Doing History from the Bottom Up: On E.P. Thompson, Howard Zinn, and Rebuilding the Labor Movement from Below

Staughton Lynd challenges academics to see American history through eyes of the poor and working class participants in history.

Author: Staughton Lynd
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Published: 12/09/2014
Pages: 200
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.70h x 5.50w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9781608463886
ISBN10: 1608463885
BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | Political Ideologies | Radicalism
- Political Science | Labor & Industrial Relations
- Political Science | Essays

About the Author
Staughton Lynd received a BA from Harvard, an MA and PhD from Columbia, and a JD from the University of Chicago. He taught American history at Spelman College in Atlanta, where one of his students was the future Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Alice Walker, and at Yale University. Staughton served as director of Freedom Schools in the Mississippi Summer Project of 1964, and has written or edited numerous books.