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Is Capitalism Racist?

A scholar depicts white supremacy as the economic engine of American history.
by Nicholas Lemann via The New Yorker on May 18, 2020
New York workers, angered by the Mayor's apparent anti-Vietnam-War sympathies, wave American flags as they march in a demonstration near City Hall in New York City on May 15, 1970.

The 'Hard Hat Riot' of 1970 Pitted Construction Workers Against Anti-War Protesters

The Kent State shootings further widened the chasm among a citizenry divided over the Vietnam War.
by Angela Serratore via Smithsonian on May 8, 2020
Nurses on strike.
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We Had a Better Social Safety Net. Then We Busted Unions.

COVID-19 has taught us all just how frayed our social safety net has become, and how its holes make us all more vulnerable.
by Lane Windham via HNN on April 19, 2020

If You Think Quarantine Life Is Weird Today, Try Living It in 1918

From atomizer crazes to stranded actor troupes to school by phone, daily life during the flu pandemic was a trip.
by Michael Waters via Slate on April 17, 2020
A mug shot of Linda Taylor

COVID-19 and Welfare Queens

Fears about “undeserving” people receiving public assistance have deep ties to racism and the policing of black women’s bodies.
by Scott Wasserman Stern via Boston Review on April 17, 2020
Nurses in masks carry a patient on a stretcher to an ambulance.

Fight the Pandemic, Save the Economy: Lessons from the 1918 Flu

We examine the 1918 flu to understand whether social distancing has economic costs or if slowing the spread of the pandemic reduced economic severity.
by Sergio Correia, Stephan Luck, Emil Verner via Liberty Street Economics on March 27, 2020
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To Be Effective, The Covid-19 Relief Bill Must Spark Consumer Spending

While assisting businesses, Congress must also continue to help consumers.
by Stephen Leccese via Made By History on March 26, 2020
Thomas Piketty

Thomas Piketty Takes On the Ideology of Inequality

In his sweeping new history, the economist systematically demolishes the conceit that extreme inequality is our destiny, rather than our choice.
by Marshall Steinbaum via Boston Review on March 25, 2020
Portraits of Donald Trump and Herbert Hoover.
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Covid-19 May Destroy Donald Trump’s Presidency

Has Trump plunged America into another Great Depression?
by Meg Jacobs via Made By History on March 23, 2020

The First Lady of American Journalism

Dorothy Thompson finds a room of her own.
by Nancy F. Cott via Lapham’s Quarterly on March 17, 2020
Broadside with information about tuberculosis.

This Isn’t the First Time Liberals Thought Disease Would Make the Case for Universal Health Care

Lessons from a century ago.
by Beatrix Hoffman, Rebecca Onion via Slate on March 13, 2020

It Doesn't Have to Be a War

The Trump administration appears ready to invoke the Defense Production Act to speed manufacture of essential goods like face masks.
by Tim Barker via Dissent on March 10, 2020
Cartoon caricature of Jack Welch.
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Jack Welch Was a Bitter Foe of American Workers

The GE exec was known for his big personality. He should be known for the role he played in creating America's toxic corporate culture on a base of inequality.
by Erik Loomis via HNN on March 6, 2020

Slavery Was Defeated Through Mass Politics

The overthrow of slavery in the US was a battle waged and won in the field of democratic mass politics; a battle that holds enormous lessons for radicals today.
by Matthew Karp via Jacobin on February 24, 2020

The Life And Times Of Mr. Peanut

Mr. Peanut embodies two seemingly-distinct but deeply-connected Virginian worlds; he is a product of the state’s agricultural and aristocratic traditions.
by Rachel Kirby via Contingent on February 13, 2020

George Washington Saw a Future for America: Mules

A newly minted celebrity to the world, the future president used his position to procure his preferred beast of burden from the king of Spain.
by Alexis Coe via Smithsonian on February 12, 2020

The Man Behind the Counter

When four black men staged at sit-in at a Greensboro Woolworth's 40 years ago, Charles Bess was the busboy.
by Sayaka Matsuoka via The Bitter Southerner on February 9, 2020
Various foods, such as milk, peanuts, potatoes, bread, and bananas, on a beige background.

A Brief History of the Calorie

The measure of thermal energy expended by exercise was adapted from the study of explosives and engines.
by Livia Gershon, Nick Cullather via JSTOR Daily on February 6, 2020
U.V.A. Inauguration Day 1921

Jefferson’s Shadow

On the occasion of its bicentennial, and in the wake of racist violence in Charlottesville, UVA confronts its history.
by Brendan Wolfe via Medium on January 29, 2020
Photograph of Michael Lind wearing a blazer and tie.

Michael Lind on Reviving Democracy

To fix things, we must acknowledge the nature of the problem.
by Michael Lind, Aaron Sibarium via The American Interest on January 29, 2020

What Should a Slavery Epic Do?

If there’s anything the 2010s taught us, it’s that there is no getting these stories right, no honoring with grace the dead and ghosts.
by Lauren Michele Jackson via Vulture on December 26, 2019
Women and men sifting for gold

Yes, Women Participated in the Gold Rush

“Conventional wisdom tells us that the gold rush was a male undertaking,” writes the historian Glenda Riley. But women were there, too.
by Erin Blakemore, Glenda Riley via JSTOR Daily on December 19, 2019
Workers harvesting oranges.

The United Farm Workers in Florida Citrus, 1972–1977

If labor organizers learned anything from decades of small victories and stubborn failures in the U.S. South, it was that interracial unions were hard work.
by Terrell Orr via Southern Cultures on December 4, 2019
Men and women of Zoar, Ohio, posing in a field with their hay harvest, horses, and equipment.

The Communal, Sometimes Celibate, 19th-Century Ohio Town That Thrived for Three Generations

Zoar's citizens left religious persecution in Germany and created a utopian community on the Erie Canal.
by Kathleen M. Fernandez via What It Means to Be American on December 1, 2019

This Day in Labor History: December 1, 1868

On folk hero John Henry.
by Erik Loomis via Twitter on December 1, 2019
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Why Forbidding Asylum Seekers From Working Undermines the Right to Seek Asylum

A new Trump administration proposal would undermine the rights of all workers and harm asylum seekers.
by Yael Schacher via Made By History on November 18, 2019

The Greensboro Massacre at 40

Forty years after the Greensboro Massacre, a survivor talks about that day, and why organized workers are such a threat to the powerful.
by Rosalyn Pelles, Jordan T. Camp via Boston Review on November 1, 2019
The Bullion Mine, Virginia City, Nevada, in a village at the foot of a mountain.

Gold Diggers on Camera

Creating the myth of the gold rush with the help of daguerreotypists.
by Jane Lee Aspinwall via Lapham’s Quarterly on October 28, 2019

Slavery in the President's Neighborhood

Many people think of the White House as a symbol of democracy, but it also embodies America’s complicated past.
by Lina Mann, Callie Hopkins, Matthew Costello, Louis Keene via White House Historical Association on October 22, 2019
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It’s Time to Make Election Day a Holiday in Law and Spirit

We need to bring back the celebratory atmosphere that animated Election Day in the 19th century.
by Holly Jackson via Made By History on October 22, 2019
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