progressive era
On May 12, 1902, coal miners in Pennsylvania's anthracite fields went on strike. There were many strikes in the coal fields during the Gilded Age, but this one has special.
This collection of cat images used during the suffrage movement is outstanding. Thanks to djw for sending this my way.
Also known as my latest Alternet piece. In part: At first, Americans did not protest much against the end of the income tax, but with skyrocketing income inequality of the.
Lewis L. Gould, eminent historian of the Progressive Era presidency, has a new 73-page biography of Theodore Roosevelt. While one might legitimately ask whether we need another biography of the.
Ned Resnikoff really gets after Jessica Flanigan for misunderstanding the relationship between the labor movement and Progressives of the early 20th century. Flanigan: Internal to progressivism there is a tension.
This year is the 100th anniversary of the San Diego Free Speech Fight, when I.W.W. speakers were routinely denied their First Amendment rights for speaking in public about workers' rights..