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Books
- MacLean, N. Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America. Penguin, June, 2017. 368 pages pp. [abs]
- MacLean, N. American History since 1945: A History with Documents, under contract with Bedford/St. Martin’s. 2017.
- MacLean, N. Chaining Leviathan: The Decades-Long Plan of the Radical Right to Shackle Democracy. Viking/Penguin Random House, 2016.
- with Peeples, EH; MacLean, N; Hershman, JH. Scalawag: A white southerner's journey through segregation to human rights activism. University of Virginia Press, February, 2014. 1-218 pp. [abs]
- MacLean, N. Introduction: Peeples's history as social movement history. February, 2014. xiii-xxi pp.
- Critchlow, DT; MacLean, N. Debating the American Conservative Movement: 1945 to the Present. Rowman & Littlefield, 2009. [CATALOG.db&eqSKUdata=0742548236]
- MACLEAN, N. The American Women’s Movement, 1945-2000: A Brief History with Documents. Bedford/St. Martins, 2008. [newcatalog.aspx]
- MACLEAN, N. Freedom Is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace. Havard University Press and the Russell Sage Foundation, 2006. [catalog.php]
- MACLEAN, N. Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan. Oxford University Press, 1994. [available here]
Journal Articles
- MacLean, N. "The Civil Rights Act of 1964: The Difference a Law Can Make." Labor: Studies in the Working Class History of the Americas 11.3 (September, 2014): 19-24. [doi]
- MacLean, N. "Women’s History for the Future: Gerda Lerner’s Last Agenda-Setting." Journal of Women's History 26.1 (2014): 37-43. [doi]
- MacLean, N. "Community Partnerships: Hope for an Embattled Labor Movement? A Conversation with Andrea van den Heever." Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas 9.3 (Winter, 2012).
- MacLean, N. "A Longstanding Movement or a Multivalent Tactic?." Labor: Studies in Working-Class History in the Americas 8.1.Buying Power: A History of Consumer Acti (2011): 21-23.
- Maclean, N. "Response to Ken Mack—and New Questions for the History of African American Legal Liberalism in the Age of Obama." Law and History Review 27.03 (September, 2009): 671-679. [doi]
- MACLEAN, N. "God’s Work: What Can Faith-Based Activism Do for Labor?." Boston Review 34 (May/June 2009). [php]
- Maclean N, . "Getting New Deal History Wrong." International Labor and Working Class History 74.Fall (Fall, 2008): 49-55. [displayAbstract], [doi] [abs]
- Milkman, R. "When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth‐Century America by Ira Katznelson Freedom Is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace by Nancy MacLean." American Journal of Sociology 112 (January, 2007): 1278-1282. [513553], [doi]
- MACLEAN, N. "From the War on Poverty to ’the New Inequality’: The Fight for a Living Wage." American Quarterly (March, 2007).
- MACLEAN, N. "The Civil Rights Act and the Transformation of Mexican American Identity and Politics." Berkeley La Raza Law Journal 18.More Than Whiteness: Comparative Perspec (2007): 123-133. [berklarlj18&div=15&id=&page=]
- MacLean, N. "Gender Is Powerful: The Long Reach of Feminism." Magazine of History: for teachers of history 20.Social Movements in the 1960s (October, 2006): 19-23. [25162079]
- MacLean, N. "Achieving the Promise of the Civil Rights Act: Herbert Hill and the NAACP’s Fight for Jobs and Justice." Labor: Studies in Working-Class History in the Americas 3 (2006): 13-19.
- MacLean, N. "Using the law for social change: Judge Constance Baker Motley." Journal of Women's History 14.2 (December, 2002): 136-139.
- MacLean, N. "Rethinking the Second Wave." The Nation 14.October (2002): 28-34.
- MacLean, N. "Race-ing Class, Historicizing Categories." Labor History (US) 41 (2000). [abs]
- MACLEAN, N. "The Hidden History of Affirmative Action: Working Women’s Struggles in the 1970s and the Gender of Class." Feminist Studies 25.1 (Spring, 1999): 43-78.
- MacLean, N. "Making Connections." National Teacher and Learning Forum 7 (December, 1997).
- MACLEAN, N. "The Leo Frank Case Reconsidered: Gender and Sexual Politics in the Making of Reactionary Populism." Journal of American History 78 (December, 1991).
- MACLEAN, N. "White Women and Klan Violence in the 1920s: Agency, Complicity, and the Politics of Women’s History." Gender & History 3 (Fall, 1991).
- MacLean, N. "The Culture of Resistance: Female Institution-Building in the International Ladies Garment Workers' Union, 1909-1925." Michigan Occasional Papers in Women's Studies 21 (1982).
