Stephen H Norwood
Biographic Data
| ID | 959326 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen H Norwood |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen H |
| FAMILY NAME | Norwood |
| SIGNATURE | NORWOOD S H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oklahoma |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
America and the Holocaust
Journal Article Book Review Get access America and the Holocaust: A Documentary History, Rafael Medoff (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 2022), 323 pp., paperback $30.00, electronic version available. Stephen H Norwood Stephen H Norwood University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Holocaust and Genocide Studies, dcad009, https://doi.org/10.1093/hg…
Judea Declares War on Britain”
American Jews’ mass protests against Nazi antisemitism, begun soon after Hitler assumed power, provided a major impetus to, and model for, the post–World War II drive to establish a Jewish state. This postwar agitation had a considerable impact because, after the Holocaust, the Jewish population in the United States far exceeded that of any other country. The mass demonstrations of 1945–1948 were as large as those of the 1930s, even reaching 250,…
Racism, Activism, and Integrity in College Football
This book focuses on the massive student protest at New York University (NYU) in 1940–41 against the administration's refusal to allow the football team's African American star, Leonard Bates, to accompany it to play at the University of Missouri, which did not admit Blacks. It was standard practice for northern universities to withdraw their Black athletes from competitions at southern schools. If the southern school requested the withdrawal whe…
Communists Encounter Islamic Antisemitism and Misogyny, 1917–1957
Contemporary far leftists deny, trivialize, or even endorse, Islamic antisemitism. The response of Communists and fellow travelers to Islamic antisemitism in the four decades after the Bolshevik revolution was more complex. Communists were initially inclined to accept Karl Marx’s view of Islam as reactionary and an obstacle to progress. During the 1920s and 1930s, the Soviets made concerted efforts to overturn Islamic beliefs and eradicate Muslim…
White Devils, Satanic Jews
This article explores how the American white far right—including the Christian Front, Christian Mobilizers, and Gerald L. K. Smith—helped shape the Nation of Islam’s (NOI) antisemitism during the 1930s and 1940s. It also examines the strong influence of Harlem’s pro-Axis Black Fuehrers on the NOI during World War II. Nation of Islam and white far-right propaganda were remarkably similar. Both embraced the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, …
A Specter Haunting Europe
Fight for Old DC
Book Review| April 01 2018 Fight for Old DC: George Preston Marshall, the Integration of the Washington Redskins, and the Rise of a New NFL O’Toole, Andrew. Fight for Old DC: George Preston Marshall, the Integration of the Washington Redskins, and the Rise of a New NFL. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2016. Pp. xiii+240. Notes and index. $29.95, hb. Stephen H. Norwood Stephen H. Norwood University of Oklahoma Search for other works by this…
I Fight for a Living
Of all sports, boxing afforded African Americans the best opportunity to achieve public recognition during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This work examines the extent to which black boxers succeeded in challenging long-standing pernicious stereotypes of African American men as docile and childlike. It focuses on white resistance to overturning these images, as well as on divisions among blacks as to whether prizefighting cont…
Hans-Joerg Tiede. University Reform
Hans-Joerg Tiede’s University Reform: The Founding of the American Association of University Professors is a narrowly framed institutional study. It traces the development of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) from its formation in 1915 through the period immediately following World War I, as it quickly shifted its focus from increasing the role of faculty in university governance to protecting professors’ academic freedom. …
Antisemitism and the American Far Left
Stephen H. Norwood has written the first systematic study of the American far left's role in both propagating and combating antisemitism. This book covers Communists from 1920 onward, Trotskyists, the New Left and its black nationalist allies, and the contemporary remnants of the New Left. Professor Norwood analyzes the deficiencies of the American far left's explanations of Nazism and the Holocaust. He explores far left approaches to militant Is…
Rooney
Book Review| April 01 2011 Rooney: A Sporting Life Ruck, Rob, Maggie Jones Patterson, and Michael P. Weber. Rooney: A Sporting Life. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2010. Pp. xxvi+641. Photographs, notes, bibliography, and index. $36.95. Stephen H. Norwood Stephen H. Norwood University of Oklahoma Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Sport History (2011) 38 (1): 165–166. https://doi.org/10.5406/jsporthistor…
American Jewish Muscle
Journal Article “American Jewish Muscle”: Forging a New Masculinity in the Streets and in the Ring, 1890–1940 Get access Stephen H. Norwood Stephen H. Norwood University of Oklahoma [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, Volume 29, Issue 2, May 2009, Pages 167–193, https://doi.org/10.1093/mj/kjp006 Published: 13 May 2009
Organizing the neglected worker
From 1930 to 1950, the New York and Boston Women's Trade Union League (WTUL) chapters focused on organizing poorly paid female service employees, many of them African American or Hispanic, whom the AFL and CIO largely neglected. Scholars who studied the WTUL generally confined their work to the period before 1920. Drawing on new primary sources, this article challenges previous characterizations of the WTUL as moribund after 1920, revealing the W…
