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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 Magazine 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.
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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
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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
Drawing of a lightbulb illuminating an inventor's laboratory.

The Real Nature of Thomas Edison’s Genius

The inventor did not look for problems in need of solutions; he looked for solutions in need of modification.
by Casey N. Cep via The New Yorker on October 21, 2019
Hahnemann University Hospital in Philadelphia
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How the Rise of Urban Nonprofits Has Exacerbated Poverty

While "meds and eds" have powered urban economies, they haven't been the gateway out of poverty that many hoped.
by Claire Dunning via Made By History on September 24, 2019
Chester Harding

Chester Harding’s My Egotistigraphy (1866)

Privately published memoir of an American portraitist who grew up in a log cabin and went on to paint presidents and Daniel Boone.
by Adam Green via The Public Domain Review on September 10, 2019

The History of Cities Is About How We Get to Work

From ancient Rome to modern Atlanta, the technologies that allow people to commute in about 30 minutes have defined the shape of cities.
by Jonathan English via CityLab on August 29, 2019
Totem poles near houses

‘Proud Raven, Panting Wolf’ — A History of Totem Poles in Alaska

A New Deal program to restore Totem Poles in Alaska provided jobs and boosted tourism, but it ignored their history and significance within Native culture.
by Jean Bundy via Anchorage Press on August 12, 2019
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Was E-mail a Mistake?

Digital messaging was supposed to make our work lives easier and more efficient, but the math suggests that meetings might be better.
by Cal Newport via The New Yorker on August 6, 2019
Modern building on a grassy lawn

This Small Indiana Town is a Hotbed of Utopianism

New Harmony has attracted eccentric spiritual groups, social reformers, intellectuals, and artists.
by Diana Buds via Curbed on August 5, 2019
A broken key with a fist

The Road Not Taken

The shuttering of the GM works in Lordstown will also bury a lost chapter in the fight for workers’ control.
by Sarah Jaffe via The New Republic on June 24, 2019
Workers with a steam plough on a sugar plantation in Puerto Rico.

How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean

The expansion of banks like Citigroup into Cuba, Haiti, and beyond reveal a story of capitalism built on blood, labor, and race.
by Peter James Hudson via Boston Review on June 18, 2019
Political cartoon of people reaching toward a woman symbolizing Milwaukee who herself is reaching toward socialism.

When Socialists Swept Milwaukee

Democratic socialists attending the 2020 Democratic Convention won’t be out of place in a city with a long history of socialist governance.
by Lindsey Anderson via Belt Magazine on May 21, 2019

“There Is a Scottsboro in Every Country”

A review of two new books that illuminate a range of still unrealized visions of anti-imperialism, anti-capitalism, and anti-racism.
by Amanda Reid via Public Books on April 11, 2019
President Kennedy hands Senator Estes Kefauver the pen he used to sign a bill.

The Greatest Show of Them All

How a New Deal senator’s anti-monopoly investigations changed American business.
by Jill Priluck via Lapham’s Quarterly on April 8, 2019
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