Devin Thomas O’Shea

St Louis organizer Bill Sentner led some of the most successful labor battles in Midwestern history by uniting workers across race and gender lines.

Were you to vanish Marx from every library, you’d destroy the central interlocutor around which most of capitalism is built.

In "Memoirs of a Nobody," Henry Boernstein chronicles the militant immigrant organizing that helped keep St. Louis out of the hands of the Confederacy.

On David Roediger’s “An Ordinary White: My Antiracist Education.”

The solidarity group Noraid raised millions of dollars to support the Irish republican movement during the Troubles.

Were the Knights of the Golden Circle responsible for Lincoln’s assassination? No one knows, but far-right secret societies always draw power from speculation.

The author of "Cahokia Jazz" reflects on the similarities between historical fiction and science fiction, and the imaginative space opened by archival silences.

In Indiana, “hoosier” is a badge of honor. In St Louis, it’s the nastiest insult around. The difference reveals the prejudice that breaks worker solidarity.

On the St. Louis theme park that never made it past the drawing board.

In the midst of the Depression, Conroy helped encourage a new generation of working-class writers.

Activists are often held up as exemplars of personal morality — but in every social struggle, ordinary people with complex lives rise up as leaders.