Articles in a Collection
- MacLean, N. "Redesigning Dixie with Affirmative Action: Race, Gender and the Integration of the Southern Textile Mill World." Gender and the Southern Body Politic.
Ed. Bercaw, N. (Univesity of Mississippi Press), September, 2014.
- MacLean, N. "Bringing the Organizing Tradition Home: Campus-Labor-Community Partnerships for Regional Power." Labor Rising: The Past and Future of Working People in America.
Ed. Katz, D; Greenwald, RA. (New Press), 2012.
- MACLEAN, N. "Neo-Confederacy versus the New Deal: The Regional Utopia of the Modern American Right." The Myth of Southern Exceptionalism.
Ed. Crespino, J; Lassiter, M. (Oxford University Press), 2010. [available here]
- MACLEAN, N; Maclean N, . "Southern Dominance in Borrowed Language: The Regional Origins of American Neo-Liberalism." New Landscapes of Inequality: Neoliberalism and the Erosion of Democracy in America.
Ed. Leonardo, MD; Collins, J. (School of American Research), 2008. [index.php]
- MacLean, N. "White Women and Klan Violence in the 1920s: Agency, Complicity, and the Politics of Women's History." A History of Gender in America: Essays, Documents, and Articles.
Ed. Hoffert, S. (Prentice Hall), 2003.
- MACLEAN, N. "Postwar Women’s History: From the ’Second Wave’ to the End of the Family Wage?." A Companion to Post-1945 Amerca.
Ed. Rosenzweig, R; Agnew, J-C. (Blackwell), 2002. [book]
- MACLEAN, N. "From the Benighted South to the Sun Belt: The South in the Twenieth Century." Making Sense of the Twentieth Century: Perspectives in Modern America.
Ed. Sitkoff, H. (Oxford University Press), 2000.
Book Reviews
- MacLean, N. Review of Black and Blue: African Americans, the Labor Movement, and the Decline of the Democratic Party by Paul Frymer. Industrial & labor relations review 62
(July, 2009): 629-631. [25594536]
- MacLean, N. Review of Fight against Fear: Southern Jews and Black Civil Rights by Clive Webb; Going South: Jewish Women in the Civil Rights Movement by Debra L. Schultz. Journal of American history (Bloomington, Ind.) 89
(June, 2002): 301-303. [2700916], [doi]
- MacLean, N. Review of Scottsboro: An American Tragedy by Barak Goodman; David Anker. Journal of American history (Bloomington, Ind.) 88
(December, 2001): 1199-1200. [2700568], [doi]
- MacLean, N. Review of Liberty, Equality, and Justice: Civil Rights, Women’s Rights, and the Regulation of Business, 1865-1932. by Ross Evans Paulson. Journal of American history (Bloomington, Ind.) 85
(September, 1998): 692-693. [2567829], [doi]
- MacLean, N. Review of Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920 by Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore. American Historical Review 103
(February, 1998): 281-282. [2650943], [doi]
Papers Published
- MacLean, N. "How Milton Friedman Exploited White Supremacy to Privatize Education." Institute for New Economic Thinking Working Paper Series 161 (September, 2021).
- MacLean, N. "Enchaining democracy: The now-transnational project of the US corporate libertarian right." The Condition of Democracy 1 (July, 2021): 19-36.
Other
- MacLean, N. "Freedom Stories: Teaching African American Literature and." TeacherServe National Humanities Center. (September, 2014). [htm]
- MacLean, N. "Shining Sunlight on a Secretive Lobbying Group." NC Policy Watch (May, 2013).
- MacLean, N. "Changes to Our Unemployment Insurance a Cruel Blow." Star News Online (February, 2013).
- MacLean, N. "A Safety Net with a History." Raleigh News & Observer (May, 2012).
- MacLean, N. "The Civil Rights Movement: 1968-2008." Freedom Stories: Teaching African American Literature and History (2010).
- MacLean, N. "White Blight." In These Times (September, 2006). [white_blight]
- MacLean, N. "The Ku Klux Klan." Greenwood Encyclopedia of the Great Black Migration Greenwood Press. (2006).
- MacLean, N. "Affirmative Action." Encyclopedia of U.S. Labor and Working-Class History Routledge. (2006).
- MacLean, N. "The Ku Klux Klan." Encyclopedia of U.S. Labor and Working-Class History Routledge. (2006).
- MacLean, N. "Affirmative Action." Poverty in the United States: An Encyclopedia of History Politics, and Policy ABC-CLIO. (2004).