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Lost for over a hundred years until their rediscovery by Nick Salvatore, Amos Webber's “Thermometer Books recorded six decades of the daily experiences of a black freeman in nineteenth-century Philadelphia and Worcester, Massachusetts. These diaries form the basis for Salvatore's vital portrait of an everyday hero who struggled unrelentingly for ......
We Are All Leaders'' describes a kind of union qualitatively different from the bureaucratic business unions that make up the AFL-CIO today. From African American nutpickers in St. Louis, chemical and rubber workers in Akron, textile workers in the South, and bootleg miners in Pennsylvania to tenant farmers in the Mississippi Delta, packinghouse ......
A timely account of workers taking back their unionIn this extraordinary tale of union democracy, Dana L. Cloud engages union reformers at Boeing in Wichita and Seattle to reveal how ordinary workers attempted to take command of their futures by chipping away at the cozy partnership between union leadership and corporate management. Taking readers ......
Identity formation and the power of place in the shaping of history
Ambitious and revelatory, We Are What We Drink tells a close-grained story about the ways alcohol consumption connected to identity in the upper Midwest.
Sabine N. Meyer examines the ever-shifting ways that ethnicity, gender, ......
A who's who of Lincoln scholars explores why Lincoln considered the Union the ''last best hope of earth'' and how his words and deeds have continued to shape the nation through modern times. Focusing on Lincoln's view of American history and his legacy for the United States and the world, this volume demonstrates the complexity of the problems ......
Brothers and Sisters in Nineteenth-Century America
While much attention has been devoted to connections in American families between husbands and wives and between parents and children, We Grew Up Together enters virtually uncharted territory by exploring the emotional relationships among siblings. Through the letters brothers and sisters wrote to each other over the course of nearly a century ......
This is the classic history of the Industrial Workers of the World, the influential band of labor militants whose activism mobilized America's poorest and most marginalized workers in the years before World War I. Originally published in 1969, Melvyn Dubofsky's We Shall Be All has remained the definitive archive-based history of the IWW. While ......
Known as the Forgotten War, the ''police action'' in Korea resulted in almost as many American combat deaths in three years as the Vietnam War did in ten. Yet for many Americans today, the Korean War brings to mind nothing more than the television series ''M*A*S*H.'' William Dannenmaier served in Korea with the U.S. Army from December 1952 to ......
African American Women in Detroit and Richmond, 1940-54
During World War II, factories across America retooled for wartime production, and unprecedented labor opportunities opened up for women and minorities. In We, Too, Are Americans, Megan Taylor Shockley examines the experiences of the African American women who worked in two capitols of industry--Detroit, Michigan, and Richmond, Virginia--during ......
