Humanities and Social Sciences

History Program

Staff Profiles

Professor John Salmond

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).

Research Publications

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)