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James Garfield

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

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

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

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

Advertisement highlighting recipes to make with Seabrook frozen vegetables.

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

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.

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.

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

Ella Jenkins at a School Assembly Service performance, c. 1962.

Ella Jenkins and Sonic Civil Rights Pedagogy

She translated Black freedom movements' ideals into forms that children could enjoy and grasp, nurturing their political consciousness through music-making.

by Gayle F. Wald via Black Perspectives on April 25, 2025

Person sitting on the ground, head in hands.

Still Pursuing Happiness

The United States fares badly on the World Happiness Report. Who cares?

by Reuven Brenner via Law & Liberty on April 22, 2025

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Free Trader

A little understood part of the New Deal.

by John Ganz via Unpopular Front on April 4, 2025

Man working on a farm.

RFK Jr.’s 18th-Century Idea About Mental Health

The health secretary’s clearest plans for psychiatric treatment are a retreat to the past.

by Shayla Love via The Atlantic on April 4, 2025

Immanuel Wallerstein

Immanuel Wallerstein at Columbia University

C. Wright Mills, Karl Polanyi, and the Frankfurt School in postwar America.

by Sam Chian via Journal of the History of Ideas Blog on March 31, 2025

Jason Chernesky

Their Jobs Vanished. These Historians Want to Ensure Their Stories Don’t.

An oral history project to document the stories of federal workforce cuts is open to all feds and contractors — even DOGE and Musk.

by Kyle Swenson via Washington Post on March 27, 2025

Floor of the New York Stock Exchange.

Regime Change in the West?

Where amid this turmoil does neoliberalism stand? In emergency conditions it has been forced to take measures.

by Perry Anderson via London Review of Books on March 25, 2025

A Ford truck is loaded with ivory tusks in Essex, Connecticut.

The Blood on the Keyboard

The history of ivory-topped piano keys and the invisible human suffering caused by our cultural commodities.

by Marina Manoukian via HNN on March 25, 2025

A group of Mexican nationals boarding a bus for repatriation to Mexico from the United States.

Scared Out of the Community

In the 1930s, approximately half a million Mexicans left the United States. Many families had American-born children to whom Mexico was a foreign land.

by Abraham Hoffman via HNN on March 25, 2025

Three members of the Wages for Housework campaign running a table and handing out pamphlets.

Home Is Where the Unpaid Labor Is

A new history traces the development and influence of the global Wages for Housework movement from its founding to present day.

by Hannah Rosefield via The New Republic on March 19, 2025

A U.S. Postal Service employee loading a van with mail.

How Mail Delivery Has Shaped America

The United States Postal Service is under federal scrutiny. It’s not the first time.

by Sarah Prager via JSTOR Daily on March 12, 2025

Farmer working a mule-drawn plow.

Racism Isn’t the Only Cause of the Racial Wealth Gap

Widening the lens to capitalism itself could yield insights on how to close the gap.

by Eric Herschthal via The New Republic on March 6, 2025

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