Author: Erik Loomis
This is the grave of Sidney Hillman. Hillman was born into a Jewish family in Lithuania in 1887. He was training to be a rabbi, but fell in with political.
If you have a few minutes, checking out the IWW History Project at the University of Washington is well worth your time. It contains a lot of great visuals, maps,.
A good essay reminding us how vitally important W.E.B. DuBois' slave general strike thesis that he delineated in Black Reconstruction remains today. Slaves freed themselves. With this majestic assertion in.
Time for the next installment in the internet's least important historical series. This is the grave of Samuel Gompers. Gompers, an English immigrant from a Jewish background, immigrated to the.
This is pretty amazing: Guthrie’s two-year tenancy in one of Fred Trump’s buildings and his relationship with the real estate mogul of New York’s outer boroughs produced some of Guthrie’s.
After a couple of Bernie Sanders post that are currently at something like 750 comments, I'm sure I've prepared readers for an in depth discussion of the problems with the.
Let's consider a hypothetical. What if Bernie Sanders became president? It's hardly impossible. If he wins in Iowa and New Hampshire and then either in South Carolina or Nevada, he.
Ta-Nehisi Coates writes pretty strongly against Bernie Sanders' position on race, accusing him of being nothing more than a mainstream white Democrat on race, lacking any of the imagination he.