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Illustration of catcher Buck Ewing of the New York Giants

Baseball's Reserve Clause and the "Antitrust Exemption"

The controversy between players and owners frequently brought baseball into the federal courts between the late nineteenth and late twentieth centuries.
by Jake Kobrick via Federal Judicial Center on May 18, 2022
Picture of a worried young mother holding a sleeping newborn baby.
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Whose Breast is Best?: "Mom-shaming" in the British Atlantic World

Claims that mothers lacking formula should just breastfeed repeats a centuries-old mistake.
by Laura Earls via Made By History on May 18, 2022
Illustration of W.E.B DuBois

W.E.B. Du Bois’s Abolition Democracy

The enduring legacy and capacious vision of "Black Reconstruction."
by Gerald Horne via The Nation on May 3, 2022
Cover for a book of scrip for use at American Potash and Chemical’s company stores, 1937.

Greenbacks, Chits, and Scrip

Alternative currencies flourish in desperate times and situations.
by Michael Meyer via Distillations on May 3, 2022
1861 engraving of Slaves for sale, a scene in New Orleans.

An Enduring Legacy: Financial Institutions, the Horrors of Slavery, and the Need for Atonement

Historian Daina Ramey Berry's April 2022 congressional testimony on the role of banks and insurers in US slavery.
by Daina Ramey Berry via Beacon Broadside on April 20, 2022
Paul Thompson photograph of Staten Island Shipbuilding Company interior view, early 1900s, PK 4119, Staten Island Museum Photo Collection, Staten Island Museum, Staten Island, New York.

Crisis, Disease, Shortage, And Strike: Shipbuilding On Staten Island In World War I

How an industry responded to the needs of workers and of the federal government during a time of rapid mobilization for wartime production.
by Faith D'Alessandro via The Gotham Center on April 19, 2022
Couple kissing at the opening of the Berlin Wall

Has Neoliberalism Really Come to an End?

A conversation with historian Gary Gerstle about understanding neoliberalism as a bipartisan worldview and how the political order it ushered in has crumbled. 
by Gary Gerstle, Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins via The Nation on April 13, 2022
People collecting sap from trees for maple sugar
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Praising Maple Sugar in the Early American Republic

In Early America, some prestigious residents advocated for the replacement of cane sugar, supplied by enslaved workers, with maple sugar from family farms.
by Livia Gershon, Mark Sturges via JSTOR Daily on April 7, 2022
1827 Finley Map of the Western Hemisphere

Land that Could Become Water

Dreams of Central America in the era of the Erie Canal.
by Jessica Lepler via Commonplace on April 5, 2022
Bill Clinton speaking to a crowd.

How the Democrats Ditched Economic Populism for Neoliberalism

On the pro-business transformation of the Democratic Party.
by Michael Kazin via Literary Hub on March 28, 2022
Portraits of African American men revealed under torn copy of the Dred Scott Case.

The Painful, Cutting and Brilliant Letters Black People Wrote To Their Former Enslavers

The letters show a desire for freedom and a desperate longing to be reunited with their families.
by Jourdon Anderson, Vilet Lester, Gillian Brockell, Annie Davis, Jermain Wesley Loguen, Frederick Douglass via Retropolis on March 13, 2022
Odetta sitting on a park bench playing a guitar.

How Odetta Revolutionized Folk Music

She animated the horror and emotional intensity in American labor songs by projecting them like a European opera singer.
by Sasha Frere-Jones via The New Yorker on February 24, 2022
Postcard of Marshall Field & Co.’s Retail Store, Chicago.

Race and Class Identities in Early American Department Stores

Built on the momentum of earlier struggles for justice, the department store movement channeled the power of workers and consumers to promote black freedom.
by Traci Parker, Phillip Loken via UNC Press Blog on February 23, 2022
A line of black civil war soldiers holding their rifles.
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Black Soldier Desertion in the Civil War

The reasons Black Union soldiers left their army during the Civil war were varied, with poor pay, family needs and racism among them.
by Jonathan Lande, Matthew Wills via JSTOR Daily on February 13, 2022
WWII Advertisement that highlights price controls.

