad Reinhardt, the photographers Weegee and Lisette Model, and the filmmaker, photographer, and editor Ralph Steiner…”
  • William I. Hitchcock, “Confronting McCarthy.” In The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2018).
  • Michael K. Honey, To the Promised Land: Martin Luther King and the Fight for Economic Justice (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2018). Focus on his social democratic politics.
  • Rachel Hui-Chi Hsu, “Propagating sex radicalism in the Progressive Era: Emma Goldman’s anarchist solution.” Journal of Women’s History 30, no. 3 (2018): 38–63.
  • Carrie Hughes; Carmaletta Williams, John Edgar Tidwell, editors, My Dear Boy: Carrie Hughes’s Letters to [her son] Langston Hughes, 1926-1938 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2018).
  • Langston Hughes, Roy DeCarava, photographer, Sherry Turner, afterword, The Sweet Flypaper of Life (New York: Frist Print Press, 2018). First issued in 1955.
  • John S. Huntington, “The voice of many hatreds: J Evetts Haley and Texas ultra-conservatism.” Western Historical Quarterly 49, no. 1 (2018): 65–89. Historical Period: Ca. 1931 to ca. 1970. Includes anti-Communism.
  • Motti Inbari, “The “deconversion” of Arthur Koestler: A study in cognitive dissonance.” Contemporary Jewry 38, no. 1 (2018): 127–49. Member of the German Communist Party [KPD], 1931–1938.
  • H. Larry Ingle, “An assessment of Whittaker Chambers, Quaker.” Fides et Historia 50, no. 1 (2018): 15–34. “…whose…testimony against…Alger Hiss in August 1948 helped spark…modern American conservatism…include[s] a reassessment that involves the role played by religion in Chambers’ life…his journey to Quakerism and the testimony he voluntarily gave to the…House Committee on Un-American Activities.”
  • H. Larry Ingle, “Lessons from Quaker history: What’s an historian to say about Whittaker Chambers and Clarence Pickett?” Friends Historical Association 107, no. 2 (2018): 1–26. “One of the most prominent intellectuals within the budding conservative political movement in the 1950s was the ex-Communist David Whittaker Chambers, a member…of Pipe Creek Friends Meeting, a part of Baltimore Yearly Meeting. Witness…suffused with Chambers’ encounter with Quakerism to which he was exposed…in New York City after he left the Party in 1938; it certainly would not be a stretch to call it a Quaker journal…Almost universally viewed as his critique of his years as a Communist…the journal apparently provoked all too few Quakers to remark on Chambers’ encounter with their faith…”
  • Frank Jacob, “From aspiration to frustration: Emma Goldman’s perception of the Russian Revolution.” American Communist History 17, no. 2 (2018): 185–99.
  • Steven H. Jaffe, Activist New York: A History of People, Protest, and Politics (New York: New York University Press, 2018). Contents include: Housing Cooperatives and the Amalgamated Bank –The New Negro: Activist Harlem – Art is a weapon: Activist theater in the Great Depression – Confronting fascism – A Cold War: Activism and anti-Communism in New York – Blacklisting The Weavers – Refusing to hide: Anti-civil defense protests. [Companion book to an exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York.]
  • C. L. R. James; Scott McLemee, Paul Le Blanc, editors, C. L. R. James and Revolutionary Marxism: Selected Writings, 1939–1949: Revolutionary Studies (Chicago: Haymarket Press, 2018). “…During the late 1930s and 1940s, James played a key role in the revolutionary socialist current associated with Leon Trotsky…”
  • Winston James, “Letters from London in Black and Red: Claude McKay, Marcus Garvey and the Negro world.” History Workshop Journal 85 (Spring 2018): 281–93. “These two rare documents – one previously unpublished, the other published almost a century ago, never republished and still almost completely unknown – capture some key dimensions of the revolutionary thought of Claude McKay in the…years after the Russian Revolution…McKay urged…Garvey…to forge alliances with progressive whites in the…struggle against capitalism and imperialism while maintaining the autonomy and independence of the Black movement. The second document, written for Garvey’s newspaper, Negro World, tells the…story of Black and other non-white colonial veterans of the war living in London.”
  • Susana Maria Jiminez-Placer, “Outside the Magic Circle of white male supremacy in the Jim Crow South: Virginia Foster Durr’s [1903–1999] memoirs.” Text Matters 8, no. 8 (2018): 296–319. [White upper-class anti-racist activist and Progressive Party Senatorial candidate in 1948.]
  • Jeffrey A. Johnson, “Fighting anarchists of America: The attacks of 1919 & 1920, and the [Tom] Mooney defense onward.” In The 1916 Preparedness Day Bombing: Anarchism and Terrorism in the Progressive Era America (New York: Routledge, 2018). [Slogan chanted by CPUSA members: “Free the Scottsboro Boys and Tom Mooney too!”]
  • Yeonsik Jung, “The American frontier and Edward Bellamy’s utopian imagination.” CEA Critic 80, no. 1 (2018): 87–99. Re the author of Looking Backward.
  • James Kates, “Editor, publisher, citizen, Socialist: Victor L. Berger [1850-1929] and his Milwaukee Leader.” Journalism History 44, no. 2 (2018): 79–88. “…also a Socialist member of the House of Representatives from a Milwaukee district throughout much of the 1910s and 1920s.
  • Geraldine Kidd, Eleanor Roosevelt: Palestine, Israel and Human Rights (New York: Routledge, 2018).
  • Kevin Y. Kim, “From century of the common man to yellow peril: Anti-racism, empire, and U.S. global power in Henry A. Wallace’s quest for Cold War alternatives.” Pacific Historical Review 87, no. 3 (2018): 405–38. “…examines U.S. Vice President Henry A. Wallace’s Cold War dissent as a window into racial geopolitics in a post–World War II era of decolonization…”
  • Edward King, “What muck & filth is normally flowing through the air”: The cultural politics of atmosphere in the work of George Orwell.” Journal of Modern Literature 41, no. 2 (2018): 60–76.
  • Jonathan Kirshner, “Who knew it could get worse? When Nixon haunted the new Hollywood.” Cineaste 43, no. 2 (2018): 30–5. “…includes James Mason as George Wheeler in John Huston’s 1972 release The Mackintosh Man presenting a corrupt, hypocritical, double-crossing anti-communist…”
  • Toru Kiuchi, “Richard Wright’s haiku.” In American Haiku: New Readings, Toru Kiuchi, Yoshinobu, and others (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2018). “…Richard Wright…wrote over four thousand haiku in the final eighteen months of his life in exile in France…”
  • Chris Knight, Decoding Chomsky: Science and Revolutionary Politics (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018). “…how the tension between military funding and his role as linchpin of the political left pressured him to establish a disconnect between science…and politics…deepening a split between mind and body characteristic of Western philosophy…”
  • Milton Knight; editors, Paul Buhle, Lawrence Ware, The Young C.L.R. James: A Graphic Novelette (Oakland: PM Press, 2018).
  • L., D. “The new Red-baiting: And they even come after our kids.” Science & Society 82, no. 1 (2017): 5–10. Autobiographical account.
  • Peter La Chapelle, “Senator Glen H. Taylor: Radio’s utopian singing cowboy.” In The Honky Tonk on the Left: Progressive Thought in Country Music, (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2018). Vice-Presidential Progressive Party running mate, in 1948, of Henry A. Wallace.
  • Christine Lahti, True Stories from an Unreliable Witness: A Feminist Coming of Age (New York: Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2018). “A collection of…stories by the actress best known for… “Chicago Hope” and “The Blacklist”…”
  • Mark Lamster, “An American Fuhrer.” In The Man in the Glass House: Philip Johnson, Architect of the Modern Century (New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2018). A supporter of Nazism and an anti-Semite.
  • Dorothea Lange; Alona Pardo, Dorothea Lange: Politics of Seeing (Oakland: Oakland Museum of California, 2018). Contents include: Dorothea Lange and the politics of seeing/Drew Heath Johnson – The migrant mother/David Campany – The Dust Bowl era – Japanese American internment – Boom town: the shipyards of Richmond.
  • Kelli A. Larson, “Current bibliography.” The Hemingway Review 37, no. 2 (2018): 165–73.
  • Eric Laursen, The Duty to Stand Aside: Nineteen Eighty-Four and the Wartime Quarrel of George Orwell and Alex Comfort (Chico: AK Press, 2018).
  • Paul Le Blanc, The American Exceptionalism of Jay Lovestone and his Comrades, 1929-1940 (Chicago, Haymarket, 2018). Contents: Part one: Introducing the Lovestone group – Part two: The split and its origins – Part three: Evolution of the Communist Party Opposition: Russia and international affairs – Social struggles in the United States – Marxist theory – Fadeout.
  • R. Alton Lee, Publisher for the Masses, Emanuel Haldeman-Julius [1889–1951] (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, Bison Books, 2018). Contents: Forces that shaped him – The beckoning world – Girard, Kansas – Little Blue Books – A cornucopia of books and events – The Great Depression – Resurrection. “A Midwestern Jewish socialist best known for the Little Blue Book pamphlet series, hundreds of numbered titles on current and historical topics from socialism to sexuality, from Aristotle to Marx, etc. Publisher’s abstract: “…His company published a record 500,000,000 copies of 2,580 titles and was second only to the U.S. Government Printing Office in the quantity of publications it produced…”
  • Aaron J. Leonard, “Newly unearthed FBI file exposes targeting of folk singer Dave Van Ronk.” Truthout (July 8, 2018). (https://truthout.org/articles/newly-unearthed-fbi-file-exposes-targeting-of-folk-singer-dave-van-ronk/). Van Ronk had ties to both the Old and New Lefts.
  • Robert E. Lerner, Ernst Kantorowicz: A Life (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018). “… the first complete biography of Ernst Kantorowicz (1895-1963), an influential and controversial German-American intellectual… Narrowly avoiding arrest after Kristallnacht, he fled to England and then the United States, where he joined the faculty at Berkeley, only to be fired in 1950 for refusing to sign an anti-communist loyalty oath…”
  • Wendy Lesser, Jerome Robbins: A Life in Dance (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018). Jewish Lives series. Born Jerome Wilson Rabinowitz, 1918–1998, at one time a Communist, known, in part, for his choreography for On the Town, The Pajama Game, and West Side Story.
  • David Levering Lewis, The Improbable Wendell Willkie: The Businessman who Saved the Republican Party and His Country, and Conceived a New World Order (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2018). Internationalist who helped secure support for U.S. entry into WWII.
  • Rupert Lewis, Marcus Garvey (Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press, 2018). Brief biography, 108 pp.
  • Renzo Llorente, The Political Theory of Che Guevara (London: Rowman & Littlefield International, 2018).
  • Svetlana Lokhova, The Spy Who Changed History: The Untold Story of how the Soviet Union Won the Race for America’s Top Secrets (London: William Collins, 2018). Agent Stanislav Shumovsky and his trainees, MIT, the B-29 bomber, and more.
  • Felicia Hardison Londre, “Arthur Miller: The individual and social responsibility: All My Sons; Death of a Salesman; The Crucible.” In Modern American Drama. Playwriting in the 1940s: Voices, Documents, New Interpretations (London: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama: An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2018).
  • Felicia Hardison Londre, “The Paul Robeson Othello.” In Modern American Drama. Playwriting in the 1940s: Voices, Documents, New Interpretations (London: Methuen Drama, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018).
  • Beatrice Lumpkin, Joy in the Struggle: My Life and Love (New York, International Publishers, 2018, 2013). Communist auto-biography.
  • Denise Lynn, “Reproductive sovereignty in Soviet and American socialism during the Great Depression.” American Communist History 17, no. 3 (2018): published online: 26 Sep 2018.

  • Francis MacDonnell, “If I only had a brain: Yip Harburg [1896–1981] and the failures of FBI intelligence work.” Intelligence & National Security 33, no. 1 (2018): 101–15.
  • James H. Madison, “Gone to Another Meeting: Willard B. Ransom and Early Civil Rights Leadership.” Indiana Magazine of History 114, no. 3 (2018): 165–201. “…His sophisticated militancy led him to join the Progressive Party in 1948 and to run for Congress on the third-party ticket. In struggles within the national NAACP leadership, he challenged Walter White and supported W. E. B. Du Bois. As he led the fight for equality in Indianapolis and Indiana, Ransom faced opposition from African American moderates, anti-Communists, and conservative Hoosiers generally.”
  • Anne Garland Mahler, “The Red and the Black in Latin America: Sandalio Junco [Afro-Cuban union organizer] and the “Negro Question” from an Afro-Latin perspective.” American Communist History 17, no. 1 (2018): 16–32. “Junco’s speech “The problem of the Negro and the proletarian movement,” delivered at the first Latin American Communist Conference…”
  • Minkah Makalani, “The politically unimaginable in Black Marxist thought.” Small Axe 22, no. 2 (2018): 18–34. “…examines Black Marxists thinkers such as Frantz Fanon, C. L. R. James, Aimé Césaire, Walter Rodney, and Amílcar Cabral as representing a strain of Black Marxist thought pursuing what the author calls the politically unimaginable…”
  • Lee Mandel, Sterling Hayden’s [1916–1986] Wars (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2018). Decorated member of the OSS, Hollywood actor, best known for his leading roles in noir movies. Briefly a Communist, he cooperated with HUAC, much to his later regret. Contents: Part I: Preparing to engage – Part II: The first war – Part III: The second war – Part IV: Later battles.
  • Robert Mann [1920–2018], “Germany, Hanns Eisler.” In A Passionate Journey: A Memoir (Bridgehampton, NY: East End Press, 2018). By the first violinist of the Guarneri String Quartet.
  • Toby Manning, “All one vanishing world: Post-imperialism and Communism in John le Carre’s The Honourable Schoolboy.” College Literature 45, no. 1 (2018): 52–75.
  • Toby Manning, “Fanatics and absolutists: Communist monsters in John le Carre’s Cold War fiction.” At the Interface/Probing the Boundaries 91 (2018): 43–67.
  • Toby Manning, John le Carre and the Cold War (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018). Contents: Murderers and spies: The Communist threat and Call for the Dead – Breeze blocks and barbed wire: The Berlin Wall and The Spy Who Came in from the Cold – Looking at his own reflection: The Establishment and The Looking Glass War – Holding the world together: The Cambridge spies and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – All one vanishing world: The Honourable Schoolboy, colonialism and Communism – Only people: Humanism, populism, the second Cold War and Smiley’s People – Man, not the mass.
  • Lerone Martin, “Bureau clergyman: How the FBI colluded with an African American televangelist to destroy Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.” Religion & American Culture 28, no. 1 (2018): 1–51. “…The FBI called upon [Elder Lightfoot Solomon] Michaux and he willingly used his status, popular media ministry, and Cold War spirituality to publicly scandalize King as a Communist and defend the Bureau against King’s criticisms…”
  • Sato Masaya, “Bella Abzug’s [1920-1998] dilemma: The Cold War, women’s politics, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict in the 1970s.” Journal of Women’s History 30, no. 2 (2018): 112–35. “…Abzug was a member of the socialist-Zionist youth movement Hashomer Hatzair.”
  • Babacar M’Baye, “Cosmopolitan critiques of colonial abuse in Langston Hughes’s travel writings.” South Atlantic Review 83, no. 1 (2018): 5–12. “…In his travel writings, “Bodies in the Moonlight” (1927), “African Morning” (1936), and The Big Sea (1940), Langston Hughes denounces the colonial exploitation [of]…Africans in the Niger Delta…”
  • Clayton McCarl, “Editing the Eartha M.M. White collection: An experiment in engaging students in archival research and editorial practice.” Journal of Academic Librarianship 44, no. 4 (2018): 527–37. African-American Communist.
  • Eugene McCarraher, “The future in the present tense: On A. J. Muste.” Raritan 37, no. 3 (2018): 100–16. A founder and leader of the American Workers Party, 1934–36.
  • Winnie McCroy, “Penn South plaque lauds the Bayard Rustin [1912–1987] legacy.” Chelsea Now (July 28, 2018). Democratic socialist, pacifist, an advisor to Martin Luther King and a key organizer of the 1963 March on Washington; an openly gay man, he was a resident of Penn South, a limited equity coop sponsored by the International Ladies Garment Workers Union. For full article, see: (http://chelseanow.com/2018/07/penn-south-plaque-lauds-the-bayard-rustin-legacy/)
  • Erik S. McDuffie, “The second battle for Africa has begun: Rev. Clarence W. Harding Jr.: Garveyism, Liberia, and the diasporic Midwest, 1966–1978.” In Global Garveyism, Ronald Jemal Stephens, Adam Ewing, editors, (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2018).
  • Robert D. McFadden, “Zhores Medvedev, 93, dissident scientist who felt Moscow’s boot, is dead.” New York Times (November 16, 2018).
  • Ron McFarland, “At war with Hemingway: The enthrallment of combat.” The Hemingway Review 37, no. 2 (2018): 42–64.
  • Jonathan McGregor, “A queer orthodoxy: Monastic socialism and celibate sexuality in Vida Dutton Scudder and Ralph Adams Cram.” Journal of American Studies 52, no. 1 (2018): 65–90. “…Writing at the turn of the twentieth century, Scudder and Cram appealed to monasticism to fold together their nonnormative sexualities with their radical anti-capitalism…By attending to the past examples of St. Francis and St. Benedict, they produced surprisingly forward-looking critiques of modern capitalist society.”
  • Lain McKay, “Ursula Le Guin and utopia.” Anarcho – Syndicalist Review 73 (Spring 2018): 18–21.
  • Priscilla J. McMillan, The Ruin of Robert Oppenheimer and the Birth of the Modern Arms Race (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018). Includes a chapter on Klaus Fuchs.
  • Robert McParland, From Native Son to [All the] King’s Men: The Literary Landscape of 1940s America, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2018). Contents include: Signals From the Field: Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, and the war correspondents – Native Sons and daughters: Richard Wright, Chester Himes, Ann Petry, James Baldwin and Ralph Ellison – Life on the home front: Saul Bellow, Ayn Rand, John Dos Passos, Theodore Dreiser, John O’Hara, John P. Marquand, and others…” Publisher’s abstract: “…The heart of the book is five chapters covering authors and novels by theme…depictions of American racial strife by Ralph Ellison, Chester Himes, and Richard Wright…also examines such books as Richard Wright’s Native Son (“We still have Bigger Thomas among us…”).
  • Louis Menashe, The Triple Whammy and other Russian Stories: A Memoir (Washington, DC: New Academia Publishing, 2018). “A… lifetime of…experiences by an American historian, film specialist and documentary filmmaker in the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia. The author’s experiences as a radical in the turbulent 1960s, sympathetic chronicler of Eurocommunism, and his eventual disenchantment…set against a panorama of history and politics in the late 20th century.”
  • Michael Meeropol, “A spy who turned his family in”: Revisiting David Greenglass [1922–2014] and the Rosenberg Case.” American Communist History 17, no. 2 (2018): 247–60. “…will argue first, that Ethel Rosenberg was not a spy, and that the Greenglass’s stories…were perjuries…that Julius Rosenberg had at most a very peripheral involvement in the atomic espionage… that crucial testimony by both Greenglass’s about Julius’ involvement in the passing of atomic secrets was perjured testimony concocted to divert attention from a much more active role for both [David and Ruth] Greenglass in atomic espionage.” See also: Megan Bennett, under Dissertations.
  • Marvin Menniken, “Herbert Marcuse: Media and the making of a cultural icon.” In The Global 1960s: Convention, Contest, and Counterculture, Tamara Chaplin, Jadwiga Mooney, E. Pieper, editors (New York: Routledge, 2018 (Non-US, non-Europe focus).
  • Gerald Meyer, “Joseph Stalin and the Left: Reflections occasioned by Stephen Kotkin ‘s Paradoxes of Power.” Socialism and Democracy 32, no. 1 (2018): 127–42. “…Stalin – his life and his legacy – has been denigrated by the terms “Stalinism” and “Stalinist,” epithets that equate his purported adherents with an ideology that synthesizes authoritarianism, inhumanity, rule through bureaucracy, and cultist behavior. Arising out of this fetid concoction…remarkably few figures on the Left have raised their voices to denounce this outrageous comparison.” Denies the existence of Lenin’s Testament.
  • Julia Mickenberg, interviewee, “Member spotlight: Julia Mickenberg.” ABSEES NewsNet 58, no. 1 (2018): 30. “…Mickenberg’s current research involves American leftists and their fascination with the Soviet Union. Her latest book is entitled American Girls in Red Russia: Chasing the Soviet Dream (2017).”
  • Jason Miller, Langston Hughes and Martin Luther king, Jr.: Together in Nigeria.” South Atlantic Review 83, no. 1 (2018): 22–41. “…Langston Hughes…traveled with Martin Luther King, Jr. Langston Hughes’s relationship with King has profound significance for understanding just how surprisingly connected the two men were…the two men met, exchanged letters, and mutually inspired each other. Hughes wrote about King in several of his poems and in over forty of his Chicago Defender articles, and King used Hughes’s poetry with remarkable depth and variety in his speeches and sermons from 1955 to 1968. In fact, King used seven different poems (one of which was an unpublished poem personally requested by King and received from Hughes). Most significantly, King’s earliest encounters with the idea of dreams came directly from his engagements (and often riffs) on Hughes’s poems such as “I Dream a World” and “A Dream Deferred.”
  • Bull Minutaglio, Steven L. Davis, The Most Dangerous Man in America: Timothy Leary, Richard Nixon and the Hunt for the Fugitive King of LSD (New York: Twelve, 2018). “In September 1970, ex-Harvard professor and ‘High Priest of LSD’ Dr. Timothy Leary escaped from prison with the aid of the radical Weather Underground. Spanning twenty-eight months, President Nixon’s careening, global manhunt for Dr. Timothy Leary winds its way among homegrown radicals, European aristocrats, a Black Panther outpost in Algeria, an international arms dealer, hash-smuggling hippies from the Brotherhood of Eternal Love, and secret agents on four continents, culminating in one of the trippiest journeys through the American counterculture…”
  • Brian Morris, Kropotkin: The Politics of Community (Oakland: PM Press, 2018).
  • Catherine Morriss, Rujieko Hockley, editors, We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85, New Perspectives (Brooklyn, NY: Brooklyn Museum, 2018).
  • Mike Mosher, David N. Smith, George Orwell Illustrated (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2018).
  • Umair Muhammed, An unsuitable theorist? Murray Bookchin [social ecologist] and the PKK [Kurdistan Workers’ Party].” Turkish Studies 9, no. 5 (2018).
  • Meg Mumford, Bertolt Brecht (London: Routledge, 2018). “Revised and re-issued…Includes an account of his…1954 production of the Caucasian Chalk Circle…”
  • Ben Murnane, “Now is a dystopia: Ayn Rand and the right-wing appropriation of The Hunger Games.” Journal of Popular Culture 51, no. 2 (2018): 280–301.
  • Pauli Murray; Patricia Bell-Scott, introduction, Song in a Weary Throat: Memoir of an American Pilgrimage (New York: Liveright, 2018). First published 1987. [10.2307/4020125]
  • F. S. Naiden, “Moses Finley’s Communist Party membership.” American Journal of Philology 138, no. 4 (Winter 2017): 739–42. Given name Finkelstein, a classicist, apparently a member ca. 1937 – ca. 1946, as was his wife, Mary.
  • George H. Nash, “Reagan’s right turn.” Modern Age 60, no. 2 (2018): 33–49. “…how…a former liberal film actor in the mid-1940s, became a…conservative several years later…”
  • John Newsinger, Hope Lies in the Proles: George Orwell and the Left (London: Pluto Press, 2018). Contents: Introduction: discovering Orwell – Until they become conscious they will never rebel: Orwell and the working class – “Why I join the ILP:” Orwell and the left in the Thirties – Giants are vermin: Orwell, fascism and the Holocaust – A long series of Thermidors: Orwell, pacifism and the myth of the people’s war – It is astonishing how little change has happened: Orwell, the Labour Party, and the Attlee government – Ceaseless espionage: Orwell and the secret states – 2 + 2 = 5: Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, and the New Left – Conclusion: Capitalism has manifestly no future – Orwell today.
  • Joel Nickels, “Non-state internationalism: From Claude McKay to Arundhati Roy.” In World Literature and the Geographies of Resistance (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018).
  • Gillian Niebrugge-Brantley, Charlotte Perkins Gilman [1860–1935] (New York: Taylor & Francis, 2018). Socialist, feminist.
  • Mary Nolan, “Marilyn B. Young 1937–2017.” History Workshop Journal 85 (Spring 2018): 358–62. Professor at NYU of Chinese and East Asian history. A founder of the Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars, which opposed the war in Vietnam.
  • Frank Obenland, “Resistance and revolution in the Haiti plays of Langston Hughes and C.L.R. James.” In Theatre Annual: A Journal of Performance Studies (2018): 21–42.
  • Arnold A. Offner, Hubert Humphrey [1911–1978]: The Conscience of the Country (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018). [Also notable for his anti-communist activity in Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party politics.]
  • George Orwell, Adam Hochschild, editor, Orwell on Truth (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018). A collection of shorter writings.
  • Bryan D. Palmer, “The French Turn in the United States: James P. Cannon and the Trotskyist entry [1890–1974] into the Socialist Party, 1934–1937.” Labor History 59, no. 5 (2018): 610–38. Abstract: “…A fusion of the Trotskyist Communist League of America (Opposition) led by James P. Cannon, and a radicalizing American Workers Party headed by A. J. Muste, formed the Worker Party (WP) in 1934–1935. The WP soon followed this entryist orientation in 1936…Cannon stressed the importance of mass work in the unions and in various political campaigns, such as support for republican insurgents in the Spanish Civil War and defense of Trotsky against the slanders of the Moscow Trials of 1937. This Trotskyist political work built the SP, but it also exposed acute differences separating the fractured leadership of the Party from the revolutionary policies and practices animating a growing left wing. After little more than one year of this kind of agitation, the Trotskyist entryists were expelled. They had won over almost 1000 supporters, many of whom contributed mightily to the Socialist Workers Party, founded in 1938.”
  • Christopher Partridge, “A beautiful politics: Theodore Roszak’s romantic radicalism and the counterculture.” Journal for the Study of Radicalism 12, no. 2 (2018): 81–105.
  • Marc Perrusquia, A Spy in Canaan: How the FBI Used a Famous Civil Rights Photographer [Ernest Withers] to Infiltrate the Movement (Brooklyn, NY: Melville House, 2018). Contents include: Communists, Socialists, Black Muslims and assorted do-gooders: 1962–1965 – The Communist resurgence: D[Supreme Court] irty tricks, fear and harassment.
  • Imani Perry, Looking for Lorraine: A Life of Lorraine Hansberry [1930–1965] (Boston: Beacon Press, 2018). Contents: Introduction – Migration song – From heartland to the water’s edge – The girl who can do everything – Bobby [Robert Nemiroff, her husband, 1953–64] – Sappho’s poetry – Raisin [in the Sun] – The trinity – Of the faith of our fathers – American radical – The view from chitterling heights – Home-going – Conclusion.
  • John Pettegrew, “From radicalism to perspectivalism: US feminist history, 1970–2010, and the example of Linda Gordon.” Journal of Women’s History 30, no. 1 (2018): 129–53.
  • Christopher Phelps, “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, no. 1 (2018): 25–51. “…Heywood Broun (1888–1939) and Benjamin Stolberg (1891–1951) were labor journalists when…industrial unionism was gaining in American society. A comparison …illuminates the politics behind news coverage of labor. Suspicious of the Communist Party, Stolberg ultimately clashed with Broun, the quintessential Popular Front left-liberal, over the CIO. The two were similar, however, in framing labor positively… eschewing any journalistic ethos of “impartiality”.
  • Roland Philipps, A Spy Named Orphan: The Enigma of Donald MacLean (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2018).
  • Peter Kerry Powers, “He didn’t come to help me”: Folk paternity and failed conversions in Langston Hughes.” In Goodbye Christ? Religion, Masculinity, and the New Negro Renaissance, (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2018).
  • Robert J. Pushaw, “Analyzing [Supreme Court] justice Cardozo’s opinions on the constitutionality of the New Deal.” Touro Law Review 34, no. 1 (2018): 335–48.
  • Reiland Rabaka, “W.E.B. Du Bois, the death of the talented tenth and the birth of the guiding hundredth: Black conservatism, Black radicalism and critical social theory.” In W.E.B. Du Bois and the Africana Rhetoric of Dealienation, Monique Leslie Akassi, editor (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018).
  • Sherie M. Randolph, Florynce Flo Kennedy [1916-2000]: The Life of a Black Feminist Radical (Durham: University of North Carolina Press, 2018). Contents include: Family and the roots of Black feminist radicalism, 1916–1942 – Education and protest in New York City, 1943–1948 – Struggling to survive as an attorney, 1948–1960 – In the courtroom, in the press, and in political organizations, 1961–1965.
  • Benjamin Rasmussen, “The mogul who came in from the cold.” Vanity Fair (Holiday 2018/2019): 100–103, 128–131. Bill Browder vs. Vladimir Putin; he was also the grandson of Earl Browder; includes discussion of his family history.
  • Eric Rauchway, Winter War [1932–33]: Hoover, Roosevelt, and the First Clash over the New Deal (New York: Basic Books, 2018).
  • Arthur Redding, “Darlings of the Weather Underground: Political desire and the fictions of radical women.” Minnesota Review 90 (2018): 70–88. Several leading women in the Weather Underground were from Old Left backgrounds, including Kathy Boudin and the still-imprisoned Judy Clark [her father, Joseph, was once the foreign editor of the Daily Worker].
  • John Reed, Romania during World War I: Observations of an American Journalist (Buffalo, NY: Histria, Center for Romanian Studies, 2018).
  • Nicholas E. Reynolds, Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy: Ernest Hemingway’s Secret Adventures, 1935-1961 (New York: William Morrow, 2018). “The…story of Ernest Hemingway’s secret life as a spy for the OSS and NKVD before and during World War II, written by a former CIA officer and curator of the CIA Museum.”
  • Nicholas T. Rinehart, “Native Sons; or, how “Bigger” [Thomas] was born again.” Journal of American Studies 52, no. 1 (2018): 164–92. “…reconsiders Richard Wright’s Native Son by comparing divergences between the published novel and an earlier typeset manuscript.…such revisions render protagonist Bigger Thomas an icon of global class conflict rather than a national figure of racial tension…”
  • Paul Roazen, “The strange case of Alger Hiss.” Cultural Foundations of Political Psychology (Milton Keynes, UK: Taylor and Francis, 2018).
  • Maxwell Robbie, “The emergence of a pioneer conservative: George S. Benson and the politics of America’s great interior in the 1930s and 1940s.” Journal of Contemporary History 53, no. 4 (2018): 714–39. Church of Christ minister.
  • Sam Roberts, “Dennis Wrong, 94, one of the last of the New York Intellectuals, dies.” New York Times (November 20, 2018).
  • Sam Roberts, “Charles Krauthammer, prominent conservative voice, dies at 68.” New York Times (June 21, 2018).
  • Michael Robertson, The Last Utopians: Four Late Nineteenth-Century Visionaries and Their Legacy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018). Contents: Locating nowhere: Edward Bellamy’s orderly utopia [Looking Backward] – William Morris’s artful utopia [News from Nowhere] – Edward Carpenter’s homogenic utopia – Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s motherly utopia [Herland] – After the last utopians.
  • Walter Rodney [1942–1980]; J. Jesse Benjamin, Robin D.G. Kelley, editors, Vijay Prashad, forward, Walter Rodney’s Russian Revolution: A View from the Third World (Brooklyn, NY: Verso, 2018). Contents: Foreword: Rodney and the Revolution/Vijay Prashad – Editors’ note – Introduction: An “African perspective” on the Russian Revolution/Jesse J. Benjamin and Robin D.G. Kelley – The two world views of the Russian Revolution – The Russian regime and the Soviet Revolution – Marx, Marxism and the Russian left – Trotsky as historian of the Russian Revolution – On the “inevitability” of the Russian Revolution – On democracy: Lenin, Kautsky and Luxemburg – Building the socialist state – The transformation of empire – The critique of Stalinism. [Rodney was a Guyanese radical who spent some time in the US]
  • Kenneth M. Roemer, “A tribute to Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018).” Utopian Studies 29, no. 2 (2018): 117–26. See especially her 1974 science fiction novel, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia, about a Utopian colony on the moon and its problems.
  • Karl Heinz Roth, Ben Lewis, On the Road to Global Labour History: A Festschrift for Marcel van der Linden (Leiden: Brill, 2018).
  • Alissa J. Rubin, “Marceline Loridan-Ivens, 90, dies: Wrote of Holocaust’s enduring toll.” New York Times (September 20, 2018). Her second husband was pro-Communist filmmaker Joris Ivens, director of The Spanish Earth.
  • Sara Rzeszutek, James and Esther Cooper Jackson: Love and Courage in the Black Freedom Movement (Louisville: University Press of Kentucky, 2018). Based in large measure on their voluminous correspondence, especially from WWII, when James Jackson was stationed in Burma. See their Papers at the Tamiment Library, NYU.

