Harvey J. Kaye

Kaye received a B.A. at Rutgers University in 1971. During his undergraduate years, he participated in a six-month study abroad program at the National University of Mexico. He then won a scholarship to the London School of Economics and Political Science within the University of London. He majored in International Relations and Latin American Studies, and earned his M.A. in 1973. He returned to the United States to complete his Ph.D. at Louisiana State University in 1976.

Kaye's first book, The British Marxist Historians, was published in 1984 (it was reissued in 2022).{{cite web |url=https://progressivegeographies.com/2022/09/21/harvey-j-kaye-the-british-marxist-historians-zer0-september-2022/ |website=Progressive Geographies |date=September 21, 2022 |title=Harvey J. Kaye, The British Marxist Historians – Zer0, September 2022}} In it he analyzes the writings of Maurice Dobb, Rodney Hilton, Christopher Hill, Eric Hobsbawm, and E.P. Thompson. Kaye then edited anthologies of the works of two other British leftist historians, George Rudé and Victor Kiernan. Kaye's 1992 volume, The Education of Desire: Marxists and the Writing of History, won the Deutscher Memorial Prize.{{cite web |url=https://www.deutscherprize.org.uk/wp/past-recipients/ |title=Past Recipients |publisher=The Deutscher Memorial Prize |date=July 16, 2024}}

Next, he shifted focus to America's progressive and radical roots, with two books on the author of Common Sense, specifically, Thomas Paine: Firebrand of the Revolution (2000) and Thomas Paine and the Promise of America (2005).{{cite news |last=Ellis |first=Joseph J. |title='Thomas Paine and the Promise of America': Founding Father of the American Left |date=July 31, 2005 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/31/books/review/thomas-paine-and-the-promise-of-america-founding-father-of-the.html |newspaper=The New York Times}} He later wrote about the era of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in The Fight for the Four Freedoms (2014){{cite book |editor-last=Ruby |editor-first=Mary |title=Contemporary Authors New Revision Series |year=2015 |location=Farmington Hills, Michigan |publisher=Gale Research |isbn=978-1573023573 |pages=224–227}} and FDR on Democracy (2020).

Kaye has appeared as a commentator on current affairs programs such as Bill Moyers Journal, Moyers & Company, The Thom Hartmann Program, The Hill's Rising web series, The Majority Report with Sam Seder, and That's Jacqueline! Life & Politics Gloves Off.{{cite web |title=Harvey J. Kaye: books, biography, latest update |website=Amazon.com |url=https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B001H6UAOM/about |access-date=May 4, 2025}} Kaye was a frequent guest on the listener-supported podcast, The David Feldman Show.

Kaye has taught many years at the University of Wisconsin–Green Bay (UW-Green Bay), where he is the Ben & Joyce Rosenberg Professor Emeritus of Democracy and Justice Studies.{{cite web |title=Harvey J. Kaye: Historian, Professor, Author of The Fight for the Four Freedoms |last=Bienaimee |first=Suze |url=https://studioseeds.com/kaye/ |date=January 15, 2017 |publisher=StudioSeeds}} He is also the Founding Director of the University's Center for History and Social Change.{{cite web |title=Harvey J Kaye |publisher=That's Jacqueline! |url=https://thatsjacqueline.com/harvey-j-kaye/ |date=December 6, 2020}} His 2015 commencement address at UW-Green Bay was covered in the news.{{cite web |last=Sampson |first=Christopher |title=Kaye to grads: For a better America, remember our history |date=December 19, 2015 |url=https://news.uwgb.edu/phlash/news/12/19/kays-commencement-address/ |website=Inside UW-Green Bay News}} He hosts the Harvey J. Kaye State of Democracy Speaker Series at the university, which has invited speakers such as Democratic Party presidential candidate Marianne Williamson.{{cite web |last=Bouchard |first=Kristin |date=September 25, 2018 |title=Marianne Williamson headlines UW-Green Bay's Harvey J. Kaye Speaker Series at the Weidner |url=https://news.uwgb.edu/phlash/releases/09/19/marianne-williamson-headlines-uw-green-bays-harvey-j-kaye-speaker-series-at-the-weidner/ |access-date=July 20, 2023 |website=Inside UW-Green Bay News}} Kaye served as an advisor to Williamson's 2024 presidential campaign.{{cite web |title=An Economic Bill of Rights {{!}} Marianne 2024 - proud to be her advisor |access-date=July 20, 2023 |website=Twitter |language=en |url=https://twitter.com/harveyjkaye/status/1679633692514217985}}

Kaye was an Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lecturer (2007-2013), and was a member of The Nation magazine's 2014 Progressive Honor Roll.{{cite web |last=Sampson |first=Christopher |title=Kaye's Four Freedoms book makes Nation's 2014 'Progressive Honor Roll' |website=Inside UW-Green Bay News |date=January 2, 2015 |url=https://news.uwgb.edu/phlash/faculty-staff/01/02/kaye-makes-nations-2014-progressive-honor-roll/ }}

