History Program

Distinctions: La Trobe University staff member 1968-2001, and Professor Emeritus 2003- ; FAHA; 1990 Gustavus Myers Award for best book on Human Rights for The Conscience of a Lawyer: Clifford J. Durr and American Civil Liberties 1899-1975 (1990). Short listed for Pulitzer Prize in History in 1996 for Gastonia 1929 (1995).

Books:
The Civilian Conservation Corps: A New Deal Case Study, Duke University Press, 1967.
with W.J. Breen, The New Deal, Cheshire, 1970 (Longman-Cheshire, 1978).
with W.J. Breen, An Ideal of Freedom: an Interpretative History of the United States of America, Longman-Cheshire, 1978.
A Southern Rebel, The Life and Times of Aubrey Willis Williams, University of North Carolina Press, 1983.
with Bruce L Clayton (eds), The South is Another Land: Essays on the Twentieth Century South, Greenwood Press, 1987.
Miss Lucy of the CIO: The Life and Times of Lucy Randolph Mason, 1882-1959, University of Georgia Press, 1988.
The Conscience of a Lawyer: Clifford J Durr and American Civil Liberties 1899-1975, University of Alabama Press, 1990.
with Kerrie Newell, The Civil Rights Movement in the American South, La Trobe Studies in History, Bundoora, 1992.
Gastonia, 1929: The Story of the Loray Mill Strike, University of North Carolina Press, 1995.
with Bruce Clayton (eds), Varieties of Southern History: New Essays on a Region and Its People, Greenwood Press, 1996.
My Mind Set on Freedom, A History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968, Ivan R Dee, 1997.
with Professor Bruce Clayton, Debating Southern History, Ideas and Action in the Twentieth Century, Rowman and Littiefield, 1999.
The General Textile Strike of 1934, From Maine to Alabama, University of Missouri Press, 2002.
with Bruce Clayton (eds), “Lives Full of Struggle and Triumph”: Southern Women, their Institutions and their Communities, University Press of Florida, 2003.
Southern Struggles: The Southern Labor Movement and the Civil Rights Struggle, University Press of Florida, 2004.

Chapters in Books:
“The Civilian Conservation Corps and the New Deal" in Norman Harper (ed.), Pacific Circle, University of Queensland Press, 1968
“New Zealand and the New Hebrides”, in Peter Munz (ed.), The Feel of Truth, Reeds, 1969
“The New Deal and Youth”, in GA Wood and PS O’Connor (eds), WY Morrell: a Tribute, University of Otago Press, 1973
“Aubrey Williams, A typical New Dealer?” in John Braeman, Robert H Bremner and David Brady (eds), The New Deal, Ohio State University Press, 1975
“The Civilian Conservation Corps” in Donald R Whitnah (ed.), Government Agencies, Greenwood Press, 1983
“The National Youth Administration” in Donald R. Whitnah (ed.), Government Agencies, Greenwood Press, 1983
“Sophie’s Choice: The Book”, in Wayne Levy, Graeme Cutts and Sally Stockbridge (eds), The Second Australian History and Film Conference Papers, Australian Film and Television School, 1984
“The Civilian Conservation Corps”, in Otis L Graham Jr, and Meghan Wander (eds), Franklin D Roosevelt: His Life and Times GK Hall and Co, 1985
“The National Youth Administration”, in Otis L Graham Jr, and Meghan Wander (eds), Franklin D Roosevelt: His Life and Times, GK Hall and Co, 1985
“Aubrey Willis Williams”, in Otis L Graham and Meghan Wander (eds), Franklin D Roosevelt: His Life and Times, GK Hall and Co, 1985
“Miss Lucy of the CIO: A Southern Life”, in John Salmond and Bruce Clayton (eds), The South is Another Land, Greenwood Press, 1987
“A New Zealander in Australia”, in Sir Keith Sinclair (ed.), Tasman Relations, University of Auckland Press, 1987
“The Academic Structure”, in WJ Breen (ed.), Building La Trobe University, La Trobe University Press, 1989
“Aspects of Modernization in the Loray Mill Strike of 1929”, in Bruce Clayton and John Salmond (eds), Varieties of Southern History: New Essays on a Region and its People, Greenwood Press, 1996, pp.169-176
“The National Youth Administration”, in Maurine H Beasley, Holly C Shulman, and Henry R Beasley (eds), The Eleanor Roosevelt Encyclopedia, Greenwood Press, 2001
Lucy Randolph Mason”, in Maurine H Beasley, Holly C Shulman and Henry R Beasley (eds), The Eleanor Roosevelt Encyclopedia, Greenwood Press, 2001
“Aubrey Willis Williams”, in Maurine H Beasley, Holly C Shulman and Henry R Beasley (eds), The Eleanor Roosevelt Encyclopedia, Greenwood Press, 2001
“The Civilian Conservation Corps,” in Robert S McElvaine (ed.), Encyclopedia of the Great Depression, 2 vols, Thompson Gale, 2004
“Gastonia, North Carolina,” in Robert S. McElvaine (ed.), Encyclopedia of the Great Depression, 2 vols, Thompson Gale, 2004
“The National Youth Administration,” in Robert S McElvaine (ed.), Encyclopedia of the Great Depression, 2 vols, Thompson Gale, 2004
“Williams, Aubrey,” in Robert S McElvaine (ed.), Encyclopedia of the Great Depression, 2 vols, Thompson Gale, 2004
“Flag-bearers for Integration and Justice: Local Civil Rights Groups in the South, 1945-1950,” in Glenn Feldman (ed.), Before Brown: Civil Rights and White Backlash in the Modern South, University of Alabama Press [forthcoming]

