Last week was the 110th anniversary of the Triangle Fire. The historian Christopher Gorham places the current fight for higher minimum wages in the context of that tragedy. The national.
I may have linked to this before, back in the days before I created Film Club, but since we started the day with Samuel Slater, I figured we'd end it.
On March 4, 1933, the newly inaugurated president Franklin Delano Roosevelt nominated Frances Perkins as Secretary of Labor. This first female cabinet member in American history (the second wouldn't come.
