Michael J Dennis
Biographic Data
| ID | 4515362 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael J Dennis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael J |
| FAMILY NAME | Dennis |
| SIGNATURE | DENNIS M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | United States Department of State |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8175-5311 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 78 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Chris Wright, Popular Radicalism and the Unemployed in Chicago during the Great Depression (New York): Anthem Press, 2022
He Liked America: Granville Hicks and a Political Economy for the Popular Front
The Full Employment Road to Socialism: The Job Guarantee Movement of the 1970s and the Challenge to Capitalism
Remaking the Rural South: Interracialism, Christian Socialism, and Cooperative Farming in Jim Crow Mississippi
Remaking the Rural South: Interracialism, Christian Socialism, and Cooperative Farming in Jim Crow Mississippi Remaking the Rural South: Interracialism, Christian Socialism, and Cooperative Farming in Jim Crow Mississippi. By Robert Hunt Ferguson. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2018. xvi, 211 pp. Cloth, $56.00. Paper, $29.95.) Michael Dennis Michael Dennis Acadia University, Wolfville, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxfor…
From the Masses to the Mainstream: The Hollywood Left and the Movement for Social Democracy
The Idea of Full Employment: A Challenge to Capitalism in the New Deal Era
More than social security, job creation programs, or Keynesian fiscal policy, the idea of full employment galvanized the progressive intelligentsia and excited the imagination of working-class Americans in the 1940s. If historians of the period discuss it at all, however, it is usually as a footnote to New Deal liberalism. These accounts fall short of considering the broader implications of the idea as well as the vigorous business-led opposition…
Women in Defense of Workers: Ella Winter, the literary left, and labor journalism in California
Left-wing, middle-class journalists such as Ella Winter contributed decisively to the labor rebellion of the 1930s. In contrast to mainstream labor reporting, they practiced a form of anti-fascist, working-class journalism that consistently linked the drive for collective bargaining to a larger movement for social and economic justice. Winter and other writers such as Miriam deFord and Emily Joseph carried forward a tradition of labor defense, so…
The Other Good Fight: Hollywood Talent and the Working-Class Movement of the 1930s
The glamour of the silver screen has obscured the Hollywood left's commitment to economic democracy. When Hollywood talent examined the world through the lenses of labor conflict and capitalist production, they began to see themselves as exploited workers, not as privileged middle-class artists. That consciousness of a new class identity propelled them to engage in something more than noblesse oblige or class paternalism. Out of the alchemy of ec…
Chicago and the Little Steel strike
The Little Steel strike of 1937 has taken on iconic significance for historians, in large part because of the anti-labor violence of the Memorial Day Massacre. What has garnered considerably less attention is the community mobilization that accompanied the strike. For a brief moment, steel workers and their allies challenged the anti-democratic tendencies in the Steel Workers Organizing Committee. While SWOC leaders focused almost exclusively on …
Scott M. Gelber. The University and the People: Envisioning American Higher Education in an Era of Populist Protest
In an era when market-driven imperatives seem to dominate the agenda in higher education, it is easy enough to forget that policymakers ever proposed an alternative set of values for the American university. Exploring the brief period of Populist ascendancy in the Gilded Age, Scott M. Gelber reminds us that this was indeed the case. In a tightly organized, effectively written, and prodigiously documented analysis, he subtly suggests that the Popu…
The Memorial Day Massacre and the Movement for Industrial Democracy
This book explores one of the most dramatic and scandalous events in the movement for American democratic reform. Dubbed the Memorial Day Massacre, it saw Chicago police shoot and kill ten demonstrato
Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919–1950 (review)
Virginia Is for Business: Selling the Commonwealth in the Global Competition Era
According to business pundits of the 1990s, the United States had finally liberated itself from the shackles of an Old Economy. Technology, entrepreneurialism, and the reduction of social regulations promised to restore American economic competitiveness. Nowhere else in the United States did this ideology achieve greater legitimacy than in the American South, where traditional southern conservatism merged with corporate neoliberalism to produce a…
Citizen Hobo: How a Century of Homelessness Shaped America , by Todd DePastino
Application of Human Rights Treaties Extraterritorially in Times of Armed Conflict and Military Occupation
Are obligations assumed by states under international human rights treaties applicable extraterritorially during periods of armed conflict and military occupation? This was one of the issues addressed by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in its advisory opinion Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory . The Court indicated that the obligations assumed by Israel under the International Covenants…
The Idea of Citizenship in the Early Civil Rights Movement
Luther P. Jackson was a key supporter of the Association for the study of Negro Life and History and a leading historian of the African American experience. As a leader in the voting rights movement in Virginia as well a prominent activist within region-wide civil rights organizations, Jackson crafted a message of black citizenship that balanced rights and civic duties. His emphasis on political engagement and civic consciousness transcended the …
