Timothy Messer-Kruse
Biographic Data
| ID | 1450789 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Timothy Messer-Kruse |
| GIVEN NAMES | Timothy |
| FAMILY NAME | Messer-Kruse |
| SIGNATURE | MESSER-KRUSE T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bowling Green State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Rising Generation
The Carried-Off and the Constitution
Accounts of the factors that led to the drafting of the U.S. Constitutional Convention have focused on Congress' failures to levy taxes, regulate commerce, and provide security against internal unrest and foreign encroachments. Left out from history are the attempts of the founders to force Britain to return thousands of escapees from slavery they sheltered. Patriot state leaders tried to coerce the return of all fugitives from slavery evacuated …
The “Carried Off” Cover-Up
In the years between the end of the Revolutionary War and the beginning of the nineteenth century American statesmen attempted to pressure the British to return the thousands of people who had fled American slavery. These efforts, which included risking renewing the war itself, have been systematically suppressed by historians of this era. This essay traces the historiography of this subject and shows several ways that the true importance of patr…
Radical Gotham
Most of the protesters who occupied Lower Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park in 2011 were unaware that just a few blocks away stood the building that once housed Johann Schwab’s saloon, arguably the historical epicenter of anarchism in America. Though the Occupy movement expressed a number of anarchist principles—a studied avoidance of leadership, a movement economy based on free sharing of resources, a radical critique of capitalism and the economic excl…
Immigrants against the State
Kenyon Zimmer's Immigrants against the State is primarily a study of three of the most important anarchist communities in America—New York City, Paterson, New Jersey, and San Francisco, California—and spans the rise and fall of anarchism from the 1880s to 1940. For most of the twentieth century, historians of anarchism focused on the unfolding of ideas and schools of thought or the succession of organizations and factions that embodied them. The …
The Haymarket Conspiracy
This book traces the evolution of revolutionary anarchist ideas in Europe and their migration to the United States in the 1880s. A new history of the transatlantic origins of American anarchism, this study thoroughly debunks the dominant narrative through which most historians interpret the Haymarket Bombing and Trial of 1886–87. Challenging the view that there was no evidence connecting the eight convicted workers to the bomb throwing at the Hay…
Response to Richard Schneirov
The Trial of the Haymarket Anarchists
The Trial of the Haymarket Anarchists is the culmination of seven years of research into the 1886 Haymarket bombing and subsequent trial. It not only overturns the prevailing consensus on this event
Strike or anarchist plot? The McCormick riot of 1886 reconsidered
The reigning historical consensus is that the McCormick Riot of 3 May 1886 was a spontaneous conflict between strikers and scabs that provoked a brutal police attack. This re-examination of the evidence shows the complicated nature of work relations in the plant, the different interests and loyalties of various groups of McCormick employees, and the early involvement of Chicago's anarchists in exploiting McCormick's union tensions for their own p…
Technology and the Decline of Child Labor
This article examines the relationship between the adoption of new technology and the decline of child labor in the Progressive Era by closely examining the impact automated bottle machines had on child labor in the U.S. glass industry. Historians have largely assumed that technology has acted as an independent force compelling the replacement of children by machines. However, this study shows that technology had contradictory impacts upon the em…
Response to Bryan D. Palmer
Research Article| March 01 2006 Response to Bryan D. Palmer Timothy Messer-Kruse Timothy Messer-Kruse Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2006) 3 (1): 37–40. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-3-1-37 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Timothy Messer…
The Haymarket Bomb
Research Article| May 01 2005 The Haymarket Bomb: Reassessing the Evidence Timothy Messer-Kruse; Timothy Messer-Kruse Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google James O. Eckert, Jr.; James O. Eckert, Jr. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Pannee Burckel; Pannee Burckel Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Jeffrey Dunn Jeffrey Dunn Search for other works by this author on: This Site Goo…
Eight Hours, Greenbacks and “Chinamen”
(2001). Eight Hours, Greenbacks and “Chinamen”: Wendell Phillips, Ira Steward, and the Fate of Labor Reform in Massachusetts. Labor History: Vol. 42, No. 2, pp. 133-158
The Yankee International
The Yankee International
Examining the social and intellectual collision of the American reform tradition with immigrant Marxism during the Reconstruction era, this text charts the rise and fall of the International Workingman's Association (IWA). The IWA's attraction to American reformers (including those involved in women's rights), the effect they had on the American Left, and the reasons behind their ultimate purging from the IWA by more orthodox Marxists are all exa…
The Yankee International
Journal Article The Yankee International: Marxism and the American Reform Tradition, 1848–1876. By Timothy Messer-Kruse. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. xvi, 319 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-8078-2403-8. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8078-4705-4.) Get access John H. M. Laslett John H. M. Laslett University of California Los Angeles, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of America…
The Yankee International
The Best Dressed Workers in New York City
The Yankee International
Immigrants against the State
Kenyon Zimmer's Immigrants against the State is primarily a study of three of the most important anarchist communities in America—New York City, Paterson, New Jersey, and San Francisco, California—and spans the rise and fall of anarchism from the 1880s to 1940. For most of the twentieth century, historians of anarchism focused on the unfolding of ideas and schools of thought or the succession of organizations and factions that embodied them. The …
The Haymarket Bomb
