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Creating a rainbow: ideas and coalition building on the American left, c. 1973-1988 by Riggs, Alex

“…This story is traced through three case studies that occupy one section each of the thesis: the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee (as it was known until 1982) and Democratic Socialists of America (as it was known after 1982), with a focus on its first chair Michael Harrington; the Harold Washington administration in Chicago from 1983 to 1987, especially the pivotal role played by his central advisors Robert Mier and Kari Moe; and the 1988 Jesse Jackson presidential campaign. …”
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America's imagined revolution: narrative and politics in the historical novel of Reconstruction by Hughes, T.

“…This thesis explores late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century novels about Reconstruction in the American South, identifying a sub-genre of the historical novel dedicated to narrating Reconstruction as revolutionary history. Operating at the margins of political and historical fiction, the writers studied excavate generic and temporal registers in the historical novel that enable them imagine revolution in ways that eschew a narrative of transition designed to describe the bourgeois-democratic nation-state to the exclusion of plantation societies. …”
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