Nick Salvatore

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Professor Emeritus
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Ithaca, NY 14950
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Overview

Nick Salvatore is the Maurice and Hinda Neufeld Founders Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and Professor of American Studies at Cornell University. He did his graduate work at the University of California, Berkeley and came to Cornell in 1981. He is the author of Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and Socialist (1982), which received the Bancroft Prize in History and the John H. Dunning Prize, and We All Got History: The Memory Books of Amos Webber (1996), which received the New England History Association's Outstanding Book Prize. His third biography, Singing in a Strange Land: C. L. Franklin, the Black Church, and the Transformation of America (2005) examines the life of one of the most influential preachers of his generation in the Afro-Baptist tradition. He teaches course in nineteenth- and twentieth century American history.

Publications

Journal Articles

  • . . "Theodore Roosevelt, the Corporations, and American Democracy. Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal, XXXV, 1&2, 52-59.
  • . . "Religion and the Biographical Turn". Religion and American Culture, 24(1), 14-21.
  • . . "Chattanooga and the UAW". firstofthemonth (on-line), none(none), on-line.
  • . . A Brief Ascendency: American Labor After 1945. The Forum, 10(1), 1-24.
  • . . Faith, Politics, and American Culture. Journal of American Studies, 42(1), 133-139.
  • , & . . The Long Exception: Rethinking the Place of the New Deal in American History. International Labor and Working-Class History, 74(1), 3-32.
  • . . America Reborn? Conservatives, Liberals, and American Political Culture Since 1945. Transatlantica.
  • . . Biography and Social History: An Intimate Relationship. Labour History (Australia), 87, 187-192.
  • . . Diventare storico negli anni Sessanta. Riflessioni personali (Becoming an Historian in the 1960's: Personal Reflections). Acoma, 15, 35-44.
  • . . Herbert Gutman's Narrative of the American Working Class: A Reevaluation. International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society, 12(1), 43-80.
  • . . The Decline of Labor. Dissent.
  • . . Larry Rogin. Labor Studies Journal, 16(1), 26-29.
  • . . Two Tales of a City: Nineteenth Century Black Philadelphia. Dissent, 227-235.
  • . . Teamster Democracy: A Moment of Possibility. New Politics, III(2), 93-102.
  • . . Conflicts In a Progressive Union. Dissent, 267-271.
  • . . 'Lest We Forget': The Paintings of Ralph Fasanella. Labor's Heritage, I(4), 24-31.
  • . . Workers, Racism and History: A Response. New Politics, I, 22-26.
  • . . Talkin' Union: Gompers Among the Scholars. The New York Times Book Review.
  • . . Response to Sean Wilentz, 'Against Exceptionalism'. International Labor and Working-Class History, 26, 25-30.
  • , & . . From Bastard to American: The Legitimization of a Fictional Family. Radical History Review, 26, 141-150.
  • . . Americans as Radicals. Radical History Review, 24, 142-152.
  • . . Railroad Workers and the Great Strike of 1877: The View from a Small Midwestern City. Labor History, 21, 522-545.
  • . . Marcus Garvey and His Back-to-Africa Movement. Harvard Divinity Bulletin, 9, 6-8.

Book Chapters

  • . . "Trade Unionism in the U.S.: The Policy and heritage of the New Deal". In Immigration Et Travail Aux Etats-Unis. (pp. 239-258). L'Harmattan.
  • . . Technology, Economic Growth, and the State: American Political Culture and Economy, 1870-2000. In Bilgi, Ekonomi ve Yonetim (Knowledge, Economy and Management). (pp. 49-62).
  • . . Deeply Within: Catholicism, Faith, and History. In Faith and the Historian: Catholic Perspectives. (pp. 98-116). University of Illinois Press.
  • . . Gli Stati Uniti alla testa dell’economia mondiale (The United States at the Head of the World Economy). In Storia Dell’Economia Mondiale. (pp. 319-337). Editori Laterza.
  • . . American Labor History. In Industrial Relations at the Dawn of the New Millennium. (pp. 114-125).
  • . . Some Thoughts on Class and Citizenship. In A l'ombre de la Statute de la Liberté: Immigrants et Ouviers dans la Republique Americaine, 1880-1920. (pp. 215-230).
  • . . Eugene V. Debs. In Labor Leaders in Industrial America. University of Illinois Press.
  • . . Ralph Fasanella: Worker, Activist, Artist. In Urban Visions: The Paintings of Ralph Fasanella. Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University.

