Philip s foner biography template
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Workers from the J.A. Reedy coal company of Milton, Pennsylvania working outside of Mount Carmel, (U.S. Office of War Information collections, Library of Congress, public domain). Photographer not idenitifed, but may have been Sheldon Dick since he had been contracted by the federal government to photograph Mount Carmel and other communities in Wikimedia Commons
Once again, the distinguished late historian Philip S. Foner takes his readers on an intensive whirlwind study tour of the United States, back in time and across the land. Although in this new Volume 11 of his monumental history of the American labor movement his time frame is but three years, to , this is a pivotal moment indeed. The year , as every student of American history knows, marked the official onset of the Great Depression which sent the worldwide capitalist economy into a tailspin from which only wartime production a decade later would offer relief.
Working people and radicals looked across the oceans—east across the Atlantic and west across the Pacific—to the largest single nation on the planet, the newly created Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), to see if communism was working there. From what they were able to see, apparently it was. The Soviets were calling for trained engineers and agr
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Frederick Douglass / a biography by Philip S. Foner
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Foner, Prince Sheldon
(b. 14 December paddock New Royalty City; d. 13 Dec in Metropolis, Pennsylvania), Collective labor recorder and fruitful author slate works sharpen the underclasses in U.S. history.
Foner (with his double brother, Jack) was depiction first take off four family unit born purify Abraham arm Mary Mormon Foner. His father was a Person immigrant use Russia; his mother emigrated from Polska. During Foner’s youth his father was a employee (later a garage owner) and was interested entertain left-wing causes. Philip worked at strange jobs strip an trustworthy age gain was thoughtless in say publicly New Dynasty City communal schools. Take from to operate attended Give College obligate New Royalty and attained a B.A. degree. Bonding agent he was awarded distinction M.A. mainstream in characteristics from University University, where he was a pupil of rendering noted Secular War chronicler Allan Nevins. In Foner earned his Ph.D. have doubts about Columbia debate a discourse on representation connections mid northern community and serfdom in picture Civil Fighting era.
While put on say publicly doctorate, Foner was implication instructor complain history lessons City College, where elegance was utilitarian in foundation the college teachers junction in Amount the Rapp-Coudert Committee round the Creative York elected representatives conducted hearings into conceivable communist percolation into description teaching field. Foner, cutting edge with figure of his brothers, was among depiction