Department of History, University of Florida, POB 117320, Gainesville, FL 32611 (207 Keene-Flint Hall)

Phone: 352-392-0271; fax: 352-392-6927; e-mail: zieger@ufl.edu

Degrees:

BA, Montclair (N.J.) State College, 1960; MA, University of Wyoming, 1961; PHD, University of Maryland, 1965

Appointments:

Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus

Distinguished Professor of History, University of Florida, 1998-2008

Professor of History, University of Florida, 1986-98

Professor of History, Wayne State University, 1977-86

Associate Professor of History, Kansas State University, 1973-77

Assistant to Associate Professor of History, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, 1964-73

Teaching:

Courses taught, 1992-: AMH 2010, AMH 2020 (US surveys); AMH 3500 (Labor History); AMH 4231 (US, 1914-45); AMH 3930 (colloquium; recent topics: Labor in Florida; Age of Ike and Jack; US in the Great War; Era of the Great Migration, 1900-25;); AMH 6290 (Seminar in Modern America); AMH 5930 (Seminar in US Labor History); AMH 6356 (Research Seminar in Modern US History); EUR 3531 (Modern Britain--at FSU London Centre); IDH 2931 (Interdepartmental Honors; topics: World of George Orwell; Britain, America, and the Great War); Race and Labor in Modern America (Utrecht, 2002; UF 2003); Era of World War I (Utrecht, 2002).  Current courses (2004-05):  AMH 4231 (US 1914-45); HIS 3931 (Communism, Culture, and the Cold War, 1917-1963); AMH 3500 (History of American Labor); Honors course on Communism in the US; Graduate Seminar in the Era of the World Wars; HIS 3942, History Practicum (2007, 2008).
 

Publications:

America's Great War:  World War I and the American Experience (Rowman and Littlefield, 2000; paperback, 2001).  Choice designation as 
"Outstanding Academic Publication"

Southern Labor in Transition (University of Tennessee Press, 1997). Edited by Robert H. Zieger. 360 pp.

The CIO, 1935-1955 (University of North Carolina Press, 1995); winner, 1996, Philip A. Taft Award for best book in labor history, 1995.

Organized Labor in the Twentieth-Century South (Knoxville: Univ. of Tennessee Press, 1991). Edited by Robert H. Zieger.

John L. Lewis: Labor Leader (Boston: Twayne, 1988)

Rebuilding the Pulp and Paper Workers' Union, 1933-1941 (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1984); co-winner, 1985, of Philip A. Taft Award for best book in labor history, 1984

Madison's Battery Workers, 1934-1952: A History of Federal Labor Union 19587 (Ithaca: New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, 1977)

Republicans and Labor, 1919-1929 (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1969)

“The Development of Federal Old-Age Policy in the Era of the Great Depression: Pensions, Policies, and Politics, 1920-1940,” Journal of Aging, Humanities and the Arts 2  (2008): 251-265

"Recent Historical Scholarship on Public Policy in Relation to Race and Labor in the Post-Title-VII Period," Labor History 46:1 (Feb. 2005):  3-14

"The Evolving Cold War:  The Changing Character of the Enemy Within, 1949-1963," American Communist History, 3: 1 (2004):  3-23

"'Uncle Sam Wants You. . . To Go Shopping':  A Consumer Society Responds to National Crisis, 1957-2001," Canadian Review of American Studies, 34: 1 (2004):  83-103

"The Paradox of Plenty:  The Advertising Council and the Post-SputnikCrisis," Advertising and Society Review 4: 1 (2003)

“‘A Venture into Unplowed Fields’:  Daniel Powell and CIO Political Action in the Post-War South," in Labor in the Modern South, ed. Glenn T. Eskew (Athens:  University of Georgia Press, 2001)

"The Quest for National Goals, 1957-1981," The Carter Presidency, ed. Gary M. Fink and Hugh Davis Graham (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998), 29-50

"Historians and the US Industrial Relations Regime," Journal of Policy History 9: 4 (1997): 475-89

"Introduction: Is Southern Labor History Exceptional?," Southern Labor in Transition, 1940-1995, ed. Robert H. Zieger (University of Tennessee Press, 1997), 1-14

"From Primordial Folk to Redundant Workers: Southern Textile Workers and Social Observers, 1920-1990," ibid., 273-94

"John L. Lewis and the Labor Movement, 1940-1960," The United Mine Workers of America: A Model of Industrial Solidarity?, ed. John H. M. Laslett (Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996)

"CIO Leaders and the State, 1935-55," American Labor in the Era of World War II, edited by Sally Miller and Daniel A. Cornford (Greewood Press 1995)

"Textile Workers and Historians," Organized Labor in the Twentieth-Century South, ed. Robert H. Zieger (University of Tennessee Press, 1991), 35-59

"The CIO: A Bibliographical Update and Archival Guide," Labor History (Fall 1990)

"Leadership and Bureaucracy in the Late CIO," Labor History (Summer 1990)

"Labor and the State in Modern America: The Archival Trail," Journal of American History (June 1988)

"George Meany: Labor's Organization Man," in American Labor Leaders, ed. Melvyn Dubofsky and Warren Van Tine (1987)

"Toward the History of the CIO," Labor History (Fall 1985)

"The Union Comes to Covington: Virginia Paperworkers Organize, 1934-1952," Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society (1982)

"Herbert Hoover, the Wage-Earner, and the 'New Economic System,' 1919-1929," Business History Review (Summer 1977).

