Christopher Phelps (born 1965) is an American political and intellectual historian of the twentieth century. The subjects of his research and writing include philosophical pragmatism,

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and

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in social thought, the

American Left The American Left consists of individuals and groups that have sought egalitarian changes in the economic, political and cultural institutions of the United States. Various subgroups with a national scope are active. Liberals and progressives ...

, and race and

sexuality Human sexuality is the way people experience and express themselves sexually. This involves biological, psychological, physical, erotic, emotional, social, or spiritual feelings and behaviors. Because it is a broad term, which has varied wit ...

American history The history of the lands that became the United States began with the arrival of the first people in the Americas around 15,000 BC. Numerous indigenous cultures formed, and many saw transformations in the 16th century away from more densel ...

. He teaches in the department of

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and Canadian Studies at the

University of Nottingham , mottoeng = A city is built on wisdom , established = 1798 – teacher training college1881 – University College Nottingham1948 – university status , type = Public , chancellor ...

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Books

Sole author

* ''Young Sidney Hook: Marxist and Pragmatist,'' Cornell University Press, 1997; 2d ed., University of Michigan Press, 2005.

Co-authored

* ''Radicals in America: The US Left Since the Second World War,'' Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Edited or introduced

* ''Marxism and America: New Appraisals'', University of Manchester, 2021. * ''

The Jungle ''The Jungle'' is a 1906 novel by the American journalist and novelist Upton Sinclair. Sinclair's primary purpose in describing the meat industry and its working conditions was to advance socialism in the United States. However, most readers we ...

'', by

Upton Sinclair Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. (September 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968) was an American writer, muckraker, political activist and the 1934 Democratic Party nominee for governor of California who wrote nearly 100 books and other works in sever ...

, Bedford/St. Martin's, 2005. * ''Race and Revolution'', by

Max Shachtman Max Shachtman (; September 10, 1904 – November 4, 1972) was an American Marxist theorist. He went from being an associate of Leon Trotsky to a social democrat and mentor of senior assistants to AFL–CIO President George Meany. Beginnings ...

, Verso, 2003. *
Towards the Understanding of Karl Marx
', by

Sidney Hook Sidney Hook (December 20, 1902 – July 12, 1989) was an American philosopher of pragmatism known for his contributions to the philosophy of history, the philosophy of education, political theory, and ethics. After embracing communism in his you ...

, Prometheus, 2002. * ''From Hegel to Marx'', by

, Columbia University Press, 1994.

Selected articles

"The Novel of American Authoritarianism," ''Science & Society'', 2020

"Heywood Broun, Benjamin Stolberg, and the Politics of American Labor Journalism in the 1920s and 1930s," ''Labor: Studies in Working-Class History'', 2018

"The Sexuality of Malcolm X," ''Journal of American Studies'', 2017

"The Closet in the Party: The Young Socialist Alliance, the Socialist Workers Party, and Homosexuality, 1962 – 1970," ''Labor: Studies in Working-Class History'', 2013

"Dream Sequences: Marching on Washington Fifty Years On," ''Dissent'' Online, 2013

"Herbert Hill and the Federal Bureau of Investigation," ''Labor History'', 2012

"Port Huron at Fifty: The New Left and Labor: An Interview with Kim Moody," ''Labor: Studies in Working-Class History'', 2012

"The Strike Imagined: The Atlantic and Interpretive Voyages of Robert Koehler's Painting ''The Strike''," ''Journal of American History'', 2011

"The New SDS," ''The Nation,'' 2007

"Solidarność in Łódź: An Interview with Zbigniew Marcin Kowalewski," ''International Labor and Working-Class History'', 2008

"A Neglected Document on Socialism and Sex," ''Journal of the History of Sexuality,'' 2007

* ttp://www.monthlyreview.org/599phelp.htm "A Socialist Magazine in the American Century," ''Monthly Review'', 1999
"Bourne Yet Again"
on the legacy of

Randolph Bourne Randolph Silliman Bourne (; May 30, 1886 – December 22, 1918) was a progressive writer and intellectual born in Bloomfield, New Jersey, and a graduate of Columbia University. He is considered to be a spokesman for the young radicals living du ...

, '' New Politics,'' 1998
"History as Social Criticism: Conversations with Christopher Lasch," ''Journal of American History'', 1994

References

External links

Christopher Phelps data at School of American and Canadian Studies, University of Nottingham

Interview by Tim Barker in ''Dissent'', 2016

Interview by Scott McLemee of ''InsideHigherEd.com'', 2005
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