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Media and Memory The Battle of Blair Mountain

“Logan County Bristles with Machine Guns… Gaunt Hollow-eyed Men hold Ridges…Every Path is Guarded.” On September 1st, 1921, Washington Times announced that headline.

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LaborOnline Marked, Unmarked, Remembered: A Public History Series

Mill Mother’s Lament: Keeping Ella May Wiggins’ Legacy Alive

Karen Sieber tells us of the effort to honor the memory of slain union organizer Ella May Wiggins and the struggle for power.

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LaborOnline New Book Interviews

East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte: Interview with author and editors

A People’s History of Life and Labor in the San Gabriel Valley: An Interview with authors and editors of East of East: The.

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Labor History

Join Us in Celebrating and Sustaining the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum

The West Virginia Mine Wars Museum has just finished its third year open in Matewan, and what a year it was. Louis Martin

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Labor History

We Do the Work: An Interview with Conor Casey

The latest episode of the Labor Archives of Washington’s regular segment on the KSVR radio show We Do the Work is now streaming.

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Labor History

National History Day Students Win 2016 Regional Video Contest Employing Labor Archives of Washington Collections and Staff Interviews

Every year the Labor Archives of Washington at the University of Washington Libraries Special Collections works with National History Day students on their.

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Labor History

Historical Marker for Sparrows Point Steel Mill

As part of our effort to make workers history public in the Baltimore area, we had a state historical marker erected in memory.

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Labor History

When Socialists Won Elections (and Where)

Bernie Sanders has come close. And in doing so he has demonstrated that in 2016 the label democratic socialist is no longer a.

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Labor History LAWCHA Teaching Blog

Launch of LAWCHA’s Teacher/Public Sector Initiative

Today we launch the teachers/public sector toolkit, a set of resources that we hope will contribute to dialog on teacher and public sector.

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Five Ideas for Digital Labor History

Over the last two decades, digital technologies have transformed practically every aspect of historians’ professional lives. Tobias Higbie Tobias Higbie is a professor.

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