This is the grave of Samuel Untermyer. Born in 1858 in Lynchburg, Virginia, Untermyer grew up in a southern Jewish family. There weren't tons of them, but there were a.
This is the grave of Herbert Croly. Born in 1869 in New York to a family of prominent journalists--both mom and dad were well known--it was almost predestined that this.
On February 27, 1869, the great workplace health and safety reformer Alice Hamilton was born. I dislike highlighting birthdates or deathdates for the labor history series, but the history of.
This is the grave of Lillian Wald. Born in 1867 to a middle-class and secular Jewish family in Cincinnati, Wald's family moved to Rochester in the late 1870s. She applied.
This is the grave of Charles Evans Hughes. Born in 1862 in Glens Falls, New York, Hughes enrolled at what is today Colgate.
On October 15, 1914, President Woodrow Wilson signed the Clayton Act. This law, providing protection for unions from injunctions destroying their strikes, was lauded by many labor leaders as the.
Underneath this rock is buried Jacob Riis. A Danish immigrant, Riis became one of the leading muckrakers of the Progressive Era, exposing the terrible conditions of immigrants and the urban.
In the latter part of her career, the pioneering oral historian Alice Fry started a definitive biography of Paul's life up to the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment. When she.
