Authors and Illustrators Database

James Steele

Born: 04/21/1910  Fraserburgh, Scotland
Died: 08/07/2004
Parents: Robert and Elizabeth Cruden
Spouse: Janet (they were married 74 years)
Children: Robert W., Janet E. (Mrs. C. A. Christensen)

Writings

Image Title Genre Audience Publisher Date
Many and One : A Social History of the United States Non Fiction, History Adult Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall 1980
The War That Never Ended : The American Civil War Non Fiction, History Adult Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall 1972
The Negro in Reconstuction Non Fiction, History Adult Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall 1969
James Ford Rhodes : The Man, The Historian and His Work Biography, History Adult Press of Case Western Reserve University 1961
Five Years: The Story of the United Rubber Workers of America Non Fiction Adult The Workers 1940
Conveyor
- Communist novel about autoworkers in the Detroit River Rouge Plant of Ford under the name James Steele 		Fiction, Michigan Adult International Publishers 1935

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Donated books to the Authors & Illustrators database project: No

Skills:
Author

Inclusion in biographical or critical works:

Name Date
Literary Michigan by the Michigan Council for the Humanities 1988
Contemporary Authors volume(s) 33-36R 1979

Memberships:

Name Date
American Historical Association
Organization of American Historians
Southern Historical Association

Education:

Degree Institution Location Date
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in history Hiram College Hiram, OH 1951
College of the City of Detroit (now Wayne State University) Detroit, MI
Master of Arts (M. A.), Doctor of Philosophy (Ph. D.) Western Reserve University (now Case Western Reserve) Cleveland, OH

Career:

Position Organization Location Date
Associate Professor, Professor of History Lewis and Clark College Portland 1963-1978
Instructor Baldwin-Wallace College Berea, Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.ViewFeatures.StringHtmlContent 1954-1956
Lecturer in History Case Western Reserve 1952-1963
Technical Sergeant with a tank battalion U. S. Army Pacific Theater 1944-1946
Writer in publicity and public relations Labor and community organizations Cleveland and Akron, Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.ViewFeatures.StringHtmlContent 1931-1949
Assistant Professor, Associate Professor of History
-  (1956-1962, 1962-1963) 		Berea College Berea, Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.ViewFeatures.StringHtmlContent

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