Book Reviews

  • . . "The New New Deal".
  • . . Lift Every Voice, by Burton Peretti.
  • . . Review of 'Faith in the City: Preaching Radical Social Change in Detroit' by Angela D Dillard.
  • . . Review of 'Rising From the Rails: Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class' by Larry Tye.
  • . . Review of 'Whose Detroit? Labor and Race in a Modern American City' by Heather Thompson.
  • . . Review of 'Motown: Music, Money, Sex, and Power' by Gerald Posner.
  • . . Review of 'AlabamaNorth: African-American Migrants, Community, and Working-Class Activism in Cleveland, 1915-45' by Kimberley Phillips.
  • . . Review of 'American Work: Four Centuries of Black and White Labor' by Jacqueline Jones.
  • . . Review of 'Working-Class New York: Life and Labor Since World War II' by Joshua B Freeman.
  • . . Review of 'The Trial of Anthony Burns: Freedom and Slavery in Emerson’s Boston' by Albert J von Frank.
  • . . Review of 'Harp Song For a Radical: The Life of Eugene V. Debs' by Marguarite Young.
  • . . Review of 'Epitaph for American Labor' by Max Green.
  • . . Review of 'Meatpackers: An Oral History of Black Packinghouse Workers and Their Struggle for Racial and Economic Equality' by Rick Halpern and Roger Horowitz.
  • . . Review of 'Big Trouble: A Murder in a Small Town Sets Off a Struggle for the Soul of America' by J Anthony Lucas.
  • . . Review of 'The Black O: Racism and Redemption in an American Corporate Empire' by Steve Watkins.
  • . . You Say You Want a Revolution? (review of 'The Other Side of the Sixties: Young Americans for Freedom and the Rise of Conservative Politics' by John A. Collins).
  • . . Review of 'Direct Action: Radical Pacifism From the Union Eight to the Chicago Seven' by James Tracy.
  • . . Review of 'The CIO, 1935-1955' by Robert H Zieger.
  • . . Review of 'The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit: Walter Reuther and the Fate of American Labor' by Nelson Lichtenstein.
  • . . Review of 'Citizen Worker: The Experience of Workers in the United States with Democracy and the Free Market during the Nineteenth Century' by David Montgomery.
  • . . Review of 'The State and Labor in Modern America' by Melvyn Dubofsky.
  • . . Review of 'What Went Wrong? The Creation and Collapse of the Black-Jewish Alliance' by Murray Friedman.
  • . . Review of 'William Johnson’s Natchez: The Ante-Bellum Diary of a Free Negro' edited by William Ranson Hogan and Edwin Adams Davis.
  • . . Review of 'From Prairie to Prison: The Life of Social Activist Kate Richards O'Hare' by Sally M Miller.
  • . . Review of 'Icons of Democracy: Leaders as Heroes, Aristocrats, Dissenters and Democrats' by Bruce Miroff.
