Stephen Brier
Biographic Data
| ID | 3841393 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen Brier |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen |
| FAMILY NAME | Brier |
| SIGNATURE | BRIER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Graduate Center, CUNY |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Remembering Herbert Gutman's Work, Culture, and Society Fifty Years On
Along with the late distinguished historian Ira Berlin, my colleagues and I at CUNY's American Social History Project (ASHP) had the privilege of being the people who worked most closely with Herb Gutman in the final half-dozen years of his all-too-short life and career. In his final years, as he had for much of the previous three decades of his work, Herb remained deeply committed to questioning accepted historical truths and using new methodolo…
New York City Public Schools from Brownsville to Bloomberg
Book Review| September 01 2015 New York City Public Schools from Brownsville to Bloomberg New York City Public Schools from Brownsville to Bloomberg. Lewis, Heather. New York: Teachers College Press, 2013xii + 199 pp., $47.95 (paper) Stephen Brier Stephen Brier Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2015) 12 (3): 118–120. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-2920519 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn …
Untold stories’
Cinematic aesthetics, production details, and the filmmakers' decision to evoke Abraham Lincoln's human attributes and foibles frame this critical discussion of Tony Kushner and Steven Spielberg's 2012 Lincoln. The authors assess the film in terms of its ‘truth status,' Natalie Zemon Davis's concept about the critical relationship between historical understanding and dramatic films about the past. The authors evaluate film critics', political com…
Italian Militants and Migrants and the Language of Solidarity in the Early-Twentieth-Century Western Coalfields
This article explores the largely unknown world of militant Italian labor organizers and the rank-and-file Italian immigrants they led in labor struggles in the western coalfields of the United States in the early twentieth century. Building on the recent “transnational turn” in immigration scholarship and employing a close reading of an important Italian-language newspaper, Il Lavoratore Italiano; official Italian consular records and police arc…
The September 11 Digital Archive
This article focuses on the creation and subsequent development of the September 11 Digital Archive (www.911digitalarchive.org), currently one of the largest digital repositories of historical materials on the September 11 attacks. The article reflects on archival and methodological questions and on issues raised by the efforts of staff members at the Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University and at the American Social Hi…
R. L. Davis on Interracial Unionism
In Memoriam
Research Article| May 01 1998 In Memoriam: Joseph S. Murphy Stephen Brier Stephen Brier Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1998) 1998 (71): 226–228. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1998-71-226 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Stephen Brier; In Memoriam: Joseph S. Murphy. Radical History Review 1 May 1998; 1998 (71): 226–228. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/01636…
Building the History of Working-Class America
SOME SIXTY YEARS AGO, Charles Beard and Mary Beard speculated in The Rise of American Civilization that "when the full story of self-government in America is written, reviewing the commonplace no less than the spectacular, pages on the cellular growth of local craft unions will be placed besides the records of town meetings; while chapters on the formation of national labor structures will complement the sections on the origin and development of …
In defense of gutman; The Union's case
A History Film Without Much History
Research Article| May 01 1988 A History Film Without Much History Stephen Brier Stephen Brier Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1988) 1988 (41): 120–128. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1988-41-120 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Stephen Brier; A History Film Without Much History. Radical History Review 1 May 1988; 1988 (41): 120–128. doi: https://doi.org/1…
Presenting the past
The Grand Army of Starvation
Journal Article 1877: The Grand Army of Starvation. Prod, by Stephen Brier. The American Social History Project, 1985. 30 mins. (The American Social History Project Film Library, 445 W. Main St., Wyckoff, NJ 07481) Get access Leon Fink Leon Fink University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 73, Issue 3, December 1986, Pages 826–827, https://do…
American Working Class History
Journal Article AMERICAN WORKING CLASS HISTORY Get access Stephen Brier Stephen Brier Project Director American Working Class History Project The Graduate Center of the City UniversityNew York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 16, Issue 1, AUTUMN 1983, Pages 190-b–191, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/16.1.190-b Published: 01 October 1983
Labor, politics, and race
Roots of the American Working Class
The career of Richard L. Davis reconsidered
(1980). The career of Richard L. Davis reconsidered: Unpublished correspondence from the national labor tribune. Labor History: Vol. 21, No. 3, pp. 420-429
The Utility of Systems of Simultaneous Logistic Response Equations
This work was supported by Grant NIE-G-76-0094 from the National Institute of Education, U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect the position or policy of the National Institute of Education. I am indebted to Stephen Fienberg for introducing me to this problem and for suggestions and comments on earlier drafts of this chapter. I am also grateful to Otis Dudley Duncan and an anonymous re…
Coal Miners on Strike
Coal Miners on Strike: The Transformation of Strike Demands and the Formation of a National Union This study employs previously unused data on strikes in American coal mines in order to analyze the development of the coal industry and the emergence of a national union of mine workers. The data we have used are drawn from the Third and Tenth Annual Reports of the U.S. Commissioner of Labor.1 These reports give detailed observations of virtually ev…
In defense of gutman; The Union's case
Coal Miners on Strike
Coal Miners on Strike: The Transformation of Strike Demands and the Formation of a National Union This study employs previously unused data on strikes in American coal mines in order to analyze the development of the coal industry and the emergence of a national union of mine workers. The data we have used are drawn from the Third and Tenth Annual Reports of the U.S. Commissioner of Labor.1 These reports give detailed observations of virtually ev…
