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Trump, Historians, and the Lessons of U.S. Tariff History

Get PDF of this article In his recent executive order on “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” President Donald Trump criticized historians for “replacing objective facts with a distorted...

Dana Frank on What We Can Learn from the Great Depression

Get PDF of this article Dana Frank’s What Can We Learn From the Great Depression: Stories of Ordinary People & Collective Action in Hard Times shares four Great Depression episodes...

Chicago Teachers Union is Model for American Labor

Get PDF of this article “When the union’s inspiration through the workers’ blood shall run, There can be no power greater anywhere beneath the sun; Yet what force on earth...

Philip Tipperman, Forgotten Labor Painter of the 1930s

Get PDF of this article by Kathy M. Newman; Joseph Entin; Patricia Hills Philip Tipperman: Forgotten Labor Painter of the 1930s “Philip Tipperman: Forgotten Labor Painter of the 1930s” is...

Sean Griffin on The Root and The Branch: Working-Class Reform and Antislavery, 1790–1860

Get PDF of this article The Root and the Branch: Working Class Reform and Antislavery, 1790-1860 conveys the robust influence of labor reform and antislavery ideas and movements on each...

Where does Marxism in Labor History Come From? Where Does It Go?

Get PDF of this article I read the recent report on the Business History Conference by Michael Hilliard and Chad Pearson with great interest. I count myself among the business/labor...