James R Grossman

Biographic Data

ID3736451
NAMEJames R Grossman
GIVEN NAMESJames R
FAMILY NAMEGrossman
SIGNATUREGROSSMAN J R
AFFILIATIONSNewberry Library
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS27
TOTAL CITATIONS18
AUTHOR COUNT26
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1950
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX2

  • A Letter from the American Historical Association to California’s Placentia–Yorba Linda Unified School District

    James R GrossmanARTICLECalifornia History2023

    In January 2022, the American Historical Association (AHA) sent a letter to the leadership of the Placentia–Yorba Linda Unified School District (California) opposing a proposed Resolution No. 21–12, “Resolution Opposing the Teaching of Critical Race Theory” (see the proposed resolution at https://4.files.edl.io/e3c9/11/22/21/155531-39d91aa4-c235-4949-a1f4-153f76aa17e8.pdf). We were alerted to this agenda item by a resident concerned about censors…

  • Assessment Is What We Make of It

    James Grossman, James R Grossman et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History2016Cited by: 1

    As a trigger word among college history faculty members, assessment is remarkably potent.Skepticism arises not illogically and from many sources: concerns about broader centralizing agendas lying beneath the surface; disturbing trends in K-12 education that have tied testing regimes to excessive standardization and teacher bashing; and assumptions that assessment implies inappropriate application of quantified metrics to historical thinking.Moreo…

  • Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940

    James Grossman, James R Grossman et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History2001

    Journal Article Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890–1940. By Grace Elizabeth Hale. (New York: Pantheon, 1998. xii, 427 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-679-44263-4.) Get access James Grossman James Grossman Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 4, March 2001, Pages 1445–1447, https://doi.org/10.2307/2674738 Published:…

  • On Turner's Trail: One Hundred Years of Writing Western History

    Thomas Mcconn, Wilbur R Jacobs et al.ARTICLEEthnohistory1996

  • The Frontier in American Culture

    Walter Nugent, Richard White et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1995Cited by: 3

    Journal Article “Frontier in American Culture.” Newberry Library, 60 W. Walton St., Chicao, IL 60610-3380 Get access Walter Nugent Walter Nugent University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 3, December 1995, Pages 1145–1148, https://doi.org/10.2307/2945121 Published: 01 December 1995

  • The Frontier in American Culture: An Exhibition at the Newberry Library, August 26, 1994 - January 7, 1995

    Anne F Hyde, Richard White et al.ARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly1995

    Journal Article The Frontier in American Culture: An Exhibition at the Newberry Library, August 26, 1994 – January 7, 1995 Get access The Frontier in American Culture: An Exhibition at the Newberry Library, August 26, 1994 - January 7, 1995. Essays by Richard White and Patricia Nelson Limerick. Edited by Grossman James R.. (Chicago: Newberry Library/Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994. xiii + 116 pp. Illustrations, notes. $30.00, cloth…

  • The Frontier in American Culture

    Richard White, Rob White et al.BOOKFrontier in American Culture1994

    Log cabins and wagon trains, cowboys and Indians, Buffalo Bill and General Custer. These and other frontier images pervade our lives, from fiction to films to advertising, where they attach themselves to products from pancake syrup to cologne, blue jeans to banks. Richard White and Patricia Limerick join their inimitable talents to explore our national preoccupation with this uniquely American image. Richard White examines the two most enduring s…

  • Traditional Politics or the Politics of Tradition

    James R Grossman, Thomas Byrne Edsall et al.ARTICLEReviews in American History1993

    In the beginning there was the Civil Rights Act of 1964. And it was good. But its political fallout was bad. The liberal Democrats who had crafted the legislation and identified their party with its spirit and implications had alienated white southerners and embarked on a path that would eventually distance them from other voters as well. Within two decades the Republican party would occupy a political mainstream abandoned by Democrats, whose lef…

  • The Dispossessed: American's Underclasses from the Civil War to the Present

    James R Grossman, Jacqueline JonesARTICLEJournal of American History1993

    Journal Article The Dispossessed: America's Underclasses from the Civil War to the Present. By Jacqueline Jones. (New York: BasicBooks, 1992. xvi, 399 pp. $25.00, ISBN 0-465-00127-0.) Get access James R. Grossman James R. Grossman Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 3, December 1993, Pages 1037–1039, https://doi.org/10.2307/20804…

  • Land of Hope: Chicago, Black Southerners, and the Great Migration

    Carole Marks, James R GrossmanARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1991

  • Mainstreams, New Deals, and “making it” in American society: Which institutions make a difference

    James R GrossmanARTICLELabor History1991

  • Land of Hope: Chicago, Black Southerners, and the Great Migration

    Open AccessKevin E Mchugh, James R GrossmanARTICLEGeographical Review1991Cited by: 12

  • Land of Hope: Chicago, Black Southerners, and the Great Migration

    Norman Lederer, James R GrossmanARTICLEIndustrial and Labor Relations…1991

  • Jim Crow's Offense

    James R Grossman, Neil R McmillenARTICLEReviews in American History1990

  • The Twentieth-Century's Great Migration

    Jon C Teaford, James N Gregory et al.ARTICLEReviews in American History1990

  • Chicago: Race, Class, and the Response to Urban Decline

    James Grossman, James R Grossman et al.ARTICLESocial Forces1990Cited by: 2

  • Land of Hope: Chicago, Black Southerners, and the Great Migration

    Allan H Spear, James R GrossmanARTICLEJournal of American History1990

    Journal Article Land of Hope: Chicago, Black Southerners, and the Great Migration. By James R. Grossman. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989. xiv + 384 pp. $29.95.) Get access Allan H. Spear Allan H. Spear University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 3, December 1990, Pages 1067–1068, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079105 Published: 01…

  • Land of Hope: Chicago, Black Southerners, and the Great Migration

    James R GrossmanBOOKLand of Hope1989

  • Migration, Race, and Class

    Open AccessJames R GrossmanARTICLEJournal of Urban History1989

  • Black Workers in the Era of the Great Migration, 1916-1929

    Joe William Trotter, James R GrossmanARTICLEJournal of American History1988

    Black Workers in the Era of the Great Migration, 1916–1929. Ed. by James R. Grossman. 25 reels with hard copy index. 35 mm microfilm. (Frederick, Md.: University Publications of America, 1985. $1,700.) Get access Joe W. Trotter Joe W. Trotter Carnegie-Mellon University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 74, Issue 4, March 1988, Pages 1398–1401, https://doi.org/10.2307/18945…

  • Making the Afro-American Working Class

    James R Grossman, Joe William TrotterARTICLEReviews in American History1986

  • Biographical Dictionary of American Labor

    James R Grossman, Gary M FinkARTICLEIndustrial and Labor Relations…1986

  • The Right to Manage: Industrial Relations Policies of American Business in the 1940s

    James R Grossman, Howell John HarrisARTICLEIndustrial and Labor Relations…1984

  • Vanzetti and Hawthorne

    Open AccessJames Grossman, James R GrossmanARTICLEAmerican Quarterly1970

  • James Fenimore Cooper

    Open AccessJohn B Harcourt, James Grossman et al.ARTICLEAmerican Quarterly1951