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Scene of Martin Luther King assassination, with people around King pointing to where the gunfire came from.

The Day Martin Luther King Jr. Died

In the first episode of ‘Voices of the Movement,’ King's associates recount their memories of April 4, 1968.
by Jonathan Capehart via Washington Post on April 4, 2019

Punjabi Convoy

A history of trucking in America, told through the music that has kept truckers company on the lonely road.
by Nick Murray via Popula on March 25, 2019

Dry Times in the Highest State: Colorado’s Prohibition Movement

Placing Colorado’s early adoption of Prohibition in social and political context.
by Sam Bock via Erstwhile: A History Blog on February 27, 2019
Pinkerton detectives.

Who Were the Pinkertons?

A video game portrays the Wild West’s famous detective agency as violent enforcers of order. But the modern-day company disagrees.
by Rebecca Onion via Slate on February 1, 2019
Men observing teams of horses and mules.

Andrew Jackson and the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal

How the so-called champion of the common man set a precedent for using federal troops to quash labor unrest.
by Joshua D. Rothman via We're History on January 29, 2019

“A Place to Die”: Law and Political Economy in the 1970s

What the substandard conditions at a Pittsburgh nursing home revealed about the choices made by lawmakers and judges.
by Karen Tani via LPE Project on October 18, 2018

Sentinel

From the day it was inaugurated, the Statue of Liberty has symbolized the tensions between national independence and universal human rights.
by Francesca Lidia Viano via Places Journal on October 1, 2018

Teaching the Rank and File

The history of the once-ubiquitous labor schools holds lessons for any future revival of working-class activism.
by William S. Cossen via Jacobin on September 24, 2018

Prison Abolition Syllabus 2.0

An updated prison syllabus in response to the national prison strike of 2018.
by Dan Berger, Garrett Felber, Elizabeth Hinton, Anyabwile Love, Kali Nicole Gross via Black Perspectives on September 8, 2018
Cartoon depiction of a labor strike

“Labor Day” Isn’t Labor Day

The annual worker’s holiday in the rest of the world is May Day. Why not here?
by Sam Wallman via The Nib on September 3, 2018

When The U.S. Government Tried To Replace Migrant Farmworkers With High Schoolers

When the blazing sun came up on the teenagers' first day of work, "everyone looked at each other, and said, 'What did we do?'"
by Gustavo Arellano via NPR on August 23, 2018
New York City skyscrapers

Capital of the World

The radical and reactionary currents of New York at the turn of the 20th century.
by Kim Phillips-Fein via The Nation on August 2, 2018

Can Consumer Groups Be Radical?

Historian Lawrence Glickman looked at the consumer movements of the 1930s to find out.
by Livia Gershon via JSTOR Daily on May 16, 2018

The Factory in the Family

The radical vision of Wages for Housework.
by Sarah Jaffe via The Nation on March 14, 2018

Street Fighting Woman

A new biography of Lucy Parsons makes it clear that the activist deserves attention apart from her more well-known husband.
by Eric Foner via New York Review of Books on December 21, 2017
Semi on a mountain highway.

The Populist Power of the American Trucker

How did truckers nudge the American economy toward deregulation?
by Shane Hamilton, Livia Gershon via JSTOR Daily on December 1, 2017

World War I: Immigrants Make a Difference on the Front Lines and at Home

Immigrants eagerly joined the war cause both by joining the military and working in important industry at home.
by Ryan Reft via Library of Congress on September 26, 2017
White nationalist demonstrators use shields as they guard the entrance to Lee Park in Charlottesville, Va. on Aug 12, 2017.

The ACLU's Free Speech Stance Should Be About Social Justice, Not 'Timeless' Principles

When the organization first defended Nazis, it did so for practical reasons.
by Laura Weinrib via Los Angeles Times on August 30, 2017
Autoworkers in Janesville's GM plant

Labor Day Used to Be a Grand Celebration in This Storied Factory Town

Then the factory closed and the union crumbled.
by Amy Goldstein via The Nation on August 23, 2017

Coal No Longer Fuels America. But the Legacy — and the Myth — Remain.

Coal country still clings to the industry that was long its chief source of revenue and a way of life.
by Karen Heller via Retropolis on July 9, 2017

Labor History and Passenger Outrage in the U.S. Airline Industry

Passengers angered by how they are treated during flight, may find an unlikely ally in the labor movement.
by Ryan Patrick Murphy via Process: A Blog for American History on June 8, 2017

How Andrew Carnegie's Genius and Blue-Collar Grit Made Pittsburgh the Steel City

A third-generation mill worker pays homage to the controversial industrialist.
by Ken Kobus via Zócalo Public Square on April 7, 2017
Bright apocalyptic explosion over a city.

Is 2016 the Worst Year in History?

Is 2016 worse than 1348? And 1836? And 1919?
by Rebecca Onion via Slate on July 22, 2016

Donald Trump and the Return of the 1920s

We are again caught between nationalists longing for an imagined past, and activists invoking ideals the nation has not attained.
by Richard Yeselson via The Atlantic on December 30, 2015
Rosie the Riveter "We Can Do It" poster.
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Women at Work: A History

Women in the workplace, from 19th century domestic workers to the Rosies of World War II to the labs of Silicon Valley.
via BackStory on February 6, 2015
Scabby the Rat

The History of Scabby the Rat

The most visible symbol of a labor movement that isn't dead yet, that is willing to fight, not just make backroom deals.
by Sarah Jaffe, Molly Crabapple via Vice on March 7, 2013
Trucks and cars moving on the highway

Keep on Truckin’

The road to right-wing deregulation began on our nation's highways.
by Matthew D. Lassiter via Democracy Journal on December 10, 2008
A picture of a woman at a protest against Islamophobia.

The Most Patriotic Act

A warning from September 2001 about government overreach in the name of national security.
by Eric Foner via The Nation on September 20, 2001
Drawing of a memorial, with two cutout, brown walls at the front of a walkway that read: reckoning. At the end of the walkway is a monument with a picture of Fred Rouse, and an inscription below it.

Fort Worth's Forgotten Lynching: In Search of Fred Rouse

Retracing the steps of a Texan lynched in 1921 requires a trip through dark days in state history.
by Karen Olsson via The Texas Observer

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