Paul Buhle

Career Buhle taught at the Cambridge-Godard Graduate School, 1971–73, and lectured at the Rhode Island School of Design until accepting an appointment as lecturer in History and American Civilization at Brown University in 1995. In 1982–83, he created an oral history collection at the Tamiment Library, New York University, the Oral History of the American Left Collection, with associated research on ethnic radicalism.

Buhle has served on the Board of The Minnesota Review, as Contributing Editor to Tikkun, and on the editorial advisory board on Radical Americas (an on-line publication of MDS). He has also been a sponsor of New Politics and an adviser on documentary biographies of Howard Zinn, comic artist Will Eisner, and Sacco and Vanzetti, and in the 1980s served as historian for the radio series Grandma was an Activist.

Buhle is the editor/creator of radical graphic books, including The Young C.L.R. James: A Graphic Novelette and A Full Life: James Connolly the Irish Rebel.

Selected bibliography

Books: Author, Marxism in the United States (1987) Author, C. L. R. James: The Artist as Revolutionary (1988) Editor, History and the New Left: Madison, Wisconsin, 1950–1970 (1990) Co-author, The Tragedy of Empire: A biography of William Appleman Williams (1995) Co-editor, Encyclopedia of the American Left (1990, 1998), with Mari Jo Buhle and Dan Georgakas Co-author, A Very Dangerous Citizen, Abraham Lincoln Polonsky and the Hollywood Left (1999) Co-author, Radical Hollywood (2001) Co-author, Hide in Plain Sight, the Blacklistees in Film and Television, 1950–2002 (2003) Co-editor, The New Left Revisited (2004) Co-editor, Wobblies! A Graphic History of the Industrial Workers of the World (2005) Author, Tim Hector, Caribbean Radical (2006) Editor, Jews and American Popular Culture, 3 volumes (2007) Editor, Che Guevara, a Graphic Biography (2008) Co-author, with Howard Zinn and Mike Konopacki of A People's History of American Empire (2008), Co-editor, Yiddishkeit: Jewish Vernacular & the New Land (2011) Editor, Radical Jesus: A Graphic History of Faith (2013) Co-editor, Herbert Marcuse, Philosopher of Utopia (City Lights, 2019) Co-editor, with Marcus Rediker and David Lester Prophet Against Slavery (2021)

Articles: " E. P. Thompson and his Critics ". Telos 49 (Fall 1981). New York: Telos Press "The Left and the Class Struggle", Monthly Review 72 (7) 2020.: 57–63.