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Ralph Waldo Emerson Would Really Hate Your Twitter Feed

For Ralph Waldo Emerson, political activism was full of empty gestures done in bad faith. Abolition called for true heroism.
by Peter Wirzbicki via Psyche on August 9, 2021
Political cartoon of the U.S Capitol

The Liberals Who Weakened Trust in Government

How public interest groups inadvertently aided the right’s ascendency.
by Kim Phillips-Fein via The New Republic on August 2, 2021
Two hooded KKK members

The Ku Klux Klan Was Also a Bosses’ Association

The KKK violently resisted the revolutionary gains of the Civil War and Reconstruction, and sought to keep the black masses toiling in submission.
by Chad Pearson via Jacobin on July 27, 2021

The Five-Day Workweek is Dead

It’s time for something better.
by Anna North via Vox on July 13, 2021
Smithsonian anthropologist Kari Bruwelheide points out details in the sculptures depicting the faces of two enslaved African Americans who labored at Catoctin Furnace in the late 1700s or early 1800s

Faces of the Dead Emerge From Lost African American Graveyard

The bones of enslaved furnace workers tell the grim story of their lives.
by Michael E. Ruane via Washington Post on July 9, 2021
An example of an almanac for New Jersey, from 1779

Inspiration Porn and Depictions of Impairment in Early America

How people understood disabilities in the 18th century, in contrast to contemporary interpretation, requires historical nuance.
by Meg Roberts via Public Disability History on July 1, 2021
Ernest Wilkins and an atom.

The Unsung African American Scientists of the Manhattan Project

At least 12 Black chemists and physicists worked as primary researchers on the team that developed the technology behind the atomic bomb.
by Farrell Evans via HISTORY on May 17, 2021
box of matches with faces drawn on the match sticks

Burnout: Modern Affliction or Human Condition?

As a diagnosis, it’s too vague to be helpful—but its rise tells us a lot about the way we work.
by Jill Lepore via The New Yorker on May 17, 2021
A woman with a baby
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The Feminist History of “Child Allowances”

The Biden administration’s proposed “child allowances” draw on the feminist thought of Crystal Eastman, who advocated “motherhood endowments” 100 years ago.
by Lucie Levine via JSTOR Daily on May 12, 2021
A drawing showing the plan for Owen's utopian community

Robert Owen, Born 250 Years Ago, Tried to Use His Wealth to Perfect Humanity

The wealthy textile manufacturer harbored ambitions that went far beyond the well-being of his own workforce and depleted his fortune.
by Richard Gunderman via The Conversation on May 11, 2021
The Moshassuck River running under a bridge with graffiti.

Difficult Topographies

There are whole hidden worlds pressing into this one.
by Sam Coren via Contingent on May 5, 2021
Illustration from the 1919 catalogue of the Library Bureau depicting women working at desks and filing cabinets.

The Filing Cabinet

The filing cabinet was critical to the information infrastructure of 20th-century nation states and financial systems.
by Craig Robertson via Places Journal on May 1, 2021
Industry at Night, by Horatio C. Forjohn, 1940.

Weary of Work

When factories created a population of tired workers, a new frontier in fatigue studies was born.
by Emily K. Abel via Lapham’s Quarterly on April 28, 2021
Asian-American men waiting to be questioned by white police officers

Racism Has Always Been Part of the Asian American Experience

If we don’t understand the history of Asian exclusion, we cannot understand the racist hatred of the present.
by Mae Ngai via The Atlantic on April 21, 2021
Volunteer registered nurses from New Mexico give people coronavirus vaccines at a rural vaccination site in Columbus, N.M.
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Volunteering and Generosity Are No Substitutes for Government Programs

Conservatives have weaponized Americans’ desire to help to attack the social safety net.
by Katherine Turk via Made By History on April 19, 2021
Eric Sheppard standing in front of two log cabins in the Great Dismal Swamp

The Great Dismal Swamp was a Refuge for the Enslaved. Their Descendants Want to Preserve It.

