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Jeffrey A Johnson

  • Professor of History; Director, Graduate History Program; Director, American Studies Program, History & Classics
  • Ruane Center for the Humanities 133

Personal profile

Biography

Dr. Jeff Johnson is Professor of History and Director of the Graduate Program at Providence College. He teaches courses on the Gilded Age /Progressive Era, the American West, and labor history. His work centers on the political, cultural, and social history of the late 19th and early 20th Century American West, and the intersections of class, democracy, and dissent. He is the author of three books: 

They Are All Red Out Here: Socialist Politics in the Pacific Northwest, 1895-1925 (The University of Oklahoma Press, 2008).

Reforming America: A Thematic Encyclopedia and Document Collection of the Progressive Era (ABC-Clio, 2017). [Recipient of an American Library Association award and on its 2018 List of "Best Historical Materials"]

The 1916 Preparedness Day Bombing: Anarchists and Terrorism in Progressive Era America (Routledge, 2018).

His next book, "Faithfully Yours: George Herron's America, 1885–1925," is forthcoming from the University of Illinois Press.

Education

Ph.D., Washington State University