The Long
Insurgency

Dossier · 1954–1968

Brandeis University

Teaching and student routes through Marcuse’s American classroom

Chronology

1954–1968

195419611968
6 dated events
  1. Marcuse joins the Brandeis faculty Reported · Source 1, Final paragraph
  2. Aronson enters Brandeis graduate program Documented · Source 2, p. 188
  3. Brandeis Politics 171b course Documented · Source 5, Title; pp. 1–4
  4. Davis completes French degree at Brandeis Reported · Source 3, Opening biography paragraph beginning Davis was born
  5. Aronson defends his Brandeis dissertation Documented · Source 2, p. 188
  6. Aronson leads Liberation School discussion at Columbia Documented · Source 2, pp. 188–189

Sources

Works and records cited in this dossier. Numbered references in the account lead to entries here.

  1. 1954–1955: Brandeis University 50th Anniversary Timeline Brandeis University Archives and Special Collections.
    Sources

    Brandeis University Archives and Special Collections, “1954–1955,” *Brandeis University 50th Anniversary Timeline* , final paragraph. Institutional retrospective record of Marcuse joining the faculty, not his original appointment contract.

  2. A New Insurgency: The Port Huron Statement and Its Times Howard Brick and Gregory Parker (editors); Ronald Aronson (chapter author). 2015.
    Sources

    Ronald Aronson, “A New Left Philosophical Itinerary: Marcuse, Sartre, and Then Camus,” in Howard Brick and Gregory Parker, eds., A New Insurgency: The Port Huron Statement and Its Times (Maize Books, Michigan Publishing,2015), pp.188–201; inspected pp.188–191, PDF file pp.201–204. Firsthand retrospective, explicitly one New Left itinerary.

  3. Angela Davis (January 26, 1944) National Archives.
    Sources

    National Archives, “Angela Davis (January 26,1944)” , reviewed July 22,2020, opening biography. Institutional secondary summary, used narrowly for birthplace and Brandeis French degree/year. Unverified claims elsewhere on that page are not imported.

  4. The New Left and the 1960s Herbert Marcuse; editor Douglas Kellner; preface Angela Y. Davis.
    Sources

    Angela Y. Davis, “Marcuse's Legacies,” preface to Herbert Marcuse, The New Left and the 1960s: Collected Papers of Herbert Marcuse, vol.3, edited by Douglas Kellner (Routledge, first published 2005; retained Taylor & Francis e-Library edition 2004), printed pp.vii–xiv, PDF file pp.8–15. Originally presented at “The Legacy of Herbert Marcuse,” UC Berkeley, November 1998 (p.x, note 5). Participant and advocate's retrospective assessment. Original retained PDF, not gateway excerpts, inspected.

  5. Herbert Marcuse: Lectures on Marxian Theory and Communism (Politics 171b) William Leiss; transcription by Michael G. Tyshenko. Spring 1963; transcription February 2017.
    Sources

    William Leiss, Herbert Marcuse: Lectures on Marxian Theory and Communism (Politics171b), History of Ideas Program, Brandeis, Spring 1963; handwritten notes transcribed by Michael G. Tyshenko, February 2017. Inspected pp.1–9, bibliography pp.2–8. Participant's original PDF . Student notes and transcribed course bibliography, not a verbatim lecture. No claim that Davis attended this particular course.

  6. Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture Angela Y. Davis; interviews with Eduardo Mendieta. 2005.
    Sources

    Angela Y. Davis, Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture, interviews with Eduardo Mendieta (Seven Stories Press,2005), retained EPUB, eISBN 9781609801038. Chapters “Politics and Prisons” and “Resistance, Language, and Law”; “Politics and Prisons,” answers beginning “Although I am no longer a member,” “Absolutely, and I think that I draw,” “Well, I’ve certainly been inspired,” “The global sweatshops,” and “Well, in one sense it has become obsolete”; “Resistance, Language, and Law,” opening answer beginning “My imprisonment had a major impact.” Davis's political analysis and participant recollection. Mendieta's questions and introduction are separately authored. No unverified print pages assigned.

  7. Secret Reports on Nazi Germany: The Frankfurt School Contribution to the War Effort Franz Neumann, Herbert Marcuse and Otto Kirchheimer; editor Raffaele Laudani.
Research notes and unresolved sources

These archive notes identify research retrieval or evidence that still needs a bibliographic source. They are kept for verification.

Sources

Aronson's memoir is firsthand evidence of his own education and later use of it. Leiss's transcription preserves a dated bibliography and student notes, with a clear warning about their limits. Davis's writings explain her own reception. The university archives supply the faculty-arrival record.

Complete existing research record