Labor History
From the Archives: Eugene V. Debs: Socialist for President, Over and Over Again
Over the Labor Day weekend, My Own True Love and I attended a Labor Day program that was part of the AFL-CIO’s “labor in the pulpit” program, which featured a group called the Bound for Glory Singers who focus on Woody Guthrie’s music. My Own True Love was on the stage singing; I was in…
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From the Archives: Shin-Kickers from History: Mary Heaton Vorse
As some of you may have noticed, for the last year or so I’ve been spending a lot of time in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era of late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. (Not entirely on purpose. I’ve done a number of Q & As with the authors of books set in the era.) …
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Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists
Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists: A Graphic History of Women’s Fight for Their Rights, written by Mikki Kendall, author of Hood Feminism, and illustrated by A. D’Amico, is the perfect book to bridge the gap between Black History Month and Women’s History Month. The book starts with a diverse group of young women discussing the question…
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