Research Article| May 01 2005 The Haymarket Bomb: Reassessing the Evidence Timothy Messer-Kruse; Timothy Messer-Kruse Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google James O. Eckert, Jr.; James O. Eckert, Jr. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Pannee Burckel; Pannee Burckel Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Jeffrey Dunn Jeffrey Dunn Search for other works by this author on: This Site Goo…
The Yankee International
Journal Article The Yankee International: Marxism and the American Reform Tradition, 1848–1876. By Timothy Messer-Kruse. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. xvi, 319 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-8078-2403-8. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8078-4705-4.) Get access John H. M. Laslett John H. M. Laslett University of California Los Angeles, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of America…
The Best Dressed Workers in New York City
The Yankee International
The Yankee International
Examining the social and intellectual collision of the American reform tradition with immigrant Marxism during the Reconstruction era, this text charts the rise and fall of the International Workingman's Association (IWA). The IWA's attraction to American reformers (including those involved in women's rights), the effect they had on the American Left, and the reasons behind their ultimate purging from the IWA by more orthodox Marxists are all exa…
The Yankee International
Journal Article The Yankee International: Marxism and the American Reform Tradition, 1848–1876. By Timothy Messer-Kruse. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. xvi, 319 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-8078-2403-8. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8078-4705-4.) Get access John H. M. Laslett John H. M. Laslett University of California Los Angeles, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of America…
The Yankee International
Eight Hours, Greenbacks and “Chinamen”
(2001). Eight Hours, Greenbacks and “Chinamen”: Wendell Phillips, Ira Steward, and the Fate of Labor Reform in Massachusetts. Labor History: Vol. 42, No. 2, pp. 133-158
The Haymarket Bomb
Research Article| May 01 2005 The Haymarket Bomb: Reassessing the Evidence Timothy Messer-Kruse; Timothy Messer-Kruse Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google James O. Eckert, Jr.; James O. Eckert, Jr. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Pannee Burckel; Pannee Burckel Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Jeffrey Dunn Jeffrey Dunn Search for other works by this author on: This Site Goo…
Response to Bryan D. Palmer
Research Article| March 01 2006 Response to Bryan D. Palmer Timothy Messer-Kruse Timothy Messer-Kruse Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2006) 3 (1): 37–40. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-3-1-37 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Timothy Messer…
Technology and the Decline of Child Labor
This article examines the relationship between the adoption of new technology and the decline of child labor in the Progressive Era by closely examining the impact automated bottle machines had on child labor in the U.S. glass industry. Historians have largely assumed that technology has acted as an independent force compelling the replacement of children by machines. However, this study shows that technology had contradictory impacts upon the em…
The Trial of the Haymarket Anarchists
The Trial of the Haymarket Anarchists is the culmination of seven years of research into the 1886 Haymarket bombing and subsequent trial. It not only overturns the prevailing consensus on this event
Strike or anarchist plot? The McCormick riot of 1886 reconsidered
The reigning historical consensus is that the McCormick Riot of 3 May 1886 was a spontaneous conflict between strikers and scabs that provoked a brutal police attack. This re-examination of the evidence shows the complicated nature of work relations in the plant, the different interests and loyalties of various groups of McCormick employees, and the early involvement of Chicago's anarchists in exploiting McCormick's union tensions for their own p…
The Haymarket Conspiracy
This book traces the evolution of revolutionary anarchist ideas in Europe and their migration to the United States in the 1880s. A new history of the transatlantic origins of American anarchism, this study thoroughly debunks the dominant narrative through which most historians interpret the Haymarket Bombing and Trial of 1886–87. Challenging the view that there was no evidence connecting the eight convicted workers to the bomb throwing at the Hay…
Response to Richard Schneirov
Immigrants against the State
Kenyon Zimmer's Immigrants against the State is primarily a study of three of the most important anarchist communities in America—New York City, Paterson, New Jersey, and San Francisco, California—and spans the rise and fall of anarchism from the 1880s to 1940. For most of the twentieth century, historians of anarchism focused on the unfolding of ideas and schools of thought or the succession of organizations and factions that embodied them. The …
Radical Gotham
Most of the protesters who occupied Lower Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park in 2011 were unaware that just a few blocks away stood the building that once housed Johann Schwab’s saloon, arguably the historical epicenter of anarchism in America. Though the Occupy movement expressed a number of anarchist principles—a studied avoidance of leadership, a movement economy based on free sharing of resources, a radical critique of capitalism and the economic excl…
The “Carried Off” Cover-Up
In the years between the end of the Revolutionary War and the beginning of the nineteenth century American statesmen attempted to pressure the British to return the thousands of people who had fled American slavery. These efforts, which included risking renewing the war itself, have been systematically suppressed by historians of this era. This essay traces the historiography of this subject and shows several ways that the true importance of patr…
The Carried-Off and the Constitution
Accounts of the factors that led to the drafting of the U.S. Constitutional Convention have focused on Congress' failures to levy taxes, regulate commerce, and provide security against internal unrest and foreign encroachments. Left out from history are the attempts of the founders to force Britain to return thousands of escapees from slavery they sheltered. Patriot state leaders tried to coerce the return of all fugitives from slavery evacuated …
The Rising Generation
Political science (12 works) · History (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Economic history (7 works) · History (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Anarchism and Radical Politics (6 works) · Race, History, and American Society (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society (4 works)