I wondered about that too! Thanks, Laura.

Happy to say you can now pre-order Box 25: Archival Secrets, Caribbean Workers, and the Panama Canal from UNC Press. Pre-orders are such a help. Use code 01SOCIAL30 at checkout to save 30%! @UNC_Press

Box 25 | Julie Greene | University of North Carolina Press

When acclaimed labor historian Julie Greene researched her book The Canal Builders, which went on to be nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 2009, she explored ...

In this interview I share thoughts about the future of @labor_journal and answer questions about my own journey as a historian of labor. Thanks to Maia Silber for a fun convo. https://lawcha.org/2024/04/17/julie-greene-interview-labor/

Interview with Julie Greene, editor of Labor: Studies in Working-Class History

You received your PhD in 1990 from Yale University, where you studied under David Montgomery, one of the founders of the “New Labor History.” What brought you to the field? My roots were originally in...

My Distinguished Scholar-Teacher talk is this coming weds at 4. Come on by if you’re in the area!

The term “free white person” in the foundational 1790 Naturalization Act discriminated by race, and among those classified as white—as @greeneland.bsky.social notes—it discriminated by class. 🧵2/3

Thanks Anna! Yes I’ve been digging in and the main explanation I see is exactly that— excluding indentured servants. Zolberg eg says that. Still wanting to know more about the thinking. Their understanding of “free” may be as complex as what they meant by white.

Thanks and same back to you!

My thinking is that “free” was a class designation, ie requiring some property ownership, not purely a racial one. Trying to sort that out.

Thanks, @kevinkenny.bsky.social !

Has anyone written about the meaning of the word “free” in the 1790 Naturalization Act?@unlawfulentries.bsky.social, @earlymodjustice.bsky.social