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1934 and Now: History Lives!

     Over the first three decades of the 20th century, Minneapolis was the most notorious “open shop” city in the country.  An employers’ organization (the.

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Bringing Labor History Alive: Reenacting the 1936 St. Louis City Hall Occupation

Every spring, over thirty women union activists are accepted to attend the Regina V. Polk Women’s Labor Leadership Conference, or The Polk School.

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Remembering Ludlow, Forgetting Columbine

On November 21, 1927, twenty Colorado strike policemen shot into a crowd of 500 men, women, and children in the company town of.

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LaborOnline Marked, Unmarked, Remembered: A Public History Series New Book Interviews

Paul Shackel on his new book, The Ruined Anthracite

This is the third in a series that updates and extends John McKerley’s essay in the current issue of Labor: Studies in Working.

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Labor and Public Memory in the Cradle of the Confederacy

Few memorial landscapes have changed as much over the past decade than Montgomery, Alabama, the “Cradle of the Confederacy.” At one time, the.

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Cancelling Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

If you blinked, you might have missed the historical marker dedicated to Elizabeth Gurley Flynn at the site of her childhood home in.

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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..

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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.

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Mill Mother’s Lament: Keeping Ella May Wiggins’ Legacy Alive

Karen Sieber tells us of the effort to honor the memory of slain union organizer Ella May Wiggins and the struggle for power.

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The Odyssey of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Memorial

Editor: On March 25, 2023 a new memorial will be placed at the site where 123 women and 23 men garment workers, mostly.

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