Complicity and Conflict
On the night of May 10, 1933, shortly after Hitler assumed power in Germany, Nazi students staged massive public book burnings at universities across the Reich, an act that dramatically communicated to the world their opposition to free inquiry and intense antisemitism. In the capital, students marched in a torchlight parade beside trucks decorated with caricatures of Jews, carrying to the bonfire set up before the University of Berlin many of th…
Legitimating Nazism
The Harvard University administration during the 1930s, led by President James Bryant Conant, ignored numerous opportunities to take a principled stand against the Hitler regime and its antisemitic outrages, and contributed to Nazi Germany's efforts to improve its image in the West. Its lack of concern about Nazi antisemitism was shared by many influential Harvard alumni and student leaders. In warmly welcoming Nazi leaders to the Harvard campus,…
Strikebreaking and Intimidation
Strikebreaking and Intimidation
This is the first systematic study of strikebreaking, intimidation, and anti-unionism in the United States, subjects essential to a full understanding of labor's fortunes in the twentieth century. Paradoxically, the country that pioneered the expansion of civil liberties allowed corporations to assemble private armies to disrupt union organizing, spy on workers, and break strikes. Using a social-historical approach, Stephen Norwood focuses on the…
The Pullman Strike and the Crisis of the 1890s
Journal Article The Pullman Strike and the Crisis of the 1890s: Essays on Labor and Politics. Ed. by Richard Schneirov, Shelton Stromquist, and Nick Salvatore. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press and The Pullman Case: The Clash of Labor and Capital in Industrial America. By David Ray Papke. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas Get access Stephen H. Norwood Stephen H. Norwood University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma Search for other works by th…
The Challenge of Interracial Unionism
Allan Pinkerton
Journal Article Allan Pinkerton: The First Private Eye. By James Mackay. (New York: Wiley, 1996. 256 pp. $27.95, ISBN 0-471-19415-8.) Get access Stephen H. Norwood Stephen H. Norwood University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 3, December 1998, Pages 1106–1107, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567300 Published: 01 December 1998
One Dies, Get Another
Bogalusa Burning
Ford's Brass Knuckles
Hoffa
Reading Football
Legitimating Nazism
The Harvard University administration during the 1930s, led by President James Bryant Conant, ignored numerous opportunities to take a principled stand against the Hitler regime and its antisemitic outrages, and contributed to Nazi Germany's efforts to improve its image in the West. Its lack of concern about Nazi antisemitism was shared by many influential Harvard alumni and student leaders. In warmly welcoming Nazi leaders to the Harvard campus,…
White Devils, Satanic Jews
This article explores how the American white far right—including the Christian Front, Christian Mobilizers, and Gerald L. K. Smith—helped shape the Nation of Islam’s (NOI) antisemitism during the 1930s and 1940s. It also examines the strong influence of Harlem’s pro-Axis Black Fuehrers on the NOI during World War II. Nation of Islam and white far-right propaganda were remarkably similar. Both embraced the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, …
The Pullman Strike and the Crisis of the 1890s
Journal Article The Pullman Strike and the Crisis of the 1890s: Essays on Labor and Politics. Ed. by Richard Schneirov, Shelton Stromquist, and Nick Salvatore. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press and The Pullman Case: The Clash of Labor and Capital in Industrial America. By David Ray Papke. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas Get access Stephen H. Norwood Stephen H. Norwood University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma Search for other works by th…
My Son the Slugger
In 1924, a Yiddish daily observed at the end of the High Holidays that old [rejoiced] over the Torah, the middle-aged-over the business page in the newspaper, the young-over the sport page. Indeed, many first-generation parents worried that their sons' preoccupation with sports was fast eroding their identity as Jews and leading them toward a non-Jewish associational life. Yet looking back, the parents' concerns were exaggerated. The second gener…
I Fight for a Living
Of all sports, boxing afforded African Americans the best opportunity to achieve public recognition during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This work examines the extent to which black boxers succeeded in challenging long-standing pernicious stereotypes of African American men as docile and childlike. It focuses on white resistance to overturning these images, as well as on divisions among blacks as to whether prizefighting cont…
Bogalusa Burning
Ford's Brass Knuckles
Education for Struggle
Labor's Flaming Youth
Journal Article Labor's Flaming Youth: Telephone Operators and Worker Militancy, 1878–1923. By Stephen H. Norwood. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990. xii + 340 pp. $32.50.) Get access Dorothy Sue Cobble Dorothy Sue Cobble Rutgers University, New Brunswick Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1376–1377, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078334 P…
Labor's Flaming Youth
Labor's Flaming Youth
From "White Slave" to Labor Activist
courts. From the moment it began, the case had attracted wide public interest. Its testimony concerning sexual abuse, marital infidelity, free love, and abortion was spicy, and its principals and witnesses were members of Boston's wealthiest and most distinguished families.' Lois Burnett Rantoul had filed for divorce, charging cruel and abusive treatment by her husband. In his summation, her attorney portrayed his client as the victim of violent …
