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Annual Meeting Minutes LAWCHA News

Annual Membership Meeting Minutes, 2012

Saturday, April 21, 2012, LAWCHA luncheon (at OAH-Milwaukee Hilton City Center). Meeting called to order at 12:30 p.m. by President Shel Stromquist. Report.

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Call for Proposals Labor History LAWCHA News OpEd

CFP: “Rights, Solidarity and Justice,” LAWCHA National Conference, June 6-8, 2013

CALL FOR PAPERS: “Rights, Solidarity and Justice: Working People Organizing, Past and Present” LAWCHA National Conference, June 6-8, 2013, New York City. Ryan.

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Events (Old)

Steelworkers’ 70th birthday: The Past Inspires the Future

Kenneth Germanson, president emeritus of the Wisconsin Labor History Society, shares with LAWCHA his article on the USW’s recent 70-year anniversary (photo gallery)..

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Events (Old) LAWCHA

LAWCHA at the OAH, April, 2012

In late April the annual conference of the Organization of American Historians convened in Milwaukee with a program that, thanks to the inspiration.

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Events (Old) Labor History News

Report on the 31st Annual Conference of the Wisconsin Labor History Society, Milwaukee

Ken Germanson, President Emeritus, Wisconsin Labor History Society If there was any thought that history is irrelevant in today’s world, that was dispelled.

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LAWCHA News People

Will Jones Wins Labor’s Best Article Award

Labor proudly presents its biennial Best Article Award, including a $1000 stipend, to William P. Jones for the “The Unknown Origins of the.

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LAWCHA News

Save the Date: LAWCHA National Conference, 2013, June 6-7, NYC

Save the date: June 6-8, 2013 in New York City, for the national conference of the Labor and Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA.) Ryan.

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Labor History News

LAWCHA Member Paul Ortiz on Emancipation Day in Florida

LAWCHA Member Paul Ortiz wrote a stunning article on the nearly uncelebrated Emancipation Day, May 20, in Florida. He writes, “Today, May 20,.

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Labor History LAWCHA News People

LAWCHA Member Cindy Hahamovitch Wins 2012 Taft Prize

Based on extensive research in archival collections and oral history interviews across national and imperial borders, Cindy Hahamovitch offers an incisive and expansive.

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