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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.

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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.

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Labor History 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.

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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..

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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.

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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.

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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.

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60th Anniversary Celebration of “Salt of the Earth”, Silver City, NM (March 15)

On Saturday, March 15, 2014 in Silver City, NM a group of workers and citizens will come together to celebrate the 60th anniversary.

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New Labor History Comics: Battle of Ballantyne Pier; Flint Strike

Many thanks to Julie Smith of Trent University for passing this along. The Graphic History Collective (GHC) is pleased to announce the online.

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Traveling Exhibit: “Bittersweet Harvest: The Bracero Program, 1942-1964”

Bittersweet Harvest, a moving new bilingual exhibition organized by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History (NMAH) and circulated by SITES, examines the.

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