The September 11 Digital Archive
This article focuses on the creation and subsequent development of the September 11 Digital Archive (www.911digitalarchive.org), currently one of the largest digital repositories of historical materials on the September 11 attacks. The article reflects on archival and methodological questions and on issues raised by the efforts of staff members at the Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University and at the American Social Hi…
The career of Richard L. Davis reconsidered
(1980). The career of Richard L. Davis reconsidered: Unpublished correspondence from the national labor tribune. Labor History: Vol. 21, No. 3, pp. 420-429
Coal Miners on Strike
Coal Miners on Strike: The Transformation of Strike Demands and the Formation of a National Union This study employs previously unused data on strikes in American coal mines in order to analyze the development of the coal industry and the emergence of a national union of mine workers. The data we have used are drawn from the Third and Tenth Annual Reports of the U.S. Commissioner of Labor.1 These reports give detailed observations of virtually ev…
The Utility of Systems of Simultaneous Logistic Response Equations
This work was supported by Grant NIE-G-76-0094 from the National Institute of Education, U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect the position or policy of the National Institute of Education. I am indebted to Stephen Fienberg for introducing me to this problem and for suggestions and comments on earlier drafts of this chapter. I am also grateful to Otis Dudley Duncan and an anonymous re…
Roots of the American Working Class
The career of Richard L. Davis reconsidered
(1980). The career of Richard L. Davis reconsidered: Unpublished correspondence from the national labor tribune. Labor History: Vol. 21, No. 3, pp. 420-429
Labor, politics, and race
American Working Class History
Journal Article AMERICAN WORKING CLASS HISTORY Get access Stephen Brier Stephen Brier Project Director American Working Class History Project The Graduate Center of the City UniversityNew York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 16, Issue 1, AUTUMN 1983, Pages 190-b–191, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/16.1.190-b Published: 01 October 1983
Presenting the past
The Grand Army of Starvation
Journal Article 1877: The Grand Army of Starvation. Prod, by Stephen Brier. The American Social History Project, 1985. 30 mins. (The American Social History Project Film Library, 445 W. Main St., Wyckoff, NJ 07481) Get access Leon Fink Leon Fink University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 73, Issue 3, December 1986, Pages 826–827, https://do…
A History Film Without Much History
Research Article| May 01 1988 A History Film Without Much History Stephen Brier Stephen Brier Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1988) 1988 (41): 120–128. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1988-41-120 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Stephen Brier; A History Film Without Much History. Radical History Review 1 May 1988; 1988 (41): 120–128. doi: https://doi.org/1…
In defense of gutman; The Union's case
Building the History of Working-Class America
SOME SIXTY YEARS AGO, Charles Beard and Mary Beard speculated in The Rise of American Civilization that "when the full story of self-government in America is written, reviewing the commonplace no less than the spectacular, pages on the cellular growth of local craft unions will be placed besides the records of town meetings; while chapters on the formation of national labor structures will complement the sections on the origin and development of …
In Memoriam
Research Article| May 01 1998 In Memoriam: Joseph S. Murphy Stephen Brier Stephen Brier Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1998) 1998 (71): 226–228. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1998-71-226 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Stephen Brier; In Memoriam: Joseph S. Murphy. Radical History Review 1 May 1998; 1998 (71): 226–228. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/01636…
R. L. Davis on Interracial Unionism
Italian Militants and Migrants and the Language of Solidarity in the Early-Twentieth-Century Western Coalfields
This article explores the largely unknown world of militant Italian labor organizers and the rank-and-file Italian immigrants they led in labor struggles in the western coalfields of the United States in the early twentieth century. Building on the recent “transnational turn” in immigration scholarship and employing a close reading of an important Italian-language newspaper, Il Lavoratore Italiano; official Italian consular records and police arc…
The September 11 Digital Archive
This article focuses on the creation and subsequent development of the September 11 Digital Archive (www.911digitalarchive.org), currently one of the largest digital repositories of historical materials on the September 11 attacks. The article reflects on archival and methodological questions and on issues raised by the efforts of staff members at the Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University and at the American Social Hi…
New York City Public Schools from Brownsville to Bloomberg
Book Review| September 01 2015 New York City Public Schools from Brownsville to Bloomberg New York City Public Schools from Brownsville to Bloomberg. Lewis, Heather. New York: Teachers College Press, 2013xii + 199 pp., $47.95 (paper) Stephen Brier Stephen Brier Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2015) 12 (3): 118–120. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-2920519 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn …
Untold stories’
Cinematic aesthetics, production details, and the filmmakers' decision to evoke Abraham Lincoln's human attributes and foibles frame this critical discussion of Tony Kushner and Steven Spielberg's 2012 Lincoln. The authors assess the film in terms of its ‘truth status,' Natalie Zemon Davis's concept about the critical relationship between historical understanding and dramatic films about the past. The authors evaluate film critics', political com…
Remembering Herbert Gutman's Work, Culture, and Society Fifty Years On
Along with the late distinguished historian Ira Berlin, my colleagues and I at CUNY's American Social History Project (ASHP) had the privilege of being the people who worked most closely with Herb Gutman in the final half-dozen years of his all-too-short life and career. In his final years, as he had for much of the previous three decades of his work, Herb remained deeply committed to questioning accepted historical truths and using new methodolo…
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