  • Gabriella Safran, “Authenticity, complaint, and the Russianness of American Jewish literature.” Prooftexts 36, no. 3 (2018): 255–85. “…situates the American Jewish writers and their critics in an aural environment where Russian and Yiddish sounds were increasingly available in entertainment and…were associated with authenticity and political opposition…”
  • Lillian Schanfield, “Lost in translation: Reading Langston Hughes in Yiddish.” South Atlantic Review 83, no. 1 (2018): 70–82. “In 1936 Zishe Bagish, a young Yiddish poet from Poland, translated and published a collection of poetry titled Songs of the Black People [Dos Gezang fun Neger-Folk], most of which were poems by Langston Hughes…will consider the impression communicated (or miscommunicated) about Langston Hughes’ work to the Yiddish readers …”
  • Jennie Scholnick, “Poetry and politics in Jerome Robbins’s Age of Anxiety.” Dance Chronicle 41, no. 1 (2018): 78–98. “…considers Jerome Robbins’s 1950 ballet…in relation to the W. H. Auden poem on which it is based and to the…pressures on Robbins in the early 1950s as a Jewish, gay, former Communist Party member. Making use of Robbins’s annotated copy of Auden’s poem, his choreographic notes, and extant film of the dance work argues that Auden’s poem serves as a key to reading back into Robbins’s ballet a set of…Cold War personal and political anxieties even as the choreography moved away from overt political statements.”
  • Jennifer Schuessler, “Missing Malcom X writings, long a mystery, sold.” New York Times (July 26, 2018). Sold to the Schomburg Library. Includes a chapter not included in his Autobiography (“Ch. 15 “The Negro” – “needs penwork”).
  • Michael Schumacher, There But for Fortune: The Life of Phil Ochs [1940–1976] (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2018). Contents: Book I: I’m going to say it now (from beginnings up to just before the Chicago, 1968 Democratic Party convention) – Book II: Critic of the dawn (From Chicago, to his death and memorialization).
  • Jonathan Scott, “The Americanization of C.L.R. James.” Race & Class 60, no. 2 (2018): 3–20.
  • Nathan Seeley, “Carlton Moss and African American cultural emancipation.” Black Camera 9, no. 2 (2018): 53–67. Includes discussion of Lafayette Theater (in Harlem), the Federal Theater Project, and anti-Communist investigations.
  • Emily Senefeld, “We shall not be moved: Highlander Folk School’s cultural radicalism in the Great Depression.” In Reassessing the 1930s South, Karen L. Cox, Sarah E. Gardner, editors (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2018).
  • Benjamin Serby, “The dialectical liberalism of Richard Hofstadter.” Society (February 2018): 1–4.
  • Benjamin Serby, “Their dialectics and ours.” Society (June 2018): 1–5. “…chronicles a “missed connection” between the young Herbert Marcuse and his American contemporary… Sidney Hook, and finds…complementarity in their efforts to reinvigorate the Marxist tradition against the backdrop of Stalinism…the two philosophers’ first exchange in the early 1940s, by which time Hook had abandoned his…radicalism…the terms of Hook’s objection to Marcuse’s critical theory prefigured the traditional left’s resistance to Marxist-humanism following the dissemination of Marx’s early manuscripts two decades later.”
  • Bhumika Sharma, The African Journey to the Power Dome: Wright, Ellison, Baldwin (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018). Their relationship to social progress.
  • Adam Shatz, “Writing absurdity.” London Review of Books 40, no. 8 (2018): 10–15. Essay about Chester Himes [1909–1984], occasioned by the publication of Chester B. Himes: A Biography, [2017] by Lawrence P. Jackson.
  • Tommie Shelby, Brandon M. Terry, editors, To Shape a New World: Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr. (Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2018). “…contributors engage…with Martin Luther King’s understudied writings on…social justice.”
  • Jeffrey L Sheler, Nancy Gibbs, Billy Graham: America’s Preacher, 1918–2018 (New York: Time Inc. Books, 2018).
  • Peter Shinkle, Ike’s Mystery Man: The Cold War, the Lavender Scare, and the Untold Story of Eisenhower’s…National Security Advisor, Robert Cutler (Hanover, NH: Steerforth Press, 2018). “…[homosexual] Robert “Bobby” Cutler…shaped US Cold War strategy in…consequential ways…also left behind a…diary which reveals that he was in love with a man half his age, NSC staffer Skip Koons. Their friend Steve Benedict…also…gay, became Ike’s White House Security Officer, at a time when Executive Order 10450 banned anyone suspected of “sexual perversion”…from any government job…”
  • Casey Shoop, “The California occult: Nathaniel West, Theodor Adorno, and the representation of mass cultural desire.” Modernism/Modernity 25, no. 2 (2018): 303–26. Historical period: 1931–1935.
  • James F. Simon, Eisenhower vs. Warren: The Battle for Civil Rights and Liberties (New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, 2018). Contents include: A list of 205 Communists – Red Monday – Little Rock – The egalitarian revolution.
  • David Smith, editor, Mike Mosher, illustrator, George Orwell Illustrated (Chicago: Haymarket Press, 2018). “…New discoveries—including a human rights manifesto coauthored with Bertrand Russell and Arthur Koestler—help us better understand the worldview behind the words. In part two of this book, “Planet Orwell,” Orwell’s manifesto appears here for the first time…”
  • Virginia Whatley Smith, editor, Richard Wright: Writing America at Home and from Abroad (Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 2018). Contents: Introduction/Virginia Whatley Smith – Part I. Writing America at home, 1930–1947. Life and death of a Black man in Richard Wright’s “Down by the Riverside”/Ginevra Geraci – Down South/Up North: Bigger Thomas’s carceral societies in Native Son/Virginia Whatley Smith – Richard Wright’s Rite of Passage and a reconsideration of his portrayal of women/Robert Butler – Part 2. Writing America from abroad, 1947–1960. Richard Wright and the dilemma of the ethical criminal: can one live beyond good and evil?/Floyd W. Hayes III – Keeping secrets: the Cold War and the politics of un-belonging in Richard Wright’s The Outsider/Joseph Keith – Lying, deception, truth-telling, and self-negation: Ironies and failures of nation-building in Wright’s African parody Savage Holiday/Virginia Whatley Smith – Psychoanalysis as self-reflection in Richard Wright’s Savage Holiday/Toru Kiuchi – Wright on Patmos: The European re-figuration of Mississippi in The Long Dream/John Lowe – Signifying and self-portraiture in Richard Wright’s A Father’s Law/Robert Butler – Richard Wright and the American South/Sachi Nakachi – Richard Wright’s poetic spirit through the influence of Zen/Jon Zheng – The triangular vision of Richard Wright: The African American poet’s achievement of solace by means of Eastern poetics and African philosophy/Yoshinobu Hakutani.
  • Brad Snyder, “Sacco-Vanzetti and the Supreme Court.” Journal of Supreme Court History 43, no. 2 (2018): 107–24.
  • Juliana Spahr, Du Bois’s Telegram: Literary Resistance and State Containment (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2018). Publisher’s abstract: “In 1956 W. E. B. Du Bois was denied a passport to attend the Présence Africaine Congress of Black Writers and Artists in Paris. So he sent the assembled a telegram. “Any Negro-American who travels abroad today must either not discuss race conditions in the United States or say the sort of thing which our State Department wishes the world to believe.”
  • Jeff Sparrow, No Way but This: In Search of Paul Robeson (Brunswick, Victoria: Australian Scribe Publications, 2018). Contents: A peculiar institution: Williamston and Greensboro, North Carolina – In my father’s house: Princeton, New Jersey – The great future grinding down: Harlem, New York – An English gentleman: London, England – Proud Valley: Pontypridd, Tiger Bay, and Porthcawl, Wales – What fascism was: Barcelona and Madrid, Spain – You cannot imagine what that means: Moscow, Russia – Crossed with barbed wire: Moscow and Perm, Russia – Graveyard of fallen heroes, Russia.
  • Carol A. Stabile, Broadcast 41: Women and the Anti-communist Blacklist (London: Goldsmsiths Press, 2018). “At the dawn of the Cold War era, forty-one women working in American radio and television, among them Dorothy Parker, Gypsy Rose Lee, and Lena Horne, were placed on a media blacklist and forced from their industry…details the blacklisted women’s attempts in the 1930s and 1940s to depict America as diverse, complicated…”
  • Laura A. Stengrim, “One world: Wendell Willkie’s rhetoric of globalism in the World War II era.” Rhetoric & Public Affairs 21, no. 2 (2018): 201–33.
  • Jeffrey C. Stewart, The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018). Contents: Part I: The education of Alain Locke – Part II: Enter the New Negro – Part III: Metamorphosis. Forty-three chapters, including: Beauty or propaganda – Langston’s Indian Summer – FBI, Haiti, and diasporic democracy.
  • Henry Adam Svec, Pete Seeger’s time-biased tactics.” In American Folk Music as Tactical Media (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2018).
  • William Taubman, Gorbachev: His Life and Times (New York: W. W. Norton, 2018). By the Pulitzer Prize winning biographer of Khrushchev.
  • Stephanie Peebles Tavera, “Her body, Herland: Reproductive health and dis/topian satire in Charlotte Perkins Gilman.” Utopian Studies 29, no. 1 (2018): 1–20.
  • Ernest Thompson, Mindy Thompson Fullilove, Homeboy Came to Orange: A Story of People’s Power (New York: New Village Press, 2018). “The story of [Thompson] a union organizer (United Electrical Workers) who found a second career in community organizing and helped a Jim Crow city (Orange, NJ) become a more equitable place.
  • Pouria Torkamaneh, “Thus spoke Proctor: Nietzsche and the overman in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible [1953].” Atlantis 40, no. 1 (2018): 135–52. Proctor as dissenting Overman.
  • Gavan Tredoux, Comrade [J.B.S.] Haldane [1892–1964] Is Too Busy to Go on Holiday: JBS Haldane, Communism, and Espionage (New York: Encounter Books, 2018). Contents: Early days – With Vavilov in the Soviet Union – The Thirties – Stalinophilia – War on one front – Ivor Montagu and the X Group – The fate of Vavilov – Experiments in the revival of organisms – It is your Party duty, comrade! – Lysenko and “Lamarxism” – Social biology – Animal behavior from London to India – A certain amount of murder.
  • Michael Topp, “The Sacco and Vanzetti case and the psychology of political violence.” In The Routledge History of Italian Americans, William J. Connell, Stanislao G. Pugliese, editors (New York: Routledge, 2018).
  • Terrence T. Tucker “(Re)viewing Ellison’s Invisible Man: Comedy, rage, and cultural tradition in an African-American classic.” In Furiously Funny: Comic Rage from Ralph Ellison to Chris Rock (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2018).
  • Imaobong D. Umoren, Race Women Internationalists: Activist-Intellectuals and Global Freedom Struggles (Oakland: University of California Press, 2018). Contents: Introduction – Black feminist internationalism in Interwar Europe, 1920–1935 – The Italian invasion of Ethiopia, the Spanish Civil War, and anti-fascist internationalism, 1935–1939 – Internationalisms during and after World War II, 1939-1949 – Continuities and changes, 1950–1966 – Conclusion. Publisher’s abstract: “…brings together the entangled lives of three…women: American Eslanda Robeson, Martinican Paulette Nardal, and Jamaican Una Marson…”
  • Imaobong D. Umoren, “We Americans are not just American citizens any longer: Eslanda Robeson, world citizenship, and the New World Review in the 1950s.” Journal of Women’s History 30, no. 4 (2018): 134–58.
  • Maxwell Uphaus, “Herman Melville and C.L.R. James: Oceanic fears, maritime hopes.” Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal 101, no. 1 (2018): 18–29. “Written under detention by the McCarthy-era U.S. government, James’s book reads…Moby Dick as a prophecy of the rise of totalitarianism…also finds grounds for hope in the skills and qualities of the [diverse, cosmopolitan] maritime community Melville portrays.”
  • Julia Van Haaften, Berenice Abbott [1898–1991]: A Life in Photography (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2018). Contents include: Photo League: New York (1932-55).
  • Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Jon Curley, editor, Events and Victims (Oakland: PM Press, 2018). “… features a never-before-published short story [written in English].…inventing a parable about worker exploitation and environmental disaster that is as relevant today as it was almost one hundred years ago when this prisoner took up his pen…”
  • Lara Vapnek, “The Rebel Girl revisited: Rereading Elizabeth Gurley Flynn’s [1890-1964] life story.” Feminist Studies 44, no. 1 (2018): 13–42. “…best-remembered for her autobiography, The Rebel Girl (1955)…examines how Flynn developed her narrative identity as the “Rebel Girl,” contextualizes the production of her autobiography within the Cold War, and argues that Flynn’s membership in the Communist Party from 1937 until the end of her life prevented her narrating her life story beyond 1926, foreclosing discussion of a same-sex relationship, and her feminist activism within the Communist Party…”
  • Vojin Saša Vukadinović, “We the Living [1936]: The first American novel on Soviet Russia, the soul of “Any dictatorship,” and its aftermath in the Cold War.” American Communist History 17, no. 2 (2018): 232–46. Analysis of Ayn Rand’s first anti-communist novel and its reception.
  • Henry A. Wallace – See: Eric Elliott, under Dissertations.
  • Brandon Webb, “Laughter louder than bombs? Apocalyptic graphic satire in Cold War cartooning, 1946–1959.” American Quarterly 70, no. 2 (2018): 35–66. “…the “bomb” symbolized both security and insecurity. Two of the nation’s leading syndicated cartoonists—the Washington Post’s Herbert Block and the Village Voice’s Jules Feiffer—played on this paradox by parodying the arms race, civil defense, nuclear testing, and deterrence. But the schisms within progressive politics in this period distinguished Block and Feiffer as social critics…While Block and Feiffer both recognized the existential threat posed by nuclear weapons, they were representative of a left-liberal divide [Feiffer/Block]…”
  • Hattie V. Williams, Bury My Heart in a Free Land: Black Women Intellectuals in Modern U.S. History (Santa Barbara: Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2018). Contents include: Now you cookin’ with gas: Zora Neale Hurston and her legacy/Nicole Ande – Pauli Murray: The life of an [African] American intellectual/Kenya Davis-Hayes.
  • Kristin S. Williams, “Hallie Flanagan and the Federal Theater Project: A critical undoing of management history.” Journal of Management History 24, no. 3 (2018): 282–99. “…aims to… build on current research which interrogates the role of management history in the neglect of women leaders and labor programs and to draw attention to Hallie Flanagan and the Federal Theater Project and their lost contributions to management and organizational studies…”
  • Sheldon Wolin – See: Lucy Cane, under Dissertations.
  • Richard Wright – See: Heejung Kim, under Dissertations.
  • Terrence C. Wright, Dorothy Day: An Introduction to Her Life and Thought (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2018). Contents: The early life of Dorothy Day – A new life and conversion – The intellectual foundations of the Catholic Worker – Day’s spirituality, part I: scripture and saints – Day’s spirituality, part II: the church – The works of mercy – Peacemaker – Day’s final years and the cause for her canonization.
  • Izzy Young, Pete Seeger, Sis Cunningham, and Gil Turner, “Conversation.” Dylan on Dylan: Interviews and Encounters (Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2018).