  • . . Review of 'Labor Visions and State Power: The Origins of Business Unionism in the United States' by Victoria Hattam.
  • . . Review of 'Red Hunting in the Promised Land: Anticommunism and the Making of America' by Joel Kovel.
  • . . Review of 'The Rise and Fall of the American Left' by John Patrick Diggins.
  • . . Review of 'For Democracy, Workers, and God: Labor Song-Poems and Labor Protest, 1865-95' by Clark D Halker.
  • . . Review of 'The River Ran Red' edited by David P. Demarest, Jr. and Fannia Weingartner and 'The Battle For Homestead, 1880-1892: Politics, Culture, and Steel' by Paul Krause.
  • . . Review of 'Harold Washington and the Neighborhoods: Progressive City Government in Chicago, 1983-1987' edited by Pierre Clavel and Wim Wiewel.
  • . . Review of 'Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939' by Lizabeth Cohen.
  • . . Review of 'Sacco and Vanzetti: The Anarchist Background' by Paul Avrich.
  • . . Review of 'Perspectives on American Labor History: The Problem of Synthesis' edited by J. Carroll Moody and Alice Kessler-Harris.
  • . . Review of 'Let Them Call Me Rebel: Saul Alinsky - His Life and Legacy' by Sanford D Horwitt.
  • . . Review of '"Big Bill" Haywood' by Melvyn Dubofsky.
  • . . Review of 'Socialism in the Heartland: The Midwestern Experience, 1900-1925' edited by Donald T Critchlow.
  • . . Review of 'St. Clair: A Nineteenth Century Coal Town's Experience With a Disaster-Prone Industry' by Anthony F.C. Wallace.
  • . . Review of 'Essays from the Lowell Conference on Industrial History, 1980-1981' edited by Robert Weible et al..
  • . . Review of 'Paths of Resistance: Tradition and Dignity in Industrializing Missouri' by David Thelen.
  • . . Review of 'Values and Assumptions in American Labor Law' by James B Atleson.
  • . . Review of 'The First Hundred Years of the Bureau of Labor Statistics' by Joseph P. Goldberg and William T. Moye.
  • . . Review of 'The Haymarket Tragedy' by Paul Avrich.
  • . . Review of 'The Haymarket Tragedy' by Paul Avrich.
  • . . Review of 'Emma Goldman: An Intimate Life' by Alice Wexler.
  • . . Review of 'Kate Richards O’Hare: Selected Writings and Speeches' edited by Philip Foner and Sally Miller.
  • . . Review of 'Committee of Vigilance: The San Francisco Chamber of Commerce Law and Order Committee, 1916-1919' by Steven C Levi.
  • . . Review of 'Self-Help in the 1890s Depression' by H Roger Grant.
  • . . Review of 'Frederick W. Taylor and the Rise of Scientific Management' by Daniel Nelson.
  • . . Review of 'Failure of a Dream?' edited by John Laslett and Seymour M. Lipset.

