On July 28, 1869, the Daughters of St. Crispin was founded. This was the first national women's labor union in American history and, while short lived, a great example of.
We have now passed 150,000 official COVID deaths in the U.S. One of the dead was a friend of mine, the New York housing activist and policy expert Tom Waters..
This is the grave of Morris Cooke. Born in 1872 in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, Cooke graduated from Lehigh University in 1895 as a mechanical engineer. He worked as a journalist for.
This 1953 short is an absolutely outstanding satire of early television and the chaos it brought to households and neighborhoods. That's a first rate late film cameo! This was also.
This story from Illinois says so much about how hard it is to do public history with integrity. Just months after authoring a critical report that raised further questions about.
Good Rebecca Nagle piece at the always valuable High Country News on racism within the Cherokee Nation. On a warm Saturday morning this June, a crane pulled up to the.
Tonight's film club is the 1931 short Hot News Margie, starring Marjorie Beebe, who was a minor comedic star in the late 20s through the mid 30s. This is a.
Good on Massachusetts: Uber and Lyft should treat their drivers in Massachusetts as employees with the right to receive benefits, instead of misclassifying them as independent contractors, the state’s attorney.
