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Plantations Practiced Modern Management
Slaveholding plantations of the 19th century used scientific management techniques—and some applied them more extensively than factories.
by
Caitlin C. Rosenthal
,
Scott Berinato
via
Harvard Business Review
on
September 1, 2013
Winging It: The Battle Between Reagan and PATCO
The true economic legacy of the Reagan years is not tax cuts but union busting.
by
Chris Lehmann
via
The Nation
on
March 21, 2012
Cherokee Slaveholders and Radical Abolitionists
An unlikely alliance in antebellum America.
by
Natalie Joy
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Commonplace
on
July 1, 2011
When Blue-Collar Pride Became Identity Politics
Remembering how the white working class got left out of the New Left, and why we're all paying for it today.
by
Jefferson Cowie
,
Joan Walsh
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Salon
on
September 6, 2010
How Poverty Was, and Was Not, Pictured Before the Civil War
Images were important in defining the Republic between the Revolution and the Civil War and they distinctively both did and did not show Americans in need.
by
Jonathan Prude
via
Commonplace
on
April 12, 2010
There Was Blood
The Ludlow massacre revisited.
by
Caleb Crain
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The New Yorker
on
January 12, 2009
Keep on Truckin’
The road to right-wing deregulation began on our nation's highways.
by
Matthew D. Lassiter
via
Democracy Journal
on
December 10, 2008
All You Need Is Love
The complex history, career, and legacy of one of America's most popular speakers and reformers.
by
Ronald Steel
via
New York Review of Books
on
June 22, 2006
American Green
How did the plain green lawn become the central landscaping feature in America, and what is the ecological cost?
by
Ted Steinberg
via
Longreads
on
March 15, 2006
Howard Zinn's History Lessons
"A People’s History" is bad history, albeit gilded with virtuous intentions.
by
Michael Kazin
via
Dissent
on
April 3, 2004
The World Trade Center: Before, During, and After
A biography of the towers that became "bane as well as boon to lower Manhattan."
by
Michael Tomasky
via
New York Review of Books
on
March 28, 2002
Harper Lee's Only Recorded Interview About 'To Kill A Mockingbird' [AUDIO]
In 1964, Harper Lee talked with WQXR host Roy Newquist for an interview in New York.
via
WQXR
on
January 1, 1964
Strivings of the Negro People
Du Bois’ 1897 essay describes the “double consciousness” of African Americans who are “shut out from their world by a vast veil.”
by
W.E.B. Du Bois
via
The Atlantic
on
August 1, 1897
Shawn Fain Is Channeling the Best of the UAW’s Past
The ongoing UAW strike is reminiscent of early UAW leader Walter Reuther — before the union and Reuther himself downsized their ambitions.
by
Barry Eidlin
via
Jacobin
on
October 16, 1923
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