Historical works

  • —–, Journal of Contemporary History 53, no. 1 (2018): Thematic issue: “Naming the enemy: Anti-Communism in transnational perspective.” Contents: Introduction/Maria Stone, Giuliana Chamedes – The [J.W.] Johnstone affair and anti-Communism in Interwar India/Michele Louro (U.S. Communist, and a leader of the Trade Union Unity League, among other roles) – Statist political science and American Marxism: A historical encounter/Rafael Khachaturian – Labor anti-Communism in the United States of America and the United Kingdom, 1920-49/Jennifer Luff.
  • ——, Signal: A Journal of International Political Graphics & Culture (Oakland: PM Press) “Signal is an ongoing book series (six volumes to date) dedicated to documenting and sharing compelling graphics, art projects, and cultural movements of international resistance and liberation struggles…”
  • ——, Socialism and Democracy 32, no. 1 (2018): Thematic issue “On Re-centering Revolutions.” Contents: Introduction: On re-centering revolution/Susan Moodliar – Feminism and the future of revolutions/Valentine M. Moghadam Lessons from the Russian Revolution and its fallout: An epistemological approach/Darko Suvin – The originality of the Russian Revolution/Aijaz Ahmad – The utopian impulse: From the Soviet Union to Silicon Valley/Nicole Aschoff – The historical memory and legacy of Louis-August Blanqui/Doug Enaa Greene – Joseph Stalin and the left: Reflections occasioned by Stephen Kotkin’s Paradoxes of Power/Gerald Meyer – The Utopian impulse: From the Soviet Union to Silicon Valley/Nicole Aschoff – The historical memory and legacy of Louis-Auguste Blanqui/Doug Enaa Greene – Discussion: Socialism and democracy: A conversation – Suren Moodliar & Victor Wallis.
  • ——, Twentieth Century Communism 14 (Spring 2018): “1917 in 2017.” Thematic issue on commemorations in various countries. TOC: (https://www.lwbooks.co.uk/twentieth-century-communism/14)
  • ——, Twentieth Century Communism 15 (Autumn, 2018): Thematic issue on African Communism and its relations with Soviet and Soviet-bloc Communism. TOC: (https://www.lwbooks.co.uk/twentieth-century-communism/15)
  • Susan C. Abbotson, Modern American Drama. Playwriting in the 1950s: Voices, Documents, New Interpretations (London: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2018). Contents include: From: “100 Things You Should Know About Communism and Education” (1951); Extracts from House Committee on Un-American Activities hearings 1952–1956: From the statement and affidavit of Elia Kazan to HUAC, 9 April 1952; From the statement of Edward G. Robinson to HUAC, 30 April 1952; From the intended statement of Paul Robeson to HUAC, 12 June 1956; From the testimony of Arthur Miller to HUAC, 21 June 1956.
  • Matt Aibel, “The personal is political is psychoanalytic: Politics in the consulting room.” Psychoanalytic Perspectives 15, no. 1 (2018): 64–101.
  • Brian Alnutt, “Another victory for the forces of democracy: The 1949 New Jersey Civil Rights Act.” Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies 85, no. 3 (2018): 362–93. Includes some discussion of the role of Communists.
  • Patricia M. Alvarez, “Between Smith and Marx: Parochial schools in a progressive society.” U.S. Catholic Historian 36, no. 3 (2018): 99–122.
  • Emily Abrams Ansari, editor, The Sound of a Superpower: Musical Americanism and the Cold War (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018). Contents: The American Exceptionalists: Howard Hanson and William Schuman – The “apolitical” opportunist: Virgil Thomson – The disillusioned nationalist: Roy Harris – The principled brand strategist: Aaron Copland – The frustrated activist: Leonard Bernstein. Publisher’s abstract: “Classical composers seeking to create an American sound enjoyed unprecedented success during the 1930s and 1940s…In the years after World War II…The prestige of musical Americanism waned rapidly as anti-communists made accusations against leading Americanist composers. Meanwhile a method of harmonic organization that some considered more Cold War-appropriate–serialism–began to rise in status. For many…the Cold War had effectively “killed off” musical Americanism.”
  • Thomas Aiello, The Grapevine of the Black South: The Scott Newspaper Syndicate in the Generation before the Civil Rights Movement (Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 2018). The papers of the Scott Newspaper Syndicate. “…included more than 240 Black newspapers between 1931 and 1955…”
  • Joyce Antler, Jewish Radical Feminism: Voices from the Women’s Liberation Movement (New York: New York University Press, 2018). Contents: Part I: We never talked about it: Jewishness and women’s liberation – Part II: Feminism enabled me to be a Jew: Identified Jewish feminists.
  • Robert Arp, Kevin Guilfroy, editors, The Americans and Philosophy: Reds in the Bed (Chicago: Open Court, 2018). Several essays discuss the ethics of spying, warfare, Communism, informing, etc.
  • Ron Austin, “Blacklisted.” First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion & Public Life (March 2018): 9–12. Autobiographical account.
  • Oliver Ayers, Labored Protest: Black Civil Rights in New York City and Detroit During the New Deal and Second World War (London: Routledge, 2018).
  • Sara Azaransky, This Worldwide Struggle: Religion and the International Roots of the Civil Rights Movement (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018). Coverage: 1930s-1950s. Includes discussion of Bayard Rustin.
  • Nandini Bagchee, Counter Institution: Activist Estates of the Lower East Side (New York: Fordham University Press, 2018). “…examines three re-purposed buildings…used by activists to launch actions over the past forty years. The Peace Pentagon was the headquarters of the anti-war movement [including the A.J. Muste Memorial Foundation…]”
  • James R. Barrett, “What went wrong? The Communist Party, the US, and the Comintern.” American Communist History 17, no. 2 (2018): 176–84. “The Bolshevik Revolution… welcomed… by revolutionaries in the United States…Given what happened in the years since the Revolution…it is vital to consider what went wrong in the relationship between the…(CPUSA) and the international movement. For all of the problems…being part of [the Comintern…] was not necessarily a liability. I note some cases where directions from the Communist International…worked to the advantage of the CPUSA. The problem had to do with the…model followed by the Comintern and the decisive influence of the Soviet party…”
  • A.J. Bauer, “Journalism history and conservative erasure.” American Journalism 35, no. 1 (2018): 2–26. “…Narrating the…history of conservative news media criticism from the 1930s through the emergence of Accuracy in Media in the early 1970s…”
  • David T. Beito, “New Deal mass surveillance: The “[Hugo] Black inquisition committee,” 1935–1936.” Journal of Policy History 30, no. 2 (2018): 169–201. “At the behest of the Roosevelt administration in 1935, the U.S. Senate established a…committee to investigate lobbying activities by opponents of the “death sentence” of the Public Utility Holding Company bill. Chaired by Hugo L. Black (D-Ala.)…expanded its mission into a… probe of anti-New Deal organizations and individuals…used…catch-all dragnet subpoenas…worked closely with the IRS for access to tax returns and with the FCC to obtain copies of millions of telegrams…there was a major backlash…Court rulings in 1936, resulting from suits by William Randolph Hearst and others, not only limited the committee’s powers but provided important checks for future investigators, including Senator Joseph McCarthy.”
  • Catherine Bergin, “The Russian revolution and Black radicalism in the United States.” Soundings 68 (Spring 2018): 65–77. “After [WWI] a new Black radicalism emerged in the US…These radicals…made…links between class, race and capitalism…Caribbean migrants were also centrally involved…the pan-African internationalism of Garvey had some influence…the racism of white workers was a serious impediment…and Black workers had an essential educational role to play in overcoming the limitations of their white colleagues.”
  • Mary Frances Berry, “Franklin D. Roosevelt and the March on Washington movement.” In History Teach Us to Resist: How Progressive Movements Have Succeeded in Challenging Times, (Boston: Beacon Press, 2018). “The March on Washington Movement (MOWM), 1941–1946, organized by activists A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin…was designed to pressure the U.S. government into desegregating the armed forces and providing fair working opportunities for African Americans. When President Roosevelt issued Executive Order 8802 [on June 25] 1941, prohibiting discrimination in the defense industry under contract to federal agencies, Randolph and collaborators called off the march.” [The CPUSA opposed the MOWM, alleging that it would have a negative impact on the production of war materials for the USSR.]
  • Brian E. Birdnow, Subversive Screen: Communist Influence in Hollywood’s Golden Age (New York: Prager Publishers, 2018). Publisher’s abstract: “…This…account of Communist influence surveys the topic from the Popular Front’s fight against fascism…to the…[HUAC]…hearings…outlines Communist International’s…efforts…focusing on the work of…activists such as Willi Münzenberg…Gerhart Eisler…and Otto Katz…explores the…ways in which Hollywood Communists and Soviet sympathizers attempted to tailor movie scripts to suit the Soviet agenda and discusses Communist front groups…”
  • Robert Birdwell, The Radical Novel and the Classless Society: Utopian and Proletarian Novels in the U.S. from Bellamy to Ellison (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2018). Contents: Introduction. The radical novel and socialism: Utopian and scientific – Recognition as classless society: Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle, Hegel’s “Lordship and Bondage,” and Lukacs’ History and Class Consciousness – The family as trope of recognition in the utopian novel: Bellamy, Howells, and Gilman – The convergence of family and criminal in the proletarian novel: Steinbeck and Wright – The rabble, or, the prefiguration of the classless society in Le Sueur and McKay – The divided people, or classless society and agent of history: Donnelly, Griggs, and Ellison – Conclusion. A dialectic of organizing and art.
  • Keisha N. Blain, Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom (Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018). Contents: Women pioneers in the Garvey Movement – The struggle for Black emigration – Organizing in the Jim Crow South – Dreaming of Liberia – Pan-Africanism and anticolonial politics – Breaks, transitions, and continuities – Epilogue.
  • Sara Blair, “Looking back: Henry Roth, Ben Shahn, and the Interwar Ghetto.” In How the Other Half Looks: The Lower East Side and the Afterlives of Images (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018).
  • Howard Blum, In the Enemy’s House: The Secret Saga of the FBI Agent and the Code Breaker Who Caught the Russian Spies (New York: HarperCollins, 2018). Meredith Gardner and Robert J. Lamphere; also includes discussion of the Rosenbergs.
  • Matthew Burton Bowman, Christian: The Politics of a Word in America (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2018). Contents include: Searching for a communal Catholic Christianity in the Great Depression – The anxiety of Christian anti-Communism – The global Christianity of the Black freedom movement, 1954–1974.
  • J. Patrick Brown, Beryl Lipton, Writers under Surveillance: The FBI Files (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2018). Contents: Hannah Arendt – Isaac Asimov – James Baldwin – Ray Bradbury – Truman Capote – Allen Ginsberg – Ernest Hemingway – Aldous Huxley – Ken Kesey – Norman Mailer – Susan Sontag – Terry Southern – Hunter S. Thompson – Gore Vidal – Howard Zinn.
  • Jeffrey Scott Brown, “Wobbly vitalism: Bergson, Sorel, and the interpretation of revolutionary syndicalism in the United States, 1905–1915.” Journal of the Gilded Age & Progressive Era 17, no. 2 (2018): 345–72.
  • Kathryn Brownell, Showbiz Politics: Hollywood in American Political Life (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018). Publisher’s abstract: “Conventional wisdom holds that John F. Kennedy was the first celebrity president…Kennedy capitalized on a tradition and style rooted in California politics and the Hollywood studio system…Louis B. Mayer, Bette Davis, Jack Warner, Harry Belafonte, Ronald Reagan, and members of the Rat Pack made Hollywood connections an asset in a political world being quickly transformed by the media…”
  • Lee Bruno, Charles Fracchia, Jennifer Durant, Misfits, Merchants, and Mayhem: Tales from San Francisco’s Historic Waterfront, 1849–1934 (Petaluma, CA: Cameron + Company, 2018). Includes the 1934 general strike.
  • Rachel Buff, “Aliens, refugees, citizens: The American Committee for the Protection of the Foreign Born, 1933–1959.” In Against the Deportation Terror: Organizing for Immigrant Rights in the Twentieth Century (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2018).
  • Isaac Butler, Dan Kois, The World Only Spins Forward: The Ascent of Angels in America (New York: Bloomsbury USA, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2018). “…Built around some 250 interviews…” Includes discussion of Roy Cohn.
  • Travis Sutton Byrd, “To organize the South – Coalition-ism, Communism, and the politics of labor.” In Tangled: Organizing the Southern Textile Industry, 1930–1934 (Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 2018).
  • Anthony Carew, American Labor’s Cold War Abroad: From Deep Freeze to Détente, 1945–1970 (Edmonton, Alberta: AU Press, 2018).
  • Justin Akers Chacon, Radicals in the Barrio: Magonistas, Socialists, Wobblies, and Communists in the Mexican American Working Class (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2018). See Part 4, Communists: Communists in the California fields – The CAWIU and the strike wave of Mexican workers in Depression-era San Antonio – Mexican women at the forefront of labor militancy – Communists and the Workers Alliance in Texas – The pecan shellers strike of Emma Tenayuca and the Mexican Question – North American Communists and the “Good Neighbor” policy – Communists, the Popular Front, and the New Deal in California – Mexican labor militancy in California – Radicals build the CIO in the barrios – El Congreso del Pueblo de habla Espanola – Sleepy Lagoon: Communists, the CIO, and civil rights – Communist miners and Cold War civil rights.
  • Paul Thomas Chamberlain, The Cold War’s Killing Fields: Rethinking the Long Peace (New York: Harper, 2018). While an uneasy peace reigned in the West, in the Third World, proxy wars killed some fourteen million people. Includes a chapter “The end of Third World Communism, 1964–1979.”
  • James Chappel, Catholic Modern: The Challenge of Totalitarianism and the Remaking of the Church (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2018). Contents: Catholic antimodern, 1920-1929 – Anti-Communism and paternal Catholicism, 1929–1944 – Anti-fascism and fraternal Catholicism, 1929–1944 – Rebuilding Christian Europe, 1944–1950 – Christian democracy and Catholic innovation in the long 1950s – The return of heresy in the global 1960s.
  • Merlin Chowkanyun, “The neurosis that has possessed us: Political repression in the Cold War medical profession.” Journal of the History of Medicine & Allied Sciences 73, no. 3 (2018): 255–73. “…by using the abrupt dismissal of three Los Angeles physicians from their jobs…the rise of the medical profession and the repressive state at mid-century…worked hand-in-hand… also explore tactics of resistance – rhetorical and organizational – to medical repression by physicians who came under attack.”
  • George Elliott Clarke, “On the centennial of the October (Bolshevik) Revolution: A canticle.” Labour/Le Travail 81 (Spring 2018): 241–3.
  • John Clayborn, “From Black Marxism to industrial ecosystem: Racial and ecological crisis in William Attaway’s Blood on the Forge [1941].” In (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018). Novel set in 1919, includes the Great Steel Strike.
  • Harvey G. Cohen, Who’s in the Money? The Great Depression Musicals and Hollywood’s New Deal (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press 2018). Contents: The Warners and Franklin Roosevelt – The Great Depression musicals – Footlight Parade – On the job – The NRA code – Post-1933: a conclusion – General index – Film index. Publisher’s Abstract: “Harry and Jack Warner were among the most important advocates and fundraisers of…Franklin Roosevelt during his 1932 presidential campaign…[but] they were attempting to reverse Roosevelt’s policies within their industry…the [1933]…struggle in Hollywood and Washington D.C…to create a National Recovery Administration (NRA) code of practice for the motion picture industry…sought to curtail workers’ rights and salaries instead of bolstering both sides of the labor/management divide…tales of Hollywood stars and employees fighting to win a fair share of the proceeds of their labor, the creation of the NRA code makes for an intriguing story…during the worst of the Great Depression…”
  • Phil Cohen, Archive That, Comrade! Left Legacies and the Counter Culture of Remembrance. (Oakland: PM Press, 2018). “… explores issues of archival theory and practice that arise for any project aspiring to provide an open-access platform for political dialogue and democratic debate… After a brief introduction [re]…“archive fever,”… considers what the political legacy of 1960s counter culture reveals about…commemoration…”
  • Ronald D. Cohen, Selling Folk Music: An Illustrated History (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2018). Includes labor and political songs.
  • Paul Cole, Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2018). “…workers in the world’s ports can harness their role, at a strategic choke point, to promote their labor rights and social justice causes…dockworkers…drew on longstanding radical traditions to promote racial equality…they persevered when a new technology–container ships–sent a shockwave of layoffs through the industry…their commitment to Black internationalism and leftist politics sparked transnational work stoppages to protest apartheid and authoritarianism.”
  • Nicholas Coles, Paul Lauter, editors, A History of American Working-Class Literature (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018). Contents include: Proletarian literature: Fiction and the predicaments of class culture/Lawrence Hanley – Go Left, young woman: Proletarian women writers/Michelle Tokarczyk – The American labor song tradition/Richard Flacks – The evolution of the poetry of work: From the Red Decade to the end of the Cold War/Cary Nelson – The labor plot: One hundred years of class struggle and the silver screen/Kathy M. Newman.
  • Jane L. Collins, H. Jacob Carlson, “State phobia, then and now: Three waves of conflict over Wisconsin’s public sector, 1930–2013.” Social Science History, 42, no. 1 (2018): 57–80. “…deeply intertwined with the…rise to dominance of neoliberal political rationality…”
  • Robert C. Cottrell, Blaine T. Browne, “You say you want a revolution: Radical politics and the counterculture.” In 1968: The rise and fall of the New American Revolution (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2018).
  • Jill J. Crane, Marcella Lesher, “Beyond the campus: National and international news coverage in college newspapers, 1920–1940.” Journalism History 44, no. 2 (101–8).
  • Paul Cronin, A Time to Stir: Columbia ’68 (New York: Columbia University Press, 2018).
  • Victor G. Devinatz, “Trade unions, communities and struggles: US sit-down strikes and their potential: from the Committee for Industrial Organization to the age of austerity.” Theory and Struggle 119 (2018): 100–6.
  • Paul Devlin, “Albert Murray’s The Spyglass Tree and the 1923, armed defense of Tuskegee Institute.” African American Review 51, no. 1 (2018). Brief mention of Harry Haywood.
  • Bernard F. Dick, Screen is Red: Hollywood, Communism, and the Cold War (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2018). Contents: The road not taken – The Red sextet – Calling Dr. Death – Creatures from the Id – Worlds elsewhere – Amid the alien corn – Apocalypse then – Red skies over China – Better dead than Red – Commies, commies everywhere – Microfilm mania – Madness risen from hell – Curtain up – Walking a tightrope – The forgotten war – Meanwhile, back in the West – Alfred Hitchcock and Cold War espionage – Hollywood’s Cold Warrior: John Wayne – Home Front liberals – The year of living dangerously – After such knowledge – Filmography, television, radio.
  • Aileen Dillane, Martin J. Power, editors, Songs of Social Protest (London: Rowman & Littlefield International, 2018). Contents include: Chapter 3: Billie Holiday’s Popular Front songs of protest; “Strange Fruit,” Café Society and the Left; “High Art” from below; “Strange Fruit” for Billie Holiday; “God Bless the Child”; Race, class, and the musician as organic intellectual – Chapter 5; Pete Seeger and the politics of participation.
  • Thomas Doherty, Show Trial: Hollywood, HUAC, and the Birth of the Blacklist (New York: Columbia University Press, 2018). Contents: Part I, Backstories: How the Popular Front became unpopular – Hollywood’s War record – The preservation of American ideals – The magic of a Hollywood dateline – Smearing Hollywood with the brush of Communism – Part II, On location in Washington: Showtime – Lovefest – Friendlies, cooperative and uncooperative – Hollywood’s finest – Doldrums – Crashing page 1 – Contempt – $64 questions and no answers – Jewish questions – The curtain drops – Part III, Backfire: The Waldorf [conference, 1949] and other declarations – Blacklists and casualty lists – Not only victims.
  • Theodore Draper [1912–2006], Victor W. Turner, editor, The Roots of American Communism (Somerset, NJ: Routledge, 2018). New edition.
  • Stephen R. Duncan, The Rebel Café: Sex, Race, and Politics in Cold War America’s Nightclub Underground (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018).
  • Marc Egnal, “Re-visioning American literary naturalism.” Canadian Review of American Studies 48, no. 2 (2018): 171–90. “Today, two characteristics define literary naturalism, and both are problematic. One is the emphasis on four male writers: Theodore Dreiser, Frank Norris, Stephen Crane, and Jack London. This focus emerged in the 1930s.The other defining trait is the temporal reach of naturalism. Extrapolating from traits in the works of Dreiser et. al., this school now includes the “proletarian writers” of the 1930s and many recent authors…presents a new definition, one that emphasizes the distinct nature of the period from 1893 to 1913…”
  • Barry Eidlin, Labor and the Class Idea in the United States and Canada (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018). “…The book also breaks down trends over time, from party-class alliances in the US and Canada between 1932 and 1948, followed by analysis of the period from 1946-1972…”
  • Max Elbaum, Alicia Garza, Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao, and Che (London: Verso, 2018). Revised edition; originally published in 2002. Contents: Introduction – Part I: A new generation of revolutionaries, 1968–1973: – “The System” becomes the target – The appeal of Third World Marxism – The transformation of New Left radicalism – Part II: Gotta get down to It, 1968–1973 – A new Communist movement takes shape – Strongest pole on the anti-capitalist Left – Elaborate doctrine, weak class anchor – Envisioning the vanguard – Bodies on the line: The culture of a movement – Part III: Battered by recession, restructuring and reaction, 1974–1989: The momentum is broken – China’s new policies split the movement – Rival trends try Party building, round two – Fatal crises and first obituaries – Part IV: Walking on broken glass, 1982–1992 – The survivors build the rainbow – The collapse of Communism – Part V: End of a Long March – Movement veterans adjust to civilian life – Lessons from the New Communist movement – Appendix: Glossary of New Communist movement organizations – Bibliography – Notes – Index.
  • Jutta Ernst, Sabina Matter-Seibel, editors, Revisionist Approaches to American Realism and Naturalism (Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag, 2018). “…Individuals covered [include] Jack London, Theodore Dreiser, Richard Wright…”
  • Elizabeth D. Esch, The Color Line and the Assembly Line: Managing Race in the Ford Empire (Oakland: University of California Press, 2018). Contents include: From the melting pot to the boiling pot: Fascism and the factory-state at the River Rouge plant in the 1920s – Out of the melting pot and into the fire: African Americans and the uneven Ford empire at home.
  • Ian B. Fagelson, “President Truman’s Justice Department and the fight for racial justice in the Supreme Court.” Journal of Supreme Court History 43, no. 1 (2018): 69–82.
  • James Farr, “The Communist Manifestoes: Media of Marxism and Bolshevik contagion in America.” Studies in East European Thought 70, no. 2–3 (2018): 85–105. “…its Anglophone reception…and the Bolshevik contagion that spread into…the manifestoes of American Communist parties that heralded the revolution in Russia…”
  • Edmund Fawcett, Liberalism: The Life of an Idea (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018). Contents: Introduction: the practice of liberalism – Part one. The confidence of youth (1830–1880) – Part two. Liberalism in maturity and the struggle with democracy (1880–1945) – Part three. Second chance and success (1945–1989) – Part four. Liberal dreams and nightmares in the twenty-first century – Two decades that shook liberal democracy – The primacy of politics.
  • Federal Writers’ Project, New York Panorama: Essays from the Federal Writers’ Project (Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2018; first published 1938).
  • Megan Feeney, Hollywood in Havana: US Cinema and Revolutionary Nationalism in Cuba before 1959 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018). Contents include: Looking up: Hollywood and revolutionary Cuban nationalism – Our men in Havana: Hollywood and good neighborly bonds, 1934–1941 – You are men! fight for liberty! Hollywood heroes and the pan American bonds of World War II – Rebel idealism: Hollywood in Havana during the Batistato, 1952–1958 – Epilog: the show goes on: Hollywood in Havana after 1958.
  • Stephen Fender, Nature, Class and New Deal Literature: The Country Poor in the Great Depression (London: Routledge, 2018). Contents: Part I: Climate: The myth of the dust bowl: Nature and apocalypse: The Okies and the New Deal in California – A tale of two camps – matter out of place – Who stole the folk’s music? – Part II: Geography: Social stasis in the Southern life histories: The WPA and the Southern country poor: Life histories or case studies? – The Southern life histories: The class factor – Part III: Madonna and Christ figures: The Dust Bowl on film.
  • Eric Ferrara, editor, Lower East Side History Project, Revolt: East Village Activism Literature, 1960s–1990s (U.S.: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2018).
  • Thomas C. Field, Jr., “Transnationalism meets empire: The AFL-CIO, development, and the private origins of Kennedy’s Latin American labor program.” Diplomatic History, 42, no. 2 (2018): 305–34. “Secretly directing his administration to “plan [a]…progressive labor program… designed to win increasing support for United States foreign policy objectives,”.…Kennedy called for channeling millions of USAID dollars “through appropriate private groups” such as the international wing of the AFL-CIO…”
  • Anne Fletcher, Modern American Drama. Playwriting in the 1930s: Voices, Documents, New Interpretations (London: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018). Contents include: American theatre in the 1930s – Langston Hughes: Mulatto (1935); The Mule Bone (1930) (with Zora Neale Huston); Little Ham (1936) – Clifford Odets: Waiting for Lefty (1935); Awake and sing! (1935); Paradise Lost (1935); Rocket to the Moon (1938); Night Music (1940) – Lillian Hellman: The Children’s Hour (1934); Days to Come (1936); The Little Foxes (1939).
  • John H. Flores, The Mexican Revolution in Chicago: Immigration Politics from the Early Twentieth Century to the Cold War (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2018). Contents include: The Mexican revolution migrates to Chicago –Mexican immigrant understandings of empire, race, and gender – The rise of the post-Revolution Mexican Left in Chicago – Mexican radicals and traditionalists unionize workers in the United States – The Cold War and the decline of the Revolutionary generation.
  • Philip S. Foner, Annelise Orleck, introduction, Women and the American Labor Movement, (Chicago: Haymarket Press, 2018). Originally published 1979.
  • Elizabeth Fones-Wolf, Ken Fones-Wolf, “Termites in the temple: Fundamentalism and anti-liberal politics in the post-World War II South.” Religion & American Culture 28, no. 2 (2018): 167–205. “From 1946 to 1950, East Tennessee was embroiled in a…campaign over the [conservative Baptist] radio preacher and evangelist, J. Harold Smith [1910-2001]…a conflict that grew out of a conservative political effort to roll back the New Deal, the union-led regime of collective bargaining, and the tide of modernist religion…supporters of Smith’s radio program wrote thousands of letters that illuminate what…people were thinking about God, society, and politics in the postwar years.”
  • Amy Weise Forbes, Amanda Smithers, “Combatting the communistic-mulatto inspired movement to fuse the two ethnic groups: The Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission, sickled cells, and segregationists’ science in the atomic age.” Social History of Medicine 31, no. 2 (2018): 392–413.
  • Derek R. Ford, Tyson E. Lewis, “On the freedom to be opaque monsters: Communist pedagogy, aesthetics, and the sublime.” Cultural Politics 14, no. 1 (2018) 95–108. “…we suggest a new alignment between radical politics and aesthetics of the sublime via the Communist Party…In closing, we read this aesthetic communist pedagogy through a Communist study group in the Jim Crow South…”
  • Jacob Frank, Sebastian Kunze, editors, Jewish Radicalisms: Historical Perspectives on a Phenomenon of Global Modernity (Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2018). “Radical thoughts and acts…could be classified as politically left or right, progressive or reactionary. The volume wants to sharpen the term “Jewish Radicalism” and provide different perspectives on the historical phenomenon and its dimensions.” [19th–20th century emphasis.]
  • Steve Fraser, Class Matters: The Strange Career of an American Delusion (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018). Contents: Introduction: The enigma of class in America – East of Eden – We the people in the city of brotherly love – Wretched refuse – There was a young cowboy: Homeless on the range – John Smith visits suburbia – Free at last?: “I have a dream” and involuntary servitude – Conclusion: The homeland.
  • Joshua Benjamin Freeman, Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2018). “…And he explores the representation of factories [by]…Margaret Bourke-White, Charlie Chaplin and Diego Rivera.”
  • Robert L. Friedheim; James N. Gregory, introduction, photographer, The Seattle General Strike [1919] (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2018). “…Friedheim’s…account…first published in 1964 and now enhanced with a new introduction, afterword, and photo essay…”
  • Judith Friedlander, A Light in Dark Times: The New School for Social Research and its University in Exile (New York: Columbia University Press, 2018). Contents include: Alvin Johnson and The New Republic – The founding of the German University in Exile – The red scare – The Orozco mural – “Save the school” – The “new” New School – Three doctoral programs at risk – Rebuilding the GF – Rekindling the spirit.
  • Diane C. Fujino, “Cold War activism and Japanese American exceptionalism: Contested solidarities and decolonial alternatives to freedom.” Pacific Historical Review 87, no. 2 (2018): 264–304. “…Japanese American Cold War progressivism shows the forging of deep solidarities and the refusal to promote domestic rights based on empire building…”
  • Diane C. Fujino, “The indivisibility of freedom: The Nisei Progressives deep solidarities, and Cold War alternatives.” Journal of Asian American Studies 21, no. 2 (2018): 171–208. “…the Nisei Progressives, a Japanese American postwar organization, shows the possibilities for Cold War alternatives to the…emergence of the model minority trope …”

