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Pinkerton detectives.

Who Were the Pinkertons?

A video game portrays the Wild West’s famous detective agency as violent enforcers of order. But the modern-day company disagrees.
by Rebecca Onion via Slate on February 1, 2019
Men observing teams of horses and mules.

Andrew Jackson and the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal

How the so-called champion of the common man set a precedent for using federal troops to quash labor unrest.
by Joshua D. Rothman via We're History on January 29, 2019

America’s Missing Labor Party

The history of labor strikes shows that, in order to achieve lasting success, workers need to capture political power.
by David Sessions via The New Republic on October 2, 2018

How (or How Not) to Build a Labor Movement

Looking at the Pullman Strike and the political forces it stirred.
by Jake Pitre via Lapham’s Quarterly on August 22, 2018
The front pages of major newspapers the day after the Greensboro Massacre.

Fighting the Klan in Reagan’s America

The KKK was on the march in the 1980s. What strategies worked to stem their rise?
by Branko Marcetic via Jacobin on August 25, 2017
A postcard illustrating the Carnegie blast furnaces along the Monongahela River, Homestead, Pennsylvania, 1908-1909.

The Homestead Strike

The Digital Public Library of America brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world.
by Franky Abbott via Digital Public Library of America on April 6, 2016
Calvin Coolidge, Grace Coolidge, and Senator Charles Curtis.

Donald Trump and the Return of the 1920s

We are again caught between nationalists longing for an imagined past, and activists invoking ideals the nation has not attained.
by Richard Yeselson via The Atlantic on December 30, 2015
Scabby the Rat

The History of Scabby the Rat

The most visible symbol of a labor movement that isn't dead yet, that is willing to fight, not just make backroom deals.
by Sarah Jaffe, Molly Crabapple via Vice on March 7, 2013

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