Typical. And disgusting. From New Orleans. Sanitation workers aren’t used to being on the back of pickup trucks. But that’s where some were Friday after they say they were fired for making
On July 1, 1929, New Orleans streetcar workers walked off the job, in the last of the great streetcar strikes that helped define the labor movement in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
Above: Actual protestor for keeping up New Orleans monument to Jefferson Davis New Orleans mayor Mitch Landrieu has a good op-ed on why his administration is eliminating the Confederate monuments poll
In these horrible times, one doesn’t have much to cheer. Here’s something! Authorities removed a statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis in New Orleans early Thursday, as protester
I think one can make a case for maintaining Confederate monuments, but I don’t think Zachary Fine really makes it. Writing about the recent New Orleans decision to take down several Confederate
Above: An opportunity for wealthy white men to promote their careers through “leadership” Scott Cowen is the former president of Tulane University. He wrote a book on Hurricane Katrina and
I have said before that we are in a renaissance of excellent historical writing for a general public that wants to read something more than hagiographic narratives. Add Adam Rothman’s Beyond Fre
