Phillip S. Foner - Marxist Historian

Philip S. Foner was one of the most prolific, and maligned, historians of the twentieth century. In 1941, at a time of anti-communist fervor, he was removed from his academic position at City College-New York. Robbed of a full-time academic position, he continued to publish groundbreaking manuscripts often resurrecting long forgotten individuals and events. Probably best known for his monumental eleven volume History of the Labor Movement in the United States, Foner also published a five volume collection of the Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass; he also edited the writings of W.E.B. Du Bois and Pual Robeson; wrote on labor and the Vietnam war; and published books on Women and the American Labor Movement, among so many other topics. This volume collects, for the first time, a Remembrance from Laura and Elizabeth Foner, Phillip Foner's daughters; two essays on Foner's unique contributions to African American History and Labor History; an essay on how Foner's Bibliography came into existence and how the New York Labor History Association continues to ignore Foner's contributions; and a short selection of Foner's writings from the Daily Worker and Daily World.