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Professor's book maps U.S. socialism
Jeffrey Johnson's book, They Are All Red Out Here, provides research,
insight on American third-party politics from the early 20th Century
By Luke Tatge
Mirror Editor in Chief
With a passion for studying history's un-derdogs,
Augustana professor Jeffrey John-son
fueled,extensive research and interest in
the subject of socialism in America to write
They Are All Red Out Here: Socialist Politics in
the Pacific Northwest, 1895-1925.
Johnson began research for his book in
2001. He studied socialist party newspapers,
pamphlets and manuscripts in preparation
for writing. After completing a manuscript
in 2004, the University of Oklahoma Press
picked up his work and published it in De-cember
2008.
"My interest in American socialism comes
from two proclivities I have about the disci-pline
of history," Johnson said. "First, I love
the 'historical underdog, and as far as U.S.
political and labor history goes, you will find
few better 'outsider's' than socialists. And
second, I think as historians we are at our
best when we tell stories that have not been
told, and this one, remarkably, never received
its historical due."
Johnson hopes his book has some clear
connections to modern society. He said it
reminds readers that "anti-radicalism and
paranoia can often unfairly stifle alternative
viewpoints."
"It reminds us of wage work and what the
American working class has and does deal
with," he said. "It tells us about our rigid two-party
system and how difficult it is for third-party
alternatives to flourish!'
Johnson, who teaches an upper-division
history course, "Radicals, Reformers and Ro-mantics,"
feels that research inspires instruc-tion.
"It has been a long but wonderfully re-warding
process," Johnson said. "As a class,
we explore a diverse set of readings that shed
insight on radical and reform movements
and characters throughout American history.
I am interested in radicalism because it can
tell us so much about the main currents in
American history, politics and thought!'
Senior Claire Jaenisch read Johnson's
book for a class that she took with the profes-sor
and described it as "well-researched and
See BOOK, page 11
Submitted Photo
HistOry professor Jeffrey Johnson, author of They Are All Red Out Here: Socialist Politics in the Pacific Northwest,
1895-1925, uses his background in research on American socialism in the classroom and in his written work.
Dan Johnson
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Johnson
to serve as
ambassador
for. NASA
By Marit Karbowski
Mirror Assistant Editor
Like many young boys, se-nior
Dan Johnson dreamed of
one day becoming an astro-naut.
He grew up watching the
original Star Trek and some
of the first men orbiting the
moon in the late 60s. Johnson
never thought that one day
he would be a part of the Na-tional
Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA) pro-gram.
Out of more than 2,000
applicants,
Johnson is
among the
43 college
students
around the
nation that
were select-ed
as NASA
Internation-al
Year of Astronomy student
ambassadors.
In honor of the discovery
Galileo made with a telescope
400 years ago, the Internation-al
Astronomical Union (IAU)
and the United Nations have
proclaimed 2009 as the Inter-national
Year of Astronomy.
According to the NASA
Web site, they have done
this "to spread awareness of
astronomy's contributions to
society and culture, stimulate
young people's interest in sci-ence,
portray astronomy as a
global peaceful endeavor and
See NASA, page 11
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