Lewis Hine

Lewis Hine captured the misery, dignity, and occasional bursts of solidarity within US working-class life in the early twentieth century.

Photographs of Ellis Island and the people who arrived there seeking a better life.

The 20th-century movement to fix slouching questions the moral and political dimensions of addressing bad backs over wider public health concerns.

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.

Support for and opposition to the ERA are not positions that are fundamentally tied to either conservatism or liberalism.

How the radical documentarians of the Workers' Film and Photo League put their art in the service of social movements.