Books

  • . . Faith and The Historian: Catholic Perspectives (editor). University of Illinois Press.
  • . . Singing in a Strange Land: C. L. Franklin, the Black Church, and the Transformation of America. Little, Brown and Company.
  • . . The Pullman Strike and the Crisis of the 1890's: Essays on Labor and Politics (co-editor). University of Illinois Press.
  • . . We All Got History: The Memory Books of Amos Webber. Times Books/Random House.
  • , & . . Seventy Years of Life and Labor (editor). ILR Press.
  • . . Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and Socialist. University of Illinois Press.

Book Sections

  • . . Eugene V. Debs.
  • . . Samuel Gompers.
  • . . "Eugene V. Debs" and "Samuel Gompers".

Conference Proceedings

  • , & . . Notes on the Roundtable: Theories of Labor History and Industrial Relations.

Professional activities

  • "Eugene Debs and American Democracy". Presented to University of North Texas. Denton, TX. 2024.
  • "TR, The Corporations, and American Democracy". Presented to T. Roosevelt Association. Buffalo, NY. 2024.
  • "Eugene Debs, World War I, and American Democracy". Presented to Ecole Normale Superior & Cite' Universite Internationale de Paris. Paris, France. 2024.
  • Faculty Panel Discussion. Presented to In Honor of Inauguration of President Garrett. Baily Hall, Cornell. 2015.
  • The Scholarshop of Prof. Clarence Walker. Presented to Same. Raleigh, NC. 2015.
  • Becoming An Historian. Presented to UC, Davis History Department. Davis, CA. 2015.
  • C. L. Franklin: Preacher, Pastor, Teacher. Presented to Baptist Convention, Detroit Chapter. Dearbprne, MI. 2015.
  • "A Critique". Presented to ILR COLA and Cornell Progressives. Cornell University. 2014.
  • "Money and Politics: An Odd Couple," "The Issues in the Campaing," "Predictions". Presented to Cornell Adult University. Lake Mohonk, NY. 2014.
  • "Religious Lives, Religious Subjects: Biography and American Religious History". Presented to American Historical Association. New orleans, LA. 2013.
  • Gave three lectures. Presented to Cornell Adult University. New Paltz, NY. 2012.
  • "Debs, Dissent, the Corporation, and American Democracy". Presented to Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library. Staunton, VA. 2012.
  • "The Elections of 1912 and 2012: Some Thoughts". Presented to James madison Program/Dept. of Political Science, Princeton University. Princeton, NJ. 2012.
  • "A Brief Ascendency: American Labor After 1945". Presented to U. of Oregon Labor Education & Research center, History, Wayne Morse Center for law and Politics. Eugene, OR. 2012.
  • "Progressives, the Corporation, and American Democracy". Presented to U, of Oregon History, Labor Education & Research Center, Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics. Eugene, Oregon. 2012.
  • "Activism: Mind and Heart". Presented to CU Public Service Center. Cornell. 2012.
  • "Leadership in the Community". Presented to Village at Ithaca. Ithaca, NY. 2012.
  • "Singing in a Strange Land: The Politics and Theology of C. L. Franklin's Preaching". Presented to Center for African American Urban Studies and the Economy. Carnegie Mellon Univ, Pittsburgh. 2011.
  • "The United States in the 21st century: Changing Conditions at Home and Abroad". Presented to Universities of Istanbul and Sarajevo. Sarajevo, Bosnia. 2011.
  • discussion. Presented to ILR. Cornell. 2011.
  • discussion & dinner. Presented to ILR. Cornell. 2011.
  • "Social Justice, Community, and Living Your Life". Cornell. 2011.
  • "Writing Eugene V. Debs". Presented to School of Journalism, NYU. NY, NY. 2011.
  • Religion and American Politics after 1945". Presented to Dept. of History, U. of Victoria/Univ of BC. Parksville, BC. 2011.
  • Biography & History: An Intimate Relationship. Presented to University of Victoria,. BC. 2011.
  • The Long Exception. Presented to Univ. of Victoria History Department. Victoria, BC. 2011.
  • The Long Exception. Presented to ILR. ILR. 2010.
  • The "Righteous Discontent" of 3 Courageous Women. Presented to Same. Lansing, NY. 2010.
  • Biography and History. Presented to Cornell Hughes Leadership Alliance. Cornell University. 2010.
  • American Labor, Politics, and Legacy of New Deal. Presented to Instut Charles V, Paris. Paris, France. 2010.
  • "The Constraints of History: Obama, the New Deal, and American History". Presented to Institute for Workplace Studies, ILR. New York City. 2010.
  • "Black History Month? Post-racial America? A Discussion.". Presented to Becker House. Cornell University. 2010.
  • "The Long Exception: An Interpretation of the New Deal from FDR to Obama". Presented to History department, Pronceton University. Princeton, NJ. 2009.
  • "Night of the Living Dead" & Pop Culture. Presented to Sheldon Court Residence, Cornell. Ithaca, NY. 2009.
  • 4 lectures on history and politics of region. Presented to Cornell Adult University. The Great Lakes. 2009.
  • "The Great Depression and the Current Crisis: Some Initial Thoughts". Presented to Istanbul University. Istanbul, Turkey. 2009.
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