Politics
Today in women’s and labor history: Triangle sweatshop fire kills 146
March 25, 2015A total of 146 workers - almost all of them immigrant women - were killed in a fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory.
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Today in history: Kristallnacht, the Nazis’ ‘Night of Broken Glass’
November 9, 2012On 9-10 November 1938, a series of coordinated attacks against Jews took place throughout Germany and parts of Austria, carried out by the SS elite military forces, the Hitler Youth, and neighborhood gangsters.
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Urzúa, miner number 33
October 19, 2010Chilean miner #33, Luis Urzúa, the leader of the entrapped group, embodies Chile's history from Allende to Pinochet to now with working-class dignity and tenacious faith in his fellow miners and humankind.
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How the Greensboro sit-in ignited a social revolution
February 3, 2010For us black high school students in the 1950s, it seemed like black people were always the victims. Greensboro was different.
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Health insurers worried sick over Michael Moore film
July 13, 2007Filmmaker Michael Moore, on July 6, sent out a copy of a confidential memo forwarded to his office by an employee of Capital Blue Cross. The memo, intercepted by a Blue Cross worker, was written and...
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