  • Miriam Gogol, Working Women in American Literature, 1865–1950 (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2018). Contents include: Sister Carrie, fashion and the working woman in American realism/Irene Gammel – Women, work and cross-class alliances in the fiction of Charlotte Perkins Gilman/Nancy Von Rosk.
  • Harmony Goldberg, “Fight, Don’t Starve!”: The Communist Party and mass organizing during the Great Depression.” In Revolting New York: How 400 Years of Riot, Rebellion, Uprising, and Revolution Shaped a City, Neil Smith, Don Mitchell, editors (Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 2018).
  • Eric L. Goldstein, Deborah R. Weiner, On Middle Ground: A History of Jews in Baltimore (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2018). Potentially useful background for work on a city with significant Communist activity, notably in the maritime industry and in the African American community.
  • Peter Gough, Sounds of the New Deal: The Federal Music Project in the West (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2018). Contents: Musicians have got to eat too: The New Deal and the FMP – Out where the West begins: Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada – Innovation, participation, and a “horrible musical stew:” California – Spit, baling wire, mirrors and the WPA: Colorado, Utah, Oregon, Washington – No one sings as convincingly as Darkies do: Song and diversity – Ballad for Americans: The music of the Popular Front – The folk of the nation: No horses need apply – Conclusion: The varied carols we hear. Publisher’s abstract: “…exemplified the spirit of the Popular Front movement… These new musical expressions combined the radical sensibilities of an invigorated Left with nationalistic impulses…”
  • Victoria Grieve, Little Cold Warriors: American Childhood in the 1950s (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018). Contents: Introduction – Cold War comics: Educating American children for a new global role – A small paintbrush in the hands of a small child: Children’s art and cultural diplomacy during the Cold War – The accidental political advantages of a nonpolitical book program: Franklin Publications and juvenile books abroad – “Your grandchildren will grow up under Communism!”: Cold War advertising and American youth – The Cold War in the schools: Educating a generation for world understanding – Conclusion.
  • Kevin Grimm, “Envisioning the Soviets: [George F.] Kennan vs. [Henry A.] Wallace.” In America Enters the Cold War: The Road to Global Commitment, 1945–1950 (New York: Routledge, 2018).
  • Britt Haas, Fighting Authoritarianism: American Youth Activism in the 1930s (New York: Empire State Editions, an imprint of Fordham University Press, 2018). Contents: Seeing the problem and envisioning a plan – The effects of the Crash: The youth problem from New York City to Harlan County, Kentucky, and back again – The Reed Harrison affair: Youth claim their rights and freedoms at Columbia University and beyond – The Scottsboro Boys: Demands for equality from the Deep South to New York City – The Popular Front: Strength in unity, New York City organizations come together in solidarity – Playing politics and making policy: Institutionalizing a vision from New York to Washington – The fight against fascism: The Spanish Republicans find their support in New York City – Dissolution: World War II subverts the zeitgeist and youth’s vision for America.
  • Martin Halliwell, Nick Witham, Reframing 1968. American Politics, Protest and Identity, (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press 2018). Contents: Part I: Politics of protest – Part II: Spaces of protest – Part III: Identities and protest.
  • Kevin Hamilton, Lookout America!: The Secret Hollywood Studio at the Heart of the Cold War (Lebanon, NH: Dartmouth College Press, 2018). Contents: Preface – Introduction – Hollywood’s nuclear weapons laboratory – Colonels, cameras, and security clearances – Strategies of containment: Lookout Mountain’s oceanic operations – Sense and sensibilities: Lookout Mountain’s Operation Ivy – Routine reports: The Nevada films – The vectors of America: Missile films – Engineering geographies: Arctic and space films – The Vietnamization of the Cold War camera – Mushroom cloud cameras – Closure – Epilogue and acknowledgments – Notes – Sources – Index.
  • Laura Hapke “Revolution: Imagining a counter narrative.” In American Literature in Transition, 1910–1920 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018).
  • William David Hart, “Constellations: Capitalism, anti-Blackness, Afro-pessimism, and Black optimism.” American Journal of Theology & Philosophy, 39, no. 1 (2018): 5–33. “…the positions of leading Black intellectuals, including several Communists… (Angela Davis, W.E.B. Du Bois, C.L.R. James).”
  • Claire Hartfield, Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 (New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018). Contents: Part I: Catalyst – Part II: First whispers – Part III: Up from the South.
  • Wai-Siam Hee, “Anti-Communist films sponsored by the US government in Singapore and Malaya: on the New York Sound Masters Inc.” Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 19, no. 2 (2018): 310–27. “…In the early 1950s, the United States Information Agency…secretly commissioned and funded New York Sound Masters Inc. to produce and shoot several anti-Communist films…In 1953, cinemas across Malaya and Singapore screened Singapore Story and Kampong Sentosa, two Cold War products of the “Campaign of Truth…”
  • Paul M. Heideman, Class Struggle and the Color line: American Socialism and Antiracism 1900–1930 (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2018). Contents [includes writings by]: Part I: The Socialist Party: Eugene V. Debs – A.M. Simmons – I.M. Rubinow – Kate Richards O’Hare – Hubert Harrison – W.E.B. Du Bois – The New Review – The Class Struggle – Part II: The Industrial Workers of the World: Ben Fletcher – Documents – Part III: The Messenger: Editorials – W.A. Domingo – Part IV: The Crusader: Cyril V. Briggs – Part V: The Communist Party: Official documents – John Reed – Claude McKay – Robert Minor – Lovett Fort-Whiteman – Jeannette Pearl – William F. Dunne – Jay Lovestone – William Z. Foster.
  • Paul Heidemann, “Half the way with Mao Zedong: How Students for a Democratic Society went from building a mass movement to embracing a politics of self-destruction.” Jacobin Magazine (May 23, 2018). Includes discussion of SDS’s social democratic roots and origins. (https://jacobinmag.com/2018/05/half-the-way-with-mao-zedong)
  • Marjorie Heins, “A Pall of orthodoxy over the classroom: Lessons from the Great Keyishian Case.” History of Education Quarterly 58, no. 3 (2018): 423–8. “…focusing particularly on the 1967 U.S. Supreme Court case of Keyishian v. Board of Regents. The case overturned New York state’s 1949 Feinberg Law which dealt with loyalty oaths against seditious beliefs and anti-Communism…”
  • John Heyrman, Politics, Hollywood Style: American Politics in Film from Mr. Smith to Selma (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2018). Contents: Introduction: Why and how films matter – The Depression era – Postwar and Cold War – The height of the Cold War – Challenging political powers – The political lull of the “me generation” – The return of the political film – The war on terror and beyond.
  • Scarlett Higgins, “Purity of essence in the Cold War: Dr. Strangelove, paranoia, and bodily boundaries.” Textual Practice 32, no. 5 (2018): 799–820. “In Stanley Kubrick’s 1963 black comedy…General Ripper narrativizes his move towards nuclear apocalypse through an understanding of the (male) body - physical and national - as penetrated and fragmented by the substance most necessary to its survival, water…produces a new understanding of “Cold War paranoia” via a psychoanalytic reading of these texts (alongside earlier Cold War films My Son John and The Manchurian Candidate) through which paranoia becomes a peculiarly bodily mental disturbance…the body in question is feminized - and these feminized bodies…must disappear to make way for newly shored up male bodily boundaries. Dr. Strangelove’s use of satire sets it apart from the earlier films in its diagnosis of the deathly body politics at stake in the Cold War.”
  • Warren Hincle; Emmerich Anklam, Steve Wasserman, editors, Ransoming Pagan Babies: The Selected Writings of Warren Hinckle (Berkeley: Heyday, 2018). Contents include: The commie-rat, alien Harry Bridges – The Big Strike.
  • William I. Hitchcock, “Confronting McCarthy.” In The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2018).
  • Adam Hochschild, “A nation of enemies.” Mother Jones 43, no. 1 (2018): 52–7, 66. Philippines under U.S rule.
  • Michael H. Hodges, Building the Modern World: Albert Kahn in Detroit (Detroit: Painted Turtle, an imprint of Wayne State University Press, 2018). “…his intervention to save the Diego Rivera murals at the Detroit Institute of Arts (unreported until now), and his work laying down the industrial backbone for the Soviet Union in 1929-31 as consulting architect for the first Five Year Plan…”
  • Michael K. Honey, To the Promised Land: Martin Luther King and the Fight for Economic Justice (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2018). Contents include: We have a powerful instrument: Civil Rights unionism and the Cold War, 1957–1963.
  • Gerald Horne, “The apocalypse of settler colonialism.” Monthly Review 69, no. 11 (2018): 1–21. “…also tackles the…resurgence of Black Marxist thought and theories of racial capitalism.”
  • Gerald Horne, Facing the Rising Sun: African Americans, Japan, and the rise of Afro-Asian Solidarity (New York: New York University Press, 2018). Contents: Introduction – Japan rises/Negroes cheer – Harlem, Addis Ababa–and Tokyo – Japan establishes a foothold in Black America – White supremacy loses “face” – Pro-Tokyo Negroes convicted and imprisoned – Japanese Americans interned, U.S. Negroes next? – “Brown Americans” fight “Brown Japanese” in the Pacific War? – Aftermath.
  • Jeffrey D. Howison, “The historical origins and contemporary dynamics of conservatism in the United States: Anti-Communism, the New Class critique, and the environment.” Political Studies Review 16, no. 1 (2018): 13–24. Review essay.
  • George Hutchinson, Facing the Abyss: American Literature and Culture in the 1940s (New York: Columbia University Press, 2018). Contents: Introduction – When literature mattered – Popular culture and the avant-garde – Labor, politics, and the arts – The war – America! America! A Jewish renaissance? – A rising wind: Literature of the Negro and civil rights – Queer horizons – Women and power – Culture and ecology – Epilogue: One world.
  • Emily Hunt and João Chaves, “Imagining structural stewardship: Lessons in resistance and cultural change from the Highlander Folk School.” In Christian Faith and University Life: Stewards of the Academy, T. Laine Scales, Jenny Howell, editors (Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).
  • George Hutchinson, Facing the Abyss: American Literature and Culture in the 1940s (New York: Columbia University Press, 2018). Contents: Introduction – When literature mattered – Popular culture and the avant-garde – Labor, politics, and the arts – The war – America! America! [a chapter employing the title of Elia Kazan’s 1952 book]: A Jewish renaissance? – A rising wind: “Literature of the Negro” and civil rights – Queer horizons – Women and power – Ecology and culture – Epilogue: One world.
  • Daniel H. Inouye, “A transnational embrace: Issei radicalism in 1920s New York.”
  • Journal for the Study of Radicalism 12, no. 1 (2018): 55–95. [Issei = Japanese immigrants to North America.]
  • Amanda L. Izzo, “Dare we be as radical as our religion demands?: Christian activism and the long Red Scare.” In Liberal Christianity and Women’s Global Activism (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2018).
  • Steven H. Jaffe, Activist New York: A History of People, Protest, and Politics (New York: New York University Press, 2018). “…a visual exploration of these movements, from New Netherland to the present, serving as a companion book to the…Museum of the City of New York exhibition of the same name…”
  • Sarah Eppler Janda, Prairie Power: Student Activism, Counterculture, and Backlash in Oklahoma, 1962–1972 (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2018).
  • Jeffrey A. Johnson, The 1916 Preparedness Day Bombings: Anarchy and Terrorism in Progressive Era America (New York: Routledge, 2018). Contents include: Fighting anarchists of America: The attacks of 1919 and 1920, and the [Tom] Mooney defense onward.
  • Jesse Jarnow, Wasn’t That a Time: The Weavers, the Blacklist, and the Battle for the Soul of America (Boston: Da Capo Press, 2018). Contents: The new situations – People’s Songs – Warp and woof – Irene Goodnight – Ballad for un-American blues – This Land is Your Land – Twelve Gates to the City – Hammer songs – This too shall pass. Publisher’s abstract: “…sheds new light on the contributions of…the Weavers to the battle against the blacklist efforts of the ‘50 s and ‘60 s as well as their…additions to popular American music…Using previously unseen journals and letters, unreleased recordings, once-secret government documents…uncovers the immense hopes, incredible pressures, and daily struggles of the four distinct and often unharmonious personalities at the heart of the Weavers.”
  • L. Jeffries, editor, The Black Panther Party in a City near You (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2018). Includes essays on chapters in Atlanta, Boston, Dallas, Washington DC.
  • Jennifer Dominique Jones, “Until I talked with you: Silence, storytelling, and Black sexual intimacies in the Johns Committee records, 1960–5.” Gender & History 30, no. 2 (2018): 511–27. “…discusses the Johns Committee, the Florida Legislative Investigation Committee… created to investigate groups…or individuals deemed subversive…. not only did they target civil rights activism, but homosexual educators, especially African Americans.”
  • Andrew L. Johns and Mitchell B. Lerner, editors, The Cold War at Home and Abroad: Domestic Politics and US Foreign Policy since 1945 (Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2018). Post-1960 emphasis.
  • Max Kaiser, “A new and modern golden age of Jewish culture: Shaping the cultural politics of transnational Jewish antifascism.” Journal of Modern Jewish Studies 17, no. 3 (2018): 287–303. “… three Jewish left magazines of the late 1940s…were involved in a loose international antifascist progressive Jewish network and ideological framework… Jewish Life (USA), New Life (UK) and Unity (Australia) represented similar antifascist politics and cultural outlooks in the USA, Britain and Australia, respectively…Their cultural vision represented antifascist values against bourgeois or nationalist Jewish culture and broadly reflected a pro-Soviet, progressive and Jewish internationalist, Popular Front politics and worldview.”
  • Laura Kalman, “Pillars of justice: Lawyers and the liberal tradition.” Yale Law Journal 127, no. 6 (2018): 1638–96.
  • Scott Kamen, “Rethinking postwar liberalism: The Americans for Democratic Action, social democracy, and the struggle for racial equality.” Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics & Culture 11, no. 1 (2018): 69–92.
  • Jeffrey Kaplan, “America’s apocalyptic literature of the radical right.” International Sociology 33, no. 4 (2018): 503–22.
  • Jennifer A. Keohane, Communist Rhetoric and Feminist Voices in Cold War America, (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2018). Contents: Introduction – Cold War, hot commodities: gendering consumer culture post-WWII – Spheres of influence: Building credibility and theory in woman against myth, 1948 – Voice and visibility: Building Black feminism in the postwar Communist Party United States – Articulate and organized: Peace petitions, working-class motherhood, and transnational witnessing – Long range propositions: Justifying activism and building commitment – The 100-hour work week: The housewife ethos and changes to the CPUSA – Conclusion.
  • Harriette Kevill-Davies, “Children crusading against Communism: Mobilizing boys as citizen soldiers in the early Cold War state.” Rhetoric & Public Affairs 21, no. 2 (2018): 235–77. “In 1951, the Bowman Gum company released a collectible card set, sold with bubblegum, entitled The Children’s Crusade Against Communism: Fight the Red Menace…drew boys into a burgeoning form of American citizenship, but their overtly military tone also links this citizenship to ideas about national security. The narrative of the cards broadly reflects the tenets of the Truman Doctrine…”
  • Kevin Y. Kim, “From Century of the Common Man to Yellow Peril: Anti-racism, empire, and U.S. global power in Henry A. Wallace’s quest for Cold War alternatives.” Pacific Historical Review 87, no. 3 (2018): 405–38.
  • Robert P. Kolker, Politics Goes to the Movies: Hollywood, Europe, and Beyond (Andover: Routledge, 2018). Contents include: Revolution!: Battleship Potemkin (1925) – American democracy and Frank Capra: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) – Politics and the apocalypse: Weekend (1967) – The Cold War, part one: science fiction and Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) – The Cold War, part two: Point of Order (1964) and Dr. Strangelove (1964) – Hollywood and the blacklist: Salt of the Earth (1954).
  • Michael Koncewicz, “Reporting from behind enemy lines: How the National Guardian and Liberation brought Vietnam to the American Left.” American Journalism 35, no. 2 (2018): 196–213. “Working alongside the…Liberation News Service were two…outlets on the American Left…In the initial years of the war, these two older leftwing publications served as vital outlets for antiwar reporting that connected generations of activists, leading to…exchanges between the Old and New Left. Figures such as Wilfred Burchett, Dave Dellinger, and…others published stories that brought their readers behind enemy lines…” [The National Guardian was founded in 1948 by leading figures of the anti-anti-communist left who supported the presidential candidacy of Henry A. Wallace.]
  • Beeate Kutschke, “Resistance and heroization in protest songs in the U.S. in the 1950s: Maintaining Communist political identity during the McCarthy era.” Historia Contemporanea 52, no. 2 (2018): 325–48. Published in English. “…Being among the victims, singer-songwriters of protest songs dealt with this frightening situation by musical means…will investigate three protest songs released on a single by the Communist-leaning label Hootenanny Records in 1952: “Talking Un-American Blues,” “In Contempt,” and “Die Gedanken sind frei.”
  • Teishsan Latner, Cuban Revolution in America: Havana and the Making of a United States Left, 1968–1992 (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2018). Contents: Introduction. Cuban revolution in America – Venceremos means “we will win”: The Venceremos Brigades, Cuba, and the U.S. Left – Missiles, in human form: Cuba and the specter of foreign subversion in America – Revolution in the air: Hijacking, political protest, and U.S.-Cuba relations – Joven Cuba inside the colossus: The Antonio Maceo Brigade and the making of a Cuban American Left – Assata is welcome here: Black radicalism, political asylum, and U.S.-Cuba diplomacy – Epilogue. Unfinished revolutions.
  • Paul Le Blanc, “Dialectical anthropology and class struggle: A closer look at the Wobblies and their Socialist allies.” Dialectical Anthropology 42, no. 1 (2018): 55–61.
  • Paul Le Blanc, Bryan Palmer, editors, US Trotskyism 1928–1965, Part I: Emergence, 1928–1940 (Leiden: Brill, 2018). Contents: Introduction: Left Opposition in the United States/Paul Le Blanc – Communist League of America/Bryan Palmer – Building revolutionary forces/Paul Le Blanc – Founding the Socialist Workers Party/Thomas Blas – Labor Struggles/Bryan Palmer – The Negro Question/Thomas Blas – Confronting Stalinism/Andrew Pollack – Political complications/Paul Le Blanc – Ruptures, 1939-40/Andrew Pollack – Holding the line: Smith Act trial/Bryan Palmer – History and theory/Paul Le Blanc – Conclusion.
  • Paul Le Blanc, Bryan Palmer, editors, US Trotskyism 1928-1965, Part II: Endurance, 1941–1956. (Leiden: Brill, 2018). Contents: Introduction: The coming America revolution/Paul Le Blanc – Dawn of the American century/Paul Le Blanc – Challenging racism/Paul Le Blanc and Tom Bias – Dissensions/Paul Le Blanc – Coping with the Cold War, global and domestic/Paul Le Blanc – Confrontations internal and international/Bryan Palmer – Dissident Marxism in the United States.
  • Paull Le Blanc and Bryan Palmer, editors, U.S. Trotskyism 1928–1965, Part III: Resurgence, 1954–1965 (Leiden: Brill, 2018). Contents: Introduction: A party of uneven and combined development – New stirrings – New pathways – Challenges of Black Liberation – Divergences and consolidations – Debates and interventions – History and theory.
  • Aaron J. Leonard, Conor A. Gallagher, A Threat of the First Magnitude: FBI & Counterintelligence from the Communist Party to the Revolutionary Union, 1962–1974 (London: Repeater Books, 2018). Contents: Introduction: Counterintelligence & informants – Prelude: The shadow of Roman Malinovsky – Morris Childs & his handlers – The FBI’s Maoist sect – Richard Aoki: The reliable source – The infiltration of “America’s Maoists” – Don Wright’s rise in the Revolutionary Union – The FBI’s representative on the National Liaison Committee – The never-ending campaign against James Forman – The wrecking of the National Liaison Committee – Aftermath – Conclusion – Epilogue – Bibliography – Appendix: Select FBI documents.
  • Mitchell Lerner, “Is it for this we fought And bled?”: The Korean War and the struggle for Civil Rights.” Journal of Military History 82, no. 2 (2018): 515–45. Some discussion of Communism and African Americans.
  • John F. Levin, Earl Silbar, editors, You Say You Want a Revolution: SDS, PL [Progressive Labor Party], and Adventures in Building a Worker-Student Alliance (San Francisco: 1741 Press, 2018).
  • Hongshan Li, Building a Black bridge: China’s interaction with African-American activists during the Cold War.” Journal of Cold War Studies 20, no. 3 (2018): 114–52.
  • Zinovia Lialiouti, “The treason of the intellectuals: The shadowy presence of the Congress for Cultural Freedom in Greece, 1950-1963.” Intelligence & National Security 33, no. 5 (2018): 687–704. “…the presence of the CCF in Greece was weak… attributed to the inability to combine commitment to the anti-communist cause, in the liberal terms of the CCF, with intellectual or artistic work of some merit for CCF representatives in Greece. These contradictions are personified by Manolis Korakas, a socialist and …anti-communist, who remained in the shadows due to the Congress’ elitist bias.”
  • Erik Loomis, A History of America in Ten Strikes: The Labor Movement and the Struggle for Workers’ Power (New York: The New Press, 2018). Contents include: The Flint Sit-Down Strike and the New Deal – The Oakland General Strike and Cold War America – Appendix: 150 major events in U.S. labor history.
  • John Lowney, Jazz Internationalism: Literary Afro-Modernism and the Cultural Politics of Black Music (Chicago, University of Illinois Press, 2018). Contents: Harlem jazzing: Claude McKay, Home to Harlem, and jazz internationalism – Black man’s verse: The Chicago Renaissance and the Popular Front jazz poetics of Marshall Davis – Do you sing for a living?: Ann Petry, The Street, and the gender politics of World War II jazz – Cultural exchange: Cold War and the political aesthetics of Langston Hughes’s long poems – A silent beat in between the drums: Bebop, post-bop, and the Black Beat poetics of Rob Kaufman – Conclusion: A new kind of music: Paule Marshall, The Fisher King, and the dissonance of diaspora.
  • Denise Lynn, “Reproductive sovereignty in Soviet and American socialism during the Great Depression.” American Communist History 17, no. 3 (2018): published online 26 Sep 2018.

