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Vol. 25:1 ISSN 0160-8460 April 1997
In Memoriam Stuart B. Kaufman
Stuart B. Kaufman, a historian who studied the American labor movement and served as the editor of the Papers of Samuel Gompers, died January 19, 1997, at his home in Garrett Park, Maryland. A professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, he received his bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Florida and his doctorate from Emory University. Prior to coming to the Washington area, he taught at Morris Brown College and Texas A & M University. He served as acting historian of the Department of Labor in 1974, and headed the George Meany Memorial Archives and Historical Center at the George Meany Center in Silver Spring, Maryland, from 1987 to 1989. He was also a member of the National Park Service Advisory Board from 1991 to 1994. In addition to his work on the Samuel Gompers volumes, he was the author of Samuel Gompers and the Origins of the American Federation of Labor, 1848 to 1896, and the founder and editor of the quarterly magazine Labor's Heritage.