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The Curse of Bigness
Until more Americans know what happened in periods such as the Gilded Age, they can’t protect themselves from those who abuse history to advance poor policy.
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Amity Shlaes
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National Review
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July 10, 2023
What Happened in Vegas
The Teamsters and Jimmy Hoffa—with a little help from the mob—built Las Vegas as we know it today.
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David Hill
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The Baffler
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July 10, 2023
The Child Labor of Early Capitalism Is Making a Big Comeback in the US
Child labor was common in urban, industrial America for most of the country’s history. Now lawmakers are making concerted efforts to repeal statutes that prohibit it.
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Steve Fraser
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Jacobin
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July 7, 2023
The Peculiar Game of the Yankee Peddler—Or What Do You Buy?
Part of the utility of the game is how many intersections can be addressed, a Choose Your Own Adventure of lesson planning.
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Rachel Tamar Van
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Commonplace
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July 4, 2023
“Cool Off With Coffee”: Promoting Iced Coffee in Mid-Century America
In 1939, inspired by the popularity of iced tea, a cooperative of coffee growers launched a decades-long campaign to convince Americans to drink iced coffee.
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Natalie Burclaff
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Kelly Bennett
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Library of Congress Blog
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June 30, 2023
How Not to Tell Stories About Corporate Capitalism
Turning the history of capitalism into a morality tale about good guys and bad guys is tempting.
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Kyle Edward Williams
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The Hedgehog Review
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June 30, 2023
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History Says Student Loan Debt Relief Isn’t Un-American
Americans have long demanded — and regularly received — debt relief from legislatures.
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Emily Zackin
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Chloe Thurston
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Made By History
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June 30, 2023
The Ambitions of the Civil Rights Movement Went Far Beyond Affirmative Action
We should find inspiration in their goals today.
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Jerome B. Karabel
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TIME
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June 29, 2023
Three Maintenance Philosophies Fought for Control of the Auto Industry
At the very beginning of the auto industry, no less than three radically different design-for-maintenance philosophies fought it out.
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Stewart Brand
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Books In Progress
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June 29, 2023
Congressional Conflict of Interest
A foundational flaw of the United States.
by
Larry Deblinger
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Arc Digital
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June 22, 2023
1922: Henry Ford on the Road to Riches
How Henry Ford managed the formation of the Ford Motor Company.
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Henry Ford
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Lapham’s Quarterly
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June 16, 2023
The Hidden Cost of Gasoline
Gas stations caused a $20 billion toxic mess — and it’s not going away.
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Kate Yoder
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Grist
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June 14, 2023
Employer Organizing: The Importance of Hobnobbing
The focus of labor history is often—unsurprisingly—workers’ organizations and what has made them thrive or languish. But employers organized, too.
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Vilja Hulden
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Process: A Blog for American History
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June 13, 2023
How Long Did the School Year Last in Early America?
Even throwing off of a colonial power, representative institutions, Protestantism, and local autonomy in school decisions did not produce an egalitarian system.
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Carole Shammas
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Cambridge Core Blog
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June 12, 2023
When Socialists Put an End to Pasta Inflation
The history of food inflation during World War I, and the riots that halted it, show how capitalists take advantage of consumer expectations to price gouge.
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Brian Callaci
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Jacobin
on
June 11, 2023
What Reparations Actually Bought
The U.S. government’s redress program for Japanese Americans showed that the money matters. But it’s not the only thing that matters.
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Morgan Ome
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The Atlantic
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June 10, 2023
America Is Headed Toward Collapse
How has America slid into its current age of discord? Why has our trust in institutions collapsed, and why have our democratic norms unraveled?
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Peter Turchin
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The Atlantic
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June 2, 2023
A Poisonous Legacy
Two new books reveal the story of Stanford University’s early years to be rife with corruption, autocracy, incompetence, white supremacy, and murder.
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Jessica Riskin
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New York Review of Books
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June 1, 2023
Thomas Cooper: Harbinger of Proslavery Thought and the Coming Civil War
To understand the proslavery defense of the 1850s, one must reckon with the proslavery Malthusianism articulated by Cooper in the 1820s.
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K. Howell Keiser Jr
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Emerging Civil War
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May 30, 2023
Plantations, Computers, and Industrial Control
The proto-Taylorist methods of worker control Charles Babbage encoded into his calculating engines have origins in plantation management.
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Meredith Whittaker
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Logic
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May 25, 2023
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The FTC May Crack Down on Price Discrimination. Will It Matter?
The Robinson-Patman Act was supposed to prevent price discrimination — but consumers wanted cheap goods.
by
Marc Levinson
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Made By History
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May 23, 2023
Escape from the Market
Far from spelling the end of anti-market politics, basic income proposals are one place where it can and has flourished.
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Simon Torracinta
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Boston Review
on
May 19, 2023
The Writers’ Strike Opens Old Wounds
The deep roots of the latest WGA strike.
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Kate Fortmueller
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Los Angeles Review of Books
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May 19, 2023
The Birth of Brainstorming
Meet the self-help author who wanted to teach corporate America how to think.
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Samuel W. Franklin
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Lapham’s Quarterly
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May 17, 2023
The Black Populist Movement Has Been Snuffed Out of the History Books
Often forgotten today, the black populists and their acts of cross-racial solidarity terrified the planter class, who responded with violence and Jim Crow laws.
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Karen Sieber
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Jacobin
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May 17, 2023
Untangling the 19th Century Roots of Mass Incarceration
Popular accounts often trace the origins of forced penal labor to the post-Civil War South. But a vast system of forced penal labor existed in the antebellum North.
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Rebecca McLennan
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LPE Project
on
May 16, 2023
The Wobblies and the Dream of One Big Union
A new history examines the lost promise and fierce persecution of the IWW.
by
Michael Kazin
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The Nation
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May 15, 2023
The Federal Reserve Exists to Protect The Economic Status Quo
What is the Federal Reserve, and who put it in charge? Is there no other way to fight inflation? Just what the hell is going on here?
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Rob Larson
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Current Affairs
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May 15, 2023
Hollywood Screenwriters Have Always Known That Moviemaking Is a Form of Labor
Stretching back to Hollywood’s Golden Age, writers and many others in the industry have fought for their rights as workers.
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Ronny Regev
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Jacobin
on
May 14, 2023
"A Trap Had Been Set for These People"
A companion to a new PBS film, "The Memorial Day Massacre," the first oral history exploring the murder of 10 workers in Chicago.
by
Greg Mitchell
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Between Rock and a Hard Place
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May 13, 2023
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