User:MesserKruse

I am a professor in the School of Cultural and Critical Studies at Bowling Green State University. In 2003, I published “The Haymarket Bomb: Reassessing The Evidence,” with Jeffrey Dunn, Pannee Burckel, and James O. Eckert, Jr., in Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas, 2:2 (Spring 2005). This article provoked a long and heated thread on the H-Labor listserv [you can find this thread by navigating to H-Net and searching the logs for the keyword "cold case".] This, in turn, provoked an even more controversial exchange with Bryan Palmer in Labor the following year. [Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas, 3:2 (Spring 2006).] In September of 2011 my book on the Haymarket, The Trial of the Haymarket Anarchists: Terrorism and Justice in the Gilded Age was published by Palgrave Macmillan. My article revising many of the common assumptions surrounding the McCormick Riot of May 3, 1886 that precipitated the Haymarket rally, “Strike or Anarchist Plot?: The McCormick Riot of 1886 Reconsidered,” appeared in Labor History, 52:4, Nov. 2011, 483-510. In 2012 the University of Illinois published, The Haymarket Conspiracy: Transatlantic Anarchist Networks which appeared as an imprint in the “Working Class in America Series,” David Montgomery, general editor. You can find more about me and my work at http://blogs.bgsu.edu/trial MesserKruse (talk) 16:44, 20 February 2012 (UTC)