Price Controls, Black Markets, And Skimpflation: The WWII Battle Against Inflation

To control inflation during WWII, the U.S. government resorted to wide-ranging price controls. Unintended consequences may be the reason they aren't used today.
by Greg Rosalsky via NPR on February 8, 2022
Illustrated cargo ship surrounded by a train loop.

How America’s Supply Chains Got Railroaded

Rail deregulation led to consolidation, price-gouging, and a variant of just-in-time unloading that left no slack in the system.
by Matthew Jinoo Buck via The American Prospect on February 4, 2022
English Quakers on a Barbados plantation

How 18th-Century Quakers Led a Boycott of Sugar to Protest Against Slavery

These Quakers led some of the early campaigns against sugar being produced by enslaved people.
by Julie L. Holcomb via The Conversation on February 2, 2022
Men wearing tuxedos carry a coffin and a "Here Lies Jim Crow" sign down a street as a demonstration against "Jim Crow" segregation laws in 1944.

No Quick Fixes: Working Class Politics From Jim Crow to the Present

Political scientist Adolph Reed Jr. discusses his new memoir.
by Adolph Reed Jr., Jon Queally via Common Dreams on February 1, 2022
Artistic depiction meant to represent the global supply chain. At center is planet Earth, which has a hole in the middle. Earth is surrounded by 3 intersecting rings of various colors. The rings depict freight transport (transporting goods by rail, sea, and truck).

How We Broke the Supply Chain

Rampant outsourcing, financialization, monopolization, deregulation, and just-in-time logistics are the culprits.
by David Dayden, Rakeen Mabud via The American Prospect on January 31, 2022
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Best History Writing of 2021

Bunk's American History Top 40.
by Tony Field on January 26, 2022
Fast food with the seal of the president on the containers.

How the State Created Fast Food

Because of consistent government intervention in the industry, we might call fast food the quintessential cuisine of global capitalism.
by Alex Park via Current Affairs on January 25, 2022
Donald Trump speaking at a meeting with small businesspeople at the White House on January 30, 2017.

Family Capitalism and the Small Business Insurrection

The increasingly militant right supports the private, unincorporated, and family-based versus the corporate, publicly traded, and shareholder-owned.
by Melinda Cooper via Dissent on January 13, 2022
Illustration of enslaved workers harvesting sugar cane.

Ethical US Consumers Struggled to Pressure the Sugar Industry to Abandon Slavery

Before the Civil War, US activists sought to combat slavery through sugar boycotts. Instead, consumption grew.
by Calvin Schermerhorn via The Conversation on January 12, 2022
Group of child laborers
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The Age of the Birth Certificate

When states began restricting labor by children, verifying a person's age became an important means of enforcement.
by Matthew Wills, Susan J. Pearson via JSTOR Daily on January 12, 2022

How Hobbies Infiltrated American Life

America has a love affair with “productive leisure.”
by Julie Beck via The Atlantic on January 4, 2022
Aerial view of a combine harvester in a grain field.

Abolish the Department of Agriculture

The USDA has become an inefficient monster that often promotes products that are bad for consumers and the environment. Let’s replace it with a Department of Food.
by Gabriel N. Rosenberg, Jan Dutkiewicz via The New Republic on December 27, 2021
Statue of Stonewall Jackson, on its side in slings and propped up by tires, in front of its graffiti-covered pedestal.

What the 1619 Project Got Wrong

It erases the fact that, for the first 70 years of its existence, the US was roiled by intense, escalating conflict over slavery – a conflict only resolved by civil war.
by James Oakes via Catalyst on December 17, 2021
What history tells us about the dangers of media ownership | Psyche Ideas

What History Tells us About the Dangers of Media Ownership

Is media bias attributable to corporate power or personal psychology? Upton Sinclair and Walter Lippmann disagreed.
by Maia Silber via Psyche on December 15, 2021
Johnny Cash in front of a microphone.

Johnny Cash Is a Hero to Americans on the Left and Right. But His Music Took a Side.

Listen to Blood, Sweat and Tears again.
by Michael Stewart Foley via Slate on December 7, 2021
The Crystals, a Black girl-group, performing at a high school prom.

The Kansas City School That Became a Stop for R. & B. Performers

In the nineteen-sixties, artists such as Bo Diddley and the Ike & Tina Turner Revue played the prom at Pembroke-Country Day.
by David Dale Owen via The New Yorker on December 4, 2021
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