David Brundage, Author

Michael Laslett

Michael Laslett, David Brundage, Tobias Higbie

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David Brundage is Professor Emeritus and Research Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz. A specialist in both US labor and Irish diaspora history, he is author of The Making of Western Labor Radicalism: Denver's Organized Workers, 1878–1905 (1994) and Irish Nationalists in America: The Politics of Exile, 1798-1998 (2016). He is working on a biography entitled A People’s Advocate: Frank P. Walsh and the Democratic Promise.

John Laslett: A Scholarly Remembrance

Labor historian John Laslett died on March 23rd, 2025 at the age of 91. He will be remembered for his scholarly engagement with

by Michael Laslett, David Brundage, Tobias Higbie
December 12, 2025

Labor History

The Easter Rising 100 years on: How the Irish revolution fired up American politics

On July 27, 1919, Marcus Garvey, the African-American nationalist then nearing the height of his influence, rose to address a crowd of almost

by David Brundage
May 9, 2016