Thomas Mackaman, Ph.D.

Biography

Education

• B.A., History, University of Minnesota
• M.A., History, University of Illinois
• Ph.D., History, University of Illinois

Publications and Presentations

• Immigrant Labor, Capital Concentration, and the Subcontracting System: Lessons from Pennsylvania’s Anthracite Coal Industry, 1900-1920, SITES-GLO Conference, Naples, Italy, Sept 12, 2024.
• Wildcat strikes, the Industrial Workers of the World, and dual unionism: labor insurgencies in Pennsylvania’s anthracite region, 1900–1939, with Robert Wolensky, Labor History, September, 1–20.
• “Labor: From Replaceable Cogs to Corporate Citizens,” in Tim Dayton and Mark W. Van Wienen, A History of American Literature and Culture of the First World War (Cambridge University Press, 2021).
• “Competitiveness, Control, and Decline in the Northern Anthracite Coalfield of Pennsylvania, 1890-1960” (with Robert P. Wolensky). The Mining History Journal, v. 28, 2021.
• “Lost and Found in the College Archive: Remarks on King's College’s First 75 Years,” Presentation to the Congregation of the Holy Cross History Conference, King’s College, June 2, 2022.
• “Emigration from Donegal to the Anthracite Coal Mining Region of Pennsylvania.,” Presentation to Amach as an Iarthair / Out of the West Migration and Emigration from West Donegal, Dunlewey, Ireland, May 6, 2022.
• “From Erin to Anthracite: Irish Immigrants in the ‘Hard Coal’ Region of Northeastern Pennsylvania,” Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies, University of Galway, Ireland, May 9, 2022.
• “World War I and the American Working Class,” presentation to the American Literature Association annual conference, San Diego, May 21-24, 2020-- Cancelled due to COVID-19 Pandemic.
• “Class and Race in the Writing of American History,” International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE), SUNY-Geneseo, April 1, 2020. Cancelled due to COVID-19 Pandemic.
• “Race and Historical Falsification in the Context of the Civil War,” Political Theory Club, San Diego State University, April 14, 2020. Cancelled due to COVID-19 Pandemic.
• “The American Revolution and its Place in World History,” lecture to the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, October 22, 2019.
• “Slavery and the American Revolution: A Response to the 1619 Project,” lecture to International Youth and Students for Social Equality IYSSE, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 20, 2019.
• “Slavery and the American Revolution: A Response to the 1619 Project,”, New York University, New York City, November 19, 2019.
• Race and Class in American History, Lecture to Department of Sociology, Lehigh Carbon Community College, Schnecksville, Pennsylvania, April 2020.
• “Episodes in Anthracite Labor History,” Anthracite Heritage Museum, Scranton, Pennsylvania, Thursday, Sept. 12, 2019.
• “Labor and Industry in the Early Years of Anthracite,” Presentation to Mining Heritage Month, King’s College, January 12, 2019.
• “Four Major Anthracite Mining Disasters,” Lackawanna Historical Society, Scranton Pennsylvania, January 15, 2019.
• “A Decade of Defeat: The Decline and Transformation of the American Unions in the 1980s,” Twelfth Global Studies Conference: The “End of History” 30 Years On: Globalization Then and Now. Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland. June 28, 2019.
• “War, Revolt, and Reaction: The Russian Revolution, Immigrant Workers, and the Birth of American anti-Communism,” Lecture to the Political Theory Club, San Diego State University, April 19, 2019.
• “Globalization and Organized Labor: The Decline and Transformation of the United Auto Workers in the 1980s,” Presentation to Business History Conference, March 15, 2019, Cartagena, Colombia

Awards and Designations

• John H.A. Whitman Distinguished Service Professor