ROBERT DOSS, JR.
Novelist • Historian • Essayist
Selected Articles
To the Battle of Salinas Series
To the Battle of Salinas is a serialized narrative history of the 1936 Salinas Lettuce Strike. Drawing on contemporaneous newspaper accounts, Congressional testimony, and National Labor Relations Board records, it reconstructs the events that led to one of the most consequential and violent agricultural labor conflicts in American history.
Part 1: The Impossible Middle Ground
Part 2: An Agreement Opens a New Front
Part 3: A Fuse Lit in the Imperial Valley
Part 4: Strikebreakers & Blacklists
Part 5: The Court of Public Opinion
Part 6: The GSVA Shapes Its Fall Strategy
Part 7: Lines Are Drawn
Part 8: “Nothing Rolls”
Part 9: Henry Winter
Part 10: Through the Picket Line
Part 11A: The Battle of Salinas
Part 11B: The Battle of Salinas Continues
Part 12: The Battle After the Battle
Part 13: The Verdict
Essays
Galileo’s Heresy and the Price of Certainty
Red Lines, Real Consequences
Compromisers and Horse Traders
Three-Fifths Wrong
Prayer and the Sword
The American Dream Didn’t Disappear–It Was Redefined
Due Process and Public Trust
The Salamander’s Long Shadow
The Ones Who Didn’t Come Home
Throwing Away the Map
The Nobility of Service
Seeing America Again
Written In Blood
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