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Police Brutality, the Black Press, and (Anti) Native Fascism

This essay is the first in a forum on the “Black Antifascist Tradition.” Anna Duensing, one of the forum intiators, writes that this.

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Response to “What Universities Can Be: Strategizing amid the Crisis in Higher Education”

For the current issue of Labor: Studies in Working Class History, Duke University is making free  a transcribed conversation provoked by the ongoing.

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New Essay published to Teaching Labor’s Story: Free Labor and Slavery, 1800-1830, by Sean Griffin

Check out Sean Griffin’s thematic essay for Teaching Labor’s Stry, “Free Labor and Slavery, 1800-1830.” Griffin’s essay is adding to our listing of.

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LaborOnline LAWCHA Marked, Unmarked, Remembered: A Public History Series

Public History on the San Francisco Waterfront

Professional historians often talk about the need for public education and public history. A year and a half ago, San Franciscans completed one.

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Activism LaborOnline

“Communal Sensibility”: the Minneapolis Mass Strikes of 1934 and Today

“In these terrible happenings you cannot be neutral now,” Meridel Le Sueur wrote of Minneapolis in 1934. “No one can be neutral in.

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Julie Greene on Her New Book, Box 25

John Enyeart spoke with Julie Greene, editor of Labor: Studies in Working Class History, about her new book, Box 25, based on essays.

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Adolph Germer Is Not a Model for a Renewed Labor Movement

Last summer, Arizona State University professor Benjamin Y. Fong held up Adolph Germer as a model for today’s unions (“The Responsible Socialism of.

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2025 Labor History Bibliography

Here’s my annual list of books published in labor history, this one for 2025. If you know of a book published last year.

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Maryland250 Labor History Project

The big questions for labor historians interested in public history are: what for? And who for?What for: to help build a real labor.

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Canada’s Early Industrial Films are Useful to Labor and Social Historians

The Moving Past, a website and project that features century-old archival films on a wide array of Canadian subjects, has a few new.

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