Want to Write for the AHA in 2026? – AHA Submit your application by Monday, April 27!

Grad students: want to publish your work and grow your voice as a historian?

The AHA is selecting three grad students to write about a theme of their choosing in two related columns in #AHAPerspectives. Columnists will receive a 1-year AHA membership & honorarium.

🗓 Apply by April 27

Excited and honored to share that my dissertation was awarded the Gutman Prize for Outstanding Dissertation from @lawcha.bsky.social.

It was incredibly fulfilling and validating to receive this recognition in a room full of the historians who inspired my research.

Photograph 2026 David Montgomery Award certificate for Unmentionables on the left and a copy of the book on the right.

Congratulations to @sfahrenthold.bsky.social! 🎉

Her book Unmentionables won the 2026 David Montgomery Award, sponsored by @oah.org with co-sponsorship by @lawcha.bsky.social.

Check out the database to find your closest labor history landmark:
labor-landmarks.supersoul.top

#Peoples250: New Century Guild YouTube video by Labor and Working-Class History Association

#Peoples250 Patrick used the Labor Heritage Foundation's Labor Landmarks Database and discovered the New Century Guild Building in Philadelphia.
#america250 #americanhistory #philadelphiahistory
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#Peoples250: Michael Meeropol YouTube video by Labor and Working-Class History Association

#Peoples250: Michael Meeropol, son of Julius and Ethel Rosenburg, talks about the historical parallels between the era of McCarthyism and today. Video courtesy of Columbia University Libraries. #america250 #americanhistory #mccarthyism
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#Peoples250: Virginia Snow YouTube video by Labor and Working-Class History Association

#Peoples250: Alex Finley shares the story of Professor Virginia Snow who secured representation for Joe Hill in his trial in 1914. #america250 #laborhistory #joehill
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Response to “What Universities Can Be: Strategizing amid the Crisis in Higher Education” | LAWCHA For the current issue of Labor: Studies in Working Class History, Duke University is making free  a transcribed conversation provoked by the ongoing

"An invaluable primer on the essentials of labor organizing in higher education..." The latest issue of @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social explores how we reached the current crisis in higher education and what can be done. The full article is available at LaborOnline.
lawcha.org/2026/04/06/r...

#Peoples250 "We'll do the snakes." YouTube video by Labor and Working-Class History Association

#Peoples250 Eleanor Stein talks about the role of her father Arthur Stein as an organizer with the United Federal Workers of America in the 1930s and 1940s. #America250 #AmericanHistory
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DC area residents: see the below flyer for information on the Nannie Helen Burroughs Parade and Community Resource Day on May 9!

#Peoples250: Frank's time at the Allis Chalmers tractor plant. YouTube video by Labor and Working-Class History Association

#Peoples250: Frank from the Wisconsin Labor History Society remembers his time as a UAW member working at the Allis Chalmers tractor plant in West Allis. Images courtesy of Jim Pessek.
#peoples250 #america250 #laborhistory #wisconsinhistory #AmericanHistory
www.youtube.com/shorts/Zo7bF...

Philly and @oah.org visitors: join us next Wednesday for a conversation with @danielle-wiggins.bsky.social and the great Marcia Chatelain on BLACK EXCELLENCE, Danielle Wiggins' terrific new book on Black liberalism. Free and open to the public and no need to register

Data centers are an environmental justice issue.

#Peoples250: Restaurants that Supported CRM #Peoples250: Alexis encourages us to consider the labor of cooks, dishwashers, and busboys while visiting two iconic Civil Rights era DC restaurants: Ben's Chili Bowl and Florida Avenue Grill. #Americ...

#Peoples250: Alexis encourages us to consider the labor of cooks, dishwashers, and busboys while visiting two iconic Civil Rights era DC restaurants: Ben's Chili Bowl and Florida Avenue Grill. #America250 #CivilRightsMovement #DCHistory
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Civil War Arithmetic: Re-Counting the Casualties of War Many writers and artists have focused on the overwhelming total loss of life during the Civil War — an estimated 1.5 million casualties of all ages, ethnicit...

Join #OAHLecturer Thavolia Glymph at 6pm CT as she livestreams her talk "Civil War Arithmetic: Recounting the Casualties of War."
Watch the livestream: https://ow.ly/rCuw50YFT88

Join @jackiantonovich.bsky.social and Dr. Udodiri Okwandu on April 15 to hear about our new book The Nursing Clio Reader!

Resisting Trumpism Can Revive the U.S. Labor Movement The array of attacks on democracy and workers’ rights present an opportunity to expand labor’s power—if unions are willing to seize it.

