News
Students support successful union drive for campus workers
April 1, 2014Cafeteria workers, angry at cuts made by management, approached Local 1000 in Grapevine, who sent organizers and the new leader of the Young Workers Council to the university.
Read more
Philippine government signs historic peace deal
April 1, 2014The deal grants largely Muslim areas of the southern Mindanao region greater political autonomy in exchange for an end to armed rebellion.
Read more
Today in eco-history: Ruins of Pompeii discovered
April 1, 2014"The excavation of Pompeii brought to light not just individual buildings and artifacts, but an urban fabric."
Read more
Today in women’s history: Abigail Adams attacked sexism, “fomented rebellion”
March 31, 2014On March 31, 1776, Abigail Adams urged the Continental Congress and her husband, John Adams, to consider women's rights.
Read more
AFL-CIO leads demonstration for minimum wage hike outside Heritage Foundation
March 31, 2014The labor movement turned up the heat today on opponents of a minimum wage increase by gathering outside of the Heritage Foundation.
Read more