Faculty in History
Dr. Nathan Godfried
Professor of History
207-581-1842
150 Stevens Hall
E-Mail:
nathan.godfried@umit.maine.edu
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison
My teaching specialty is in twentieth-century American history. I have
research interests in the history of mass communication, American
labor history, and film history. My undergraduate classes explore the major political,
economic, and social developments of the United States from 1916 to the
end of the century. I offer a graduate reading course on
twentieth-century American political history and a research seminar on
American popular culture.
Representative Publications:
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"'Fellow Traveler of the Air': Rod Holmgren and Leftist Radio News
Commentary in America's Cold War," The Historical Journal of Film,
Radio and Television, 24:2 (June 2004): 233-51.
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"Identity, Power, and Local Television: African Americans, Organized
Labor, and UHF-TV in Chicago, 1962-1968," The Historical Journal of
Film, Radio and Television, 22:2 (June 2002).
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"Struggling over Politics and Culture: Organized Labor and Radio
Station WEVD During the 1930s," Labor History, 42:4 (November 2001):
347-69. (Recipient of 2002 Cathy Covert Award from the Association for
Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, History Division).
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 WCFL,
Chicago's Voice of Labor, 1926-1978 (Urbana: University of Illinois
Press, 1997).
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"Legitimizing the Mass Media Structure: The Socialists and American
Broadcasting, 1926-1932," in Culture, Gender, Race, and U.S. Labor
History (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1993), edited by Ronald
Kent, Sara Markham, David R. Roediger, and Herbert Shapiro, pp.
123-149.
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Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor: American Economic Development
Policy Toward the Arab East, 1942-1949 (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood
Press, 1987).
Work in Progress:
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"Fellow Travelers of the Air, 1940-1960," a study of leftist and
radical journalists and broadcasters during the 1940s and 1950s.
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"Struggling over Mass Culture: Trade Unions, Working-Class Americans,
and Television, 1950-2000."
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"With These Hands: The ILGWU, Film, and Labor History in the Cold
War."
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