Justiciability of Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights: Should There Be an International Complaints Mechanism to Adjudicate the Rights to Food, Water, Housing, and Health
Should all internationally recognized human rights—economic, social, and cultural rights, as well as civil and political rights—be subject to the same individual-complaints procedures? This issue is now before a newly convened working group of the UN Commission on Human Rights. At its first meeting, from February 23 to March 5,2004, the Working Group debated the feasibility of elaborating an optional protocol to the International Covenant on Econ…
Lessons in Progress: State Universities and Progressivism in the New South, 1880-1920
How progressivism transformed higher education in the New South by focusing on practical, utilitarian education, creating a vast educational bureaucracy, and making the universities into instruments of the state
Human Rights in 2002: The Annual Sessions of the UN Commission on Human Rights and the Economic and Social Council
The fifty-eighth session of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights opened with the United States in an observer seat for the first time ever. The Commission ultimately adopted ninety-two resolutions and eighteen decisions, thirty-nine of which were adopted by roll-call vote. Subsequently, at its July 2002 session, the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC, the parent body of the Commission) approved nearly all of the Commission's decisions b…
American Indians, Witchcraft, and Witch-hunting
Journal Article American Indians, Witchcraft, and Witch-hunting Get access Matthew Dennis Matthew Dennis Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar OAH Magazine of History, Volume 17, Issue 4, July 2003, Pages 21–27, https://doi.org/10.1093/maghis/17.4.21 Published: 01 July 2003
Thinking Confederates: Academia and the Idea of Progress in the New South
Lessons in Progress: State Universities and Progressivism in the New South, 1880-1920
Michael Dennis argues that southern universities, through their presidents, provided leadership for the region's progressive reform movement. Dennis aptly characterizes southern progressivism as a part of the New South movement for economic and commercial development. He conveys his argument in five chapters on four southern university presidents: Charles Dabney of the University of Tennessee, Walter Bernard Hill of the University of Georgia, Sam…
The Fifty-Seventh Session of the UN Commission on Human Rights
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The Fifty-Sixth Session of the UN Commission on Human Rights
The fifty-sixth session of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights took place in Geneva from March 20 to April 28,2000, under the chairmanship of Ambassador Shambhu Ram Simkhada of Nepal. The delegations of fifty-three member states and ninety-one observer states werejoined by 1760 representatives of 224 nongovernmental organizations. The Commission ultimately adopted one hundred resolutions and decisions, three-fourths of them by consensus
Newly Adopted Protocols to the Convention on the Rights of the Child
On May 25,2000, the United Nations General Assembly adopted by consensus two Protocols to the Convention on the Rights of the Child: the Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict (Children in Armed Conflict Protocol) and the Protocol on the Sale of Children, Child Pornography and Child Prostitution (Sale of Children Protocol).1 These instruments represent major advances in the international effort to strengthen and enforce norms f…
Justiciability of Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights: Should There Be an International Complaints Mechanism to Adjudicate the Rights to Food, Water, Housing, and Health
Should all internationally recognized human rights—economic, social, and cultural rights, as well as civil and political rights—be subject to the same individual-complaints procedures? This issue is now before a newly convened working group of the UN Commission on Human Rights. At its first meeting, from February 23 to March 5,2004, the Working Group debated the feasibility of elaborating an optional protocol to the International Covenant on Econ…
Application of Human Rights Treaties Extraterritorially in Times of Armed Conflict and Military Occupation
Are obligations assumed by states under international human rights treaties applicable extraterritorially during periods of armed conflict and military occupation? This was one of the issues addressed by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in its advisory opinion Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory . The Court indicated that the obligations assumed by Israel under the International Covenants…
The Fifty-second Session of the UN Commission on Human Rights
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The ILO Convention on the Worst Forms of Child Labor
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The Fifty-Fourth Session of the UN Commission on Human Rights
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The Fifty-third Session of the UN Commission on Human Rights
The fifty-third session of the UN Commission on Human Rights took place in Geneva from March 10 to April 18, 1997, with Miroslav Somol of the Czech Republic serving as chairman. More than twenty-three hundred individuals were in attendance, representing fifty-three member and ninety-two observer states, over two hundred nongovernmental organizations, and some forty specialized agencies, UN bodies and other organizations
Human Rights in 2002: The Annual Sessions of the UN Commission on Human Rights and the Economic and Social Council
The fifty-eighth session of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights opened with the United States in an observer seat for the first time ever. The Commission ultimately adopted ninety-two resolutions and eighteen decisions, thirty-nine of which were adopted by roll-call vote. Subsequently, at its July 2002 session, the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC, the parent body of the Commission) approved nearly all of the Commission's decisions b…
The Fifty-Sixth Session of the UN Commission on Human Rights
