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The Lettuce Workers Strike of 1930

Uniting for better wages and working conditions, a remarkably diverse coalition of laborers faced off against agribusiness.
by Elizabeth E. Sine, Matthew Wills via JSTOR Daily on November 27, 2020
A map of Mexico.

When the Enslaved Went South

How Mexico—and the fugitives who went there—helped make freedom possible in America.
by Alice L. Baumgartner via The New Yorker on November 19, 2020

Things as They Are

Dorothea Lange created a vast archive of the twentieth century’s crises in America. For years her work was censored, misused, impounded, or simply rejected.
by Valeria Luiselli via New York Review of Books on October 29, 2020
Abandoned Howard Johnson's restaurant overgrown with vegetation.

Howard Johnson’s, Host of the Bygone Ways

For more than seven decades American roads were dotted with the familiar orange roof and blue cupola of the ubiquitous Howard Johnson’s restaurants and Motor Lodges.
via Sometimes Interesting on October 15, 2020
Men on horses walking through the desert.

How a Commissary General and His Clerks Dispossessed Thousands of Their Native Land

From Claudio Saunt's Cundill Prize-nominated "Unworthy Republic."
by Claudio Saunt via Literary Hub on October 14, 2020
Freeville Republic

When Kids Ran the World: A Forgotten History of the Junior Republic Movement

When public opinion favored sheltering youth from adult society, the Freeville Republic immersed them in carefully designed models of that society instead.
by Jennifer S. Light via The MIT Press Reader on October 9, 2020

The Origins of Policing in America

How American policing grew out of efforts to control the labor of poor and enslaved people.
by Chenjerai Kumanyika, Khalil Gibran Muhammad via Washington Post on September 24, 2020
Colored Conventions Project exhibit banner with images of formerly enslaved peoples over map of Illinois.

Black Organizing in Pre-Civil War Illinois: Creating Community, Demanding Justice

Their main objective was to draw attention to racist state policies and demand their repeal.
by Kate Masur, Emiliano Aguilar, Hope McCaffrey, Mikala Stokes, Marquis Taylor via Colored Conventions Project on September 10, 2020

The History of the USPS and the Politics of Postal Reform

Reform was framed as a way of removing “politics” from postal affairs and giving more autonomy to postal management. In time, it would prove to do neither.
by Ryan Ellis via TIME on August 18, 2020
a Black woman sits on stairs and looks out the window of an old New England style house

60 Enslaved People Once Toiled for a Rich Landowner in Medford

“This is not just history about Black Americans. This is American history. Slavery is American history. And we want people to understand that.”
by Hayley Kaufman via Boston Globe on August 8, 2020
A photograph of enslaved laborers picking and carrying cotton in a field near Montgomery, Alabama.

Capitalism, Slavery, and Power over Price

The debate between historians and economists over the definition of capitalism, and the legacy of slavery in the structure of today's economy.
by Caitlin C. Rosenthal, Johnny Fulfer via The Economic Historian on August 3, 2020

Will The Reckoning Over Racist Names Include These Prisons?

Many prisons, especially in the South, are named after racist officials and former plantations.
by Keri Blackinger via The Marshall Project on July 29, 2020

The Unprecedented Bravery of Olivia de Havilland

The 'Gone With the Wind' film legend, who died at age 104, went up against a broken Hollywood studio system—and helped change the industry forever.
by Todd S. Purdum via The Atlantic on July 26, 2020

Lincoln’s Paramilitaries, the “Wide Awakes,” Helped Bring About a Political Revolution

In 1860, a novel paramilitary-style organization mobilized hundreds of thousands against the Southern planter class.
by Matthew E. Stanley via Jacobin on July 11, 2020

What’s New About Free College?

The fight over free education is much older than you think.
by Jay Swanson via Current Affairs on July 8, 2020
Frances Perkins on a ship, wearing a winter coat and gloves.
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Frances Perkins: Architect of the New Deal

She designed Social Security and public works programs that helped bring millions out of poverty. Her work has been largely forgotten.
by Bat-Ami Zucker, Hannah Steinkopf-Frank, DeLysa Burnier via JSTOR Daily on July 8, 2020
Black and white STFU members including Myrtle Lawrence and Ben Lawrence listen to Norman Thomas speak outside Parkin, Arkansas, on September 12, 1937. Louise Boyle / Kheel Center

When Black Sharecroppers in the South Rose Up

In the 1930s, Socialist and Communist organizers tried to help Black sharecroppers rise up against their oppressors.
by Arvind Dilawar, Nan Elizabeth Woodruff via Jacobin on July 7, 2020
Trestle on Central Pacific Railroad, by Carleton Watkins, 1877.

A Campaign of Forced Self-Deportation

The history of anti-Chinese violence in Truckee, California, is as old as the town itself.
by Adam Goodman via Lapham’s Quarterly on July 1, 2020
Hurricane Katrina flooding.

Through Hell and High Water: Katrina's First Responders Oral History Project

A collection of interviews with rescue workers who responded to the disaster.
via The Historic New Orleans Collection on June 27, 2020

The Real Story Behind “Because of Sex”

One of the most powerful phrases in the Civil Rights Act is often viewed as a malicious joke that backfired. But its entrance into law was far more savvy.
by Rebecca Onion, Christina Wolbrecht via Slate on June 16, 2020
Woman in the doorway of a kitchen.

Abolish Oil

The New Deal's legacies of infrastructure and economic development, and entrenching structural racism, reveal the potential and mistakes to avoid for the Green New Deal.
by Reinhold Martin via Places Journal on June 16, 2020

COVID-19 Didn’t Break the Food System. Hunger Was Already Here.

Like everything else in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, American food has become almost unrecognizable overnight.
by Carla Cevasco via Nursing Clio on May 26, 2020

Eugenics and the White Moderate

Reflections on the COVID crisis from Reconstruction.
by William Horne via U.S. Intellectual History Blog on May 25, 2020

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
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