Kaye was born in Englewood, New Jersey. He and his wife Lorna live in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

• The British Marxist Historians: An Introductory Analysis, 1984, {{ISBN|0745600158}}
• The Face of the Crowd : Studies in Revolution, Ideology, and Popular Protest: Selected Essays of George Rudé (editor), 1988, {{ISBN|978-0391035898}}
• History, Classes, and Nation-States: Selected Writings of Victor Kiernan (editor), 1988, {{ISBN|978-0745604244}}
• E.P. Thompson: Critical Perspectives (co-edited with Keith McClelland), 1990, {{ISBN|978-0877227304}}
• Poets, Politics and the People (editor), 1990, {{ISBN|978-0860912453}}
• The Powers of the Past: Reflections on the Crisis and the Promise of History, 1991, {{ISBN|978-0816621200}}
• The Education of Desire: Marxists and the Writing of History, 1992, {{ISBN|978-0415905879}}
• Imperialism and Its Contradictions (editor), 1995, {{ISBN|978-0415907972}}
• "Why Do Ruling Classes Fear History" and Other Questions, 1996, {{ISBN|978-0312126919}}
• The Spitting Image: Myth, Memory, and the Legacy of Vietnam (consulting editor), 1998, {{ISBN|978-0814751466}}
• Thomas Paine: Firebrand of the Revolution (young adult biography), 2000, {{ISBN|978-0195116274}}
• Revolutionary Europe: 1783–1815 (editor), 2000, {{ISBN|978-0631221890}}
• Are We Good Citizens?: Affairs Political, Literary, and Academic, 2001, {{ISBN|978-0807740200}}
• Thomas Paine and the Promise of America, 2005, {{ISBN|978-0809089703}}
• Liberty Tree: Ordinary People and the American Revolution (consulting editor), 2006, {{ISBN|978-0814796856}}
• The Fight for the Four Freedoms: What Made FDR and the Greatest Generation Truly Great, 2014, {{ISBN|978-1451691436}}
• The American Radical (co-edited with Mary Jo Buhle and Paul Buhle), 2017, {{ISBN|978-1138402423}}
• Take Hold of Our History: Make America Radical Again, 2019, {{ISBN|978-1789043556}}
• FDR on Democracy: The Greatest Speeches and Writings of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 2020, {{ISBN|978-1510752160}}

• {{cite journal |date=May 1983 |title=History and Social Theory: Notes on the Contribution of British Marxist Historiography to Our Understanding of Class |journal=Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology |volume=20 |issue=2 |pages=167–192 |url=https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1755-618X.1983.tb00895.x |url-access=limited}}
• {{cite journal |title=Historical Consciousness and Storytelling: John Berger's Fiction |journal=Mosaic: An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal |volume=16 |number=4 |date=Fall 1983 |pages=43-57 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24777713 |jstor=24777713}}
• {{cite journal |title=Review: The Making of American Memory |journal=American Quarterly |volume=46 |number=2 |date=June 1994 |pages=251–259 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2713340 |jstor=2713340}}
• {{cite journal |title=Radicals and the Making of American Democracy: Toward a New Narrative of American History |journal=The History Teacher |volume=28 |number=2 |date=February 1995 |pages=217–225 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/494487 |jstor=494487}}
• {{cite journal |title=Why Do Ruling Classes Fear History? |journal=World Affairs: The Journal of International Issues |volume=4 |number=1 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/45064258 |date=June 1995 |pages=33–41 |jstor=45064258}}
• {{cite web |title=Remembering Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the Second Bill of Rights |date=March 7, 2014 |website=BillMoyers.com |url=https://billmoyers.com/2014/03/07/remembering-franklin-delano-roosevelt-and-the-second-bill-of-rights/}}
• {{cite web |title=Time for Radical Action, Not National Therapy |date=May 3, 2016 |website=BillMoyers.com |url=https://billmoyers.com/story/time-for-radical-action-not-national-therapy/}}

{{Reflist}}

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• [https://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/01182008/watch2.html 2008 interview on Bill Moyers Journal]
• [https://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/06122009/watch2.html 2009 interview on Bill Moyers Journal]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpNpYZXerY 2015 interview on The Thom Hartmann Program] - discusses "FDR's 'Four Freedoms' at 75...More Important Today Than Ever"
• [https://billmoyers.com/episode/fighting-for-the-four-freedoms/ 2016 interview on Moyers & Company] - discusses Kaye's book, The Fight for the Four Freedoms
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=VDY0BEXcFI8 2019 interview on Rising] - discusses "How Bernie Sanders is leading the Democratic Party on unions"
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZHBTtXoZeU 2019 interview on The Majority Report] - discusses Kaye's book, Take Hold of Our History
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=VDY0BEXcFI8 2019 interview on That's Jacqueline!] - discusses the theme, "Death of Democracy"

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