  • Ellen Macfarlane, “Photography and the Western Worker: Organizing farm labor in early 1930s California.” Southern California Quarterly 100, no. 2 (2018): 183–215.: “…the Western Worker…published by the Communist Party U.S.A., and social-justice photographers, employed photographic strategies during…farm labor conflicts that…influenced uses of photography in mainstream newspapers, and shifted public sympathies to the…embattled food workers.”
  • Gerarad N. Magliocca, The Heart of the Constitution: How the Bill of Rights became the Bill of Rights (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018). Contents include: Defending the New Deal – Attacking the Führer – Reinventing judicial review – Waging the Cold War.
  • Anne Garland Mahler, The Red and the Black in Latin America: Sandalio Junco and the Negro Question from an Afro-Latin American perspective.” American Communist History 17, no. 1 (2018): 16–32.
  • Benjamin Mangrum, Land of Tomorrow: Postwar Fiction and the Crisis of American Liberalism (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018). Contents: Aestheticism, civil society, and the origins of totalitarianism – Existentialism in America: Inequality, political action, and the twilight of New Deal reform – The age of anxiety: Existential psychology and the “decline” of American naturalism – Southern comfort: Authenticity, malaise, and the school of the holy ghost – Mergers And acquisitions: Business fiction and the theory of liberal management.
  • Patrick McGilligan, “Show trial: Hollywood, HUAC, and the birth of the blacklist.” Cineaste 43, no. 4 (2018): 69–71, 78. “Behind the public faces of the committee…were intriguing bit players: H. A. Smith, whose job…it was to corral and prep the friendly witnesses; The sole “Negro staffer” among the investigators, Alvin Stokes…Louis B. Russell, who … conjured Communist Party of the USA membership cards into evidence after each of the accused…declined to confess their affiliation…”
  • Ian McIntyre, editor, On the Fly: Hobo Literature and Songs, 1879–1941 (Oakland, PM Press, 2018). “…the lost voices of Hobohemia…create an insider history of the subculture’s rise and fall…tales of train hopping, scams, and political agitation…combined with… satirical songs… reportage and…insights into the lives of…[those]… who crisscrossed America…”
  • Elizabeth McKillen, Making the World Safe for Workers: Labor, the Left, and Wilsonian Internationalism (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2018).
  • Elizabeth Gillespie McRae, Mothers of Massive Resistance: White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018).
  • Jon Meacham, The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels (New York: Random House, 2018). Contents include: The crisis of the Old Order: The Great Depression, Huey Long, the New Deal, and America First – Have you no sense of decency?: “Making everyone middle class,” the GI Bill, McCarthyism, and modern media.
  • Richard J. Meagher, Atheists in American Politics: Social Movement Organizing from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Centuries (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2018).
  • Gerald Meyer, “Marxism and anarchism: Their contradictions.” Science & Society 82, no. 3 (2018): 360–85. “Since…the implosion of the Soviet Union, anarchist thought…has regained widespread currency…A strategic vision of a renewed left, informed by Marxism, would benefit from incorporating some practices identified with anarchism-such as more systematic democratic processes and the fostering of communities evidencing genuine concern for their members’ cultural and material needs…”
  • Heather Meyer, Beyond the Rebel Girl: Women and the Industrial Workers of the World in the Pacific Northwest, 1905–1924 (Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2018). “…questions the well-worn vision of Wobblies as young, single, male, itinerant workers. While such workers formed a large portion of the membership, they weren’t the whole picture. In small towns across the Northwest, and in the larger cities of Seattle, Portland, and Spokane, women played an integral role in Wobbly life. Single women, but also families–husband and wife Wobbly teams–played important roles in some of the biggest fights for justice…”
  • Raegan Miller, This Radical Land: A Natural History of American Dissent (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018). Contents: When the bough breaks – Act one: At the boundary with Henry David Thoreau – Act two: The geography of grace: Home in the great northern wilderness – Intermission – Act three: Revelator’s progress: Sun pictures of the thousand-mile tree – Act four: Possession in the land of Sequoyah, General Sherman (the tree), and Karl Marx – Enduring obligations.
  • Dara Milovanovic, “Cabaret: A study of fascism, sexuality, and politics.” In Perspectives on American Dance: The Twentieth Century (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2018).
  • Elaine Mokhtefi, Algiers, Third World Capital: Black Panther, Freedom Fighters, Revolutionaries (Brooklyn, NY: Verso, 2018). “…Mokhtefi crossed paths with…Stokely Carmichael, Timothy Leary, Ahmed Ben Bella, Jomo Kenyatta and Eldridge Cleaver…instrumental in the establishment of the International Section of the Black Panther Party in Algiers and was…at hand as the group became involved in intrigue, murder and international hijackings…organized Cleaver’s clandestine departure for France…”
  • Emily Kathryn Morgan, “Striking images: Photographs of Iowa Packinghouse labor conflict, 1948–1960.” Annals of Iowa 77, no. 2 (2018): 151–89.
  • Samuel Moyn, “The alt-right’s favorite meme [“cultural Marxism”] is 100 years old.” New York Times (November 13, 2018). Includes discussion of links to anti-Semitism.
  • D. J. Mulloy, Enemies of the State: The Radical Right in America from FDR to Trump (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2018). Content include: Big government on the march: FDR and the roots of the radical right – Wrestling the octopus: Anti-Communism and the radical right – Resisting the tide: Civil rights and the radical right – Out of the wilderness: Ronald Reagan and the new right…
  • Damien Murray, “Nobody ever heard of an Irish anarchist: Boston Catholics and the Red Scare.” In Irish Nationalists in Boston: Catholicism and Conflict, 1900–1928 (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2018).
  • Deborah Mutnick, “Pathways to freedom: From the archives to the street.” College Composition and Communication 69, no. 3 (2018): 374–401. Includes mention of the Young Communist League (YCL) and the Southern Negro Youth Congress (SNYC).
  • Alan Nadel, Demographic Angst: Cultural Narratives and American Films of the 1950s (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2018). Contents: The character of post-World War II America – Singin’ in the (HUAC) Rain: Job security, stardom, and the abjection of Lena Lamont [b. Jean Hagen] – It’s All about Eve – What starts like a scary tale: The right to work On the Waterfront – Life Could not Better Be: Disorganized labor, the little man and the court jester [Danny Kaye] – Citizens of the free world unite: International tourism and postwar identity in Roman Holiday, Teahouse of the August Moon, and Sayonara – Expedient exaggeration and the scale of Cold War farce in North by Northwest – Defiant desegregation with no (liberal) way out – “I want to be in America”: Urban integration, Pan American friendship, and West Side Story
  • Ehsan Emami Janus Neyshaburi, “A review of the theoretical bases of the Beats’ repudiation of capitalism.” Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature, Continental Philosophy, Phenomenological Psychology, and the Arts 19, no. 2 (2018): 94–127.
  • Kathryn Olmstead, “British and US Anti-Communism between the World Wars.” Journal of Contemporary History 53, no. 1 (2018): 89–108. “…In both countries, conservatives responded…by creating and funding private groups to coordinate spying…on union activists and political radicals. These…spies drew upon the resources of the government while evading democratic controls…the counter-subversive texts in the UK tended to highlight the economic threats posed by radicalism, while those in the USA appealed to more visceral fears…these anti-labor networks established a transnational alliance…”
  • Paul Ortiz, An African and Latinx History of the United States (Boston: Beacon Press, 2018). Contents include: Forgotten workers of America: Racial capitalism and the war on the working class, 1890 s to 1940s – Emancipatory internationalism vs. the American Century, 1945 to 1960s.
  • Andrew G. Palella, “The Black Legion: J. Edgar Hoover and fascism in the Depression era.” Journal for the Study of Radicalism 12, no. 2 (2018): 81–105. “…analyzes a little-known Midwestern American fascist group…the group has largely been lost to historical memory because of first Director of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) J. Edgar Hoover’s disinclination to investigate it…”
  • Bryan D. Palmer, “The French turn in the United States: James P. Cannon and the Trotskyist entry into the Socialist Party, 1934–1937.” Labor History 59, no. 5 (2010): 610–38.
  • Greg Patmore, Shelton Stromquist, editors, Frontiers of Labor: Comparative Histories of the United States and Australia (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2018). Publisher’s abstract: “…essays…examine five major areas: World War I’s impact on labor and socialist movements; the history of coerced labor; patterns of ethnic and class identification; forms of working-class collective action; and the struggles related to trade union democracy and independent working-class politics…many essays highlight how hard-won transnational ties allowed Australians and Americans to influence each other’s trade union and political cultures.”
  • Chad Pearson, “Twentieth century US labor history: Pedagogy, politics, and controversies part 2.” History Compass 16, no. 8 (2018): 1–16.
  • Ryan S. Pettengill, “Fair play in bowling: Sport, civil rights, and the UAW culture of inclusion, 1936–1950.” Journal of Social History 51, no. 4 (2018): 953–79. Includes some discussion of Communism, Local 600, mentions George Crockett, etc.
  • Homer B. Pettey, editor, Cold War Film Genres (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018). Contents include: Social factors in brainwashing films of the 1950s and 1960s/David Seed – The Berlin crisis? Piffl!: Billy Wilder’s Cold War comedy, One, Two, Three/Ed Sikov – Rogue Nation, 1954: History, class consciousness, and the “rogue cop” film/Robert Miklitsch.
  • William C. Pratt, “Communists and American farmers in the 1920s.” American Communist History 17, no. 2 (2018): 162–75. Activity in the Nonpartizan League and the Farmer Labor Party, leading figures Alfred Knutson and Harold Ware; includes discussion of a concentration of Communists in western North Dakota, most of Finnish origin.
  • Hannah Proctor, “Revolutionary commemoration.” Radical Philosophy 2, no. 1 (2018). Early Soviet commemorations; mention of Emma Goldman, Alexander Berkman.
  • Smita A. Rahman, “Honor among spies: The Cold War “mom,” family, and identity in The Americans.” Theory & Event 21, no. 3 (2018): 590–606.
  • Jason Reblando, photographer, printmaker.; Robert D. Leighninger; Natasha Egan, editors, New Deal Utopias (Heidelberg: Kehrer, 2018). Portfolio edition. “…explores three planned communities built by the US government during the Great Depression…The photographs of…Greenbelt, Maryland, Greenhills, Ohio, and Greendale, Wisconsin…The towns were designed to be model cities to address the social and economic discrepancies brought on and accentuated by the Great Depression…”
  • Ronny Regev, Working in Hollywood: How the Studio System Turned Creativity into Labor (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018). Contents: Producing – Writing – Directing – Acting – Shooting – Bargaining – DisintegratiAg: an epilog.
  • Marcelo Ridenti, “The journal Cadernos Brasileiros and the Congress for Cultural Freedom, 1959-1970.” Sociologia & Antropologia 8, no. 2 (2018): 351–73.
  • Ian Rocksborough-Smith, Black Public History in Chicago: Civil Rights Activism from World War II to the Cold War (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2018). “…[a] group of Black activists, educators, and organizations employed Black public history…to connect radical politics and nationalism…examines the network of librarians, writers, teachers, and others who built an African American usable past that could advance their visions of racial liberation…”
  • Stephanie Renee Rolph, Resisting Equality: The Citizens’ Council, 1954-1989 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana University Press, 2018).
  • Meredith L. Roman, “Soviet “renegades”, Black Panthers, and Angela Davis: The politics of dissent in the Soviet press, 1968–73.” Cold War History 18, no. 4 (2018): 503–19.
  • Helena Rosenblatt, The Lost History of Liberalism from Ancient Rome to the Twenty-First Century, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018).
  • James D. Ross, Jr., The Rise and Fall of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union in Arkansas (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2018).
  • Markka Ruotsila, “Globalizing the US Christian right: Transnational interchange during the Cold War.” The International History Review, 40, no. 1 (2018): 133–54: “…investigates the Cold War era efforts by…Christian fundamentalists to export their political agendas and their methodologies of exerting political pressure…focuses on the International Council of Christian Churches (ICCC), the era’s only worldwide interdenominational association [formed] by Protestant Christian fundamentalists…in 1948…”
  • Jillian Russo, “The Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project reconsidered.” Visual Resources: An International Journal of Documentation 34, no. 1–2 (2018): 13–32. “…FAP director Holger Cahill (1887–1960)…democratizing ideas on art were sparked by his experiences as an Icelandic immigrant and hobo in the Midwest and informed by the theories of Progressive Era philosophers including John Dewey…The FAP, in addition to employing prominent artists…sponsored local and national exhibitions and established thousands of local art centers, including the renowned Harlem Community Art Center. These accomplishments laid the groundwork for the emergence of Abstract Expressionism…”