The fifty-sixth session of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights took place in Geneva from March 20 to April 28,2000, under the chairmanship of Ambassador Shambhu Ram Simkhada of Nepal. The delegations of fifty-three member states and ninety-one observer states werejoined by 1760 representatives of 224 nongovernmental organizations. The Commission ultimately adopted one hundred resolutions and decisions, three-fourths of them by consensus
The Fifty-Fifth Session of the UN Commission on Human Rights
The fifty-fifth session of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights took place in Geneva from March 22 to April 30, 1999, and was chaired by Ambassador Anne Anderson of Ireland. The Commission reviewed the state of human rights and fundamental freedoms in the world, adopting eighty-two resolutions, fifty-eight by consensus, and thirteen decisions. More than thirty-two hundred participants represented fifty-three member and ninety-one observe…
The Fifty-Seventh Session of the UN Commission on Human Rights
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Chicago and the Little Steel strike
The Little Steel strike of 1937 has taken on iconic significance for historians, in large part because of the anti-labor violence of the Memorial Day Massacre. What has garnered considerably less attention is the community mobilization that accompanied the strike. For a brief moment, steel workers and their allies challenged the anti-democratic tendencies in the Steel Workers Organizing Committee. While SWOC leaders focused almost exclusively on …
The Idea of Citizenship in the Early Civil Rights Movement
Luther P. Jackson was a key supporter of the Association for the study of Negro Life and History and a leading historian of the African American experience. As a leader in the voting rights movement in Virginia as well a prominent activist within region-wide civil rights organizations, Jackson crafted a message of black citizenship that balanced rights and civic duties. His emphasis on political engagement and civic consciousness transcended the …
Newly Adopted Protocols to the Convention on the Rights of the Child
On May 25,2000, the United Nations General Assembly adopted by consensus two Protocols to the Convention on the Rights of the Child: the Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict (Children in Armed Conflict Protocol) and the Protocol on the Sale of Children, Child Pornography and Child Prostitution (Sale of Children Protocol).1 These instruments represent major advances in the international effort to strengthen and enforce norms f…
Schooling along the Color Line: Progressives and the Education of Blacks in the New South
Perhaps one of the most neglected features of the history of postbellum Black education is the role of White southern university leaders in proselytizing the northern-inspired and financed industrial education movement to their fellow southerners. This article examines the writings and speeches of several southern academics who formed the linchpin of the industrial education crusade. It shows how, as advocates for school reform, these intellectua…
Individual Burden–Societal Requirement: Human and Social Aspects of Shiftwork in the German Democratic Republic
The Fifty-second Session of the UN Commission on Human Rights
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The Fifty-third Session of the UN Commission on Human Rights
The fifty-third session of the UN Commission on Human Rights took place in Geneva from March 10 to April 18, 1997, with Miroslav Somol of the Czech Republic serving as chairman. More than twenty-three hundred individuals were in attendance, representing fifty-three member and ninety-two observer states, over two hundred nongovernmental organizations, and some forty specialized agencies, UN bodies and other organizations
Schooling along the Color Line: Progressives and the Education of Blacks in the New South
Perhaps one of the most neglected features of the history of postbellum Black education is the role of White southern university leaders in proselytizing the northern-inspired and financed industrial education movement to their fellow southerners. This article examines the writings and speeches of several southern academics who formed the linchpin of the industrial education crusade. It shows how, as advocates for school reform, these intellectua…
The ILO Convention on the Worst Forms of Child Labor
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The Fifty-Fourth Session of the UN Commission on Human Rights
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Race and the Southern Imagination: Woodrow Wilson Reconsidered
The author gratefully acknowledges Caitlin McCain's assistance in editing and reviewing this article. At a time when hundreds of southerners could charter a train to watch Henry Smith lynched, his feet seared with a red-hot iron, the word "Justice" emblazoned on the scaffold, his grisly demise captured in souvenir photo- graphs, whites who promoted segregation seemed comparatively mild. Woodrow Wilson, future president and visionary of a world ma…
Newly Adopted Protocols to the Convention on the Rights of the Child
On May 25,2000, the United Nations General Assembly adopted by consensus two Protocols to the Convention on the Rights of the Child: the Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict (Children in Armed Conflict Protocol) and the Protocol on the Sale of Children, Child Pornography and Child Prostitution (Sale of Children Protocol).1 These instruments represent major advances in the international effort to strengthen and enforce norms f…
The Fifty-Fifth Session of the UN Commission on Human Rights
The fifty-fifth session of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights took place in Geneva from March 22 to April 30, 1999, and was chaired by Ambassador Anne Anderson of Ireland. The Commission reviewed the state of human rights and fundamental freedoms in the world, adopting eighty-two resolutions, fifty-eight by consensus, and thirteen decisions. More than thirty-two hundred participants represented fifty-three member and ninety-one observe…
