Stephen H. Norwood

Stephen H. Norwood is a professor of history at the University of Oklahoma. He received his PhD at Columbia University in 1984. [ www.ou.edu/cas/history/faculty_bio_norwood.html ]

Norwood is working on a book assessing the "Response of American Universities to Nazism," a project that has drawn attention even before publication. [ www.columbiaspectator.com/node/23372 ] [ www.historians.org/calendar/index.cfm ] [ [http://www.wymaninstitute.org/articles/2004-11-harvard.php David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies: Welcome ] ] [ [http://www.bnaibrith.ca/article.php?id=839 Welcome To B'nai Brith - Articles ] ] According to Norwood, "Harvard was involved in active steps that helped legitimate the Nazi regime in the West," [ Harvard's stance on Nazis questioned; Historian calls '30s record 'shameful,’ By Marcella Bombardieri, Boston Globe , November 14, 2004 http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2004/11/14/harvards_stance_on_nazis_questioned/ ] and was “indifferent to the prosecution of German Jews and indeed on numerous occasions assisted the Nazis in their efforts to gain acceptance in the West,” welcoming one of Adolf Hitler’s closest deputies to a reunion, hosting a reception for German naval officials and sending delegates to a celebration at a German university that had expelled Jews while failing to condemn the policies of Hitler’s National socialist regime. [ www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6487029/ “Historian: Harvard ‘assisted’ Nazi image efforts,” ] [ “ Harvard Accused of Helping Nazis,” Tiisetso Dladla, 11/22/04, Black College view http://www.blackcollegeview.com/news/2004/11/22/CampusNewsViews/Harvard.Accused.Of.Helping.Nazis.At.Holocaust.Conference-2472601.shtml ] [ “The real story of Nazi's Harvard visit,” Andrew Schlesinger , November 18, 2004, Boston Globe, http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2004/11/18/the_real_story_of_nazis_harvard_visit/ ]

Books

* "Strikebreaking and Intimidation: Mercenaries and Masculinity in Twentieth-Century America" (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002)
* "Labor's Flaming Youth: Telephone Operators and Worker Militancy, 1878 - 1923" (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990).
* "Real Football: Conversations on America's Game" (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2004).
* Co-editor, "Encyclopedia of American Jewish History" (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2007).

Awards

* Herbert G. Gutman Award in American Social History , 1990
* SABR/Macmillan Award

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