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AFL-CIO Merger: In Commemoration of the AFL-CIO’s 60th Anniversary

Before 1955, the AFL (American Federation of Labor) and the CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations) were separate, competing organizations. The two organizations chose.

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LAWCHA Joins the Global Labour History Network

The Global Labour History Network (GLHN) is an interdisciplinary network of historians and other social scientists, founded in Barcelona on June 16, 2015..

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Reviving Southern Labor History: Call for Contributors for New Book on Southern Labor History

Since the mid-1970s only a handful of books on southern labor history have been published. As Alan Draper wrote nearly twenty years ago,.

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Labor History

The Archivist’s Nook: Introduction to American Catholic Archives

Before the 1960s, almost no dioceses had more than part-time archivists, only a few Catholic colleges and universities devoted much attention or resources.

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Join us at the OAH: Love & Solidarity, James Lawson and Nonviolence in the Search for Workers’ Rights

Join LAWCHA for a film showing (of Love & Solidarity) and discussion at the Organization of American Historians in Providence, Rhode Island, 9am.

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Preview of “Love & Solidarity”

Through interviews and historical documents, acclaimed labor and civil rights historian Michael Honey and award-winning filmmaker Errol Webber put Rev. James Lawson’s discourse.

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Jim Green’s book on PBS, “The American Experience,” January 26

On January 26 from 9-11 pm more than 200 PBS stations will broadcast “The Mine Wars” in the premier show of The American.

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OAH Issues Statement on Collective Bargaining and Part-Time, Adjunct, and Contingent Faculty

At its November 2015 Executive Board meeting, the Organization of American Historians (OAH), passed a resolution endorsing “the principle that collective bargaining can.

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History of Capitalism Summer Camp – Price Reduced to $600

The History of Capitalism Summer Camp has had its price reduced to $600 thanks to a number of generous grants. Applications due January.

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Woodrow Wilson and Anti-Unionists

How should Americans remember Woodrow Wilson? This is the central question triggered recently by Princeton University protesters who have brought attention to his.

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