So I'm at the Fighting Inequality conference in DC, which is mostly a labor history conference. I see a paper by a young scholar you many know named Steven Attewell and it's really good. I give a paper saying the IWW free speech fights were...
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Norfolk residents are trying to adapt to climate change by raising their houses to protect them from increasingly frequent floods. The problem is that it's really expensive to do this,.
We all know how much white conservatives opposed school busing. The most famous case was in Boston, when Louise Day Hicks became famous saving south Boston from the horrors of.
A possible lesson of Terry McAuliffe's win in Virginia is that if the Republicans continue a party of open racism that wants to restrict people of color's voting privileges, it may just anger African-Americans a tiny little bit.
The Richmond Daily Dispatch, July 29, 1863, arguing that God would not allow the South to become like Mexico: The convulsion which is to cause a permanent disruption of the.
Color me shocked that a Republican as principled and upstanding as Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell is as crooked as a bag of snakes.* You'd think McDonnell would have just waited.
Barack Obama's second inaugural address: "We, the people, declare today that the most evident of truths – that all of us are created equal – is the star that guides us still; just as it guided our forebears through Seneca Falls, and Selma, and Stonewall;...
On this date in 1831, Nat Turner, a slave in Southhampton County, Virginia, led the largest slave revolt in the history of the United States, killing 60 white people before.
Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell has reappointed Helen Dragas, architect of the coup that temporarily ousted University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan, to the Board of Visitors. As I said before,.
Teresa Sullivan has been reinstated as the president of the University of Virginia. This is an unquestionable victory for those of us interested in truly public higher education that is something more than a training ground for American corporate capitalism. However, as I stated previously,...
Who are these people that ousted Teresa Sullivan? The Post has a nice graphic. Every single member is a businessperson. Including Pat Robertson's son. Not a single seat is reserved.
Daniel Willingham, Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia, on the ouster of the school's president and the behavior of the plutocrats behind the plan. A few tidbits, but.