Professor of History
Office: 404 Carson Hall
Office Phone: (603) 646-2595
Fax: (603) 646-3353
Email: Bruce.Nelson@Dartmouth.edu
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Born and raised on Long Island, Bruce Nelson migrated to California in the 1960s and combined the study of American history at UC Berkeley with participation in the major social movements of that decade. In the seventies he continued his education on a truck assembly line and remained active in the trade union movement for nearly ten years, before returning to Berkeley to complete his Ph.D. in 1982. His principal academic interest is the "making" of class, race, and nation, not only in the United States, but in an "Atlantic World" setting. In addition to teaching the American survey (History 2), recent U.S. history (History 23), the working class in American society (History 22), and a senior seminar on the Civil Rights Movement (History 96), he has become increasingly interested in Irish history in recent years and has added a course on the making of modern Ireland, 1798-1923 (History 60) to the Department's offerings.
