Thai Jones

Thai Jones is the Herbert H. Lehman Curator for U.S. History at Columbia University's Rare Book & Manuscript Library. His work explores questions of American radicalism and dissent. His latest book, More Powerful than Dynamite: Radicals, Plutocrats, Progressives, and New York's year of Anarchy, was published by Walker and Co. in April. He is also the author of A Radical Line: From the Labor Movement to the Weather Underground, One family's Century of Conscience. He has written for a variety of national publications, ranging from the New York Times to the Occupied Wall Street Journal. Formerly an assistant professor of history at the Bard College Master of Arts in Teaching Program, he earned his PhD in history at Columbia University and is also a graduate of the Columbia Journalism School.