  • Mohamed Ismail Sabry, “Between social democracy and Communism: An institutional and socioeconomic perspective.” International Journal of Sociology & Social Policy 38, no. 8–9 (2018): 698–721.
  • Carlos Sanabria, Puerto Rican Labor History, 1898–1934: Revolutionary Ideals and Reformist Politics (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2018).
  • Howard G. Schneiderman, Engagement and Disengagement: Class, Authority, Politics, and Intellectuals (New York: Routledge, 2018). Contents include: Political clubs, parties, and radicalism – The strange career of political sociology in America – Liberalism and the democratic spirit – Class and authority in the Oval Office – The Horatio Alger myth and the Supreme Court – Life and death of the Protestant establishment – Pacifism and utopian thought.
  • Alexander Schwarz, “A selection of documents: Workers’ International Relief and the origins of left-wing independent film and social documentary in the U.S.A.” Studies in Russian & Soviet Cinema 12, no. 2 (2018): 153–74. “…documents to give an overview of the 15 years’ existence of Workers’ International Relief (WIR), the American branch of Internationale Arbeiterhilfe (IAH)/Mezhrabpom …from 1922 to 1936. In the Soviet Union IAH became the second largest film studio. It also created a film network across the globe…It also helped to create left-wing film groups, such as the (Workers’) Film and Photo League. Their activists in turn made and distributed the first American labor-related, grassroots films, newsreels and social documentaries.”
  • Anthony Seeger, “Music of struggle and protest in the century.” In the Springer Handbook of Systematic Musicology (2018): 1029–42. “…a description of a sound, a poetics, and a political stance in the [USA]… endeavors to trace some of the historical and literary roots of 20th-century protest music and discusses…certain musician-activists…including Charles Seeger, John and Alan Lomax, and Pete Seeger…The tradition of using song to express political ideas flourished in the first four decades of the century, declined due to political repression in the fifth decade, flourished again during the 1960–1980s, and moved to spoken poetry and rap toward the end of the century…”
  • Emily Senenfield, “We shall not be moved: Highlander Folk School’s cultural radicalism in the Great Depression.” In Reassessing the 1930s South, Karen L. Cox, Sarah E. Gardner, editors. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2018).
  • Fred Siegel, “Liberalism and the Long 1960s.” Telos (Summer 2018): 113–33.
  • Tom Sito, Drawing the Line: The Untold Story of the Animation Unions from Bosko to Bart Simpson (University Press of Kentucky, 2018). Contents: Introduction: Why a history of animation unions? – Suits: Producers as artist see them – Hollywood labor, 1933–1941: The birth of cartoonist’s unions – The Fleischer strike: A union busted, a studio destroyed – The great Disney studio strike: The civil war of animation – The war of Hollywood and the blacklist, 1945–1953 – A bag of oranges: The Terry-toons strike and the great white father – Lost generations, 1952–1988 – Animation and the global market: The runaway wars, 1979–1982 – The fox and hounds: The torch seen passing – Camelot, 1988-2001 – Animation…Isn’t that all done on computers now: The digital revolution – Conclusion: Where to now? – Appendices (Animation union leaders, Dramatis personae, Glossary).
  • J.E. Smyth, Nobody’s Girl Friday: The Women Who Ran Hollywood (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018). Contents: Introduction: the equal right to be the best – The fourth Warner brother – Organization women – Jills-of-all-trades – Madam president – Controlling the cut – Designing women – Last woman standing – Epilogue: the cellophane wall. Publisher’s abstract: “…Bette Davis remembered a time when “women owned Hollywood.” … challenges the belief…that feminism died between 1930 and 1950…Between 1930 and 1950 over 40% of film industry employees were women, 25% of all screenwriters were female, one woman ran MGM behind the scenes, over a dozen women worked as producers, a woman headed the Screen Writers Guild three times.…examines how [women] shaped Hollywood film production and style, led their unions, climbed to the top during the war, and fought the blacklist during these years.”
  • Daniela Spenser, “The Communist International and US Communism, 1919-1929,” Historia Mexicana 67, no. 4 (2018): 1946–52.
  • Jason Stahl, Right Moves: The Conservative Think Tank in American Political Culture since 1945 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018).
  • Brian Stanley, Christianity in the Twentieth Century: A World History (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018). Includes chapters on responses to fascism, and Communism.
  • Jay Douglas Steinmetz, Beyond Free Speech and Propaganda: The Political Development of Hollywood, 1907–1927 (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2018). Contents: 1. The Politics of Depoliticization – 2. Liquor and the Movies: Political and Cultural Formation in the Progressive Era – 3. The Birth of a Nation and the Crisis of Modern Liberalism – 4. American Movies and the Trial on Propaganda – 5. Hollywood, Prohibition, and the Klan: Political Clearing Ground for the Rise of Hollywood – 6. Vertical Integration to Moral Mastery.
  • Mark Steven, Red Modernism: American Poetry and the Spirit of Communism [1910s-1940s] (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018). Contents: Modernism’s communism – Ezra Pound: Factive revolution – William Carlos Williams: Moscow on the Passaic – Louis Zukofsky: Cosmic communism, cybernetic socialism – The heat of the setting sun. Publisher’s abstract: “…asserts that modernism was highly attuned-and aesthetically responsive to the overall spirit of Communism…considers the maturation of American poetry as a longitudinal arc…that roughly followed the rise of the USSR…and its subsequent descent into Stalinism…”
  • Christopher Stroop, “A Christian solution to international tension: Nikolai Berdyaev [1874–1948], the American YMCA, and Russian Orthodox influence on Western Christian anti-Communism, 1905-1960.” Journal of Global History 13, no. 2 (2018): 188–208.
  • William Styles, “The World Federation of Scientific Workers: A case study of a Soviet front organization: 1946–1964.” Intelligence & National Security 33, no. 1 (2018): 116–29. “…The WFSW was the only Soviet front organization to be both founded in, and run from, the UK…seeks to demonstrate how the Federation’s fortunes reflected those of the broader international “Peace” movement…and how this changed over time.”
  • Edward J. Sullivan, Making the Americas Modern: Hemispheric Art, 1910–1960 (London: Laurence King Publishing, 2018). Contents include: 3 Visualizing blackness in the Americas: Blackness in the modernist imagination – Blackness, dance, music, and ritual – black faces, black bodies – Labor and struggle – Black abstractions. 4. Cross-border dialogs: Revolutionary art: between exaltation and despair – Public arts on both sides of the border – Muralism, teaching, and learning. 5. Labor, anxiety, and a new social order: Anxiety – Lynchings – Clouds of war – Eye witness – Labor and exile – Exile and migration.
  • Ichiro Takayoshi, editor, American Literature in Transition, 1930–1940 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018). Contents: The middle class/Amy Blair – Romance, marriage, and family/Jennifer Haytock – The working class/Joseph Entin – Sympathy and poverty/John Marsh – Black culture at home and abroad/Etsuko Taketani – The Southern heritage/Michael Kreyling – Social protest in California/David Wrobel – Reckoning Christianity/Jason Stevens – Diversity and American letters/Yael Schacher – This land is your land/Robert Westbrook – Look at the world!/David Ekbladh, Ichiro Takayoshi – Bestsellers/David Welky – Radio drama/Neil Verma – Crime fiction/Charles Rzepka – Documentary work/Jeff Allred – Modernism/Milton Cohen – The American stage/Mark Fearnow – Federal Writers’ Project/Jerrold Hirsch – Hollywood/William Solomon – Time Inc./Donal Harris – The Communist Party/Christopher Phelps – Epilogue: Echoes of the 1930s/Morris Dickstein.
  • Jeanne Theoharis, “Extremists, troublemakers, and national security threats: The public demonization of rebels, the toll it took, and government repression of the movement.” In A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History (Boston: Beacon Press, 2018).
  • Hans-Joerg Tiede, “The front rank: On tenure and the role of the faculty in the defense of academic freedom.” History of Education Quarterly 58, no. 3 (2018): 441–47. Coverage: 1929–30; includes discussion of anti-Communism, and the public campaign against radicalism led by William Randolph Hearst.
  • Clayton Vaughn-Roberson, “Grassroots anti-fascism: Ethiopia and the transnational origins of the National Negro Congress, in Philadelphia, 1935–1936.” American Communist History 17, no. 1 (2018): 4–15. Features Benjamin D. Amis. Southern Negro Youth Congress – See: David Cameron Rothmund, under Dissertations.
  • B. Vaynshteyn; Maurice Wolfthal, Bernard Weinstein, translators, editors, The Jewish Unions in America: Pages of History and Memories (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2018). First (?) English translation of this 1929 work in Yiddish. Approximately 100 brief entries…”
  • Chris Vials, editor, American Literature in Transition, 1940–1950 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018). Contents: Part I. The United States in the World – Why We Fight: Contending narratives of the Second World War/Christopher Vials – Human rights in American political discourse/Glenn Mitoma – Fictions of anti-Semitism and the beginning of Holocaust literature/Josh Lambert – The fatal machine: The postwar imperial state and the radical novel/Benjamin Balthaser – Antifascism as a political grammar and cultural force/Christopher Vials – From confession to exposure: Transitions in anti-communist literature/Alex Goodall – The contested origins of the Atomic Age and the Cold War/Christian Appy – Part II. Emergent Publics – Cross currents: WWII and the increasing visibility of race/Bill Mullen – Good Asian/bad Asian: Asian American racial formation/Floyd Cheung – Social realism, the Ghetto, and African American literature/James Smethurst – From factory to home? The crisis in the gendered division of labor/Julia L. Mickenberg – Public excursions in fierce truth-telling: Literary cultures and homosexuality/Aaron Lecklider – Resurgence: Conservatives organize against the new deal/Kathy Olmsted – Part III. Media and Genre – Late modernisms, latent realisms: The politics of literary interpretation/Sarah Ehlers – The city in the literary imagination/Sean McCann – Noir and the ebb of radical hope/Alan Wald – Narrating the war/Philip Beidler – Paperbacks and the literary marketplace/Erin Smith – Literary radicals in Radio’s public sphere/Judith Smith – The state cultural apparatus: Federal funding of arts and letters/Joan Saab.
  • Shane Vogel, Stolen Time: Black Fad Performance and the Calypso Craze (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018). Politics of calypso, discussion of Harry Belafonte.
  • Don Waisanen, Political Conversion: Personal Transformation as Strategic Public Communication (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2018). Contents include: Political conversion as Manichaean deduction: Whittaker Chambers’ Witness – Political conversion as intellectual reduction: Norman Podhoretz’s Breaking Ranks – Political conversion as generational induction: David Horowitz’s Radical Son.
  • Alan Wald, “The literature of commitment.” In American Literature in Transition, 1950-1960, Steven Belletto, editor (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018). Other contents include: Black Mountain College as experimental arts community/Anne Dewey – The Beat movement/Fiona Paton.
  • Alan Wald, “Radicals.” In American Literature in Transition, 1920–1930, Ichiro Takayoshi, editor (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018). Sections: Part I. Players – Part II. Influences – Part III. Intersections – Part IV. Publishing (includes Small Magazines/Greg Barnhisel – Obscenity trials/Loren Glass).
  • Justin Walker, “FBI independence as a threat to civil liberties: An analogy to civilian control of the military.” George Washington Law Review 86, no. 4 (2018): 1011–78.
  • Anthony Walsh, The Gavel and the Sickle: The Supreme Court, Cultural Marxism, and the Assault on Christianity (Wilmington, DE: Vernon Press, 2018). Right-wing jeremiad.
  • Anton Weiss-Wendt, A Rhetorical Crime: Genocide in the Geopolitical Discourse of the Cold War (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2018). Contents include: (Soviet) piggy in the middle: American liberal left versus radical right on US ratification of the Genocide Convention – Moscow taps the New Left: The Vietnam anti-war movement, the Black Panthers, the American Indian movement.
  • Mark Whitaker, Smoketown [Pittsburgh]: The Untold Story of the other Great Black Renaissance (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2018). Contents: Cast of characters – The neighborhoods of Pittsburgh – The Brown Bomber’s corner men – The Negro Carnegies – The calculating crusader – The rise and fall of “Big Red” – Billy [Holiday] and Lena [Horne] – The Double V warriors – The complex Mr. B. – Jackie’s Boswell – The women of “up South” – The bard of a broken world.
  • Stephen J. Whitfield, “Fortune magazine fights anti-Semitism.” Modern Judaism 38, no. 1 (2018): 1–23. Discusses the February 1936 article, “Jews in America,” by Archibald MacLeish (a Fortune editor),
  • Richard White, “Utopian capitalism.” In American Capitalism: New Histories, Sven Beckert, Christine Desan, editors (New York: Columbia University Press, 2018).
  • Stephen J. Whitfield, “Fortune magazine fights anti-Semitism.” Modern Judaism 38, no. 1 (2018): 1–28. February 1936 article by Archibald MacLeish [1892–1982]. Progressive New Dealer, he was accused of being a “fellow traveler” or a member of the CPUSA. [Served as head of the Library of Congress, 1939-1944]. MacLeisch’s 1936 article in Fortune may have served as the key plot device in Gentlemen’s Agreement [1947], a crucial film about antisemitism.
  • Mark W. Van Wienen, editor, American Literature in Transition, 1910-1920 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018). Contents include: Introduction: Revolution, progress, and reaction in the first decade of American modernism/Mark W. Van Wienen – Bohemians: Greenwich Village and The Masses/Joanna Levin – Revolution: Imagining a counter-narrative/Laura Hapke – Manifestos: Anti-foundationalism in avant-garde, feminist, and African-American modernisms/Laura Winkiel – Little magazines: Aesthetics and dissent/Jayne E. Marek.
  • Mason B. Williams, “Socialism and the liberal imagination.” Dissent 65, no. 4 (2018): 93–8.
  • Colleen Woods, “Seditious crimes and rebellious conspiracies: Anti-Communism and US empire in the Philippines [1920s–1930s].” Journal of Contemporary History 53, no. 1 (2018): 61–88. “…how US colonial policymakers and Filipino political elites…produced an anti-communist politics aimed at eliminating or delegitimizing radical anti-imperialism… and the outlawing of Communist politics in the Philippines.”
  • Chris Wright, “Popular radicalism in the 1930s: The history of the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill.” Class, Race and Corporate Power 6, no. 1 (2018): article 4. Available at: (http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/classracecorporatepower/vol6/iss1/4).
  • Timothy Youker, “The documentary and Communist vanguards.” In Documentary Vanguards in Modern Theatre (New York: Routledge, 2018). “…treating documentarians as vanguardists who…transgress the margins of historical and political visibility… to situate documentary theatre’s development within the larger story of theatrical experimentalism…and other avant-garde dramaturgical and performance practices of the late 19th and 20th centuries.”
  • Robert Zecker, “A mandolin orchestra could attract a lot of attention”: Interracial fun with radical immigrants, 1920–1955.” American Communist History 17, no. 2 (2018): 141–61.
  • Robert Zecker, A Road to Peace and Freedom: The International Workers Order and the Struggle for Economic Justice and Civil Rights (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2018). Contents: Introduction – A practical demonstration in democracy: The IWO – A plan for plenty: The IWO tames capitalism – We dare entertain thoughts not to the liking of present-day bigots: Race, civil rights, and the IWO – A mandolin orchestra … could attract a lot of attention: Interracial fun – Foreign policy and the IWO – A fraternal order sentenced to death! Government suppression – Conclusion.
  • Gene Zubovich, “For human rights abroad, against Jim Crow at home: The political mobilization of American ecumenical Protestants in the World War II era.” Journal of American History 105, no. 2 (2018): 267–90. Includes discussion of anti-Communism, attitudes towards communism; Federal Council of Churches, John Foster Dulles’s disillusionment with the FCC.

Spanish Civil War: A Selection

  • Eugenia Afinoguenova, “Looking at Picasso’s Guernica after the Barcelona May Days of 1937: The transgressive “left” and the “end of history.” Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 19, no. 3 (2018): 319–38. Baltimore Museum of Art, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, “Catalogue: Premonition of war; The Spanish Civil War, World War II; Surrealism in the Americas. In Monsters & Myths: Surrealism and War in the 1930s and 1940s (New York: Rizzoli Electa, 2018).
  • Daryle Anthony Burrowes, “George Orwell’s Spanish Civil War: Homage to Catalonia; Issues of Mythologization; Orwell in Spain: Involvement and Disillusionment; Homage to Catalonia: Representations of the PCE and USSR in the Spanish Civil War; Appropriation; Summary.” In Historians at War: Cold War Influences on Anglo-American Representations of the Spanish Civil War (Eastbourne, UK: Sussex Academic Press, 2018).
  • Josep Colome, Jordi Planas, Raimon Soler-Becerro, Francesc Valls-Junvent, “The Rabassaire struggle: Long-term analysis of a social and political [peasant] movement.” International Review of Social History 63, no. 1 (2018): 1–27. Historical period: ca 1870 to ca 1936.
  • Lisa De Lisle, Robert Snyder, “Robert Capa and the Spanish Civil War.” In Profiles in Journalist Courage (Somerset, NJ: Routledge, 2018).
  • Charles J. Esdaile, The Spanish Civil War: A Military History (New York: Routledge, 2018).
  • Espasa, A. “Suppose they were to do it in Mexico: Spanish embargo and its influence on Roosevelt’s good neighbor policy.” International History Review 40, no. 4 (2018): 774–91.
  • Danny Evans, Anarchism in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 (London: Routledge, 2018). Contents: Spanish anarchists and the Republican State, 1931-1936 – Revolution and the State, July – December 1936 – Radical anarchism: Program and alliance, January – April 1937 – May 1937: From a second July to the “Spanish Kronstadt” – The Spanish revolution in retreat, May to December 1937 – The experience of defeat, 1937–1939.
  • Sebastiaan Faber, “On revelation: What can we learn from the Mexican Suitcase?” In Memory Battles of the Spanish Civil War: History, Fiction, Photography, (Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2018). Contains five parts: Part 1: Memory and the Visual Archive: Memory as montage: Spanish Civil War photography – Part 2: Art History and Memory – Part 3: Reframing the Past: The thirst to understand: Historians of the Spanish Civil War – Part 4: Intellectuals at War: Treason of the Intellectuals – Part 5: Fiction as Memory: The Spanish Civil War Retold: Epilogue: The past belongs to everyone.
  • Soledad Fox, Exile, Writer, Soldier, Spy: Jorge Semprún (New York: Arcade Publishing, 2018). “…the…story of the Oscar-winning screenwriter responsible for Z and The War Is Over…a privileged childhood as the grandson of Spanish prime minister, Antonio Maura, until…the Spanish Civil War and he went into exile…fought with the French Resistance in World War II and survived imprisonment at Buchenwald…he became an organizing member of the exiled Spanish Communist party…later put his experiences on paper…”
  • Hugo Garcia, Mercedes Yusta, Xavier Tabet, Cristina, editors, Rethinking Antifascism: History, Memory and Politics, 1922 to the Present (New York: Berghahn Books, 2018). Contents (mostly non-U.S.) include: From antifascistas to PAF: Lexical and political interpretations of American International Brigaders in Spain during the Second World War/Robert S. Coale – Was there an antifascist culture in Spain during the 1930s?/Hugo Garcia.
  • Lisa A. Kirschenbaum, International Communism and the Spanish Civil War: Solidarity and Suspicion (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018). Contents: Being Communist – Learning to be Bolshevik – Imagining, seeing, feeling the revolution – All advanced and progressive humanity – The Bolsheviks and Trotskyite bastards – Best comrades, tough guys, and respectable Communists – From “our war” to the Great Fatherland war – Early Cold War and the fate of progressive humanity – Internationalism and the Spanish Civil War after Stalin.
  • Avelina Miquel Lara, Francisca Comas Rubi, “The war child: Childhood as it appears in photographs in publications for Republican combatants during the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939).” History of Education & Children’s Literature 13, no. 1 (2018): 279–303.
  • Gaston Leval, Vernon Richards, translator, Collectives in the Spanish Revolution (Oakland, PM Press, 2018). Contents: “…Leval (born Pierre Robert Piller, 1895–1978) was the son of a French Communard. He escaped to Spain in 1915…where he met…Victor Serge and joined the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT)…travelling in 1921 to Moscow as a CNT delegate… [to] the international Communist movement, Leval wrote an influential report and a series of skeptical articles based on his experiences of the Bolshevik regime and attempted to spearhead action on behalf of imprisoned anarchists and socialists. After living in Argentina for much of the 1920s and ’30s, Leval returned to Spain and became a militant fighter while documenting the Revolution and both urban and rural anarchist collectives.”
  • Grant D. Moss, Political Poetry in the Wake of the Second Spanish Republic: Rafael Alberti, Pablo Neruda, and Nicolás Guillén (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2018).
  • Samuel O’Donoghue, “Carlos Barral and the struggle for Holocaust consciousness in Franco’s Spain.” History & Memory 30, no. 2 (2018): 116–46.
  • Paul Preston, “Britain and the Basque campaign of 1937: The government, the Royal Navy, the Labour Party and the press.” European History Quarterly 48, no. 3 (2018): 490–515.
  • Paul Preston, Deceits and errors in the Homenaje a Cataluna.” Hispania Nova 16 (2018): 97–133.
  • Raanan Rein, Joan Maria Thomas, editors, Spain 1936: Year Zero (Eastbourne, UK: Sussex Academic Press, 2018).
  • Michael M. Seidman, Transatlantic Antifascisms from the Spanish Civil War to the End of World War II (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2018). Contents: Revolutionary antifascism in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939 – The antifascist deficit during the French Popular Front – British and French counterrevolutionary antifascism – Counterrevolutionary antifascism alone, 1939–1940 – American counterrevolutionary antifascism – Antifascisms united: 1941–1944 – Beyond fascism and antifascism: Working and not working – Antifascism divided, 1945 – Conclusion and epilogue. [Counterrevolutionary antifascism is defined as antifascism that is also opposed to social revolution.]
  • Jesus Tronch, “Hamletism in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-39.” Survey 30, no. 1 (2018): 115–32.

Dissertations and theses

  • Brian Bartell, “Signs of neon: Racial capitalism, technology, and African American aesthetics in the long 1960s.” (Columbia University, 2018). “…examines the…importance of technology, and attendant forms of social organization, to artists, writers, and activists in the Civil Rights, Black Power, and Third World era…analyzes the technological thought of a diverse group of artists and theorists, especially, James and Grace Lee Boggs, Noah Purifoy, the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, Paule Marshall, Charles Burnett, and Martin Luther King Jr….”
  • Dallas Ty Bennett, “Monstrosity and otherness: Hollywood and the global world.” (University of California, Santa Barbara, 2018). “…The “golden age” of Hollywood was rife with…censorship, and discrimination. The industry was subject to propaganda missions that sought to marginalize racial, ethnic, and social groups…These “others” of society were quickly blacklisted through implicit and explicit messages relayed to the general public by way of Hollywood film productions…”
  • Megan Bennett, “The lost ones: The Cold War state, child welfare systems, and the battles over the Rosenberg children.” (University of South Carolina, 2018). “The conspiracy case against Julius and Ethel…set their two sons adrift…Michael and Robert Rosenberg’s lives’ remained in…instability from their mother’s arrest in August 1950 until they were adopted by Anne and Abel Meeropol in 1958. The placement of the Rosenberg children with the Meeropols came only after years of upheaval and family strife…The height of the battle over the…children came in 1954, when New York State authorities removed them from the Meeropol home on charges that Communists were exploiting the boys to raise funds. The [NY] State Department of Welfare and private Jewish childcare agencies petitioned for legal custody of the boys and their trust fund. The court cases which followed…led to conflict between anti-communist state forces, Rosenberg supporters, and professional child welfare workers….”
  • Deberati Biswas, “Brother outsider: Queered belonging and kinships in African American men’s literature, 1953–1971.” (City University of New York, 2018). “…proposes that the Black pulp novels of Chester Himes, Robert Deane Pharr, Clarence Cooper Jr., and Iceberg Slim perform a queer critique of and offer modes of resistance to the Cold War era ideology of racial liberalism and racial capitalism…”
  • Kathryn Ruth Bloom, “Arguing their world: The representation of major social and cultural issues in Edna Ferber’s and Fannie Hurst’s fiction, 1910–1935.” (Northeastern University, 2018). “…The social and cultural issues with which the authors are concerned include cultural diversity in Ferber’s Cimarron (1929), her representation of the increasing homogenization of American culture in Show Boat (1926)…Hurst’s…concerns include… her modernist experiment in Lummox (1923), in which she combines a realistic social-justice narrative calling for the equitable treatment of domestic workers with a modernist narrative that describes an inarticulate woman’s search for self-expression through music…”
  • Lia Sloth Calhoun, “Bad housing: Spatial justice and the home in twentieth-century American literature.” (Boston University, 2018). “…Richard Wright tells of life in South Side Chicago’s kitchenettes…”
  • Lucy Cane, “Sheldon Wolin [1922–2015] and democracy: Seeing through loss.” (Northwestern University, 2018). “…He played a significant role in the [Berkeley] Free Speech Movement and with John Schaar interpreted that movement to the rest of the world…” [The Berkeley Rebellion and Beyond: Essays on Politics & Education in the Technological Society, 1970].
  • Andrew Chaney, “The ballad collection and preservation of Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott, Woody Guthrie, and Bob Dylan.” (Tennessee Technological University, 2018).
  • Abigail Chaplin-Kyzer, “Searching for songs of the people: The ideology of the Composers’ Collective [1933-1938] and its musical implications.” (University of North Texas, 2018). Popular Front organization.
  • Greg Chase, “The silent soliloquy of others”: Language and acknowledgment in modernist fiction.” (Boston University, 2018). “…Chapter Four reads Richard Wright’s Black Boy (1945) and Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man (1952) as two texts that represent the psychological experience of having one’s humanity go brutally unacknowledged under Jim Crow.”
  • Christopher Cimaglio, “Contested majority: The representation of the white working class in US politics from the 1930s to the 1990s.” (University of Pennsylvania, 2018). Includes some discussion of Communism, principally from the 1930s – 1950s.
  • Julia Cox, “The protest song: Bridge leadership, sonic innovation, and the Long Civil Rights Movement.” (University of Pennsylvania, 2018). “…a new story of the American Civil Rights movement through the woman’s singing voice…what is possible when political music is disentangled from patriarchal narratives…women across the color line were pioneering new types of lyrical expressions, musical aesthetics, and performance practices…harnessing the power of music to push for a…liberation from racial and gendered oppression…”
  • Richard T. Cranford, “Fighting the War at home and overseas: The African American press, the Pittsburgh Courier and the Long Civil Rights Movement, 1920–1945.” (University of Nebraska at Kearney, 2018). “…challenges the narrative that the civil rights movement began in 1954 with Brown vs. Board of Education and instead identifies its genesis in the 1930s…The staff of the hundreds of African-American newspapers…deserve inclusion…as they used their platforms to advocate for equality and to provide a national identity to the African American community…rights…The Pittsburgh Courier exemplifies this role as it advocated for political, social, and economic reform at home during the interwar years and then carried that advocacy overseas by dispatching…correspondents overseas during World War II…”
  • Anahi Douglas, “Nomads of the body, exiles of the mind: Twentieth century transnational African American Mexican art and literature.” (City University of New York, 2018). “…examines the migration of African Americans from the U.S. to Mexico…The journeys of Langston Hughes, Audre Lorde, Willard Motley, and Elizabeth Catlett to Mexico illustrate an intricate web of rhizomatic connections spanning the Black Atlantic, the Caribbean Ocean, the Mississippi River and the Rio Grande…”
  • Glenn Dyer, “Final call: [Labor] Rank-and-file rebellion in New York City, 1965-1975.” (City University of New York, 2018). [Leading activists included some of the Old Left, and New Leftists, including those who adopted some theory, organizational structure, and practice from their forebears.]
  • Lisa Naomi Edstrom, “Taking action: African American mother activists working for change in city schools.” (Teachers College, Columbia University, 2018). “African American parents have engaged in education activism…in cases such as the Harlem school boycott of 1958 and the struggle for control over the Ocean Hill-Brownsville schools in1967…focusing on the experiences of the activists.” [Communist activists played a significant role in both struggles].
  • Jamie Edwards, “The Marxian theory of ideology: A reconstruction and defense.” (University of Chicago, 2018).
  • Anna Bjork Einaarsdottir, “Literature and class consciousness: Proletarian literature in the Americas.” (University of California, Davis, 2018). “…tracks the development of proletarian literature across several national contexts within the Americas…Chapter One focuses on two paradigmatic novels of USA proletarian writing with Mike Gold’s Jews Without Money…[and]…. Richard Wright’s Native Son (1940) …”
  • Eric Elliott, “Give ‘em hell Harry and the dreamer: The Cold War clash of Harry S. Truman and Henry A. Wallace.” (Southeast Missouri State University, 2018). “…to better understand the…conflict between…Truman and…Wallace, one must look at the personalities of the men as well as the[ir] political influences…both were ardent New Dealers…after the death of Franklin Roosevelt and the end of World War II…these men took vastly different stances on the relationship the United States should pursue with the Soviet Union…”
  • Levi Fox, “Not forgotten: The Korean War in American public memory, 1950–2017.” (Temple University, 2018). Chapter 4. “Forgotten protests: Korea and anti-war counter-memory,” includes discussion of pacifist and leftist protests, including mention of Michael Harrington, W.E.B. Du Bois and Paul Robeson.
  • Randall Allan Fullington, “Teach me your word, O Lord: Religious discourse, literary congregations, and the ineffable in American fiction.” (University of Colorado at Boulder, 2018). “…artists employ shifting representations of the ineffable…to critique and reform injustice in America…”

