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James Green

Ph.D., Yale University

Professor Green is a scholar, writer and teacher of U.S. history. He was born in Oak Park, Illinois, raised in small factory town outside of Chicago and educated at Northwestern University.

He received his PhD in history from Yale University in 1972 and five years later joined the faculty at UMass Boston.

Professor Green has also held lectureships at Warwick University in England, at the University of Genoa in Italy where he was a Fulbright Senior Fellow and at Harvard University where he has taught in the Trade Union Program since 1987.

Areas of Special Interest
public history as well as modern U.S. social and labor history

Contact Information

Office: Wheatley 3-154-04

Phone: 617-287-7354

E-mail: james.green@umb.edu

Personal Website
jamesgreenworks.com

Office Hours for Fall 2007

Tuesday, 2:30-3:30pm
Wednesday, 1:00-2:30pm
Thursday, 9:30-10:30am

Professor Green's Current Curriculum Vitae


Representative Publications
Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America, New York: Pantheon Books, Random House 2006. Anchor Books paperback, 2007.

Taking History to Heart: The Power of the Past in Building Social Movements, Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2000

Commonwealth of Toil: Chapters from the History of Massachusetts Workers and their Unions, (co-authored with Tom Juravich and William Hartford) Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1996