Sacco and Vanzetti
My Son the Slugger
In 1924, a Yiddish daily observed at the end of the High Holidays that old [rejoiced] over the Torah, the middle-aged-over the business page in the newspaper, the young-over the sport page. Indeed, many first-generation parents worried that their sons' preoccupation with sports was fast eroding their identity as Jews and leading them toward a non-Jewish associational life. Yet looking back, the parents' concerns were exaggerated. The second gener…
America Calling
Journal Article America Calling: A Social History of the Telephone to 1940. By Claude S. Fischer. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992. xvi, 424 pp. $25.00, ISBN 0-520-07933-7.) Get access Stephen H. Norwood Stephen H. Norwood University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 3, December 1993, Pages 1128–1129, https://doi.org/1…
Reading Football
The Student as Strikebreaker
Journal Article The Student as Strikebreaker: College Youth and the Crisis of Masculinity in the Early Twentieth Century Get access Stephen H. Norwood Stephen H. Norwood Department of History, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019-0535 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 28, Issue 2, Winter 1994, Pages 331–349, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/28.2.331 Published: 01 December 199…
Hoffa
Ford's Brass Knuckles
One Dies, Get Another
Bogalusa Burning
Allan Pinkerton
Journal Article Allan Pinkerton: The First Private Eye. By James Mackay. (New York: Wiley, 1996. 256 pp. $27.95, ISBN 0-471-19415-8.) Get access Stephen H. Norwood Stephen H. Norwood University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 3, December 1998, Pages 1106–1107, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567300 Published: 01 December 1998
The Challenge of Interracial Unionism
The Pullman Strike and the Crisis of the 1890s
Journal Article The Pullman Strike and the Crisis of the 1890s: Essays on Labor and Politics. Ed. by Richard Schneirov, Shelton Stromquist, and Nick Salvatore. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press and The Pullman Case: The Clash of Labor and Capital in Industrial America. By David Ray Papke. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas Get access Stephen H. Norwood Stephen H. Norwood University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma Search for other works by th…
Strikebreaking and Intimidation
This is the first systematic study of strikebreaking, intimidation, and anti-unionism in the United States, subjects essential to a full understanding of labor's fortunes in the twentieth century. Paradoxically, the country that pioneered the expansion of civil liberties allowed corporations to assemble private armies to disrupt union organizing, spy on workers, and break strikes. Using a social-historical approach, Stephen Norwood focuses on the…
Legitimating Nazism
The Harvard University administration during the 1930s, led by President James Bryant Conant, ignored numerous opportunities to take a principled stand against the Hitler regime and its antisemitic outrages, and contributed to Nazi Germany's efforts to improve its image in the West. Its lack of concern about Nazi antisemitism was shared by many influential Harvard alumni and student leaders. In warmly welcoming Nazi leaders to the Harvard campus,…
Strikebreaking and Intimidation
Complicity and Conflict
On the night of May 10, 1933, shortly after Hitler assumed power in Germany, Nazi students staged massive public book burnings at universities across the Reich, an act that dramatically communicated to the world their opposition to free inquiry and intense antisemitism. In the capital, students marched in a torchlight parade beside trucks decorated with caricatures of Jews, carrying to the bonfire set up before the University of Berlin many of th…
American Jewish Muscle
Journal Article “American Jewish Muscle”: Forging a New Masculinity in the Streets and in the Ring, 1890–1940 Get access Stephen H. Norwood Stephen H. Norwood University of Oklahoma [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, Volume 29, Issue 2, May 2009, Pages 167–193, https://doi.org/10.1093/mj/kjp006 Published: 13 May 2009
Organizing the neglected worker
From 1930 to 1950, the New York and Boston Women's Trade Union League (WTUL) chapters focused on organizing poorly paid female service employees, many of them African American or Hispanic, whom the AFL and CIO largely neglected. Scholars who studied the WTUL generally confined their work to the period before 1920. Drawing on new primary sources, this article challenges previous characterizations of the WTUL as moribund after 1920, revealing the W…
Rooney
Book Review| April 01 2011 Rooney: A Sporting Life Ruck, Rob, Maggie Jones Patterson, and Michael P. Weber. Rooney: A Sporting Life. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2010. Pp. xxvi+641. Photographs, notes, bibliography, and index. $36.95. Stephen H. Norwood Stephen H. Norwood University of Oklahoma Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Sport History (2011) 38 (1): 165–166. https://doi.org/10.5406/jsporthistor…
Antisemitism and the American Far Left
Stephen H. Norwood has written the first systematic study of the American far left's role in both propagating and combating antisemitism. This book covers Communists from 1920 onward, Trotskyists, the New Left and its black nationalist allies, and the contemporary remnants of the New Left. Professor Norwood analyzes the deficiencies of the American far left's explanations of Nazism and the Holocaust. He explores far left approaches to militant Is…
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