A Century of Teacher Organizing: What Can We Learn?
The history of teacher unionism is rich and vibrant, filled with numerous triumphs, tensions, and setbacks. For over a century, most education employees.
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West Virginia Mine Wars Museum Open House, November 8, 12pm-4pm
A year ago, community leaders, citizen archaeologists, historians, labor leaders and other volunteers who care about the history in our hills came together.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- October 23, 2014
International Conference
Labor History
Registration open for the Australia-US Comparative Labour History Conference
Historians and other scholars have long recognized both similarities and differences in the labour experience in Australia and the United States. Both countries.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- October 7, 2014
Labor History
Comrades & Cowboys
In 1886, several prominent European socialists came through Cincinnati in search of insights into America. Their local comrades–“delightful German-American friends” took them to.
- by Mark Lause
- September 30, 2014
Labor History
New Projects from the Labor Archives Roundtable of the Society of American Archivists
In an effort to update and expand tools for Labor Archives Roundtable members and our users, the Labor Archives Roundtable of the Society.
- by Conor Casey
- September 5, 2014
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Teaching Blog
Growing Apart: A Political History of American Inequality
Author Colin Gordon’s book, Growing Apart: A Political History of American Inequality is an online textbook that uses historical and economic analysis to.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- June 6, 2014
Labor History
Bill Barry Interviewed about May Day
Lucky Crosby, Chief Shop Steward, AFSCME Local 467 and Labor Historian Bill Barry discuss the history and current state of Baltimore’s workers movement..
- by Rosemary Feurer
- May 2, 2014
Labor History
OpEd
Peter Rachleff, “Telling – and considering – ‘Untold Stories'”
April and May 2014 mark the fifteenth year that the Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library, with the support of labor and.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- April 23, 2014
Labor History
Bill Williamson: Hobo, Wobbly, Communist, On-to-Ottawa Trekker, Spanish Civil War Veteran, and Photographer, by Kara Sievewright
Extensively researched by Kara, the story grows out of two letters Williamson wrote in the 1980s and two interviews with him recorded by.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- April 18, 2014
Global Affairs Articles
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Barry York, “From the Oral History collection: Issy Wyner”
Issy Wyner was born at Paddington, Sydney, in 1916 and grew up in the Rozelle-Balmain area. The interview with him was recorded for.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- April 18, 2014