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Action Alerts (Old)
Save the Georgia Archives
The state’s decision to curtail public access to the Georgia Archives has been the cause celebre for academics and family genealogists to mobilize
Action Alerts
Scholars in Support of the Domestic Workers Bill of Rights
The California Domestic Workers Coalition will be delivering our letter to Governor Brown’s office next Monday, so if you are willing, please sign
Labor History
News
In Memoriam: Larry Gibson, Anti-Mountaintop Removal Activist, 1946-2012
Larry Gibson was literally the last man standing on Kayford Mountain in southern West Virginia. The 500 people who once called the community
Call for Proposals
Events (Old)
Labor History
People
Fifteenth Annual Women’s History Conference: Activism & Scholarship
Keynote by women’s historian Alice Kessler Harris, distinguished professor at Columbia University. Also featuring a round table discussion about the life and work
LAWCHA
News
Eileen Boris, September 6 OpEd, “Viewpoints: Ghost of Hiram Johnson is looking over Brown’s shoulder”
Eileen Boris, “Viewpoints: Ghost of Hiram Johnson is looking over Brown’s shoulder,” The Sacramento Bee, September 6, 2012.
In Memoriam
Alfred F. Young, 1925 – 2012
Alfred F. Young, a pioneer of the “new labor history,” noted social historian of the early American nation, and a founding editor of
In Memoriam
Addie Wyatt, 1924 – 2012
On March 28, 2012, the labor community lost Rev. Addie Wyatt, a true champion for working people and one of the most influential
In Memoriam
Eric Taplin, 1925 – 2012
“My friend Eric Taplin, the foremost labour historian of Liverpool, has died of cancer aged 87. When, in 1960, he arrived in the