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A collage graphic featuring the couple from "American Gothic" at a cookout.

Labor Day in America: Or, the Day That is Not in May

America’s ambivalence about labor is nothing new. In the colonial era the ruling class had nothing but contempt for anything that could be justly called "work."
by Edward G. Gray via Commonplace on October 1, 2006
A woman in a bathing suit cooling off from an open fire hydrant.

Arthur Miller on Sweltering Summers Before Air-Conditioning

The city in summer floated in a daze that moved otherwise sensible people to repeat endlessly the brainless greeting “Hot enough for ya?”
by Arthur A. Miller via The New Yorker on June 15, 1998
Zohran Mamdani stands at the podium during a campaign rally.

Zohran Mamdani Is Part of Municipal Socialism’s Long History

If he wins the New York City mayoral election, Zohran Mamdani will not be in totally uncharted territory.
by Shelton Stromquist via Jacobin on August 20, 2025
Two African American children gallop through a field on horseback.

Riding to Freedom: On the Importance of the Horse in Escaping Slavery

“Horses were a part of the daily fabric of life for many enslaved Black people.”
by Bitter Kalli via Literary Hub on August 19, 2025
Slaves working on a plantation.

Power and Punishment: How Colonists Legislated the First Slaves in America into Existence

On freedom, servitude, and writing a novel set in the seventeenth century.
by Princess Joy L. Perry via Literary Hub on August 7, 2025
Sarrasani Program 1931 with Lakota's on horses, elephants, (circus theme).

Performing the Exotic and Lakota Resistance

How Lakota performers challenged the 'exotic othering' of their identities in the Sarrasani circus.
by Sabine Hanke via History Workshop on July 29, 2025
Photo of Karl Marx

Red Like Me

A new book shows that Marxism in the US "was never constrained to the reiteration of a set of dogmatic principles one associates with party ideologues."
by Alan Wald via New Politics on July 24, 2025
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La Brea and Beyond

Pits and seeps full of tar and asphalt offer new insights into old ecosystems and cultures.
by Ian Rose via JSTOR Daily on July 23, 2025
Union leaders William Green, Hugo Ernst, and George Meany.

The War on Communists in the Hotel Workers’ Union

The rise and fall of Communists in New York’s hotel union reveals how socialists gained, wielded, and ultimately lost power in the U.S. labor movement.
by Shaun Richman via Jacobin on July 21, 2025
Donald Trump and Kristi Noem visiting Alligator Alcatraz.
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The Dark History That Predates Trump's 'Alligator Alcatraz'

The location of Trump's immigrant detention center has a painful history of incarceration, abuse, and private interests.
by Antonio Ramirez via Made By History on July 17, 2025
Robert LaFollette Sr.
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The Legacy of Robert La Follette's Progressive Vision

Robert La Follette saw politics as a never-ending struggle for democracy and fairness and preached perseverance.
by Nancy Unger via Made By History on July 16, 2025
Union workers hold American flags and a sign reading "No work without a fair contract."

Requiem for the Wagner Act

Signed into law 90 years ago, labor’s onetime ‘magna carta’ is now a very dead letter.
by Joseph A. McCartin via The American Prospect on July 8, 2025
James Garfield
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A Mere Mass of Error

Two stories from the 19th century about government records being falsified to foment distrust of nonwhite Americans.
by Philip Kadish via HNN on July 8, 2025
Samuel Gompers the president of the American Federation of Labor in December 1920.

America’s Brutal Capitalist Class Tamed Its Labor Movement

The unique brutality of the US capitalist class bred a labor movement that has often limited itself to being a private insurance provider.
by Maya Adereth via Jacobin on July 7, 2025
An illustration of the citizens’ committee in Fort Worth, Texas arresting a striker during the Great Southwest Strike of 1886.

Populism Was Born From a Rural-Urban Alliance

In 1880s Texas, farmers and factory workers discovered they had the same enemy: corporate capitalists.
by David Griscom via Jacobin on July 5, 2025
Demonstrators against ICE in Pasadena, California.

