Randi Storch, ‘Run quick and find the Reds’: Historians’ Search f or American Communists

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Channel: Williams College · 2018 · Education

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One Hundred Years of Communism in the USA. The CPUSA at Home and Abroad since 1919.

Randi Storch is Chair and Professor of History at SUNY Cortland. She
is author of Red Chicago: American Communism at its Grassroots, 1928- 1935 and Working Hard for the American Dream: Workers and their Unions from World War I to the Present. Her interactive map and
essay, “Mapping Red Chicago: Grassroots Communist Party
Activism, 1928-35” is published on-line as part of James Gregory’s larger digital humanities project titled “Mapping American Social Movements through the 20th Century” housed at the University of Washington.

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