There's an effort to turn the site of the 1894 Pullman Strike into a national park site. You should support this. I have not yet discussed the Pullman Strike in a This Day in Labor History post, but in short, the Panic of 1893 cut...
Gilded Age
I have a piece up at Alternet exploring the relationship between 19th century sexuality and today's Republican War on Women, channeling my inner Rachel Maines and focusing on the history.
Thinking about Anthony Comstock and Gilded Age sexuality this week, I was reminded of the woman Comstock destroyed, the fascinating feminist and free-love advocate, Victoria Woodhull. Born Victoria Claflin in.
When I started writing over here, I had planned to run a series of my best posts at Alterdestiny since no one read them at the time. In fact, that's why I had so many "Most Prominent Politician" posts when I first started--I was just...
Joshua Holland on the history of how corporations became "people." During the 19th century, however, the robber barons, aided by a few corrupt jurists deep in their pockets, took the.
This Disunion piece on John C. Breckinridge was somewhat more charitable than I would have been for a man who more than almost anyone embraced committing treason to defend slavery..