“The past is an inheritance, a gift and a burden. It can’t be shirked. You carry it everywhere. There’s nothing for it but to get to know it.” — Jill Lepore

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I DREAMED I SAW JOE HILL

Labor history is an American tapestry of struggle and strikes. But some stories are told in song. . .

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JOHN W. CITIZEN AND OUR COMMON CAUSE

Decades before democracy began to stagger, an unlikely defender began rallying the people.

WOMEN WHO SAID ‘NO!’

. . . TO NIXON

. . . TO JOE MCCARTHY

. . . TO WAR