Philip J. Mellinger

Background

Philip Mellinger was born on July 8, 1940, in New York, United States. He is the son of Morris and Esther Mellinger.

Education

Mellinger graduated from the University of Chicago with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1961. He then attended Roosevelt University, where he received his Master of Arts degree in 1969. He also earned his doctorate at the University of Chicago in 1978.

Career

Mellinger started his career as a teacher of history and social studies at Public schools in Chicago in 1961. He held that position for 7 years until he went to Illinois Institute of Technology, where he worked as an instructor in U.S. history till 1970. During that time he also worked at VanderCook College in Chicago. From 1971 till 1988, he was a teacher of history and social studies at public schools in Chicago.

Since 1989 Mellinger works as a freelance writer and lecturer and instructor in U.S. history at El Paso Community College.

During his long teaching career, Mellinger was also a part-time instructor at different universitities, including Indiana University, Moraine Valley Community College, Roosevelt University, George Williams College and Columbia College, New Mexico State University, and El Paso Community College.

Achievements

• Philip J. Mellinger is known as a historian and author, who writes American, western, labor, and racial-ethnic stories, as well as stories about American public education. He is also the author of occasional fiction and nonfiction feature articles. His most famous work is Race and Labor in Western Copper: The Fight for Equality.

Works

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  • Race and Labor in Western Copper: The Fight for Equality, 1896-1918

    (This is the story of immigrant copper workers and their a...)

    1995
  • Early Hartville and Sunrise (study of the Frontier and Immigration in Wyoming) Thesis submitted (Roosevelt University)

    (Copied single sided typed sheets with page edges darkened...)

    1969

Membership

Mellinger is a member of El Paso County Historical Commission, Organization of American Historians, American Historical Association, Oral History Association, Western History Association, National Council for History Education, American Association of Museums, Southwest Labor Studies Association, Texas Junior College Teachers Association, Arizona Historical Society, Central Nevada Historical Society and Mohave County Historical Society.

Interests

• Gardening, chess, playing the piano

Connections

Philip Mellinger is divorced. He has a son, Daniel M. Mellinger.

Father:

Morris Mellinger

Mother:

Esther Mellinger

Son:

Daniel M. Mellinger