Individual Scholar Page

Personal Info

Photo

About Me

Tula Connell (Ph.D. American History, Georgetown; M.A. European History, Yale; B.A. Journalism, Marquette) is an historian of the United States focusing on 20th century labor and social movements, and author of Conservative Counterrevolution: Challenging Liberalism in 1950s Milwaukee (University of Illinois Press, 2016), a volume in the series, “The Working Class in American History” edited by Nelson Lichtenstein et al.

Connell is a writer, editor and media professional with more than 20 years’ experience in labor communications. She serves on the board of the Labor and Working Class History Association, and on the board of the National Coalition of Independent Scholars.

 

Recent Publications

Scholarly publications

Conservative Counterrevolution: Challenging Liberalism in 1950s Milwaukee (University of Illinois Press, 2016)

“‘Labor Rights Are Human Rights’: An Interview with Maina Kiai, UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and of Association,” June 2017, Journal of Working-Class Studies

“1950s Milwaukee: Race, Class, and a City Divided,” December 2016, Labor Studies Journal

Book Reviews
Refinery Town: Big Oil, Big Money and the Remaking of an American City, Steve Early, Dec 2017, Journal of Working-Class Studies

Democracy in Chains:  The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America, Nancy MacLean, Labor: Studies in Working-Class History, forthcoming

Labor Under Fire: A History of the AFL-CIO since 1979, Timothy Minchin, Labor History, forthcoming

Making the World Safe for Workers: Labor, the Left, and Wilsonian Internationalism, Elizabeth McKillen, Labor: Studies in Working-Class History, forthcoming

Popular publications

“Vel Phillips Broke Sexist Barriers, Challenged Bigots of All Kinds, Even Milwaukee’s Mayor,” Milwaukee Journal, April 19, 2018
https://www.jsonline.com/story/opinion/contributors/2018/04/19/vel-phillips-broke-sexist-barriers-challenged-bigots/529783002/

“Conservatives Have Been Trying to Convince Us They’ll ‘Make America Great’ for Over Half a Century,” Alternet, July 21, 2016
https://www.alternet.org/right-wing/far-rights-50-year-project-make-america-great-again

“One Man’s Evolution to Understanding Gender Inequality,” Thomson Reuters, Dec. 2, 2015
http://news.trust.org/item/20151202143943-cdlkx/

 

Media Coverage

Regular speaker on "Labor History Today podcast," a weekly feature of the Washington, D.C. Metro Labor Council; featured on "The Voice of the People" podcast on Blog Talk Radio, May 14, 2018; Delivered Frank P. Zeidler Memorial Lecture, April 2016. The Ze

Social Media

@TulaConnell

Country Focus

United States

Expertise by Geography

United States

Expertise by Chronology

20th century

Expertise by Topic

Local & Regional, Race, Urban History