Personal:

Rank:

Professor

Address:

Dept. of History (M/C 198)
U. of Illinois at Chicago
913 University Hall
601 South Morgan Street
Chicago, IL 60607-7109

Phone: (312) 996-3719
Fax: (312) 996-6377
Email: rmfried@uic.edu

Education:

• B.A., Amherst College
• M.A. and Ph.D., Columbia University
• At the University of Illinois at Chicago since 1972.

• Books:
  
  
  • The Man Everybody Knew: Bruce Barton and the Making of Modern America (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2005)
  • Men Against McCarthy (Columbia University Press, 1976; paperback edition 1997)
  • Nightmare in Red: The McCarthy Era in Perspective (Oxford University Press, l990; paperback edition 1991)
  • The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming! Pageantry and Patriotism in Cold-War America (Oxford University Press, 1998; paperback edition 1999)
  
  
• Articles, Chapters, Encyclopedia Entries:
  
  
  • "Electoral Politics and McCarthyism: The 1950 Campaign," in Robert W. Griffith and Athan Theoharis, eds., The Specter: Original Essays on the Cold War and the Origins of McCarthyism (New York: Franklin Watts, 1974)
  • "John F. Kennedy and the l960 Campaign," Introduction to Microform Edition of The John F. Kennedy l960 Campaign (Frederick, MD: University Press of America, l987)
  • "The Red Scare," in Richard Kirkendall & Meghan Wander, eds., Harry S. Truman: His Life and Times (Boston, 1990)
  • "Executive Privilege," in Joel Silbey ed. in chief, Encyclopedia of the American Legislative System (New York, 1994)
  • "Springtime for Stalin: Mosinee's 'Day Under Communism' as Cold War Pageantry," Wisconsin Magazine of History77 (Winter 1993-94)
  • "Madrid Diary: Spain Examines the Splendid Little War,'" Chronicle of Higher Education, Oct. 9, 1998
  • "The Fifties We Forget," in Maria Eugenia Diaz Sanchez and Viorica Patea Birk, eds., Anarchy and Dissent: American Literature in the Sixties (Salamanca, 2000)
  • "Introduction" to Bruce Barton, The Man Nobody Knows (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2000)
  • "The Idea of 'Conspiracy' in McCarthy Era Politics," Prologue (Spring 2002)
    
  • "Voting Against the Hammer and Sickle: Communism as an Issue in American Politics," in WIlliam H. Chafe, ed., The Achievement of American Liberalism: The New Deal and Its Legacies (New York: Columbia University Press, 2003)
  • "1950-1960," in Stephen J. Whitfield, ed., A Companion to American History (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2004)

   

Review Essays:

• "Communism and Anti-Communism: A Review Essay," Wisconsin Magazine of History 63 (Summer l980)
• "McCarthyism Without Tears: A Review Essay," Wisconsin Magazine of History 66 (Winter 1982-83)
• "Liars' Club: The Remington Case," Reviews in American History 24 (March l996)
• "Crying Wolf: American Anticommunism," Reviews in American History 24 (December, 1996)
• "The Other Shoe Remains Aloft," Reviews in American History 28 (September 2000)
  

Awards and Positions:

• Senior Fulbright Fellow, Vietnam National University,Hanoi, 2006
• UIC Humanities Institute Fellow, 1988-89
• Senior Fulbright Lecturer, Universidad de Alcala de Henares and Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 1998
• UIC Department of History Shirley A. Bill Teaching Award, 2004
  

Area of Expertise:

Recent U.S. History


Current Activity:

Although I continue to be interested in McCarthyism, Cold War pageantry, and US politics in the mid-twentieth century, my next project will be a study of the US political culture in the 1950s.