A Virginia congressman has filed a bill to make the swamp a National Heritage Site.
by Meagan Flynn via Washington Post on April 11, 2021
A worker entering the U.S. Steel Clairton Works in Clairton, Pennsylvania.

A Rust Belt City’s New Working Class

Heavy industry once drove Pittsburgh’s economy. Now health care does—but without the same hard-won benefits.
by Scott Wasserman Stern via The New Republic on March 31, 2021

The People, It Depends

What's the matter with left-populism? A review of Thomas Frank's "The People, No: A Brief History of Anti-Populism."
by Erik Baker via n+1 on March 24, 2021
Illustration of Pimento Cheese on Bread by Carter.

Pimento-cracy

The history of pimento cheese as a working class fixture and a symbol of Southern culture as seen through mystery novels.
by Cynthia R. Greenlee via Oxford American on March 23, 2021
Artwork depicting two people with shovels and a machette, entitled “Broken Skies: Nou poko fini” (We aren't done yet), 2019, by Didier William

Tarry with Me

Reclaiming sweetness in an anti-Black world.
by Ashanté M. Reese via Oxford American on March 23, 2021
Still life painting, “Early American, Apples in a Porcelain Basket” (2007), by Sharon Core.

After Apple Picking

The decline of South Carolina's apple industry, interwoven with personal memories of family orchards.
by Mark Powell via Oxford American on March 23, 2021
Postcard depicting the Montefiore Hospital in Pittsburgh

The Rise of Healthcare in Steel City

On deindustrialization, the care economy, and the living legacies of the industrial workers’ movement.
by Gabriel Winant, Nick Serpe via Dissent on March 18, 2021
Equal Rights Amendment supporters cheer for the passage of the House ERA Resolution at the Capitol in Richmond, VA
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2021 Could Finally Be the Moment for the Equal Rights Amendment

The turmoil of the coronavirus pandemic could push the amendment across the finish line after a century of work.
by Rebecca DeWolf via Made By History on March 17, 2021
Image of plastic human figurine hunched over at a desk and computer.

How the Personal Computer Broke the Human Body

Decades before 'Zoom fatigue' broke our spirits, the so-called computer revolution brought with it a world of pain previously unknown to humankind.
by Laine Nooney via Vice on March 12, 2021
Thaddeus Stevens

The Radicalism of Thaddeus Stevens

Thaddeus Stevens understood far better than most that fully uprooting slavery meant overthrowing the South’s economic system and challenging property rights.
by Matthew E. Stanley via Jacobin on March 1, 2021
George Schultz walking with Ronald Reagan outdoors
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George Shultz: The Last Progressive

A steadfast Republican committed to union-management cooperation, peace through treaties, competitive capitalism, and empowerment of African-Americans.
by Ron Schatz via HNN on February 28, 2021
A painting of a slave ship.

New York City and the Persistence of the Atlantic Slave Trade

Even after slave trade was banned, the United States and New York City, in particular, were complicit in allowing it to persist.
by Gerald Horne via The Nation on February 24, 2021
A visualization of the Great Migration depicting individual journeys with lines between cities.

The Great Migration

1915 marked the beginning of the largest domestic migration in American history. Hundreds of thousands of Black Americans began relocating north.
by Will Donnell via wcd.fyi on February 20, 2021
A shack on Eastland's plantation, as it appeared in the 1964 film

He Risked His Life Filming A Mississippi Senator's Plantation In 1964

Fannie Lou Hamer is among the sharecroppers interviewed in this unauthorized documentary about the plantation of Dixiecrat James Eastland.
by David Hoffman via YouTube on February 17, 2021
A colorful graphic featuring Curt Flood with a key on his necklace.

Curt Flood Belongs in the Hall of Fame

His defiance changed baseball and helped assert Black people’s worth in American culture.
by Jemele Hill via The Atlantic on February 10, 2021
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