  • Suze Gibson, “The Dallas Public Affairs Luncheon Club and the “Sport in Art” exhibit: A case study in art, Cold War politics, female activism and wealth.” (Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, 2018). “Driven by…fear of communism permeating American society… concentrated their efforts…on what they perceived to be the infiltration of communist ideology and ideas in art, initially focusing on art shown at the local level at the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts. The controversy centered around a[n]…exhibition called “Sport in Art,” with the women fighting to get the exhibit canceled, accusing some of the artists whose works were included in the show to be communists. The museum and its board stood its ground, and the “Sport in Art” exhibit was shown as scheduled at the museum…however…Using their connections in politics, the women took their fight to the national level and directly to the United States Information Agency (USIA)…[the]…consequence of the controversy was the cancellation of this international art show and the withdrawal of the USIA in sponsoring art abroad…”
  • Alecia Jay Giombolini, “Anarchism on the Willamette: The Firebrand newspaper and the origins of a culturally American anarchist movement, 1895–1898.” (Portland State University, 2018). “…In the Fall of 1897…three of [the]…publishers were arrested for…sending obscene materials through the mail. The Firebrand’s frank discussions of sexuality, women’s rights, and free love offended the local censor and gave law enforcement an excuse to prosecute Portland’s anarchists. The ensuing trial would result in the newspaper’s closure…”
  • Jonathan Gomez, “The politics of sounding Black: Nationalism, agency, and the experience of Black jazz musicians.” (Michigan State University, 2018). “…look at the ways in which the cross-racial politics of patronage in jazz has affected the sound of the music, the importance of 1950s Black musicking for both the musicians and larger Black communities, and…at the ways in which great man narratives occlude the importance of group sound and groove for Black musicians of the 1960s….”
  • Stewart Habig, “Politicizing poetics, narrative syncopations, and jazz aesthetics in twentieth-century American literary discourse.” (University of Tulsa, OK, 2018). “…argues that Ralph Ellison…develop[s] a jazz aesthetic to politically engage with a mid-century literal critical discourse dismissive of African American writers…[Jazz] Provides discursive power and agency to previously marginalized voices. Ralph Ellison’s novel Invisible Man is contextualized in his work previously published in little magazines to position his text as a political refutation of an American mid-century…disparaging of jazz and African American culture…”
  • Alazzia J. Hasty, “James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time: A Marxist take on hypocrisy in Black religion.” (North Carolina Central University, 2018). “…What began as a letter to his nephew became an essay and a warning to younger generations about the inequalities they would face in the Black community and in the outside world…Close analysis of Baldwin’s language and narrative reveal his connection to…Louis Althusser, and to similarities between Black religious institutions and ideological state apparatuses.”
  • John Edward Hest, “Read and be convinced: The image of the Nonpartisan League in Its creative production, the early histories, and wider popular culture.” (North Dakota State University, 2018). “…the League carefully crafted their…image and their opponents painted them as disloyal socialists… close with a look at the image of the League within wider popular culture, examining Main Street by Sinclair Lewis, the public statements of Theodore Roosevelt, and the 1978 film Northern Lights.”
  • Andrew Douglas Hoyt, “And they called them “Galleanisti”: The rise of the Cronaca Sovversiva [1903-1919] and the formation of America’s most infamous anarchist faction (1895-1912). Barre, VT.
  • Catherine Susan Mary Hull, “The machine has a soul: American sympathizers with Italian Fascism.” (Georgetown University, 2018). “…accesses fascist sympathizers’ views through the intellectual biographies of four…Americans – Richard Washburn Child, Anne O’Hare McCormick, Generoso Pope, Herbert Schneider – …shows that anxieties about modernity united American fascist sympathizers of various political persuasions and cultural tendencies…”
  • Ronald Jackson, II, “African American athletes, actors, singers, performers, and the anti-Apartheid movement, 1948–1994.” (Michigan State University, 2018). Chapter two: “Maligning Malan: The Cold War and early anti-apartheid activism.”
  • Heejung Kim, “The other American poetry and modernist poetics: Richard Wright, Jack Kerouac, Sonia Sanchez, James Emanuel, and Lenard Moore.” (Kent State University, 2018). “to study [them]… as haiku poets in their efforts to create their own genres…The genuine identity of the American haiku…[it] seems innovative since it is a hybrid genre whose inspirations are derived from Eastern culture and American culture…”
  • Heesang Jeon, “Knowledge and contemporary capitalism in light of Marx’s value theory.” (University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies, 2018). “… the bold argument of cognitive capitalism theory, that contemporary capitalism is undergoing a transition to a new stage of capitalism and therefore Marx’s value theory has lost its validity, is shown to be based on flawed understandings of value theory…”
  • Chris Lause, “Nativism in the Interwar era.” (Bowling Green State University, 2018). “…explores three distinct Depression-era right-wing extremist phenomena: The Black Legion, Charles Coughlin, and the German-American Bund.…all…underpinned by a…current of anti-Communism…this common thread…gave shape to interwar era nativism.”
  • Kristina M. Lee, “Constituting the Un-American atheist: Eisenhower’s theist-normativity and the negation of American atheists.” (Colorado State University, 2018). “During the Cold War, Eisenhower used civil religion…In doing so, he excluded atheists from his description of the American Century.”
  • Jeffrey Thomas Lorino, Jr., “The ethos of dissent: Epideictic rhetoric and the democratic function of American protest and countercultural literature.” (Marquette University, 2018). “…establishes a theoretical frame-work…for reading the African American social protest literature of Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison, and the American countercultural literature of Jack Kerouac and Ken Kesey…epideictic rhetoric affords insight into how these authors’ narratives embody a post-World War II “ethos of dissent…”

  • Sara Marcus, “Political disappointment: A partial history of a feeling.” (Princeton University, 2018). “…The second chapter sets Tillie Olsen’s short-story collection Tell Me a Riddle alongside Lead Belly’s work songs to reconsider Popular Front culture as being marked by the simultaneous promulgation and disappointment of revolutionary desire…”
  • Jesse Dylan McCarthy, “The Blue Period: Black writing in the early Cold War, 1945-1965.” (Princeton University, 2018). “An important shift in Black writing took place during the early years of the Cold War. Marked by the ideological antagonism of Soviet Communism and American liberal capitalism, Black writers, who had come of age in close contact with Communist ideals, became newly alienated. Caught between… “Red Scare” McCarthyism on the one hand, and the rise of Stalinism…on the other, these writers sought to capture the “structure of feeling” of their time,. allows us to see …and reconstruct the battle of ideas between Richard Wright and Frantz Fanon as each sought to fashion a Black humanist esthetics for the Bandung nonaligned movement. Like Ellison’s Invisible Man, Black writers…went underground…not to depoliticize or liberalize their work, but to make it more radical…”
  • Lindley McGuire, “Functions of the Great Migration and the New Negro in Nella Larsen’s Quicksand and Richard Wright’s Native Son.” (Bowling Green State University, 2018).
  • Mary McGuire, “Theological avant-garde: The arts program at the Judson Memorial Church [Greenwich Village, New York City] 1958–1973.” (University of California, Santa Barbara, 2018).
  • Sebastian T. Mercier, “The whole furshlugginer operation”: The Jewish comic book industry, 1933–1954.” (Michigan State University, 2018). See the section “Radical politics and the failure of unions in the comic book industry,” in chapter four, which is on labor issues.
  • Alberto Milian, “Dreaming under a perfect sun: Ethnic Mexicans and the Left in greater San Diego, 1900–1950.” (Cornell University, 2018). “…In labeling the ideologies espoused…by groups such as the Partido Liberal Mexicano (PLM), the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), and the United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing, and Allied Workers of America (UCAPAWA) as subversive and “un-American,” …business interests eroded support for the worker cause and helped stunt multiracial and multi-ethnic…solidarity…That laborers continued to reject working class segmentation and to endure ostracism is significant…”
  • Angela Kristine Moore, “Democratizing cultural production: A theory cultivated with Hallie Flanagan Davis.” (Texas Christian University, 2018). “…I recover an important… female rhetorician from the interwar period, Hallie Flanagan Davis….the national director of the American Federal Theatre Project (1935-1939)…”
  • Eric Hosbach Newman, “Queer orientations: Desire, race and belonging in queer American literature, 1900-1940.” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2018). “…McKay’s queer black diaspora offers an ephemeral utopia of transitory male community as a challenge to frameworks of diaspora grounded in the heterosexual family and the trauma of slavery…”
  • Luke J. Pickelman, “Hayseed: Henry A. Wallace and the American plan for a post-War world.” (University of Nebraska at Kearney, 2018). “…limits its research focus upon Wallace’s years as vice president…. it was Wallace’s message regarding economic imperialism, militarism and nationalism that doomed his career. Wallace did not lose the trust of Franklin Roosevelt… Wallace’s defeat resulted from a failed political experiment of FDR…But his views challenged the emerging culture in 1940s Washington, and Wallace’s ouster from public life serves as an important point of demarcation for modern American foreign policy.”
  • Stephen E. Rahko, “Democracy, corporate personhood, and the American rhetorical imagination.” (Indiana University, 2018). “…seeks to explain how the corporation came to be personified both in American law and public culture…locates the corporation as a discursive formation with roots in… the language games of the public and legal culture of American liberalism…the discourse of the corporation has come to be naturalized in the image of personhood in a way that erodes the agency of the citizen, as well as to map how this rhetorical formulation has been resisted over time…”
  • Kevin Riel, “Extending the poems: Muriel Rukeyser’s The Book of the Dead annotated.” (Claremont Graduate University, 2018). “…a touchstone work of documentary poetics is animated by an eclectic body of documentary materials regarding the Hawk’s Nest Disaster, the deadliest industrial accident in United States history… comprises an annotated edition of the… 20-poem sequence…elucidate the multidisciplinary scope of Rukeyser’s…project, which engages literary, mythological, historical, medical, economic, geological, and courtroom documents. Additionally, the dissertation links to a companion website with a range of archival photographs and links.”
  • David Tyroler Romine, “Into the mainstream and oblivion”: Julian Mayfield’s Black radical tradition, 1948-1984.” (Duke University, 2018). “…a study of the intellectual and political biography of…writer and political activist Julian Hudson Mayfield. As a member of the Black Left, Mayfield’s life of activism and art bring the complex network of artists, activists, and political theorists who influenced the construction, tactics, and strategies of social movements during the latter half of the twentieth century into sharper focus revealing the ways in which Black, modernist writing served as a critical site of political, social, and cultural ferment during the Cold War…”
  • David Cameron Rothmund, “The Southern Negro Youth Congress: Legacies of SNYC and the Southern radical tradition.” (College of Charleston, 2018). “Postwar anti-communist rhetoric decimated the American left; however, the Southern Negro Youth Congress (SNYC) continued to shape the post-war political climate through organizational partnerships…examines (the SNYC), during the New Deal, the second World War, and the early years of the Cold War… the SNYC [was]…[a] part of the long Civil Rights Movement,…the work of SNYC played a…role in creating a Southern Popular Front [that] drew from the New Deal and the effort to create a post-war civil rights movement.”
  • Michael A. Rubin, “Accountability in rebel regimes: Evidence from the Communist insurgency in the Philippines.” (Columbia University, 2018). During the end of the US colonial presence and subsequent neocolonial years (ca. 1942–1954).

  • Zaheera Zohra Saed, “Langston Hughes: Poems, photos and notebooks from Turkestan 1932-1933.” (City University of New York, 2018). “In June 1932, Langston Hughes…rode on the Trans-Siberian Rail with hanging lamps lighting the small compartment and simple wooden chairs, but no Jim Crow. He left the safety of a guided…tour with his record player, jazz albums, and notebooks to make up his own mind about Soviet Central Asia…and wrote…a chapbook in English and Russian titled, A Negro Looks at Soviet Central Asia…The annotations of the material, and never before translated or published works, hold the center of this dissertation with a critical introduction, a longer chapter on the photographs Hughes took at the cotton kolkhoz (collectives), and translations of poetry and marginal notes given to him on this trip…”
  • Igor Shoikhedbrod, “Rights discourse and economic domination: Thinking beyond the narrow horizon of liberal justice.” (University of Toronto). “…a theoretical reconstruction of Karl Marx’s materialist conception of right…Marx regards right as an essential feature of any mode of production, including the future communist society…”
  • Christopher Sibley, “African American performers in Stalin’s Soviet Union: Between political promise and racial propaganda.” (City University of New York, 2018). “In the first half of the twentieth century, a significant number of African Americans left the United States for the promise of…equality in the supposedly class-less society of a post Revolution Soviet Union…uses a series of interrelated case studies to contextualize the theatrical work of Paul Robeson, jazz dancer Henry Scott, actor Wayland Rudd, and the 1955-56 international tour of Porgy and Bess within the overlapping social, political, and esthetic landscapes of African American and Soviet performance in Moscow during the rise and height of Stalinism…”
  • Rebecca Ann Soderna, “Struggling toward an American national theater.” (Michigan Technological University, 2018). “…the social welfare programs of the New Deal were the source of much debate…none more so than the Federal Theater Project (FTP)…. challenge the perception of the FTP as…a failed attempt at a government supported theater project…but rather to consider how engagement in the process of struggle led to…innovations that can inform the future development of a national theater in the United States.”
  • Christopher Cody Stephens, “Defining the monster: The social science and rhetoric of neo-Marxist theories of imperialism in the United States and Latin America, 1945–1973.” (University of California, Santa Barbara, 2018). “I have focused primarily on the intellectuals surrounding the independent socialist journal Monthly Review and used that as a frame for bringing in other actors. The archival source base includes the personal papers of Paul Sweezy, Paul Baran, Andre Gunder Frank, and Harry Magdoff; the journals Monthly Review, Studies on the Left, American Socialist; and the international records of the Trotskyist Socialist Workers’ Party (SWP). The correspondence of the editors of Monthly Review and the records of the SWP reveal a broad and overlapping network of actors spanning virtually the entire globe…”
  • Francis E. Tansey, “Luis V. Manrara and The Truth about Cuba Committee, Inc.: A microhistory on the effect of socio-economic advantages and politics on early Cuban acculturation within American society.” (University of Massachusetts, 2018).
  • Rebecca L. Thompson, “Mayn tsvaoeh durkh dir ikh loz: The Socialist Realism of Dovid Bergelson [1884–1952]” (The University of Texas at Dallas, 2018). Although principally known as an author and activist in the USSR [executed by Stalin in 1952], until the mid-1920s he wrote for The Forward. This dissertation examines the [Yiddish] socialist realism produced by Dovid Bergelson from 1926 to 1952.
  • Patricia Kathleen Tillman, “Cardinal Mindszenty [Hungary], anti-Communism, and American Catholicism form the early Cold War to the Reagan era.” (The Catholic University of America, 2018). “…surveys…opinions on Mindszenty, among…Catholics and the general American public…tracked evolving receptions of Mindszenty during different eras of the Cold War, from the fervent anti-Communism of the early Cold War, to experiments with compromise in the late 1960s and 1970s, to the flare-up of anti-Communist rhetoric at the end of the Cold War…”
  • Andrew J. Winters, “Seed of “resistance,” “symbol of struggle”: The radical life of Mildred McAdory, 1915–1988.” (North Carolina Central University, 2018). “…McAdory pursued political change and challenged racial oppression through the Communist Party…McAdory’s ability to organize helped her become a key figure of influence in the American Communist Party in Birmingham, Alabama and in Harlem, New York…argues that McAdory’s life and activism in both the Communist Party and the Southern Negro Youth Congress, were important influences on the modern Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. In addition, McAdory’s story reveals the “gendering” of Communist politics and civil rights activism…”
  • Karim Wissa, “Music and the modes of production: Three moments in American jazz.” (Duke University, 2018). “West End blues and the problems of modernity – Black, Brown Beige in the age of the culture industry – Post-Bop and the encroaching marketplace. What ideological dreams does music express? And how…attempts to answer these two problems by illustrating how the modes of our production structure the range of our interpretive possibilities, and how music responds to and overcomes these dilemmas aesthetically.”

Conference materials

  • One Hundred Years of Communism, organized by the Historians of American Communism, Williams College, Williamstown, MA, November 9-10, 2018.
  • Sponsored by the Stanley Kaplan Program in American Foreign Policy and the Department of Political Science. This conference is inspired by the work of editors James Ryan, Katherine Sibley, and Vernon Pendersen’s forthcoming volume, One Hundred Years of Communism in the USA: The CPUSA at Home and Abroad Since 1919.
  • The proceedings of the conference will be published as a monograph – title, publisher and date as yet unknown. They are also available, unedited, on YouTube, via the links below, with the exception of John Earl Haynes’s opening presentation.
  • Opening presentation: The “Mental Comintern” and the self-destructive tactics of the CPUSA, 1944-1958/John Earl Haynes, Library of Congress (retired).
  • Panel 1: Party Leaders and the Path to Revolution in America
  • Speakers: Earl Browder’s changing conception of the Marxian revolution/James G. Ryan, Texas A & M – William Z. Foster, James Cannon and Earl Browder: The relevance of American Communist leadership/Edward Johanningmeier, University of Delaware – Papers Presented: California Reds: Gendered radicalism in California/Beth Slutsky, University of California, Davis – The Party’s over: Former Communist Party Members in the San Francisco Bay Area/Robert Cherny, professor emeritus, San Francisco State University.
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gtYKsPDdIA&index=5&list=PLtSAkmCsGxGa3QD0MPGqTqo7aW0GEVWkw
  • Panel 2: Red Scares at Home and Abroad
  • Speakers: The case of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, at home and abroad/Lori Clune, California State University, Fresno – A friendship re-forged in anti-Communism: Herbert Solow, Whittaker Chambers and the missing Communists/Denise Lynn, University of Southern Indiana, Evansville – Ayn Rand and J. Edgar Hoover go to the movies: Contested visions of anti-Communism in Hollywood’s early Cold War films/John Sbardellati, University of Waterloo, Ontario – Paper Presented: To tell all my people: Civil Rights, anti-Communism, and John Birch Society Activists Julia Brown and Lola Belle Holmes,/Veronica Wilson, University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown.
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCHTJ4lBJaA&index=6&list=PLtSAkmCsGxGa3QD0MPGqTqo7aW0GEVWkw
  • Lunch speaker: Run Quick and Find the Reds: Historians’ Search for American Communists/Randi Storch, SUNY Cortland.
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v = xWlykvb3i_w&index=4&list = PLtSAkmCsGxGa3QD0MPGqTqo7aW0GEVWkw
  • Panel 3: The Party and its Causes
  • The Good Fight: The Communist Party and the Spanish Civil War/Vernon L. Pedersen, American University in Sharjah – Communists and farmers/William C. Pratt, professor emeritus, University of Nebraska, Omaha – For a new anti-fascist, anti-imperialist people’s coalition: Rethinking the history of African Americans and U.S. Communism in the era of Trump/Eric McDuffie, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign – The CPUSA’s trade unionism during Third Period Communism, 1929 to 1934/Victor G. Devinatz, Hobart – Marian Gardner, Illinois State University, will conclude this session by discussing the role of the Party in labor unions.
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v = 62_5qhPy1A0&list = PLtSAkmCsGxGa3QD0MPGqTqo7aW0GEVWkw&index=1
  • Panel 4: Soviet Espionage, Propaganda, and Un-American Activities
  • Speakers: Soviet spies, Russian trolls, and the US security state/Katherine Sibley, St. Joseph’s University, Philadelphia – The ones that got away: Joel Barr and Alfred Sarrant in Russia/Steve Usdin, independent scholar – Paper Presented: The life and lies of Alger Hiss/R. Bruce Craig, independent scholar.
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ghfvkE_QXE&index=2&list=PLtSAkmCsGxGa3QD0MPGqTqo7aW0GEVWkw
  • Panel 5: The CPUSA’s Legacy
  • Speakers: Worse than the cure: Anti-Communism in American life/Ellen Schrecker, Yeshiva University (retired) – Revisiting “The Heyday of American Communism,”/Harvey Klehr, professor emeritus, Emory University – Reflections on the “new historians” of American Communism,/Maurice Isserman, Hamilton College – Glen Gebhard, film and video director of documentaries and narrative films, will discuss his documentary film work, including an interview with Gus Hall [1910–2000], a leader and General Secretary [1959–2000] of the Communist Party USA and its four-time U.S. presidential candidate [1972–1984].
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v = h9T_pKrrPwM&list = PLtSAkmCsGxGa3QD0MPGqTqo7aW0GEVWkw&index=3
  • Black Radicalism in the United States, April 14–15, 2018; Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (NYC), Tamiment Library, New York University. For additional information contact: [email protected] – (212) 998–2630
  • Panel 1: Disputes and Dialectics
  • The dialectics of Black Nationalism/Albert Scharenberg, RLS–NYC) – From Black Reconstruction to Black Liberation: The radicalization of William Edward Burghardt DuBois, 1931-1961/Charisse Burden-Stelly, Carleton College – C.L.R. James and the hidden disputes within the Black radical tradition/Matthew Quest, Arkansas
  • Panel 2: Thought Leaders of Black Radicalism
  • Gendering the Black radical tradition: Grace P. Campbell’s role in the formation of a radical feminist tradition in African American intellectual culture/Lydia Lindsey, North Carolina Central University – “My kind of Communist”: Marxism, nationalism, and Richard Wright’s radical imagination/Shana A. Russell, Rutgers University – Claudia Jones: Re-centering Communism on Black women’s issues/Gregory Bekhtari, Paris Nanterre University, France
  • Panel 3: The “Black Belt” Nation
  • Early Black socialists and radical internationalism in the United States, 1850–1919/Charles Holm, University of Texas at Austin – “Black Belt Nation”: Populism, labor and the growth of radicalism within the African American Civil Rights movement, 1870–1935/Willie Mack, Southern New Hampshire University – “The Communist International and the fight against Black oppression in the United States in the 1920s and 1930s”/Jacob A. Zumoff, New Jersey City University – Hosea Hudson and African American Communism in the “Black Belt”/Frank Jacob, Queensborough Community College
  • Panel 4: Black Radicals, Socialism, and Communism
  • Marvel Cooke, Black feminist beacon of conduct in the Depression Era/Laura Hapke, Pace University – This city in itself: Harlem’s socialists and the challenge to New Deal liberalism/Robin Dearmon Muhammad, Ohio University
  • Roundtable: Black Radicalism in Arts, Literature, and Press
  • (Five minutes of short impulse presentations followed by a roundtable, discussing today’s role of Black Radicalism in arts, literature, and press.) – “Black radical knowledge production in the academy: Africana existentialism v. Afro-pessimism”/LaRose T. Parris, LaGuardia Community College – Harlem Renaissance as dialectical gambit of Black radicalism/A. Shahid Stover, Brotherwise Dispatch – The printed legacy of the Black Liberation movement/Brad Duncan, University of Pennsylvania, AFSCME Local 590 – Fascination and failure: Communist ideas, the Black Nationalists movement, and jazz in 1960s and 1970s America/Rüdiger Ritter, Technische Universitat, Chemnitz, Germany
  • Interludium: Fifty Years after Martin Luther King Jr., Obery M. Hendricks, Jr. (Columbia University)
  • Panel 5: The Legacy of the Black Panther Party
  • The Black Panther Party in Chicago/Ethan Young, Left Labor Project – “To build the world anew: Black anti-imperialism in the era of Black Power”/Robyn C. Spencer, Lehman College – The film reviews of the Black Panther Party/Kazembe Balagun, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, NYC
  • Panel 6: The International Dimensions of Black Radicalism
  • Black, Dutch & radical: Exploring the politics of Black Dutch radicals/Mitchell Esasjas and Jessy De Abreu, Black Archives in Amsterdam, The Netherlands – Making differences work and fight: The Black movement(s) in Germany/Folashade Ajayi and Tahir Della, Initiative Black People in Germany – “Black Fire”: Conceptualizations of Black Liberation and engaged views of African and Black aesthetics in the USA and South Africa/Lena Dallywater, Graduate School “Global and Area Studies” at the Research Academy Leipzig, Germany
  • Jim Crow Crumbles, Too: Socio-Political Activism in the Works of Langston Hughes and His Contemporaries. (Langston Hughes Society at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association Convention, November 2–4, 2018, Birmingham, AL)
  • Panel 1: There’s a Shakespeare in Harlem: Reassessing the Politics and Aesthetics of Langston Hughes.
  • Chair/Christopher Allen Varlack, University of Maryland-Baltimore County – “Whitewashing a Black socialist masterpiece: The liberal appropriation of Langston Hughes’ Let America be America Again/James D. Hoff, Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY – Open Letter to America: The lyrical speaking voice as prophetic protest in Hughes’ Open Letter to the South and Let American Be America Again/Paula Hayes, University of Memphis – Poetry as public lament: The prophetic imagination of Langston Hughes/Jeffrey R. Williams, University of Central Missouri
  • Panel 2: Social Disconnect Helps to Fan the Flames of Bigotry: A Roundtable on the Poetry of Resistance and Social Justice
  • Chair: Barbra Chin, Howard University – Christopher Allen Varlack, University of Maryland, Baltimore County – Doris Davenport, Independent Scholar – Cheryl Hopson, Western Kentucky University – Sharon Lynette Jones, Wright State University – Dellita Martin-Ogunsola, Emerita, University of Alabama at Birmingham – Aldon Lynn Nielsen Pennsylvania State University
  • Panel 3: Let America Be America Again: Probing Hughes’ Engagement with the Lower Class, the Immigrant, and the Economically Disadvantaged.
  • Chair: Wallis Baxter III, Howard University – A Song of Bitter Rivers: Langston Hughes’ Gothic America/Theodora Sakellarides, Lebanon Valley College; Christian Bancroft, University of Houston) – “Va por el mundo Gustavo siempre adelante, adelante”: The politics of becoming in Langston Hughes’s translations of Nicolás Guillén/Richard Hancuff, Misericordia University – My God, I Says, You Can’t Live That Way!: Langston Hughes and the “Low-Down Folks: A vision of race, caste, and class in Langston/Amritjit Singh, Ohio University
  • The Left Forum: Towards a New Strategy for the Left (John Jay College, New York City, June 1–3, 2018). For full schedule, see: (https://www.leftforum.org/complete-schedule-NYC-2018). Several of the more than one hundred panels are historical in nature.
  • The Left Forum: Left (West) Coast Forum (LA Trade Technical College, August 24-26, Los Angeles, CA). For more information, see: (https://www.leftforum.org). Several of the approximately one hundred panels are historical in nature.
  • The Second Annual Conference on Jews and Conservatism (Jewish Leadership Conference, Sunday October 28, NYC). Keynote panel: “Honoring the legacy of Charles Krauthammer,” featuring William Kristol (The Weekly Standard), Rich Lowry (The National Review). (https://www.jewishleadershipconference.org/)
  • National Women’s Studies Association, November 8–11, Atlanta, GA.
  • The conference is organized into seven subthemes: 1. Afro-futurism, feminist futures, surrealist thought and radical imaginaries – 2. Rethinking gender, sexuality, family, disability and the bio-politics of what is or is not human? – 3. The future of the universities, schools, and knowledge production: maroon spaces, insurgent practices, and the future of the disciplines and the inter-disciplines? – 4. Post-capitalism: imagining new economic futures – 5. Revolutions and utopian projects: sustained, incomplete and derailed (Marie Cruz Soto, New York University, organizer) – 6. Political, cultural and artistic movements that “demand the impossible:” “abolition” and beyond – 7. The earth’s future and legacies of its past: environmental justice, climate change, indigeneity, land rights, wars and occupations.
  • The Sources of ’68
  • The International Association of Labor History Institutions (IALHI) annual conference will be held 12-15 September 2018, at the new premises of the Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli in Milan, Italy. European focus. Program: (http://fondazionefeltrinelli.it/eventi/ialhi-2018/#primo)

