Labor in the Civil War
The current issue of Civil War History should be of interest to labor historians. Civil War History has generously allowed posting of my.
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What Work Is: In Six-Word Essays
In my book, What Work Is, I assert that work has an enormous contradictory impact on the workers and society they build. Anthropologist.
- by Bob Bruno
- May 29, 2024
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Reparations for Enslavement, Segregation, and Racism?
New York State and California have both created commissions to study the possibility of reparations to African Americans for the legacy of slavery.
- by Alan Singer
- April 25, 2024
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Following the Footsteps of Jack O’Dell
On the frosty morning of January 13, 2024, the student union building at the University of Washington (UW) was buzzing with the joy.
- by Soohyung Hur
- February 27, 2024
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New Book Interviews
Max Fraser on his new book, Hillbilly Highway
Hillbilly Highway: The Transappalachian Migration and the Making of a White Working Class explores one of the most significant and under-examined migrations in.
- by Joseph Rathke
- December 15, 2023
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Supreme Court Justices who were Enslavers
The United States Supreme Court has served as the ultimate arbiter of legal disputes in the country. Until fairly recently, most Americans have.
- by Nick Arjomand
- April 25, 2023
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Harold Washington Rainbow Coalition: Perspectives
On March 27, a week ahead of the 2023 Chicago mayoral race, this webinar offered a historical view on multiracial coalitions in Chicago.
- by Lilia Fernandez
- April 19, 2023
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New Book Interviews
The Role of Independent Working-class Political Action
This is the fourth and final contribution to our symposium on Tom Alter’s new book, Toward a Cooperative Commonwealth: The Transplanted Roots of.
- by Tom Alter
- September 26, 2022
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Marked, Unmarked, Remembered: A Public History Series
A Labor of Love: Descendant Reclaims Historic Multiethnic Logging Town as Educational Site
As a child, Gwen Trice caught sight of a ragged scar along her father’s shoulder – a mark from a long-ago logging accident..
- by Kelly Bosworth
- September 8, 2022
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New Book Interviews
Noel Ignatiev’s Acceptable Men: Life in the Largest Steel Mill in the World: A Conversation
In 2021, the radical publisher, Charles H. Kerr, published a “memoir” by the late Noel Ignatiev (1940-2019), Acceptable Men Life in the Largest.
- by Alex Lichtenstein
- June 17, 2022