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This Day in Labor History: December 17, 1894

By Erik Loomis

On December 17, 2020

On December 17, 1894, the American Federation of Labor annual convention begins in Denver. During the convention, AFL founding leader Samuel Gompers lost his reelection bid to John McBride due to the rise of Populism in the labor movement. While this interregnum in Gompers' domination...

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Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 617

By Erik Loomis

On January 21, 2020

This is the grave of Leonidas Polk. Born in 1837 in Anson County, North Carolina, Polk, a distant relative of President James K. Polk and of the Confederate general also.

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Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 450

By Erik Loomis

On April 4, 2019

This is the grave of Mary Lease. Born in 1850 in Ridgway, Pennsylvania, in 1870 she moved to Kansas to teach school to the Osage, part of the broader missionary.

On Populism

By Erik Loomis

In General

On October 25, 2017

You want to know something that really bothers me about how the liberal/left remembers American history? It's how we think about the Populists. Of course we filter our understanding of the past through contemporary politics. We've always done that. This is why you see changes...

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Populist Conspiracies

By Erik Loomis

On April 8, 2015

Richard Hofstadter was a very influential historian but he was also a tremendous snob whose personal proclivities would not make him look positively at a bunch of poor southern farmers..

buckguy I knew people who worked with special forces and there were always stories, some probably more true than others, where some special forces guy had just returned home from some secret mission and took...
They hold some quarter · April 25, 2024
DAS There are many regions in this great nation of ours where, if I had to move there, I'd only live in a majority Black county or city.
Couldn’t Happen to a Nicer Bunch of Assholes… · April 25, 2024
tsam100 NOT ANYMORE THEY DONT LOL
Couldn’t Happen to a Nicer Bunch of Assholes… · April 25, 2024
Chris Byler Also, you are *by definition* not giving equal rights and full participation to other groups, if you are structuring the state to permanently keep them from having any say in what it does.
I Wonder If There’s Anything Going On Outside of Columbia University Student Protests? · April 25, 2024
Mick McDick what do you call a passive-aggressive person who, nevertheless, has oppositional defiance syndrome? That would be a libertarian. [rimshot]
Couldn’t Happen to a Nicer Bunch of Assholes… · April 25, 2024