A Refreshing Return to Agrarian Class Struggle Scholarship
This essay is the third contribution to our symposium on Tom Alter’s new book, Toward a Cooperative Commonwealth: The Transplanted Roots of Farmer-Labor.
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An Ambitious and Provocative New History
This essay is the second contribution to our symposium on Tom Alter’s new book, Toward a Cooperative Commonwealth: The Transplanted Roots of Farmer-Labor.
- by Theresa Case
- September 23, 2022
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A Minor Boom: Recent Historical Work on Texas Socialists
This essay initiates our Symposium on Tom Alter’s new book, Toward a Cooperative Commonwealth: The Transplanted Roots of Farmer-Labor Radicalism in Texas, published.
- by Kyle Wilkison
- September 22, 2022
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Marked, Unmarked, Remembered: A Public History Series
A Labor of Love: Descendant Reclaims Historic Multiethnic Logging Town as Educational Site
As a child, Gwen Trice caught sight of a ragged scar along her father’s shoulder – a mark from a long-ago logging accident..
- by Kelly Bosworth
- September 8, 2022
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Creating a Historic Resource Study and StoryMap for Lowell National Historical Park
Lowell National Historical Park (LOWE) was founded in 1978 by the National Park Service. A sprawling site that includes the historic downtown of.
- by Emily E. LB. Twarog
- September 2, 2022
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New Teaching Labor’s Story Unit: The Soup Song from the 1930s
“The Soup Song" uses humor and sarcasm to convey workers’ experiences and attitudes during the Great Depression. As a widely popular participatory song, it.
- by Nikki Mandell
- August 17, 2022
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Working 9 to 5
Ever wonder if it’s safe to bring an artichoke to lunch when you’re trying to convince someone to speak up on the job?.
- by Ellen Cassedy
- August 2, 2022
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For a Just and Better World: A Profile of Two Radical Women Anarchists in the making of Revolutionary Mexico
At least five years before Mexican labor activist Caritina Piña arrived in the working-class barrio of Villa Cecilia in the outskirts of Tampico,.
- by Sonia Hernandez
- July 21, 2022
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Noel Ignatiev’s Acceptable Men: Life in the Largest Steel Mill in the World: A Conversation
In 2021, the radical publisher, Charles H. Kerr, published a “memoir” by the late Noel Ignatiev (1940-2019), Acceptable Men Life in the Largest.
- by Alex Lichtenstein
- June 17, 2022
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Donna Haverty-Stacke on her book: The Fierce LIfe of Grace Holmes Carlson
Donna Haverty-Stacke recently published The Fierce Life of Grace Holmes Carlson: Catholic, Socialist, Feminist, available from New York University Press. Haverty-Stacke examines Grace.
- by Randi Storch
- June 8, 2022