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Irish Americans in New York organize to support immigrants’ rights

March 16, 2017 By Bruce Bostick

Irish Americans, overwhelmingly working class, have historically been on both sides of what Lincoln called “the best angels of our nature."

This week in history: Habitat for Humanity turns 40

March 13, 2017 By Eric A. Gordon

By its fifth anniversary, Habitat had fourteen U.S. and seven international affiliates and had built 342 houses.

The U.S. is a country of immigrants

March 9, 2017 By PW Reader

"Preventing immigration is not the solution."

The woman peril is at the door

March 8, 2017 By Helen Keller

There are no such things as divine, immutable, or inalienable rights. Rights are things we get when we are strong enough to make good our claim to them.

Women’s History Month: Jeannette Rankin, first woman seated in Congress

March 3, 2017 By Special to People’s World

“I may be the first woman member of Congress,” she observed upon her election in 1916. “But I won’t be the last.”