"Fighting to defend and revive democracy in its moment of maximum peril can create a window of opportunity for labor," write Stephen Lerner and Joseph McCartin for In These Times.
inthesetimes.com/article/trum...

#Peoples250: Tom discusses the importance of sanitation workers YouTube video by Labor and Working-Class History Association

#Peoples250: Tom from the Pacific Northwest Labor History Association talks about the 1968 Sanitation Workers Strike in Memphis and the important role working people have played in the making of the United States. #Peoples250 #america250 #americanhistory

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Dangerous Migration Mexican Labor and the Fight for Immigrant Rights Author: Eladio B. Bobadilla

@eladiobobadilla.com's new book, DANGEROUS MIGRATION, illuminates the history of debates over #Mexican labor, the emergence of the #immigrantrights #activism, & the nativist movements that united #Latinos with right-wing white Americans.
www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...

Public History on the San Francisco Waterfront | LAWCHA Professional historians often talk about the need for public education and public history. A year and a half ago, San Franciscans completed one such

Harvey Schwartz explores the making of public history on the San Francisco waterfront in this new post at LaborOnline:

lawcha.org/2026/03/30/p...

my new article on the clairton steelworkers who designed and built a church from scraps as they organized the first steel union in the country

Remembering the General Strike, 100 years on

Historian Jonathan Schneer revisits the 1926 General Strike in the United Kingdom in his new book 'Nine Days in May.' For those not living in London, you can learn more about it at this online event on April 29.

www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Greg Afinogenev, AAUP #peoples250 Peoples250: Greg Afinogenev, president of the Georgetown chapter of the AAUP, talks about the importance of union organizing in higher education. #Peoples250 #america250 #americanhistory #highereducat...

Peoples250: Greg Afinogenev, president of the Georgetown chapter of the AAUP, talks about the importance of union organizing in higher education.
#Peoples250 #america250 #americanhistory #highereducation #aaup

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#Peoples250: SEIU President April Verrett YouTube video by Labor and Working-Class History Association

"Can the victims of slavery be the saviors of democracy?" ask SEIU President April Verrett at a recent #LaborSpring event commemorating the work and legacy of A. Philip Randolph. #Peoples250 #America250 #BlackHistoryMonth

www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVU6...

Joanne Ricca revisits the Bayview Massacre. #peoples250 Joanne Ricca from the Wisconsin Labor History Society considers the meaning and ongoing significance of the 1885 Bayview Massacre. #peoples250 #america250 #laborhistory #wisconsinhistory #americanhist...

Joanne Ricca from the Wisconsin Labor History Society considers the meaning and ongoing significance of the 1885 Bayview Massacre. #peoples250 #america250 #laborhistory #wisconsinhistory #americanhistory

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Joseph McCartin discusses #Peoples250 YouTube video by Labor and Working-Class History Association

#Peoples250 is a social media campaign in which we will lift up the history of struggle that has advanced worker rights, individual rights, equality, and democracy over the course of the 250 year history of the United States.
www.youtube.com/shorts/9Uxe7...

“Communal Sensibility”: the Minneapolis Mass Strikes of 1934 and Today | LAWCHA “In these terrible happenings you cannot be neutral now,” Meridel Le Sueur wrote of Minneapolis in 1934. “No one can be neutral in the face of

In a new essay at Labor Online, Benjamin Prostine compares mass strikes in Minneapolis in 1934 and 2026.
lawcha.org/2026/03/18/c...

Julie Greene on Her New Book, Box 25 | LAWCHA John Enyeart spoke with Julie Greene, editor of Labor: Studies in Working Class History, about her new book, Box 25, based on essays written in 1963 by

Julie Greene spoke to John Enyeart about her recent book, 'Box 25: Archival Secrets, Caribbean Workers, and the Panama Canal.'

lawcha.org/2026/03/11/j...

The Gilded Age: First March on Washington D.C. In 1894 Jacob Coxey decided to take thousands of unemployed and March on Washington. Well, that was just the prequel to 1964 March for Civil Rights. But it's how A. Philip Randolph was indoctrinated t...

Hey @lawcha.bsky.social . . . we made an episode about working class labor law we think you'll love: www.podomatic.com/podcasts/tra...

What Cesar Chavez Cost the Movement | Essay His Crimes Against Women and His 'Too Big to Fail' Persona Created Immeasurable Harm

Cesar Chavez had become too big to fail, writes Matt Garcia at Zocolo.
www.zocalopublicsquare.org/what-cesar-c...