Articles:
“The Frantic Roars of the London Times: British Public Opinion and the Indian Mutiny”, Bengal Past and Present (Vol. 82, Part 2, July 1963)
“New Deal Historiography: a Survey”, Historical News (No. 10, March 1965)
“The Civilian Conservation Corps and the Negro”, Journal of American History (Vol. 52, No. 1, June 1965)
“Senator Kennedy and Consensus”, ANZASA Bulletin, September, 1967
“Aubrey Williams Remembers: A Note on Franklin D Roosevelt’s Attitudes on Civil Rights”, The Alabama Review (January, 1972)
“The N.Y.A. at the Sea-side: A New Deal Episode”, Southern California Quarterly (Vol. 55, No. 2, Summer, 1973)
“The New Deal: Revolution or Evolution”, in American Studies Conference 1972 (Department of Education: New South Wales, 1973)
"Postscript to the New Deal: the Defeat of the Nomination of Aubrey W. Williams as Rural Electrification Administrator in 1945”, Journal of American History (Vol. 61, No. 2, September 1974)
"Change in the American South”, Reality (Vol. 8, No. 5, November 1976)
“The Great Southern Commie Hunt: Aubrey Williams, the Southern Conference Educational Fund and the Internal Security Subcommittee”, South Atlantic Quarterly (Vol. 77, No, 4, Autumn, 1978)
“Vanguard of the Civil Rights Movement: The Post New Deal Career of Aubrey Willis Williams", Historian (Vol. 44, No. 1 November, 1981)
“Reflections on the Twenty-fifth Anniversary of ANZASA”, Australasian Journal of American Studies (Vol. 8, No. 1, July 1989)
“The Fellowship of Southern Churchmen and Interracial Change in the South”, North Carolina Historical Review (Vol. 69, No. 2, April 1992)
“Southern Studies in Australia and New Zealand”, American Studies International (Vol. 31, No. 1, April 1993)
“The Burlington Dynamite Plot”; The 1934 Textile Strike and its Aftermath in Burlington, North Carolina”, North Carolina Historical Review (Vol. 75, No. 4, October 1998)
“Southern Struggles: Aspects of the Fight for Economic and Social Justice in the Twentieth Century American South”, Australasian Journal of American Studies (Vol. 22, No. 1, July 2003)

Published Lectures:
“Michael Joseph Savage: His Life and His Legacy”, (La Trobe University, 1996)
“Southern Struggles: Aspects of the Fight for Economic and Social Justice in the Twentieth-Century American South”, North American Studies Bernard Bailyn Lecture No. 8 (La Trobe University, 2002)

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