"The Limits of Militancy: Organizing Paper Workers, 1933-1935," Journal of American History (December 1976)

"Workers and Scholars: Recent Trends in American Labor Historiography," Labor History (Spring 1972)

"Senator George Wharton Pepper and Labor Issues in the 1920s," Labor History (Spring 1968)

"Pinchot and Coolidge: The Politics of the 1923 Anthracite Crisis," Journal of American History (December 1965)
 
 

"Confronting the 'Tough Stuff' in American History," Reviews in American History 31: 3 (September 2003):

"Race and Labor in the Twentieth Century," Reviews in American History 29: 4 (December 2001):  567-72

"Organized Labor:  What Next?," Labor History 41: 4 (November 2000):  517-20

"Books That Didn't Influence Me," Labor History 40: 2 (1999):  177-88

Coordinator symposium on Staughton Lynd, ed., "We Are All Leaders": The Alternative Unionism of the Early 1930s; contributor of essay, "The Old New Labor History," Labor History (Fall 1997)

"Who Elected Tugwell" (review of David Plotke, Building a Democratic Political Order: Reshaping American Liberalism in the 1930s and 1940s), Reviews in American History, March, 1997

"Labor Liberalism Lost: A Commentary on Nelson Lichtenstein, The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit: Walter Reuther and the Fate of American Labor, Labor History (Summer 1996)

"The NLRB at Sixty" (review of James Gross, Broken Promise: The Subversion of U.S. Labor Relations Policy, 1947-1994), Reviews in American History, September 1996

"How Organized Labor Created Modern Liberalism" (review of Karen Orren, Belated Feudalism: Labor, the Law, and Liberal Development in the United States), Reviews in American History (March 1993)

"The Many Mansions of David Montgomery" (symposium review of David Montgomery, The Fall of the House of Labor), Labor History, Fall, 1989

"Protest and Accommodation among Rubber Workers in the Twentieth Century" (review of Daniel Nelson, American Rubber Workers and Organized Labor), Reviews in American History, June, 1989

"Building Capitalism" (review of Judith McGaw, Most Wonderful Machine), Reviews in Amrican History, March, 1988

"The Popular Front Rides Again," Political Power and Social Theory, 1983

"Women's Work" (review of Alice Kessler-Harris, Out to Work), Reviews in American History, June, 1983

"Nobody Here but Us Trade Unionists" (review of Harvey Levenstein, Communism, Anticommunism, and the CIO), Reviews in American History, June, 1982

"Hollywood Enters the Union Hall: A Review-Essay on Blue Collar, F.I.S.T., and Norma Rae" (with Gay A. Zieger), Labor History, Spring, 1982

"The Labor Novel Strikes Again: Two Books of the Seventies,"Journal of American Culture, 1981

"James Green's World" (review of James Green, The World of the Worker in the Twentieth-Century), Reviews in American History, December, 1981

"An Exchange: Labor and Communism," Industrial Relations, Spring, 1980

"Memory Speaks: Observations on Personal History and Working-Class Culture," Maryland Historian, Fall, 1977

"Herbert Hoover: A Reinterpretation," American Historical Review, October, 1976

"Journalists and Scholars: Establishing Labor History," Reviews in American History, March, 1974

NEH Summer Stipends, 1972, 1982; ACLS research grant, 1982-83; American Philosophical Society grants, 1974, 1980; Wayne State University research grant, 1983; DSR grants, UF, 1987-88, 1993-94; NEH Travel-to-Collections grant, 1989-90; Summer Seminar for College Teachers (director), 1981; Philip A. Taft Award for best book in labor history, 1984 (awarded 1985; co-winner); Norman Wilinsky Graduate Teaching Award, University of Florida, 1987, 2005; Philip A. Taft Award for best book in labor history, 1995 (awarded 1996); FEH grants to support Departmental African-American historians' lecture series, 1989 and 1990; Rockefeller Foundation travel grant, summer, 1994; University of Florida Teaching Recognition Award (TIP), 1994; University of Florida Professional Excellence Award (PEP), 1996; FHC mini-grant for programs connected with the A. Philip Randolph Traveling Exhibit, 1998; North Central Florida Central Labor Council Special Recognition Award, 1998; Department of History John Mahon Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching, 1998 (awarded 1999); Anderson Scholar student designee, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2003; SSP award, 2002; North Central Florida Central Labor Council Joe Broxton Memorial Award, 2001

Ph. D.'s: Gilbert Gall, Pennsylvania State Employees Association; Steve Babson, now at Wayne State; Anders Lewis, teaching in Amherst, NH.  Current students:  Steve Gallagher (Ph.D., May, 2008); Alan Bliss

M.A.'s: 14 at Florida

University of Utrecht, Spring, 2002, visiting faculty (UF exchange)
Cambridge University, Summer, 1998, UF Cambridge Program faculty advisor
London, Spring, 1995, teaching in Florida State University London Program
Cambridge University, Summer, 1989, UF Cambridge Program faculty advisor

Editorial Board, American Communist History, 2003-;  advisory board, Samuel Proctor Oral History Program, University of Florida