Richard Oestreicher

Richard Oestreicher received his Ph.D. from Michigan State in 1979. After short stints teaching at Michigan State and Arizona State, he taught at the University of Pittsburgh from 1980 until his retirement at the end of 2017. He taught courses in US history, world history, working class history, the history of the American Left, and US popular culture. His publications include Solidarity and Fragmentation: Working People and Class Consciousness in Detroit, 1875-1900 (U. of Illinois Press, 1986) and “Urban Working-Class Political Behavior and Theories of American Electoral Politics, 1870-1940” (Journal Of American History, 1988), which won the Binkley-Stevenson award for best article in the JAH. Oestreicher wrote most of the metadata for the American Left Ephemera Collection. He now lives in Taos, New Mexico.