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Robert Cherny papers

 Collection
Identifier: larc-ms-0394

Scope and Contents

Comprises materials related to the formation of the Labor Studies Center at San Francisco State University and to Cherny's work as an advisory committee member on the California Labor History Map Advisory Committee. Also includes correspondence, application forms, and budget materials related to a 1978-1979 "Labor on Campus" grant, and conference materials from the Southwest Labor Studies annual conferences, 1977-1985. Publications include two issues of Southwest Economy and Society as well as multiple issues of Southwest Labor Studies newsletters from 1987-1988.

Documents related to the founding of the Labor Studies Center at San Francisco State University include proposals, correspondence, and descriptions of courses related to a new academic program leading to a BA degree with a major in Labor Studies.

Dates

  • 1975-2003

Creator

Availability

Collection is open for research.

Restrictions

Copyright has not been assigned to the Labor Archives and Research Center. All requests for permission to publish or quote from materials must be submitted in writing to the Director of the Archives. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Labor Archives and Research Center as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader.

Biographical Note

Robert W. Cherny is a professor emeritus of history at San Francisco State University. His research and teaching interests are in U.S. history 1865–1940, politics, labor, and the West, especially California and San Francisco. His published work includes American Politics in the Gilded Age, 1868–1900 (1997); San Francisco, 1865–1932 (1981), with William Issel; A Righteous Cause: The Life of William Jennings Bryan (1985); coedited anthologies on California women and politics (2011) and labor and the Cold War (2004); coauthored textbooks on U.S. and California history; and numerous journal articles, the most recent of which deal with communism and anticommunism on the West Coast. He has been a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, Distinguished Fulbright Lecturer at Moscow State University, and Senior Fulbright Lecturer at Heidelberg University, and he has spoken to Teaching American History programs around the country. He is currently finishing a biography of Victor Arnautoff, a leading muralist in San Francisco and an officer in the White Siberian Army during the Russian Civil War who became a member of the Communist Party in the late 1930s and emigrated to the Soviet Union at the end of his life. (Biography from the Organization of American Historians website: http://www.oah.org/lectures/lecturers/view/1519

Extent

0.4 Cubic Feet (1 box)

Language of Materials

English

Abstract

Comprises materials related to the formation of the Labor Studies Center at San Francisco State University and to Cherny's work as an advisory committee member on the California Labor History Map Advisory Committee. Also includes correspondence, application forms, and budget materials related to a 1978-1979 "Labor on Campus" grant, and conference materials from the Southwest Labor Studies annual conferences, 1977-1985. Publications include two issues of Southwest Economy and Society as well as multiple issues of Southwest Labor Studies newsletters from 1987-1988.

Arrangement

Arranged as received.

Location

Collection is available onsite.

Acquisition

Donated by Robert Cherny in 2012.

Processing Information

Processed by Labor Archives and Research Center staff.

Title
Robert Cherny Papers
Status
Completed
Author
Labor Archives and Research Center staff.
Date
2015
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin
Language of description note
Finding aid written in: English.

Repository Details

Part of the Labor Archives and Research Center Repository

Contact:
San Francisco State University
J. Paul Leonard Library, Room 460
1630 Holloway Ave
San Francisco 94132-1722 USA
(415) 405-5571