Emma Tenayuca Championed Class Struggle and Migrant Rights

Labor activist Emma Tenayuca led Mexican American women in San Antonio’s legendary pecan shellers’ strike. Today, we can learn from her example.
by Alex Birnel via Jacobin on June 29, 2025
A man walks down the street dressed as Uncle Sam and carries a large baby Donald Trump doll.

Cracked, Costly Fantasies

The legacy of right-wing ideologies in California.
by Dan O’Sullivan via Los Angeles Review of Books on June 28, 2025
Workers adjust a metal sheet on a Titan missile assembly line.

The Permanent War Economy Doesn’t Benefit Workers

Advocates of “military Keynesianism” present it as a boon for the working class. In reality, it diverts resources away from social provision.
by Hanna Goldberg via Jacobin on June 23, 2025
William Sentner address a crowd of union workers at a small arms plant

The Radical Midwest of Bill Sentner

St Louis organizer Bill Sentner led some of the most successful labor battles in Midwestern history by uniting workers across race and gender lines.
by Devin Thomas O’Shea via Jacobin on June 23, 2025
An illustration of blurry Korean people in the ruins of a city after a nuclear bombing.

The Atomic Bombs’ Forgotten Korean Victims

Survivors of the nuclear blasts in Hiroshima and Nagasaki are still fighting for recognition.
by E. Tammy Kim via The New Yorker on June 16, 2025
Image of where the rust belt is located on a US map

Economic Mobility, Not Manufacturing Decline, Is the Real Rust Belt Story

A look at popular interpretations and actual labor fluctuations in the Rust Belt over time.
by Norbert Michel, Jerome Famularo via Cato Institute on June 12, 2025
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Decline and Fall of the Spinach Kings: On the Wilting of a Family Dynasty

A history of wealth, enterprise, and family dysfunction.
by John Seabrook via Literary Hub on June 11, 2025
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French Canadians in the New England Woods

French Canadians held a distinct position in an American labor landscape in which experts viewed different “races” as being suited to different kinds of work.
by Livia Gershon, Jason L. Newton via JSTOR Daily on June 5, 2025
Walter Lippmann.

Walter Lippmann, Beyond Stereotypes

On the political theorist and the new media landscape.
by Geoff Shullenberger via Compact on June 4, 2025
Illustration of lady liberty balancing housework and child care, holding cash instead of a torch.

The World That ‘Wages for Housework’ Wanted

The 1970s campaign fought to get women paid for their work in the home—and envisioned a society built to better support motherhood.
by Lily Meyer via The Atlantic on May 23, 2025
A newspaper drawing of St. Louis from above.
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German Radicals vs. the Slave Power

In "Memoirs of a Nobody," Henry Boernstein chronicles the militant immigrant organizing that helped keep St. Louis out of the hands of the Confederacy.
by Devin Thomas O’Shea via HNN on May 21, 2025
Robert Crumb

He’s Lewd, Problematic, and Profoundly Influential

R. Crumb’s cartoons plumb the grotesque corners of the American unconscious.
by Jeremy Lybarger via The New Republic on May 20, 2025
Broadside about the Fugitive Slave law.
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The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850: Annotated

The Fugitive Slave Act erased the most basic of constitutional rights for enslaved people and incentivized US Commissioners to support kidnappers.
by Liz Tracey via JSTOR Daily on May 19, 2025
McKinley poster that reads "Prosperity at home, prestige abroad."

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

The omissions in Trump's historical narratives reveal how he views national wealth: only the people at the top of the socioeconomic ladder matter.
by Elizabeth McKillen via LaborOnline on May 1, 2025
Garment workers use sewing machines at a textile facility in New York City in 1975.

Tariffs and the Shop Floor

A former garment worker reflects on rank-and-file agitation in the US garment industry just before the industry fled the country.
by Ron Whitehorn via Jacobin on April 26, 2025
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