James Green

James Green is professor of history at the University of Massachusetts Boston where he directs the graduate program in public history. He is author of Taking History to Heart: The Power of the Past in Building Social Movements (2000) and Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement, and the Bombing that Divided Gilded Age America (2006). He has served as president of the Labor and Working Class History Association, as a lecturer in the Harvard Trade Union Program, and as research director for the PBS series "The Great Depression." He is currently writing a book about the West Virginia coal mine wars.

Lecture topics:

• The Haymarket Tragedy: A Drama Without End
• Marking Workers' Lives on the National Landscape: Labor History Meets Public History
• The West Virginia Mine Wars and the Meaning of Freedom in Industrial America
• How Social Protest Movements Have Shaped the Writing of U.S. History
• Why Teach Labor History When Labor Unions are Flat on their Backs?

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