Nativism in the 1890s: The United States, Canada, and Australia

Richard Jensen, PhD Yale 1966, is a retired professor of history. He taught at many schools around the United States, including the University of Illinois, Chicago, 1970-97.  He directed the Family and Community History Center at the Newberry Library, was the founder of the Chicago Metro History Fair, and was the founder of H-Net.  He has lectured widely in the U.S., Europe, Australia and Canada, including a term as Fulbright Professor at Moscow State University.  His first book The Winning of the Midwest: 1888-1896 explored ethnicity and politics and helped establish the “ethnocultural school” of political interpretation.  He has numerous books and articles dealing with historiography, political history, voting studies, ethnic studies, social history, labor history, and military history. Of particular relevance is the article, ”’No Irish Need Apply’: A Myth of Victimization.”  Journal of Social History 36.2 (2002) 405-429  http://tigger.uic.edu/~rjensen/no-irish.htm.   Recently he has written several hundred history articles for Citizendium.com, an online encyclopedia.