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Choir and congregants singing in a church at the Central Mine reunion.

Once a Year, This 19th-Century Michigan Ghost Town Comes to Life

Last month, descendants of copper miners and history enthusiasts alike gathered for the 117th annual Central Mine reunion service
Chuquicamata in Chile

The Transformative and Hungry Technologies of Copper Mining

Our own world is built from copper, and so too will future worlds be.
The Lady of the Rockies statue. Photo by Doug Zwick/Flickr.

The 90-foot Sentinel of Butte, Montana

What does a statue dedicated to mothers reveal about women’s rights?
A field of manoomin - wild rice - in northern Minnesota, with water and trees in the background.

What Minnesota's Mineral Gaze Overlooks

The tendency to favor interest in resource extraction over the protection of the state’s waters, vital to the native Ojibwe population, has deep historical roots.

The Bisbee Deportation of 1917

It had not only a pivotal effect in Arizona's own labor history, but also on labor activity throughout the country.
A photo of Harrison Post.

“In 1934, My Life Snapped”

Hollywood has long abused conservatorships. I spent the past decade studying one of the darkest cases.
A home in Paramus, New Jersey.

Slavery's Legacy Is Written All Over North Jersey, If You Know Where to Look

New Jersey was known as the slave state of the North, and our early economy was built on unpaid labor.
Aerial view of a mining quarry

The Land Was Ours

Trump, Biden, and public lands.

44 Years Ago Today, Chilean Socialist Orlando Letelier Was Assassinated on US Soil

On September 21, 1976, he was assassinated by a car bomb in the heart of Washington, DC.

Penny Dreadful

They’re horrid and useless. Why do pennies persist?

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