Author: Erik Loomis
On February 13, 1845, the Lowell Female Labor Reform Association forced the state of Massachusetts to hold hearings on reducing the work day in the state's textile mills to 10.
Now this is my kind of history: What did Paris smell like in the mid-18th century? Try skunked red wine, wet cats, and gingivitis-tinged sputum, all bubbling in an open.
Disabled workers operate in a complicated space within American labor. Many of them are capable of productive labor that helps make their lives better. Employers probably wouldn't hire them without.
Dead Horse Trail (originally known as White Pass Trail), Alaska, circa 1898.
Bringing you only the most important news of the day, here's the first known use of the word "fuck" in the written English language, in its modern spelling. Written by.
We interrupt this regularly scheduled Dead Horses in American History blogging to bring you 1980 in one image: Willie Nelson on a golf course, jingoism, the Cold War, the last.
The response of Tennessee Republicans to the UAW organizing campaign with Volkswagen approval in Chattanooga lays bare just how much the Republican Party hates organized labor: A state senator said.
When you think of men and the 19th century, you probably think of beards. Large, ridiculous beards unseen again in American life until the early 21st century. Moreover, the beards.