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Railway strike of 1886.

Why Strikes Matter

On the history (and future) of class struggle in America.
by Erik Loomis via Literary Hub on October 3, 2018
Collage of paper clippings including headless a running man, an explosion where his head would be, and a jet flying alongside him.

Ante Up: The Scales of Power Seen Through Norman Podhoretz’s Eyes

In retrospect, it was peculiar but not surprising that the Jewish-American novel peaked early—halfway through the beginning, to be precise.
by Frank Guan via The Point on September 29, 2018

William Faulkner Was Really Bad at Being a Postman

Good thing he had other talents.
by Emily Temple via Literary Hub on September 25, 2018
Two inmates survey the aftermath of a prison uprising.

Prisons and Class Warfare

A look at the evolution of the prison system in California.
by Clement Petitjean, Ruth Wilson Gilmore via Historical Materialism on July 25, 2018
View of San Francisco from the Bay.

How Could 'The Most Successful Place on Earth' Get So Much Wrong?

A new book conjures the complexity of the Bay Area and the perils of its immense, uneven wealth.
by Richard Florida, Richard A. Walker via CityLab on July 3, 2018
Desk calendar illustrated by its owner.

A Disgruntled Federal Employee's 1980s Desk Calendar

A nameless Cold Warrior grew frustrated in his Defense Department job, and poured out his feelings in an unusual way.
by Ted Widmer via The Paris Review on June 13, 2018
Chautauqua program, 1917.
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Vacation Nation

How vacations went from being a purview of the rich to an expectation of a rising American middle class.
via BackStory on June 1, 2018

A Timeline of Working-Class Sitcoms

Over the years, there have been surprisingly few of them.
by Kathryn Van Arendonk via Vulture on May 18, 2018
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Treadmills Were Meant to Be Atonement Machines

America’s favorite piece of workout equipment was developed as a device for forced labor in British prisons.
by Diane Peters, U. R. Q. Henriques, David H Shayt via JSTOR Daily on May 2, 2018

One Night on the Mountaintop

Martin Luther King Jr. came to Memphis 50 years ago to help 1,300 black sanitation workers on strike. Ozell Ueal was one of them.
by Tonyaa Weathersbee via The Bitter Southerner on April 3, 2018
Black sailors among the crew of a Union Naval vessel.

Slaves and Sailors in the Civil War

The enlistment of black soldiers in the Union Army is well-known, but their Navy counterparts played an integral role, too.
by Dwight Hughes via Emerging Civil War on February 28, 2018

White Americans Fail to Address Their Family Histories

There is a conversation about race that white families are just not having. This is mine. 
by William Horne via The Activist History Review on February 9, 2018

The Girls High School Experiment

In 1830, Boston had just concluded a radical experiment — a high school for girls.
via Boston Archives And Records Management on January 17, 2018

What These Early-20th-Century Scholars Got Right About 21st-Century Politics

Unlike many economists today, they questioned fundamental social structure.
by Branko Milanović via Vox on January 10, 2018

When America Was a Developing Country

The nostalgia of some conservatives hearkens back to a different—and irretrievable—economic time.
by Addison Del Mastro via The American Conservative on December 13, 2017
Belle Meade Plantation in Tennessee.

Black Women’s Voices and the Archive

The archive silences the voices of Black women, invalidating the realities of Black women and subjecting enslaved and free(d) women to epistemic violence.
by Halee Robinson via Black Perspectives on November 15, 2017
Edgar Alan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe’s Hatchet Jobs

The great short story writer and poet wrote many a book review.
by Mark Athitakis via Humanities on October 20, 2017
Illustration of the folk hero, John Henry, face down with a hammer in his hand.

A History of American Protest Music: This Is the Hammer That Killed John Henry

How a folk hero inspired one of the most covered songs in American history.
by Tom Maxwell via Longreads on October 4, 2017
The New Bedford whaleship Plantina docked.

The American Whaling Industry

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.
by Kerry Dunne via Digital Public Library of America on September 19, 2017
Black legislators behind the title "The Future of Reconstruction Studies."

The Future of Reconstruction Studies

This online forum sponsored by the Journal of the Civil War Era features 9 essays and a roundtable on the future of Reconstruction Studies.
by Eric Foner, Nancy Bercaw, W. Fitzhugh Brundage, Thomas J. Brown, Mark A. Noll, Thomas C. Holt, Lisa Tetrault, Martha S. Jones, Kidada E. Williams, Salamishah Tillet, Adrienne Petty, Luke E. Harlow, Elliott West, David M. Prior, Beverly Bond, Jennifer W. Taylor via Muster on August 1, 2017

100 Years Ago African-Americans Marched Down Fifth Avenue to Declare That Black Lives Matter

Remembering the "Silent Protest Parade."
by Chad Williams via The Conversation on July 25, 2017
Vintage Georgia postcard.

The Un-Pretty History Of Georgia's Iconic Peach

Why are Georgia peaches so iconic? The answer has a lot to do with slavery — its end and a need for the South to rebrand itself.
by Tove Danovich via NPR on July 21, 2017

Slave Consumption in the Old South: A Double-Edged Sword

Buying goods in the Old South revealed the fragile politics at the heart of master-slave relation.
by Kathleen Hilliard via Process: A Blog for American History on June 12, 2017

Oscar Dunn And The New Orleans Monument That Never Happened

New Orleans at 300 returns with a story about a monument that was supposed to be erected in the late 1800s, but never happened.
by Laine Kaplan-Levenson via New Orleans Public Radio on May 25, 2017

“We Lost Our Appetite for Food”: Why Eighteenth-Century Hangriness Might Not Be a Thing

Hunger hasn't always always caused anger and violence - in American history, hunger was more likely to be suppressed.
by Rachel B. Herrmann via Nursing Clio on April 20, 2017
A group of female workers at a protest in Russia.

The Socialist Origins of International Women’s Day

From the beginning, International Women's Day has been an occasion to celebrate working women and fight capitalism.
by Cintia Frencia, Daniel Gaido via Jacobin on March 8, 2017
A political cartoon showing two figures leading donkeys in opposite directions. The donkeys are depicted with the faces of Zachary Taylor and Henry Clay.

Prospects for Partisan Realignment: Lessons from the Demise of the Whigs

What America’s last major party crack-up in the 1850s tells us about the 2010s.
by Philip Wallach via Brookings on March 6, 2017

Ida B. Wells and the Economics of Racial Violence

In the late 19th century, Wells connected lynchings to the economic interests and status anxieties of white southerners.
by Megan Ming Francis via Items on January 24, 2017

Touching Sentiment: The Tactility of Nineteenth-Century Valentines

Sentimental or “fancy” valentines, as they were called, were harbingers of hope, fondness, and desire.
by Christina Michelon via Commonplace on December 1, 2016
New York City (New York, USA), Brooklyn Bridge.
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Over Troubled Waters

Looking for an easy buck, con artists in the early 1900s infamously "sold" the Brooklyn Bridge to immigrants fresh off the boat.
via BackStory on October 20, 2016
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