Gary J Kornblith

Biographic Data

ID1080351
NAMEGary J Kornblith
GIVEN NAMESGary J
FAMILY NAMEKornblith
SIGNATUREKORNBLITH G J
AFFILIATIONSOberlin College
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS21
TOTAL CITATIONS17
AUTHOR COUNT21
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1982
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
H-INDEX3

  • Mark A. Lause. Free Labor: The Civil War and the Making of an American Working Class

    Gary J KornblithARTICLEThe American Historical Review2017

    In his magisterial The Making of the English Working Class (1963), E. P. Thompson argued that the term “class,” properly understood, represented not a static social category but a historically situated process of identity formation. In Free Labor: The Civil War and the Making of an American Working Class, Mark A. Lause joins the many American labor historians who have applied a Thompsonian framework to the experience of working people in the nine…

  • Freaks of Fortune: The Emerging World of Capitalism and Risk in America , by Jonathan Levy

    Open AccessGary J KornblithARTICLEJournal of History2013

    Freaks of Fortune: Emerging World of Capitalism and Risk in America, by Jonathan Levy. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2012. 432 pp. $35.00 US (cloth). In this fascinating and brilliant book about capitalist development in the United States across the long nineteenth century, Jonathan Levy focuses on the history of risk and risk management. For nineteenth-century Americans, he contends, risk a new phenomenon associated with th…

  • We Have the War upon Us: The Onset of the Civil War, November 1860-April 1861

    Gary J KornblithARTICLEJournal of American History2013

    In a clever pedagogical ploy, I once asked students in my survey course to raise their hands at the point in my lectures when they thought the outbreak of military conflict between North and South had become inevitable. A few hands went up when I talked about the Mexican-American War (1846–1848) and the Wilmot Proviso; many more appeared when I spoke about the furor over the Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) and, later, John Brown's 1859 raid on Harpers…

  • More than Great White Men: A Century of Scholarship on American Social History

    Gary J Kornblith, Carol LasserARTICLEOAH Magazine of History2007

  • Beyond Best Practices: Taking Seriously the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

    Gary J Kornblith, Carol LasserARTICLEJournal of American History2006

    How do we teach American history? And what do our students learn? In this year's "Textbooks and Teaching" section, we present reports from the field, exploring what happens when historians self-consciously study their classroom practices. Inspired by Ernest L

  • "Will That Be on the Exam?" The Role of Testing in Teaching and Learning American History

    Gary J Kornblith, Carol Contributing et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History2004

    Will that be on the exam?" The question is annoying, but it reflects an inescapable dimension of American education. Success or failure on tests affects the academic careers and life choices of students and, increasingly, the funding and operation of schools at the elementary, secondary, and collegiate levels. Federal and state laws mandate proficiency tests to measure whether taxpayers are getting their money's worth in the campaign to raise edu…

  • Rethinking the Coming of the Civil War: A Counterfactual Exercise

    Gary J KornblithARTICLEJournal of American History2003Cited by: 4References: 3

    Journal Article Rethinking the Coming of the Civil War: A Counterfactual Exercise Get access Gary J. Kornblith Gary J. Kornblith professor of history at Oberlin College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 90, Issue 1, June 2003, Pages 76–105, https://doi.org/10.2307/3659792 Published: 01 June 2003

  • Teaching outside the Box

    Gary J Kornblith, Carol LasserARTICLEJournal of American History2002

  • Whose Revolution Was It, Anyway

    Gary J Kornblith, Ray Raphael et al.ARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly2002

  • Venturing into the Civil War, Virtually: A Review

    Gary J KornblithARTICLEJournal of American History2001

    Journal Article Venturing into the Civil War, Virtually: A Review Get access Gary J. Kornblith Gary J. Kornblith professor of history at Oberlin College and chief architect of the Electronic Oberlin Group's Web site, Oberlin through History Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 1, June 2001, Pages 145–151, https://doi.org/10.2307/2674922 Published: 01 June 2001

  • Teaching the American History Survey at the Opening of the Twenty-First Century: A Round Table Discussion

    Gary J Kornblith, Gary Kornblith et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History2001Cited by: 1

    Journal Article Teaching the American History Survey at the Opening of the Twenty-First Century: A Round Table Discussion Get access Gary Kornblith, Gary Kornblith professors of history Oberlin College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Carol Lasser Carol Lasser professors of history Oberlin College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87…

  • Divergent Paths: How Culture and Institutions Have Shaped North American Growth

    Gary J Kornblith, Marc EgnalARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly1999

  • Dynamic Syllabi for Dummies: Posting Class Assignments on the World Wide Web

    Gary J KornblithARTICLEJournal of American History1998

    As my friends at the Irvin E. Houck Computing Center at Oberlin College, where I teach, can attest, I am not a geek. I never fiddled with the autoexec.bat file on my old DOS computer, I do not know any hard-core programming languages, and I still have trouble remembering which combination of keys to hit when an application freezes. Without question, my three children (ages nine to thirteen) are more comfortable with computers than I am or ever wi…

  • Americans: A Collision of Histories

    Gary J Kornblith, Edward CountrymanARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly1997

  • The Midwest and the Nation: Rethinking the History of an American Region

    Gary J Kornblith, Andrew Cayton et al.ARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly1991

    Scholars have hardly become infected with Middle West Fever, but their interest in this great "fly-over" land between the Appalachians and the Rockies does appear to be growing

  • The Artisanal Response to Capitalist Transformation

    Gary J KornblithARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic1990

  • The Making of an American Pluralism: Buffalo, New York, 1825-60

    Gary J Kornblith, David A GerberARTICLEJournal of American History1990

    Journal Article The Making of an American Pluralism: Buffalo, New York, 1823–60. By David A. Gerber. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989. xviii + 531 pp. $34.95.) Get access Gary J. Kornblith Gary J. Kornblith Oberlin College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 2, September 1990, Pages 664–665, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079239 Published: 01 September 1990

  • Men, Women, and Work: Class, Gender, and Protest in the New England Shoe Industry, 1780-1910

    Gary J Kornblith, Mary H BlewettARTICLEThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…1989

  • Cementing the Mechanic Interest: Origins of the Providence Association of Mechanics and Manufacturers

    Gary J KornblithARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic1988

    Mr. Kornblith is a member of the Department of History, Oberlin College, in Oberlin, Ohio. The author gratefully acknowledges the assistance of Carol Lasser, James M. Banner, Jr., Charlotte Briggs, Michael Dieckmann, Heather Hogan, Karen Merrill, John M. Murrin, Eric Phillips, Steven J. Ross, Lynne Withey, Alfred F. Young, and the staffs of the American Antiquarian Society, Oberlin College Library, Rhode Island Historical Society Library, and Rho…

  • The Craftsman as Industrialist: Jonas Chickering and the Transformation of American Piano Making

    Open AccessGary J KornblithARTICLEThe Business History Review1985Cited by: 3References: 8

    Master craftsmen played a critical role in launching the Industrial Revolution in America. In this case study of artisan entrepreneurship, Professor Kornblith analyzes the career of Jonas Chickering (1798–1853), the foremost American piano manufacturer before the emergence of the Steinways. By revolutionizing the way in which pianos were made, Chickering—with the help of others—turned a modest craft operation into a major industrial enterprise. Y…

  • Mechanics and Manufacturers in the Early Industrial Revolution: Lynn, Massachusetts, 1780-1860

    Gary J Kornblith, Paul G FalerARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic1982Cited by: 9