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Ronald D. Cohen Department of History Professor Emeritus at IU Northwest Since 1970 Retired 2004 Ronald D. Cohen Department of History Professor Emeritus At IU Northwest since 1970 Retired 2004 SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS AND CREATIVE ACHIEVEMENTS BOOKS: Cohen, Ronald and Robert Lichtman. Deadly Farce: Harvey Matusow and the Workings ofthe Informer System in the McCarthy Era. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004. Ed. Alan Lomax: Selected Writings, 1934-1995. N.Y.: Routledge, 2003. Cohen, Ronald and David Bonner, Golden. Threads: An Illustrated History of Folk Music in the United States, 1900- 1970. N.Y.: The Folk Music Museum in Greenwich Village, forthcoming 2003. Rainbow Quest: The Folk Music Revival and American Society, 1940-1970. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2002. Cohen, Ronald and Stephen McShane, eds., Moonlight in Duneland: The Illustrated Story of the Chicago South Shore and South Bend Railroad. Bloomington: Indiana University.Press, 1998. Ed., Red Dust and Broadsides: A Joint Autobiography by Agnes "Sis"Cunningham and Gordon Friesen. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press, 1999. Ed., "Wasn't That a Time!": Firsthand Accounts of the Folk Revival. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1995. Children of the Mill: Schooling and Society in Gary, Indiana, l906-l960. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, Press, 1990. Reprinted in paperback, N.Y.: Routledge, 2002, with a new introduction by William Reese. Cohen, Ronald and James B. Lane. Gary: A Pictorial History. Virginia Beach, Va.: Donning Co., l983). Cohen, Ronald and Raymond Mohl. The Paradox of Progressive Education: The Gary Plan and Urban Schooling. Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat Press, l979. CD COMPILATIONS: Co-produced with Jeff Place. The Best of Broadside: 1962-1988: Anthems of the American Underground From the Pages of Broadside Magazine. (5 CD box with illustrated book) Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, 2000). (Two Grammy nominations, April 2001--historical and liner notes. Two Indie awards from the Association For Independent Music, May 2001--liner notes and packaging.) Co-produced with Dave Samuelson. Goodnight, Irene: The Weavers, 1949-1953 (4 CD box with DVD and illustrated book). Bear Family Records, 2000. Co-produced with Dave Samuelson. Songs For Political Action: Folk Music,Topical Songs, and the American Left, 1926-1954. (10 CD boxed set with large book). Bear Family Records, 1996 . (The 1997 ARSC Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research.) ARTICLES (in refereed journals): Cohen, Ronald and Robert Lichtman. "Harvey Matusow, the FBI, and the Justice Department: Becoming a Government Informer-Witness in the McCarthy Era." American Communist History 1: 1, (Summer 2002.). "The Delinquents: Youth Culture and Censorship in Recent American History." History of Education Quarterly 37: 3 (Fall 1997), 251-270. To be reprinted in Roy Lowe, History of Education: Major Themes . London: Routledge. CHAPTERS IN SCHOLARLY BOKS: "Singing Subversion: Folk Music and the Counterculture in the 1950s." Eds., Cornelis van Minnen, Jaap van der Bent, Mel van Elteren. Beat Culture: The 1950s and Beyond. Amsterdam: VU University Press, 1999. 117-127. "Music Goes To War: California, 1940-1945." Ed. Roger Lotchin. The Way We Really Were: The Golden State in the Second Great War. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1999. 47-67. "Woody The Red?," Eds. Robert Santelli and Emily Davidson. Hard Travelin':The Life and Legacy of Woody Guthrie. Hanover, NH: Wesleyan University Press,1999. 138-152. "Schooling Uncle Sam's Children: Education in the U.S.A., l94l-l945" Ed. Roy. Education and the Second World War: Studies in Schooling and Social Change. London: Falmer Press, 1992. 46-58. Revised: 03/07/09 .
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