Author: Erik Loomis
On February 27, 1869, the great workplace health and safety reformer Alice Hamilton was born. I dislike highlighting birthdates or deathdates for the labor history series, but the history of.
This long profile of Sara Nelson has a lot of good bits in it, but I want to point out a couple excerpts. First, remember Nelson's role in ending the.
This is the grave of Nancy Hanks Lincoln. Born in 1784 in what is today Mineral County, West Virginia, Nancy Hanks was probably an illegitimate birth and was raised by.
Clearly, Donald Trump is an outlier in the Republican Party: He followed that up with a confirmation tweet: You nailed it, Bud. Since so-called Democratic Socialists have forgotten or never.
This is the grave of Oscar Wilde. I have two choices here. I could do a ton of research on a figure I don't really know super well and spend.
This is the grave of Jim Varney. Born in 1949 in Lexington, Kentucky, as a young child Varney had an incredible ability to do imitations of cartoon characters. His mother,.
On February 22, 1860, 3,000 shoemakers in Lynn, Massachusetts went on strike, beginning the nation's largest strike before the Civil War. Traditionally, shoemaking was a part time job for farmers.
This is the grave of Babe Ruth. George Herman Ruth, Jr., was born in Baltimore in 1895 to a German speaking family. For some reason that is not clear, Ruth.