Faculty Profiles

Dr. Jeffrey L Helgeson

Helgeson, J. L. (2025, February 26). Hope and Hard-Bitten Pragmatism in the Long Urban Crisis. Journal of Urban History.

Helgeson, J. L. (2021). National Park Service Visitor Center Museum, Pullman National Park. Chicago, Illinois. Retrieved from https://www.nps.gov/pull/index.htm

Helgeson, J. L. (2020). “Voices in the Urban Wilderness: Reimagining the Terms of Order in ‘Renaissance’ Boston.” Transatlantica, 2(“Places and Cultures of Capitalism: New Histories from the Grassroots”).
Helgeson, J. L. (2020, January). Pacific Historical Review.

Helgeson, J. L. (2019). “American Labor and Working-Class History, 1900–1945.” In The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Urban History (pp. 249–271). New York City, New York, USA: Oxford University Press.
Helgeson, J. L. (2019, September). The Journal of American History.
Helgeson, J. L. (2019, April). Thoughts on a Critical Regional History of the Midwest: Examining the Legacies of the Dream of a White Yeoman’s Republic. Middle West Review.

Helgeson, J. L. (2018). “Politics in the Promised Land: The Influences of the Great Black Migration on the Midwest,.” In Finding the Lost Region: A Conference on Rediscovering the Midwest, America’s Most Common Ground (pp. 111–128). Lincoln, Nebraska, United States: University of Nebraska Press.
Helgeson, J. L. (2018, October). Choice.
Helgeson, J. L. (2018, March). The Journal of American History.

Helgeson, J. (2016). American Labor and Working-Class History, 1900-1945. In J. f Irwin (Ed.), Oxford Research Encyclopedia in American History. New York: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History. Retrieved from http://americanhistory.oxfordre.com/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780199329175.001.0001/acrefore-9780199329175-e-330

Helgeson, J. L. (2015). Lawndale: Politics and Place in an Iconic American Neighborhood. In V. B. Price, D. A. Spatz, & D. B. Hunt (Eds.), Out of the Loop: Chicago (pp. 153–156). Evanston: Midway.
Helgeson, J. (2015, December). [Review of Friends Disappear: The Battle for Racial Equality in Evanston, by M. Barr]. Journal of American History.

Helgeson, J. L. (2014). Crucibles of Black Empowerment: Chicago’s Neighborhood Politics from the New Deal to Harold Washington. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Helgeson, J. L. (2014). Beyond the Long Civil Rights Movement. Journal of African American History (Vol. 99, pp. 442–445).
Helgeson, J. (2014, July). [Review of Palomino: Clinton J. Jencks and Mexican-American Unionism in the American Southwest, by J. J. Lorence]. Southwestern Historical Quarterly.

Helgeson, J. (2013, July). [Review of Three worlds of Relief: Race, Immigration, and the American Welfare State from the Progressive Era to the New Deal, by C. Fox]. Southwestern Historical Quarterly.
Helgeson, J. (2013, July). [Review of The Depression Comes to the South Side: Protest and Politics in the Black Metropolis, by C. R. Reed]. Journal of American Studies.

Helgeson, J. L. (2012). “Who Are You America But Me?” The American Negro Exposition, 1940. Black Chicago Renaissance: A Second Awakening, 1930-1970.
Helgeson, J. (2012). [Review of Racial Democracy and the Black Metropolis: Housing Policy in Postwar Chicago, by P. H. Smith II]. Journal of Illinois History.
Helgeson, J. (2012). [Review of Launching the War on Poverty: An Oral History, by M. L. Gillette]. Southwestern Historical Quarterly.
Helgeson, J. L. (2012). Chicago: Protest and the American City. Supplement to the 126th Annual American Historical Association Meeting. Retrieved from http://www.historians.org/annual/2012/2012AMSupplement/Chicago-Protest-and-the-American-City.cfm.

Helgeson, J. L. (2011). Labor and Livelihood. In R. Johnson (Ed.), American Centuries: The Ideas, Issues, and Trends that Made U.S. History, Volume Five, 20th Century (pp. 189–197). New York: Facts on File.
Helgeson, J. L. (2011). The State of Blame in American Cities: Race, Wealth, and the Politics of Housing. Journal of Urban History 37 (pp. 992–999).
Helgeson, J. (2011, July). [Review of Good, Reliable, White Men: Railroad Brotherhoods, 1877-1917, by P. M. Taillon]. Business History Review.

Helgeson, J. (2010). [Review of Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class, by J. R. Cowie]. Working-Class Notes.

Helgeson, J. L. (2009). Chicago’s Labor Trail: Labor History as Collaborative Public History. International Labor and Working-Class History (Vol. 76, p. 60+64).

Helgeson, J. (2008). [Review of Chicago’s New Negroes: Modernity, the Great Migration, and Black Urban Life, by D. L. Baldwin]. Urban History.
Helgeson, J. (2008). [Review of Selling the Race: Culture, Community and Black Chicago, 1940-1955, by D. L. Baldwin]. Urban History.

Helgeson, J. L. (2006). A Brief History of North Lawndale. In R. Feldman & J. Wheaton (Eds.), The Chicago Greystone in Historic North Lawndale (pp. 63–73). Chicago: City Design Center, College of Architecture and the Arts, University of Illinois at Chicago.
Helgeson, J. L. (2006). Encyclopedia of U.S. Labor and Working Class History. (E. Arnesen, Ed.). New York: Taylor and Francis.
Helgeson, J. L. (2006). Encyclopedia of the Great Black Migration. (S. Reich, Ed.). Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press.
Helgeson, J. L. (2006). Shaping the State, the City, and Its Suburbs. Chicago Tribune.

Helgeson, J. L. (2005). The Chicago Labor Trail. Retrieved from www.chicagolabortrail.org
Helgeson, J. L. (2005). Report on the 2004 Midwest Labor and Working-Class History Colloquium. International Labor and Working-Class History (Vol. 67, pp. 174–176).
Helgeson, J. (2005, October). [Review of Civil Rights Unionism: Tobacco Workers and the Struggle for Democracy in the Mid-Twentieth-Century South, by R. R. Korstad]. International Labor and Working-Class History.