  • Ascensión Mazuela-Anguita (Universidad de Granada), “Women in Alan Lomax’s recordings of Spanish folk music (1952–53)” (SMT)
  • Eddie Bonilla, Michigan State University, “Organizing multiracial workplaces: The activism of the League of Revolutionary Struggle, 1974–1991,” (OAH)
  • Natalia Bracarensen, North Central College, “Economic development and historical specificity in the late Karl Marx.” (AEA)
  • Stefan M. Bradley, Saint Louis University, “Being Black and Ivy: Student organizing and activism in the Ivy League, 1945–68.” (AHA)
  • Charisse Burden-Stelly, Carleton College, “The liberation of the Negro Nation: The Negro Question and world revolution.” (AHA)
  • Kyle Burke, “Revolutionaries for the right: Anti-communist internationalism and paramilitary warfare in the Cold War.” Tamiment Library Cold War Seminar Series (October 23, 2018).
  • Kevin Cedeño-Pacheco, Pennsylvania State University, “Art and propaganda: On the debate between Alain Locke and W. E. B. Du Bois” (APA:C)
  • Quin’Nita Cobbins, “Black emeralds: African American women: Political activism and leadership in Seattle, 1940s–1990s.” (OAH)
  • Nathan Alan Cutietta, “How George Orwell’s 1984 might have looked with video games as a surveillance tool.” (PCA/ACA)
  • Jonathan Flatley, Wayne State University, “Ralph Ellison’s Black Leninism.” (MLA)
  • Timothy Fuller, Yonsei University, “The challenge to race eliminativism from implicit bias research.” “…implicit bias research supports the view that we ought to conserve racial categories in our thought and communication, while striving to excise their harmful effects.” APA:E
  • Janette E. Gayle, Hobart William Smith Colleges, “On the cutting edge of organized labor: Female Black garment workers and the ILGWU in early Twentieth Century New York City (NALHC)
  • Dustin Gann, “From Russia with recommendations: Understanding how Cold War journalists used the Soviet Union to advance political debate.” (PCA/ACA)
  • Thomas Ray Garcia, “The intuition of the revolutionary artist in [Jack London’s] The Iron Heel.” (PCA/ACA)
  • Frank Hammer, Independent Scholar, “AIFLD’s role in Latin America, 1964–1981.” [American Institute for Free Labor Development] (NALHC)
  • Fran Hassencahl, “Teaching tolerance through film: Brotherhood of Man produced by the United Auto Workers Union in 1945.” (PCAC/ACA)
  • Sander H. Lee, Keene State College, “Elia Kazan and the Hollywood Blacklist: Some philosophical reflections” (APA:C)
  • Lisa Lenoir, Stephanie Carlo, “Deconstructing Lolita Lebrón: A material culture and content analysis of a Puerto Rican revolutionary.” (PCA/ACA)
  • Marc Lenot, “The documentary work of Robert Capa as a political weapon serving the founding myths of the State of Israel (PFIC)
  • Hongshan Li, Kent State University, “Robert Williams in China: From a promoter for armed revolution to a nonviolence activist, 1963–69.” (AHA)
  • Xiuping Li, “Deconstructing power and privilege in Pearl Buck’s works.” (PCA/ACA)
  • Nethanel Lipshitz (University of Chicago) for “On the moral equality of Stalin and Martin Luther King” (APA:C)
  • Mariona Lloret, University of Pompeu Fabra, “A new look upon the Kingfish of Louisiana [Huey Long].” (OAH)
  • Gabe Logan, Northern Michigan University, “Communists at play: The CPUSA’s Labor Sport Union 1928–1935.” (NALHC)
  • Matthew Mason, “Mythologies of Mao(ism): Depictions of China and the “Cultural Revolution” in European cinema at the dawn of postmodernity (1967–1972): Godard, Bellochio, Antonioni.” (PFIC)
  • Anna Mazurkiewicz, University of Gdansk, “Political exiles from East Central Europe in American Cold War politics, 1948–54.” (AHA)
  • David M. McCourt, University of California-Davis, “How intraparty struggles internationalized the New Deal: Liberals, Trumanites, and the Marshall Plan 1945–48.” (ASA)
  • Sam Meister, “Hollywood on HUAC: Reds in the Technicolor Age.” (PCA/ACA)
  • Gregg Michel, University of Texas at San Antonio, “With imagination and enthusiasm: The FBI, COINTELPRO, and investigations of white student activists in the 1960s South.” (OAH)
  • Sarah Moazeni, Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University, “A critical decade: The 1960s and the Tamiment Library.” (AHA)
  • Tejasvi Nagaraja, “Nodes of empire, ports of solidarity: Decolonization, racial capitalism, and the global war-work mutiny of 1946.” Tamiment Library Cold War Seminar Series (October 4, 2018).
  • James (Jay) Nelson, “Breaking the Marxist code: How Hollywood figured out the bourgeois formula.” (PCA/ACA)
  • James Robinson, Northeastern University, “Needles and hoops: Sports programs in the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, the Socialist Party, and their Communist Rivals.” (NALHC)
  • Sandy Isabel Placido, Tri-continental solidarity during the Cold War,” (AHA)
  • Sarah E. Plummer, “Huey Long: America’s first future dictator and his war on media.” (PCA/ACA)
  • Marysol Quevedo, University of Miami, “Music and the Sociedad Cultural Nuestro Tiempo in 1950s Cuba: Modernist aesthetics meet leftist politics” (AMS)
  • Gilbert Skillman, Wesleyan University, “Looking back to, and beyond, Marx’s transformation problem.” (AEA)
  • Abagail Trollinger, St. Norbert College, “Unemployed workers, urban reformers, and the fate of capitalism in 1930s Chicago.” (OAH).
  • David Walsh, Princeton University, “Anti-Semitism in the anti-New Deal conservative coalition.” (OAH)
  • David Austin Walsh, Princeton University, “The American Mercury and the right-wing Popular Front in the 1950s.” Tamiment Library Cold War Seminar Series, Fall, 2018.
  • Jace Weaver, University of Georgia, “What lies beneath: The alliance of Indians and Socialists in early 20th-century Oklahoma.” (AHA)
  • Alexander Welcome, City University of New York-LaGuardia Community College, “Black political participation as white emotional palette in the work of W.E.B. Du Bois.” (ASA)
  • Gregory Wood, Frostburg State University, “The sit-downs and the making of anti-union culture.” (NALHC)

Marx and Marxism

  • ——, Brill Historical Materialism Book Series (Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill). Selected titles listed below. (https://brill.com/view/serial/HM?page =3&qt-qt_serial_details =1) Click on this link to see a list and descriptions of titles in descending chronological order.
  • Hauke Brunkhorst, Regina Kreide, editors, The Habermas Handbook (New York: Columbia University Press, 2018). Seventy-five essays, averaging five pages apiece.
  • Jan Buchanan, editor, A Dictionary of Critical Theory (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018).
  • Heather Brown author, compiler, Marxism and Childhood (New York: Oxford University Press 2018).
  • Richard B. Day, Daniel Gaido, Responses to Marx’s Capital: From Rudolf Hilferding to Illich Rubin (Leiden: Brill, 2018). “…a collection of primary sources dealing with the reception of the economic works of Karl Marx from the First to the Third International…translated for the first time from German and Russian…”
  • Eugene Gogol, “Marxist-Humanism: The new Raya Dunayevskaya collection, [the Marxist-Humanist archives].” Science & Society 82, no. 4 (2018): 582–9. The archives are available at: (www.rayadunayevskaya.org)
  • Nathan J. Jun, editor, Brill’s Companion to Anarchism and Philosophy (Leiden: Brill, 2018).
  • Robert Knox, compiler, Marxist Approaches to International Law [a bibliography] (New York: Oxford University Press 2018). Contents: Classical Marxism – Approaches – Themes – Legal areas.
  • Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels; John Edward Toews, editor, The Communist Manifesto: With Related Documents (Boston, Bedford: St. Martin’s, Macmillan Learning, 2018).
  • Marcello Musto, Babak Amini, editors, Routledge Handbook of Marx’s Capital: A Global History of Translation, Dissemination, and Reception (New York: Taylor & Francis, 2018).
  • Andrew Pendakis, Imre Szeman, Jeff Diamanti, editors, Bloomsbury Companion to Marx (New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018).
  • Peter Singer, Marx: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018). Second, fully updated new edition (originally published in 2000).
  • Joseph Westfall, editor, The Continental Philosophy of Film Reader (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018). Contents include: Part III. Marxism and Critical Theory.

  • ——, “The Bolshevik contagion: The media and networks of the Russian Revolution.” Thematic issue of Studies in East European Thought 70, no. 2-3 (2018): 83–213. Contents: Revolutionology: An introduction/Robert Bird – The Communist Manifestoes: Media of Marxism and contagion in America/James Farr – On Lenin’s Materialism and Empiocriticism/David Bakhurst – The tasks of our times: Kautsky’s Road to Power in Germany and Russia/Lars T. Lih – Lenin on democratic theory/Artemy Magun – Rosa Luxemburg: The Russian Revolution/Katerina Clark – The ABC of Communism revisited/Sheila Fitzpatrick – Culture as permanent revolution: Lev Trotsky’s Literature and Revolution/Robert Bird – Fidelity to the event? Lukacs’ History and Class Consciousness and the Russian Revolution/Martin Jay.
  • ——, Dialog and Universalism (2018, no. 3) TOC: http://dialogueanduniversalism.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/2018-3.pdf Karl Marx on the occasion of the bicentenary of his birth. Organized into these sections: Value Theory, Operaism – Political Theory, Critical State Theory – Marxism and Maoism – Ecology.
  • ——, “Marx @ 200: Debating capitalism & perspectives for the future of radical theory.” Triple C: Communication, Capitalism & Critique: Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society 16, no. 2 (2018): 406–741. TOC: (https://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC).
  • ——, “The political rhetoric of Isms.” Thematic issue of Journal of Political Ideologies 23, no. 3 (2018).
  • ——. “Rosa Luxemburg: Capitalism, Imperialism and the Postcolonial.” Thematic issue of New Formations 94 (2018). Contents: Introduction: Transmitting Rosa Luxemburg/Filippo Menozzi – Think another time: Rosa Luxemburg and the concept of history/Filippo Menozzi – Capitalism in all corners of the earth: Luxemburg and globalization/Helen Scott – Perspectives on Rosa Luxemburg 1/Evelin Wittich – Perspectives on Rosa Luxemburg 2/Benita Parry – Non-Linear pathways to social transformation: Rosa Luxemburg and the post-colonial condition/Peter Hudis – Capital accumulation and debt colonialism after Rosa Luxemburg/Stephen Morton – Neoliberal capitalism and its crises in Europe: towards a Luxemburgian interpretation/Ingo Schmidt – Rosa Luxemburg and the heart of darkness/Paul Le Blanc – Rosa Luxemburg’s The Accumulation of Capital, postcolonial theory, and the problem of present day imperialisms/Kanishka Chowdhury.
  • ——, Rivista de Storia della Filosofia 73, no, 2 (2018): Thematic section on Soviet philosophy. Contents include: History of philosophy in the early Soviet epoch/Daniela Steila – Soviet theory of the history of philosophy as capstone of Soviet philosophical culture/Van der Zweerde.
  • ——, “Solidarity and Utopia”: Special issue of Utopian Studies 29, no. 2 (2018). Selected articles listed throughout.
  • ——, Theory & Struggle 119 (2018). Liverpool University Press Online. (https://doi.org/https://online.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/theory/119). Contents include: Marxism and historical materialism: The Roman Republic and the Spartacus war/Paul McFarlane – Marxism and new developments in science: Artificial intelligence and deep learning/Leonardo Impett – Marxism and cognitive science/Richard Shillcock.
  • ——, “Uneven and combined development.” A thematic section of Historical Materialism 26, no. 3 (2018). Contents include: From pacifism to Trotskyism/Ian Birchall – The frontiers of uneven and combined development/Neil Davidson.
  • ——, “Workers of the World Unite”: Marx traffic lights installed in his hometown (Trier).” The Local de, March 21, 2018. (https://www.thelocal.de/20180321/pedestrians-of-the-world-unite)
  • Arash Abazari, “Opposition instead of recognition.” Philosophy & Social Criticism 44, no. 3 (2018): 253–77. “…the Hegelian (recognition) and Marxist (opposition) dialectics…”
  • Theodor W. Adorno; Verena Erienbusch-Anderson, Chris O’Kane, editors, “Theodor Adorno on “Marx and the basic concepts of sociological theory.” Historical Materialism 26, no. 1 (2018): 164–64. Previously unpublished lecture.
  • Robert Elliott Allinson, “Mao’s contribution to Marxism and dialectical materialism.” Dialog and Universalism (2018; no. 3): 203–31.
  • Samir Amin, “The Communist Manifesto, 170 years later.” Monthly Review: An Independent Socialist Magazine 70, no. 5 (2018): 1–14.
  • Jamie Aroosi, The Dialectical Self: Kierkegaard, Marx, and the Making of the Modern Subject (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018).
  • Stefan Arvidsson, Jakub Benes, Anja Kirsch, editors, Socialist Imaginations: Utopias, Myths, and the Masses (London: Routledge, 2018). “…highlight the aesthetic, narrative, and religious dimensions of socialism as it has developed …early nineteenth-century beginnings, mass-based political organizations, and the attainment of state power…”
  • Charlotte Baumann, “Hegel and Marx on individuality and the universal good.” Hegel Bulletin 39, no. 1 (2018): 61–81. “…The good and the rational is not something that requires sacrificing one’s interests for the community…”
  • Johannes Beetz, Materiality and Subject in Marxism, (Post)Structuralism, and Material Semiotics (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2018).
  • Riccardo Bellafiore, “The multiple meanings of Marx’s value theory.” Monthly Review: An Independent Socialist Magazine 69, no. 11 (2018): 31–68.
  • Bernardo Bianchi, “Marx’s reading of Spinoza: On the alleged influence of Spinoza on Marx.” Historical Materialism 26, no. 4 (2018): 1–24.
  • John D. Bies, “A transnational perspective of the evolution of Rosa Luxemburg’s theory of the mass strike.” Critique: Journal of Socialist Theory 46, no. 2 (2018): 185–219.
  • August Blanqui [1805–1881], The Blanqui Reader: Political Writings, 1830-1880 (London: Verso, 2018).
  • Andy Blunden, “Goethe, Hegel and Marx.” Science & Society 82, no. 1 (2018): 11–37.
  • Ashley Bohrer, “Intersectionality and Marxism: A critical historiography.” Historical Materialism 26, no 2 (2018): 46–74.
  • Fabio Bruschi, “Splitting science: The Althusserian interpretation of Capital’s multiple orders of exposition.” Rethinking Marxism 30, no. 1 (2018): 25–43.
  • Tom Bunyard, [Guy] Debord, Time and Spectacle: Hegelian Marxism and Situationist Theory (Leiden: Brill, 2018).
  • Theodore A. Burczak, Robert F. Garnett, Knowledge, Class, and Economics: Marxism without Guarantees (New York: Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2018). “…surveys the “Amherst School” of…Marxist political economy, 40 years on…”
  • Anders Burman, “Back to Hegel! Georg Lukas, dialectics, and Hegelian Marxism.” (http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1259414/FULLTEXT01.pdf)
  • Terrell Carver, Marx (Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2018).
  • Terrell Carver, “Mere auxiliaries to the movement: How intellectual biography obscures Marx’s and Engels’s gendered political partnerships.” Hypatia 33, no. 4 (2018): 593–609.
  • Alexandros Chrysis, True Democracy as a Prelude to Communism: The Marx of Democracy (Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).
  • George C. Cominel, Alienation and Emancipation in the Work of Karl Marx (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).
  • Gregory Claeys, Marx and Marxism (London: Pelican, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2018). Contents: Part 1: Marx: The young Karl; Marx’s conversion to communism – The “Paris manuscripts”; alienation and humanism – The German ideology, history and production – Socialism, the revolutions of 1848 and The Communist Manifesto – Exile, 1850s–1880s – Political economy – The International (1864–1872) and the Paris Commune (1871) – Marx’s mature system – The problem of Engels – Utopia – Part 2: Marxism: Conversation – Marxism and social democracy, 1883–1918 – The revisionist debate – Lenin and the Russian Revolution: “Bread, peace, land” – Bolshevik leaders: Bukharin, Trotsky, Stalin – After Stalin, 1953-1968 – Western European Marxism, 1920–1968, and beyond – Other Marxisms – Marxism for the twenty-first century.
  • Alastair Davidson, Antonio Gramsci: Towards an Intellectual Biography (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2018).
  • Mike Davis, Old Gods, New Enigmas: Marx’s Lost Theory (London: Verso, 2018).
  • Sevgi Dogan, Marx and Hegel on the Dialectic of the Individual and the Social (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2018).
  • Mathieu Dubeau, “Reclaiming species-being: Toward an interspecies historical materialism.” Rethinking Marxism 30, no. 2 (2018): 186–205.
  • Terry Eagleton, Radical Sacrifice (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018). “…analysis of sacrifice as the foundation of the modern, as well as the ancient, order…explore the meaning of sacrifice in modernity, casting off misperceptions of barbarity to reconnect the radical idea to politics and revolution.” [Eagleton is both a Marxist and a Catholic.]
  • Rick Elmore, “Identity, exchange, and violence: The importance of Marxism for reconciling Adorno’s metaphysics and politics.” Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy 22, no. 1 (2018): 210–27.
  • Ann Ferguson, “Socialist-feminist transitions and visions.” Radical Philosophy Review 21, no. 1 (2018): 177–200. “…Utopian thinking, thinking that transcends the given facts toward their potentialities, is thus rational… explanation for this claim draws on Hegel, Marx, and phenomenology…”
  • Matthew Flisfeder, “The ideological algorithmic apparatus: Subjection before enslavement.” Theory & Event 21, no. 2 (2018): 457–84.
  • Barbara Foley, “Intersectionality: A Marxist critique.” Science & Society 82, no. 2 (2018): 269–75.
  • Bruno Frere, “Back to materialisms: Reflections on Marx’s conception of labor, praxis, cooperatives and libertarian socialism.” International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society 31, no. 1 (2018): 69–94.
  • Bess Frimodig, “Aesthetics of utopia.” Theory & Struggle 119 (2018): 70–80. (https://doi.org/https://online.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/abs/10.3828/ts.2018.8)
  • Grover Furr, “Stalin reappraised: Comments on [Gerald] Meyer” Science & Society 82, no. 4 (2018): 568–75.

  • Dimitris Gakis, “The political import of Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations.”4 Philosophy & Social Criticism 44, no 3 (2018): 229–42.
  • Martha E. Giminez, Marx, Women and Capitalist Social Reproduction: Marxist Feminist Essays (Leiden: Brill, 2018).
  • Jonah Goldberg, “Karl Marx’s Jew-hating conspiracy theory.” Commentary (April 2018): 22–8.
  • Andrew M. Gordon, “Marx in time and space.” Science Fiction Studies 45, no. 2 (2018): 380–6.
  • James A. Gregor, “The first Marxist [Soviet] and Fascist [Italy, Germany] economic strategies in comparative perspective.” Journal of Political Ideologies 23, no. 1 (2018): 80–96. “…reveal a remarkable resemblance…in terms of their…features and their intended results.”
  • Doug Enaa Greene, “The historical memory and legacy of Louis-Auguste Blanqui.” Socialism & Democracy 32, no. 1 (2018): 104–26.
  • Paul Hanebrink, A Specter Haunting Europe: The Myth of Judeo-Bolshevism (Cambridge: Belknap Press, an imprint of the Harvard University Press, 2018).
  • F.R. Hansen, Breakdown of Capitalism: A History of the Idea in Western Marxism, 1883-1983 (London: Routledge, 2018).
  • Nancy Holmstrom, “The dialectic of the individual and the collective: An ecological imperative.” Radical Philosophy Review 21, no. 1 (2018): 77–101.
  • Peter Hudis, “Racism and the logic of Capital: A Fanonian reconsideration.” Historical Materialism 26, no. 2 (2018): 199–220.
  • Elizabeth Humphrys, “Anti-politics, the early Marx, and Gramsci’s “integral state.” Thesis Eleven 147 (August 2018): 29–44.
  • E.V. Ilyenkov [1924–1979], Intelligent Materialism: Essays on Hegel and Dialectics (Boston: Brill, 2018).
  • Murzban Jal, “The phenomenology of silent blindness: On the Asiatic mode of production, part II.” Critique: Journal of Socialist Theory 46, no. 3 (2018): 423–42.
  • Pauline Johnson, “The dialectic of critique and progress.” European Journal of Social Theory 21, no. 3 (2018): 357–375. Adorno.
  • Adrian Johnston, A New German Idealism: Hegel, Zizek, and Dialectical Materialism (New York: Columbia University Press, 2018). A response to Zizek’s one-thousand-page tome Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism (2012).
  • Don Kalb, “Trotsky over [Marcel] Mauss [1872-1950]: Anthropological theory and the October 1917 commemoration.” Dialectical Anthropology 42, no. 3 (2018): 327–43.
  • Jan Kandivali, Reassessing Marx’s Social and Political Philosophy: Freedom, Recognition and Human Flourishing (New York: Routledge, 2018).
  • Sudipta Kaviraj, “Marx and postcolonial thinking.” Constellations: An International Journal of Critical & Democratic Theory 25, no. 1 (2018): 3–17.
  • Jean-Frqncois Kervegan, “Hegel’s political epistemology.” Hegel Bulletin 39, no. 1 (2018): 45–60. Re: Hegel’s famous maxim, “What is rational is actual, and what is actual is rational.”
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