Scabby the Rat Down Under
Scabby the Rat, a familiar figure on US picket lines, has taken his show on the road. In the past few years, he’s.
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Call for Proposals
Events
Engendering the History of Capitalism
Joint Session International Federation for Research in Women’s History (IFRWH) and International Social History Association (ISHA): CISH in Poznan, Poland, August 2020. Eileen.
- by Eileen Boris
- April 5, 2018
Call for Proposals
Events
Gendered work, gendered struggles: women’s activism at the work-place in long-term and comparative perspective
The study of women’s workplace activism advances the evolving inclusive and conceptually innovative historiography on women, gender, and labor. It focuses on a.
- by Eileen Boris
- April 5, 2018
Call for Proposals
Events
Gender in Movement(s): Women and Gender in Motion
The theme of the 2020 meeting International Federation for Research in Women’s History/Fédération Internationale pour la Recherche en Histoire des Femmes is “Gender.
- by Eileen Boris
- April 4, 2018
Events
LAWCHA at the OAH
LAWCHA will be present at the 2018 OAH in Sacramento, California. We have a full schedule of panels and events associated with the.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- April 4, 2018
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Know Your Place: A New Generation of Working-Class Voices
A literary festival isn’t the obvious place to discuss class, but a couple of weeks ago I found myself introducing a session at.
- by Tim Strangleman
- March 29, 2018
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OpEd
MLK: To the Promised Land
Michael K. Honey is the author of the new study, To the Promised Land: Martin Luther King and the Fight for Economic Justice,.
- by Michael Honey
- March 20, 2018
OpEd
MLK’s ’68 struggle for economic justice still marching on
On Feb. 1, 1968, Echol Cole and Robert Walker were crushed to death while riding out a cold, driving rainstorm in the back.
- by Michael Honey
- March 20, 2018
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A Tale of Two Futures: The Fate of the Dollar General Economy
Dollar General is everywhere. The most visible manifestation, of course, is the proliferation of their concrete block stores littering the landscape. But it’s.
- by Daniel Graff
- March 19, 2018
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Billy Graham and the Evangelical Origins of Organized Labor
When I heard over breakfast that Billy Graham had died, the news ricocheted around my mind and stirred up lots of memories. The.
- by Ken Estey
- March 13, 2018