The Fifty-Sixth Session of the UN Commission on Human Rights
The fifty-sixth session of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights took place in Geneva from March 20 to April 28,2000, under the chairmanship of Ambassador Shambhu Ram Simkhada of Nepal. The delegations of fifty-three member states and ninety-one observer states werejoined by 1760 representatives of 224 nongovernmental organizations. The Commission ultimately adopted one hundred resolutions and decisions, three-fourths of them by consensus
Thinking Confederates: Academia and the Idea of Progress in the New South
Lessons in Progress: State Universities and Progressivism in the New South, 1880-1920
Michael Dennis argues that southern universities, through their presidents, provided leadership for the region's progressive reform movement. Dennis aptly characterizes southern progressivism as a part of the New South movement for economic and commercial development. He conveys his argument in five chapters on four southern university presidents: Charles Dabney of the University of Tennessee, Walter Bernard Hill of the University of Georgia, Sam…
The Fifty-Seventh Session of the UN Commission on Human Rights
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Lessons in Progress: State Universities and Progressivism in the New South, 1880-1920
How progressivism transformed higher education in the New South by focusing on practical, utilitarian education, creating a vast educational bureaucracy, and making the universities into instruments of the state
Human Rights in 2002: The Annual Sessions of the UN Commission on Human Rights and the Economic and Social Council
The fifty-eighth session of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights opened with the United States in an observer seat for the first time ever. The Commission ultimately adopted ninety-two resolutions and eighteen decisions, thirty-nine of which were adopted by roll-call vote. Subsequently, at its July 2002 session, the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC, the parent body of the Commission) approved nearly all of the Commission's decisions b…
American Indians, Witchcraft, and Witch-hunting
Journal Article American Indians, Witchcraft, and Witch-hunting Get access Matthew Dennis Matthew Dennis Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar OAH Magazine of History, Volume 17, Issue 4, July 2003, Pages 21–27, https://doi.org/10.1093/maghis/17.4.21 Published: 01 July 2003
Justiciability of Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights: Should There Be an International Complaints Mechanism to Adjudicate the Rights to Food, Water, Housing, and Health
Should all internationally recognized human rights—economic, social, and cultural rights, as well as civil and political rights—be subject to the same individual-complaints procedures? This issue is now before a newly convened working group of the UN Commission on Human Rights. At its first meeting, from February 23 to March 5,2004, the Working Group debated the feasibility of elaborating an optional protocol to the International Covenant on Econ…
Citizen Hobo: How a Century of Homelessness Shaped America , by Todd DePastino
Application of Human Rights Treaties Extraterritorially in Times of Armed Conflict and Military Occupation
Are obligations assumed by states under international human rights treaties applicable extraterritorially during periods of armed conflict and military occupation? This was one of the issues addressed by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in its advisory opinion Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory . The Court indicated that the obligations assumed by Israel under the International Covenants…
The Idea of Citizenship in the Early Civil Rights Movement
Luther P. Jackson was a key supporter of the Association for the study of Negro Life and History and a leading historian of the African American experience. As a leader in the voting rights movement in Virginia as well a prominent activist within region-wide civil rights organizations, Jackson crafted a message of black citizenship that balanced rights and civic duties. His emphasis on political engagement and civic consciousness transcended the …
Virginia Is for Business: Selling the Commonwealth in the Global Competition Era
According to business pundits of the 1990s, the United States had finally liberated itself from the shackles of an Old Economy. Technology, entrepreneurialism, and the reduction of social regulations promised to restore American economic competitiveness. Nowhere else in the United States did this ideology achieve greater legitimacy than in the American South, where traditional southern conservatism merged with corporate neoliberalism to produce a…
The Memorial Day Massacre and the Movement for Industrial Democracy
This book explores one of the most dramatic and scandalous events in the movement for American democratic reform. Dubbed the Memorial Day Massacre, it saw Chicago police shoot and kill ten demonstrato
Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919–1950 (review)
Chicago and the Little Steel strike
The Little Steel strike of 1937 has taken on iconic significance for historians, in large part because of the anti-labor violence of the Memorial Day Massacre. What has garnered considerably less attention is the community mobilization that accompanied the strike. For a brief moment, steel workers and their allies challenged the anti-democratic tendencies in the Steel Workers Organizing Committee. While SWOC leaders focused almost exclusively on …
Scott M. Gelber. The University and the People: Envisioning American Higher Education in an Era of Populist Protest
In an era when market-driven imperatives seem to dominate the agenda in higher education, it is easy enough to forget that policymakers ever proposed an alternative set of values for the American university. Exploring the brief period of Populist ascendancy in the Gilded Age, Scott M. Gelber reminds us that this was indeed the case. In a tightly organized, effectively written, and prodigiously documented analysis, he subtly suggests that the Popu…
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